As a commoner receiving a stipend at the monastery, she wasn’t in a particularly affluent position.
Nevertheless, willingly presenting a gem that was perceived as valuable, seeing Charlotte like this, Nellia wondered if having a compassionate heart was considered a virtue for the female lead.
Charlotte’s expression, awaiting a response, seemed anxious. Seeing that, Nellia eventually let go of her reluctance.
‘Alright.’
Nellia firmly held the gem and said, “Thank you, Charlotte. I’ll treasure this gem.”
Charlotte smiled.
“Yes. Thank you for accepting it, Nellia.”
Charlotte’s expression, brightly smiling as if asking when she had ever shed tears, looked more relieved than ever.
Charlotte returned early the next morning. She was worried about staying outside the monastery without notice.
Nellia was the only one seeing her off.
“Take care, Charlotte!”
“Yes, Nellia…! See you next time…!”
After exchanging brief greetings at the main gate, Nellia returned to the duke’s residence.
Upon opening the front door and entering, she was met by the duke, who had crossed his long legs and was sitting on the sofa.
“You’re back.”
It seemed that the duke had grown even more displeased with Charlotte’s actions from yesterday.
While before he subtly showed his feelings, now it seemed like he didn’t even want to mix words.
However, knowing that the reason the duke disliked Charlotte was that he thought she put him in danger, Nellia closed her mouth with a complex feeling.
“Shall we go to the palace now?”
After the storm-like holiday passed, the unpleasant routine of going to work began.
At times like this, Nellia couldn’t help but feel a bit resentful.
Why did the duke have to take on the important duty of being a regent and go to the palace for work every day?
Moreover, if they were separated, he would turn into a snake, so he had to accompany her.
‘Come to think of it, why didn’t he transform into a snake yesterday?’
Nellia realized that despite the duke being away from her yesterday, he came to rescue her not in the form of a snake but in his human form.
Could it be that now he doesn’t transform into a snake even if they’re apart?
With a momentary hopeful thought, Nellia asked the duke as soon as she boarded the carriage.
“Duke, why didn’t you transform into a snake yesterday when you were away from me?”
However, soon a disappointing answer was heard.
“I took medicine. That’s why I could endure it for a few hours.”
“Ah…”
Nellia looked up at the duke.
“But why did you take medicine…? Did you know that something like that would happen to me?”
“I had to prepare for the worst. That day, I had a bad feeling.”
It was truly emergency preparedness. It seemed the duke had a foresight into the future.
If the duke hadn’t taken medicine as usual, there wouldn’t have been a need for him to come and save her.
Recalling the events from yesterday, Nellia also remembered the duke’s mysterious abilities.
He effortlessly lifted people into the air without lifting a finger and even blew them away.
His abilities were reminiscent of magic.
Come to think of it, the day he fought Carlos, he also won without any weapons.
What was even stranger was that last night, unknown natural phenomena accompanied these events.
Lightning struck in the dry sky, and suddenly, a strong wind blew.
Of course, it could be the caprice of nature, but Nellia speculated based on her intuition that these phenomena might be related to the duke.
‘I’ve never heard that the Hart family is related to magic…’
On the contrary, they were a knightly family with a tradition of producing knights.
It didn’t make sense.
Nellia gazed at the duke and slowly opened her mouth.
“Duke… could you possibly be a wizard?”
At Nellia’s question, the duke tilted his head slightly. His silver hair gently swayed.
“No.”
“Then, what was it yesterday when you lifted a person effortlessly without touching them?”
The duke seemed to ponder for a moment, then smiled brightly.
“It’s the power of love. When you try to protect someone you love, unknown latent abilities come into play…”
“Enough.”
Nellia immediately interrupted the duke, who was trying to smoothly pass over the topic again.
She glared at him.
“You’re trying to brush it off like this again!”
“Nellia, why are you so beautiful and lovely today of all days?”
Even with playful kisses as if sealing her mouth, Nellia forcefully pushed away the duke’s chest.
‘This fox…!’
Perhaps reading Nellia’s displeased expression, the duke gently pushed Nellia’s hair behind her ear and asked.
“Is it that intriguing to you?”
“Yes… You keep trying to hide it from me.”
The duke let out a short breath, his playful expression completely gone.
“Rather than hiding it… I don’t know how to appropriately explain this ability.”
“…It’s not magic?”
“No, it definitely isn’t.”
As the duke lowered his gaze, his eyelashes calmly fell downward.
“It doesn’t require any tools, magic power, or even spells.”
“Then how do you use the ability…?”
“Just a word. For using a small force, flicking a finger is enough. When the power goes berserk, as it did yesterday, it can be done with just a thought.”
Nellia’s mouth subtly opened.
‘Such a scam-like ability…!’
No wonder… She realized it from the moment he effortlessly defeated Carlos, a Swordmaster, without a single scratch.
Having such extraordinary abilities, winning was the only option.
“Why did you hide such an amazing ability…!”
The duke let out a light laugh.
“Some people, like Nellia, admire it with pure wonder, but most people feel fear when it comes to unknown powers.”
Nellia immediately understood the duke’s words.
‘That makes sense…’
Even if they briefly marvel at it, people would soon have doubts about unknown powers.
What was the origin of that power, and how did he acquire it?
“If it’s known that I possess the curse of transforming into a terrifying monster and an unknown ability, people, even those who know me well, will be afraid.”
Although the duke spoke matter-of-factly, there was a somewhat bitter atmosphere.
“So, even Count Clint doesn’t know about this secret. This will be the first time I’ve told Nellia.”
The duke brushed Nellia’s cheek.
“How about it… Nellia, do you find me fearsome?”
Nellia understood that the reason he asked such a question, knowing the answer himself, was to receive confirmation of human psychology.
There was no reason to hesitate in answering a question with a definite answer.
“Duke, you’re just the duke.”
One more characteristic had been added to define the duke.
Beautiful appearance like a craftsman’s masterpiece, the curse of transforming into a snake, the skill to enchant people.
And now, this strange ability.
Nellia removed the duke’s hand that was gently brushing her cheek.
“Thanks to the duke’s strange ability yesterday, Ton was saved, and I wasn’t sold as a slave, you know.”
With a playful tone, the duke let out a gentle laugh.
“When I talk with Nellia, I feel like I become an ordinary person. Unknown curses, strange abilities – they all feel like nothing.”
On the contrary, when Nellia was with the duke, she felt like she became an extraordinarily special person.
Was it that her ordinary self brought a bit of his uniqueness?
It was a pleasant balance.
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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