Ishaar asked, “What are you doing here?”
“Just… I had something to look into for a moment.”
Ishaar raised his eyes and looked at the classification label on the bookshelf.
「Documents related to the Valdemion Kingdom」
‘Why is this woman looking at materials related to my family?’
A curious thought crossed his mind. Ishaar was about to ask about it in a roundabout way.
“Could I help you with anything…”
“Ishaar Kyung.”
However, Liz cut him off with a calm voice.
“I’m fine, so please attend to your matters, Kyung. Don’t worry about me.”
“…”
It felt strange.
It felt like being rejected after trying to meddle…
“…Alright. I won’t disturb you then.”
Suppressing a vague and unpleasant feeling, Ishaar offered his greetings and withdrew.
Then, as originally planned, he went to the section with Klenue Empire ancient documents and took out the original imperial history.
‘What is this?’
Not a single thing caught his eye!
Wondering if it was the book’s problem, he took out a few more books, but it was the same. Perhaps due to the awkward encounter a little while ago, he couldn’t make any progress at all.
He came to cool his head, but instead, it became more complicated, making him feel like turning back.
“Hoo…”
He closed the book with a thud. Dust scattered in a sigh from the worn cover.
The meaning of coming here had become meaningless.
Ishaar returned the book to its original place and exited the space between the bookshelves. Thus, when he turned abruptly to the left.
“…!”
Liz appeared suddenly in front of him, almost colliding with him.
Ishaar, who barely stopped, wiped his surprised chest without saying anything and asked, “Are you okay, Your Majesty?”
“Ah… yes. I’m fine.”
Liz also seemed a bit surprised as she took a deep breath, but her overall demeanor was calm.
Her gaze directly facing him was quite different from her usual self, which couldn’t hide tension in front of him. It felt like she harbored some enmity.
Ishaar glanced at her with puzzled eyes. Then Liz spoke.
“I’ll greet and leave.”
“Ah… I see. Have you found all the materials you were looking for?”
“Yes. I’ve looked enough.”
Her tone sounded a bit suspicious.
What could she find related to my family that this woman could recognize?
Ishaar was curious but couldn’t easily ask after being rejected once.
“Then, I’ll go first.”
Liz nodded and was about to turn around. Suddenly, Ishaar thought of something to say.
“Wait a moment.”
“…?”
“Do you have a moment? I have something to tell you.”
Liz, with a bewildered expression, then seemed to guess something and stiffened her expression.
“If it’s because of what I requested from Your Majesty that you want to reprimand me, please don’t mind…”
“No.”
This time, Ishaar interrupted Liz.
“I’m not here to say that.”
Of course, he also wanted to say that, but what came to his mind at the moment was more important than that.
“In three days, there will be a formal banquet. It’s a gathering where the Grand Nobles and their heirs are invited to dine together.”
“Ah… I heard about it in the morning.”
“But you haven’t received this.”
Ishaar said with a determined voice.
“At that event, a play will be performed.”
“…A play?”
Liz’s eyes widened, then she nodded, dropping her gaze.
Ishaar felt either she didn’t understand what he was talking about or she accepted it on the surface and understood it herself. So, he continued.
“I guarantee it will be more exciting than any play performed at a noble family’s banquet. Perhaps the most interesting thing is that it’s not fiction but reality.”
“Is the performer of that play someone I know by any chance?”
At the moment when Ishaar was convinced that further explanation would be needed, Liz spoke. Ishaar was secretly surprised by how quickly Liz understood his words.
‘She’s not as foolish as I thought.’
“Yes, you know Her Majesty the Empress well. Both of you. But it seems like you have the intention to mock in front of everyone, especially the person you know better. It doesn’t seem like a good idea.”
“Why do you think it’s not good?”
Liz asked with narrowed eyes.
“Your Majesty.”
Ishaar chuckled as if to say, ‘Do you really have to say it?’
“No one approves of indecent behavior. Regardless of whatever deep story there is between the two, people neither care nor understand. They just criticize the act of a nephew driving out an uncle for the sake of her own position.”
“…….”
After a moment of contemplation, Liz asked, “Why are you telling me this?”
“You said you want to fulfill the duties of the Empress, didn’t you?”
Ishaar took off his monocular glasses and added, “It’s not necessary to do something like that.”
“…….”
“I will now teach Your Majesty the duties you must perform.”
Knowing it was impolite, Ishaar didn’t stop. He was a noble descendant of the noble Veldemion family, who would speak even if a knife were to be put to his throat.
“I will roughly let you know what kind of conversation will take place. It’s like a script for a play. Of course, it won’t proceed exactly like a script, but it will be somewhat close.”
“Then, what is my role there?”
“In dangerous situations, just interrupt the flow. Since the only person who can be forgiven is Her Majesty the Empress.”
“…….”
“Please do it naturally. Your younger sister seemed to be good at that.”
He realized too late that it might have been better not to say the last words. Ishaar momentarily glanced at Liz’s expression.
‘This woman may have felt inferior to her younger sister. Was she hurt?’
However, no signs of displeasure could be found on Liz’s face. She even smiled, seemingly not trembling with inferiority.
“Yes, I understand. Well, it’s not that difficult.”
Ishaar’s gray eyes showed a puzzled light.
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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