Judging from Hersis’s hand awkwardly hanging in the air, it seemed it was a good decision.
‘Quite fast.’
Hersis ordered the coachman, lips pouting.
“To the Viscount Berium’s residence.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
The carriage didn’t alter its course significantly, as it was already headed for the city.
Riding in a royal carriage was vastly different. Liz felt fine despite a nauseating three-hour journey earlier.
How different a comfortable carriage could be.
If he had taken this kind of carriage sooner, he could have left the capital without an overnight stay.
But pondering such thoughts now was futile.
Liz considered it fate. Destiny…
‘What is going to happen to my destiny now?’
He felt uncertain about his future.
However, he sensed that the Empress’s seat, which should have been Lilia’s, might come to him. So, his duty might also include taking on Lilia’s responsibilities.
‘What did Lilia in the original work do? What kind of development lies ahead?’
He couldn’t remember the journey to what would surely be a happy ending.
The responsibility of being an empress weighed heavily on him.
With a heavy heart, Liz looked out of the window for a change of scenery.
Yet the peaceful waves of the green barley field failed to wash away the vague anxiety in his heart.
“Miss!”
As Liz stepped into the entrance, Mirabel came running with a choked expression.
After sharing a proper hug, Mirabel spoke.
“It’s amazing. Our Miss is the Empress. How did this happen…”
“Empress…”
He couldn’t say it wasn’t yet decided… Especially when Mirabel was so happy she was crying.
There were others who were happy as well.
“Liz!”
His mother greeted him with an emotional face.
“Yes. I knew you would end up like this. I knew it. Of course. You’re my daughter.”
Tears were also in her eyes, but they meant something very different from Mirabel’s.
Mirabel was purely happy for Liz’s rise in status, but her mother was simply delighted by her own elevation to a royal relative.
“Now, now, let’s not talk here; let’s go inside and catch up.”
“Mother.”
Liz abruptly cut her off.
“I’m sorry, but I’d like to speak with Mirabel right now.”
“Oh… right, when you’re done talking then…”
“I’ll have to leave after we’re done talking. I can’t stay long.”
Though once her mother would have retorted at her daughter’s icy demeanor, she couldn’t do that anymore. Because Liz was the jewel that held her own advancement.
“Fine, understood. Is today the only day? I’ll visit the palace frequently.”
Liz nearly chuckled at her mother’s overly maternal response.
The harsh words poured onto me after the divorce from the Duke had become something she seemingly didn’t remember, which irked her a bit.
It was reconfirmed then.
Her mother was no longer her family.
How could someone be genuine family when they don’t even inquire about a daughter who has been missing for nearly five days?
Without another word, Liz took Mirabel’s arm.
Her old residence was as immaculate as ever, not a speck of dust. The potted plant on the windowsill was still thriving. Clearly, it was the doing of Mirabel.
“Were you worried?”
“Worried? I was so restless I couldn’t eat or sleep. But not as much as he was.”
“He?”
“His Majesty, the Emperor.”
Mirabel methodically went over what had happened in her absence.
In that moment when she was summoned to talk about events surrounding Liz and when she had to silently endure her mistress’s diatribe, she felt a peculiar emotion stirring in her as she listened to how desolate His Majesty had looked and sounded.
“It felt strangely touching to think he had me in his thoughts all along.”
“Miss becoming the Empress…”
Mirabel wiped her teary eyes with the end of her apron, reiterating her words.
“Actually, Mirabel, the truth is…”
She tried to say it’s not yet confirmed but failed again.
“If you didn’t stop by here on your way to the palace, what would I have done?”
“Why wouldn’t I? You’re here.”
“Thank you, Miss. For caring for someone as insignificant as me.”
Liz tightly held Mirabel’s rough hands with her own and then said what she had been contemplating on her way here.
“Mirabel, would you like to come with me?”
She wanted to take Mirabel to the palace, assuming she’d want to go too.
“I’m sorry, Miss, but I don’t think I can.”
Caught off guard by the unexpected reply, Liz was confused.
“Why not?”
Then Mirabel raised her other hand to show Liz. A silver ring with a gold setting was on her fourth finger.
“I’ve been proposed to by Jonathan. We’ve decided to go to the countryside and live as farmers.”
“Oh… I see.”
Liz offered a brief congratulations but decided to delay the genuine well wishes.
“But Mirabel, going to the palace would pay more and it would be better. I can even arrange for Jonathan to become a royal coachman.”
“Miss, I’d like to, but I can’t devote myself to you more than my own body now.”
Rubbing her lower abdomen, Mirabel spoke.
“There’s a baby inside me who needs my touch more than anyone else.”
Ex-husband Wants Reconciliation
One-line summary: Chasing the wife to the crematorium (making an effort to attract someone who has become indifferent), the female lead doesn’t look back, the second male lead takes the position.
Intro:
To repay the kindness of the older generation, Su Mu crossed into a female-dominated world and became a live-in daughter-in-law of the Yan family, single-handedly saving the Yan family from fire and water.
But her husband, Yan Jiyue, the eldest son of the Yan family, treated her with sarcasm and never showed her a good face.
It wasn’t until after Su Mu’s death that this pampered and arrogant young master shed a few fake tears and pretended to want to die for love.
This life’s kindness was enough. If there was a next life, she would definitely kick Yan Jiyue away.
Who knew that the heavens would be so kind as to allow her to be reborn, returning to the time when she had just married into the Yan family.
Su Mu glanced at the Yan eldest son, who still spoke coldly to her, and threw a divorce letter in front of him.
“Let’s divorce!”
***
Yan Jiyue never imagined that he would be reborn. He happily went to find Su Mu, wanting to make up for the mistakes he had made in his ignorant youth.
Wasn’t the reason the heavens allowed him to be reborn to let him reconcile with Su Mu?
But when he pushed open the door to Su Mu’s room, the person lying on the bed was another man.
Su Mu’s personal attendant, Xie Yi.
Yan Jiyue hated him so much that his teeth itched. In front of Su Mu, Xie Yi was a gentle and considerate whisperer of sweet nothings, but in reality, he was vicious-hearted and deliberately sabotaged their husband and wife relationship.
In the previous life, it was he who secretly hid in Su Mu’s coffin and committed suicide, stealing a step ahead of him to be buried with Su Mu.
Yan Jiyue’s eyes were filled with hatred as he cursed, “What kind of thing are you? Your background is lowly, what right do you have to occupy Su Mu?”
Xie Yi looked at the sleeping Su Mu and no longer pretended to be a whisperer of sweet nothings.
He proudly stuck out his belly, “I have the right because my belly is capable of giving the Wife-master a daughter.”
***
Yan Jiyue was consumed with jealousy. He spread rumors that Xie Yi had once been branded with the mark of a “harlot” on his chest.
But on the night Xie Yi cut off the flesh bearing that mark, Su Mu suddenly realized something was amiss.
“How did you know the exact moment I was poisoned? And why did you show up a month early?”
Xie Yi remained silent, blood from his wound soaking through his robes. His sapphire eyes brimmed with anguish – or was it just a flawless act?
Between a once-arrogant husband now seeking redemption, and a gentle soul willing to die for her – who truly held the darkest secrets? And could it be that Su Mu and Yan Jiyue weren’t the only ones given a second chance at life…?
[Reading Guide]
1. True divorce, chasing the wife to the crematorium, the female lead doesn’t look back, the male lead is Xie Yi.
2. The ex-husband did not cheat, he just realized too late and didn’t realize that he liked the female lead.
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