Of course, if he was by her side, she would somehow manage to smile. She would hide her innermost feelings and act like someone exhilarated with happiness. But he didn’t want Liz like that.
Having already experienced a deep bond with Liz, he didn’t want a relationship where they maintained a proper distance and only showed their good sides to each other.
He wanted her to laugh, get angry, and seductively tempt him in his presence. He also wished for her to cry deeply enough to expose her bottom-most feelings.
In her dark universe, he wanted to be the one and only star that shone absolutely.
To achieve that, Kain, Hersis.
They had to be one person.
That was the only way since he couldn’t live as Kain forever.
“Wait… give me a moment… no, please.”
Liz reached out her hands as if trying to stop the man, visibly startled.
To her surprise, he obediently halted his steps. Liz quickly tried to recall his name in that moment.
“Um… I remembered until just now, but suddenly I can’t recall? He… Herion?”
“That’s not it.”
He tilted his head to one side, smiling as if amused.
“Then… Hestion?”
“That’s not it either.”
With every wrong guess by Liz, he took a step closer.
He continued to smile graciously, as if inviting her to keep guessing.
Liz retreated step by step on her trembling legs, throwing out any name she could think of.
“No… it’s not? So, it starts with ‘He,’ right? He… Heros? Hesent? Hemir…”
“Hersis.”
Finally, as if pitying her desperate attempts, the man provided the answer.
“Ri… Right, Hersis. Yes, it was Hersis.”
Liz felt relieved thinking she had at least gotten half of it right. Since he’d know that she wasn’t good at remembering men’s names, getting even one syllable right was quite an accomplishment.
“What’s next?”
“…?”
“You need to continue.”
“Continue talking…?”
“Of course. You have to say everything after that.”
‘Hey, you crazy! Isn’t this enough? You know me, don’t you?’
But the man, showing no intention of relenting, continued to approach, and Liz continued to back away. Thankfully, the room, fitting for the daughter of a prestigious family, was spacious enough to offer ample space for her to retreat.
“Um, ‘Ka’…I think it started with… Ka… Kaji…”
But in a space where it seemed she could retreat endlessly, her foot caught on something.
“Ah, agh!”
It was the bed.
Liz stumbled backward onto the bed. The man, who was Kain, quickly stepped forward to catch her, but they both ended up falling onto the bed together.
For Liz, it was an incredibly awkward situation. But for him, it was an opportunity.
An opportunity to corner her with both arms and intimidate her.
“So… are you going to tell me my name now?”
Liz looked up at the man who had conquered her position, her eyes shaking in fear.
Between her narrowed eyes glinted two golden irises that reminded her of the dawn sky of a past day.
The encroaching shadows of the night, the setting of being on a bed, even the standoff between them and herself, were exactly the same as that day.
However, Liz’s emotions were not the same as that day.
Her heart was beating irregularly with erratic breaths.
Every time her heart throbbed, the tip of her chest touched the man’s loose shirt, but she had no time to care about such things. At least, not for Liz.
‘How could this man be Kain? How could Kain be this man? How could this man be…’
The original male lead!
Even as she witnessed the changes happening before her eyes, Liz still couldn’t quite accept the reality.
For a brief moment, she felt as if she were hallucinating in extreme confusion.
If she closed her eyes, then opened them,
‘Are you alright, Miss? Are you hurt anywhere?’
It felt like a platinum-haired man with blue eyes would cheerfully help her up.
But when she did close her eyes, only bitter memories resurfaced for Liz.
“A man with jet-black hair and eyes gleaming like molten gold appeared. The ceremonial hall descended into chaos. He was the long-lost crown prince…”
The original text that belatedly came to mind shattered Liz’s expectations.
Liz slowly opened her eyes.
Before her was a man with jet-black hair and eyes gleaming like molten gold.
Without a doubt… it was the male lead.
“I’m sorry,”
Liz apologized.
“I don’t know. Your name.”
Accepting reality brought resignation, and her voice confirmed it had lost its trembling.
“I see.”
The corners of Hersis’s eyes languidly curled.
“Then, you should be punished.”
“What kind of punishment… how will you impose it…”
As the creeping question was asked, the corners of his mouth smoothly ascended.
“Well,”
The next moment, Liz saw Hersis’s face coming closer to her.
Gasp!
As the handsome face drew near, Liz took a breath. She was too startled to even think about closing her eyes.
‘What… what is he doing?’
With her eyes wide open, she met the golden pupils of the man who had come very close.
Her own face was reflected in his eyes.
Even as she found it hard to breathe, she saw it.
Her face, foolishly frozen stiff.
‘What’s going to happen to me now?’
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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