No matter how tightly she plugged her ears, the sound penetrated, and no matter how hard she tried, the truth stabbed deeply into her heart, resistance was futile and meaningless.
It felt like it was over now. The Emperor would never forgive her. And now that it had come to this, she didn’t want to live either. Everything was utterly meaningless.
“Two things.”
“…”
“If you do just two things, I’ll spare your life, Lady Verium.”
She thought she wanted to die, but maybe that wasn’t the case.
“Or perhaps, she didn’t want to face a miserable death without gaining a lover, a child, honor, or anything else.
At Hershis’s words, Claire’s hazy eyes focused.
When he gestured to his subordinates, he took out paper and a pen and placed them in front of her, then stepped back.
“First, write a letter to Liz.”
Hershis said. And looking at Claire, who asked what to write with a face that didn’t know what to say, he spoke again.
“Just write what an ordinary mother would say to her pregnant daughter.”
It was a difficult demand for Claire. But…
‘I have to write. I have to write something.’
She had to write to survive, and by surviving, she would have a chance to make amends.
Claire picked up the pen. While she wrote, Hershis, with a cold face, advised her.
“Write not for your life during this time, but for your child. You should be able to do that much for the child who has been treated as an emotional garbage bin for twenty years, right?”
Liz’s face was full of confusion.
Even after reading the letter several times, it was unbelievable.
“Mother wrote this?”
Rosa, who was next to her, replied.
“Yes, Your Majesty. The messenger who delivered the letter received it directly from her.”
The handwriting was definitely her mother’s. But Liz still couldn’t believe it.
“Dear my daughter,”
Her mother would never say such words!
The moment Liz saw the opening sentence, she checked the seal on the letter envelope several times. Thinking that maybe another person’s letter had been delivered by mistake. Like… a letter from Lady Esmond to René.
But…
“I know you’re pregnant.”
From there, the text written over several lines was clearly something only her mother could write.
“It’s the same as the symptoms I had when I had you. I also had a strong aversion to food and survived by drinking lemonade.”
“…”
“I’m sorry for not saying it there. I closed my mouth because you said you didn’t want a child when I subtly checked. I should have gone and talked to you even after that. Sorry. Did I suddenly act like this?”
“Why is she suddenly like this?”
Liz was confused by her mother’s behavior, which she could not adapt to at all. She even felt that there might be some other intention.
“You will be a better mother than me. Because you are a child full of affection in your heart.”
“…”
“Come to think of it, you expressed love with your whole body from a young age. Forgive me for pushing you away when you approached to hug me with hands covered in mud, saying that your clothes would get dirty. Now I understand. How precious things were missed by caring about trivial matters.”
Suddenly, it felt like the wind was passing through every nook and cranny of her heart.
It felt like the entangled threads that had been there for a long time were unraveling in an instant.
Seeing that, she realized that, pretending not to, she too had been wishing for something like this.
It seems like she wanted to hear that she could do well from her own flesh and blood, whether there was any other intention or not. Now, it didn’t matter at all.
Something surged up from within, and tears began to flow backward.
Wiping away the tears falling rapidly, Liz asked,
“Where is mother now? Is she at the marquisate?”
Liz thought that the factor that changed her mother’s mood was the separation from the duke. It wasn’t entirely wrong speculation.
“No. Madam went on a journey as soon as she returned to the marquisate.”
Liz looked up with wet eyes.
“A journey? Where to?”
“She did not specify a destination but mentioned wanting to tour various places in the Empire.”
Seeing a worried expression on Liz’s face, Rosa added,
“According to the marquisate’s steward, she took the three princesses with her and seemed very pleased. Also, I forgot to mention in the letter, but Her Majesty said to convey to you not to worry.”
“…Is that so?”
It was a somewhat relieving remark. Of course, she knew that a person like her mother, who was strongly attached to the secular world, would not harbor ill feelings. Still, one couldn’t predict human emotions. Especially the feelings of someone who had experienced separation.
Liz leaned back on the backrest. As she did, her hands naturally came together on her lower belly.
Though the dress had a high waistline, it wasn’t visible to the naked eye, but she could feel it with her hands. Her belly was slowly starting to swell.
‘You will be a good mother.’
A good mother… Me, becoming a mother?
Liz still couldn’t believe it. Her belly was too small, and there was no sensation inside. She wondered if there was really a child. She even wanted to knock smartly and see if an answer would come. If she did that, would there be a response?
While placing her hand on her lower belly, Liz looked beyond the window.
The apricot-colored sunset drew an endless band in the sky. In the eastern sky, the waning moon was also rising.
Suddenly, she wondered if Hershis had returned from his outing.
“Where is His Majesty now?”
“I believe he has not returned to the royal palace yet.”
“…”
It was the third day since Liz had moved her residence to the main palace. He continued to go out and returned late at night.
‘If you keep going out like this with a headache, you’ll get hurt.’
When Liz asked, he just smiled and replied, ‘It’s a habit.’
‘Until when are you going to keep up with this habit? You might get hurt.’
When Liz asked again with a disappointed expression, he answered firmly.
‘Until tomorrow.’
That tomorrow was today. So, he had only intended to keep it up until today.
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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