“The priest I share a room with said he saw a thief running towards downtown, so I’ve been searching all around, but I couldn’t find him.”
Well, that’s because the priest is the thief and lied!
Nelia looked at Charlotte and felt her chest tighten with sorrow.
What should she do for this woman who had such a hard path?
“My legs hurt so much from all the walking… I came here because I missed you, Nelia.”
“You did well.”
Nelia sighed as she spoke.
It was better than being deceived and endlessly searching… Nelia remembered another forgotten fact.
‘Ah…’
Charlotte was supposed to meet Carlos, a patrolling officer, while looking for the thief.
In other words, according to the original story, Charlotte should have met Carlos by now, but instead she came to see Nelia.
However, Nelia wasn’t flustered as before.
‘Even if it’s not that, the original story has already been distorted, hasn’t it?’
Since Charlotte had jumped into the carriage Nelia was riding, the future must have already changed.
Having gone through various experiences, she felt resilient against any situation.
Nelia, now calm, comforted Charlotte warmly.
“I know today must have been hard, Charlotte. I hope you’ll overcome it well.”
“Thank you… I made the right choice coming to see you, Nelia…”
Charlotte displayed a faint smile.
Feeling the sincerity, Nelia once again pondered.
She had helped Charlotte once, but the inner familiarity Charlotte felt towards her seemed awkwardly too high.
‘Why exactly…?’
In the original work, Charlotte was goodnatured but quiet and reserved.
So apart from the priests in the rural monastery where she grew up, she had no close friends.
While Nelia found Charlotte’s attitude puzzling, Charlotte suddenly said, ‘Ah yes,’ and fumbled in her pocket.
“It’s nothing special, but I brought it because I thought of you.”
Two beautifully shaped acorns lay on her white palm.
“There was an oak tree on my way here.”
‘Acorns…?’
The acorns Charlotte brought were clean and wellbalanced, definitely prettier than ordinary ones.
However, aside from that, Nelia was curious about the unexpected gift.
As Nelia looked down at the acorns, Duke Hart’s voice rang out.
“Nelia is a human. Naturally, she won’t like acorns.”
While grateful for the interruption, the Duke’s statement, ‘she is a human,’ really irked her.
It was too obvious a statement…
But the strangeness didn’t stop with the Duke’s words.
“You don’t like acorns…?”
Charlotte seemed a little shocked. Was it that shocking for her not to like acorns?
Though Nelia felt odd, she made an effort to speak calmly, considering Charlotte’s sincerity.
“I may not like acorns, but I’ll gladly accept it as a gift from Charlotte.”
However, Charlotte seemed still unable to snap out of her shock.
At that moment, Duke Hart, who had been saving his words, asked Nelia and Charlotte.
“When did you two first meet?”
Caught off guard by the pointed question, Nelia found herself in a difficult situation.
She had introduced herself as a friend to the Duke, but if she said they had met just a few days ago and only once at that, would he scoff? Especially when she already felt like she had no friends.
While she pondered, Charlotte was the first to speak.
“We met a few days ago.”
Duke Hart looked at Nelia and muttered, “A few days ago, huh…”
“Then, you must not have met many times.”
“Yes, this is our second time meeting.”
At Charlotte’s candid answer, both of Nelia’s cheeks flushed slightly.
Somehow, she felt as though the Duke’s gaze was saying, ‘I thought as much.’
Charlotte, who knew nothing, innocently asked.
“Then, why do you ask…?”
“I was curious because you two acted like you knew each other well.”
Charlotte’s eyebrows narrowed ever so slightly. It was a significant change, considering the expressions she’d had until now.
“The depth of a relationship… doesn’t depend on how long you’ve known each other.”
The Duke chuckled.
“While there are exceptions, intimacy generally increases with time.”
“I don’t think that way.”
Charlotte glared at the Duke.
Witnessing a Charlotte she had never seen before, Nelia was a bit taken aback. Why was she getting so worked up over this?
“Do you also think like that, Nelia? That because we only met once, we’re not close?”
Nelia couldn’t bring herself to say yes to Charlotte, who was asking her while looking somewhat sad.
“No, I think you can become close even if you haven’t spent a lot of time together.”
“See, Nelia thinks the same way.”
Charlotte smiled in what seemed like relief.
The Duke simply shrugged his shoulders as he looked at this Charlotte.
Nelia felt that the atmosphere between the two was strange, almost as if they were being cautious of each other…
She soon dismissed her suspicion. They had just met; there was absolutely no reason for them to be wary of each other.
Nelia quickly changed the subject to avoid the uncomfortable atmosphere.
Fortunately, Charlotte was soon engrossed in another topic. The subject was the place where Charlotte had been living. Charlotte was quick to talk excitedly about her home.
The stream was so clear you could see the bottom, and in the evening, the rustling of leaves sounded like a song, she said.
While passionately talking about her home, Charlotte suddenly covered her mouth with her hand.
“I’m sorry… I’ve been talking too much about myself.”
Nelia shook her head.
“I was enjoying listening.”
Charlotte blinked as she looked down.
Then, hesitantly, she looked up and opened her mouth.
“I also… have questions for Nelia.”
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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