They may give all sorts of reasons, but it’s all just playing with words. A distinguished archmage is a valuable asset to the empire, but at the same time, they can be a threat to the royal authority, so they’re controlled and restrained on a large scale.
Gibnen filled Riley’s glass with champagne.
“It’s been a while since we drank alone. This is the second time since that day?”
“……Yes.”
The ambitious time, and the fact that they were alone in the room, were the same.
Even then, he was wearing a bathrobe. Her wet hair, not yet dry, flowed softly as she silently drank, and she recalled how he had gotten drunk like that.
「Do you want to do it with me?」
At the stupid question,
「Well, maybe.」
「Wanna do it?」
An unexpected answer.
Ah, her face turned red. Riley gulped down the champagne to hide her awkwardness and embarrassment. Then Gibnen chuckled, holding his chin.
“You’ll be drunk if you drink like that.”
“?”
“You don’t seem to handle alcohol well; are you okay?”
Riley blinked her eyes a little bewilderedly and asked,
“……Are you going to do it?”
“What?”
“That……. ”
“That?”
“That…… what you and I did.”
Whether it was from the alcohol or the fact that they were alone in the room, her throat felt unreasonably dry.
So a foolish question escaped. Riley regretted her words as soon as she spoke them.
This damn mouth really…… has no answer.
“I can.”
“……. ”
“Do you want to?”
“……No, not that.”
What can you say when asked so explicitly if you want to do it?
Of course, it’s not that she wants to, nor that she doesn’t want to.
“So you don’t want to?”
“That, that’s not it either…….”
Gibnen sipped his champagne, amusedly enjoying the situation itself.
“I want to do it.”
“……What?”
Riley visibly tensed up. Her pupils dilated, and her hands trembled like someone with Parkinson’s disease. He, smiling mischievously, lifted her into his arms.
And then, he didn’t lay her on the bed but put her on the table and kissed her.
His strong arm wrapped around Riley’s waist. The soft yet hot sensation filled her mouth and stole her mind. Gently sweeping her tongue, the breathing became rougher. The heated breath spread between their lips, and her body leaned back more and more.
Riley stood, holding on with both arms so as not to fall completely. Fortunately, she didn’t end up lying on the table, but the pressing weight was quite straining.
By the time the hand caressing her neck moved to her shoulder, from her shoulder to her chest, from her chest to her belly, and then near her thigh, Riley barely grasped her runaway senses.
“Wa, wait a minute.”
“Why.”
“It, it’s too surprising to do this all of a sudden!”
“You said you wanted to see.”
“……. ”
“At this hour, calling me here.”
“That’s…….”
She had nothing to say.
She had sent the letter close to midnight. But Riley never expected him to come here in one step or to press her like this, so there was an unfair aspect to it.
It’s not the first time.
This was the third time I remembered going with him in such an atmosphere. The first time was when we first met and went to the hotel, the second time was when I was saved by Count Ermeintz. There’s nothing surprising about it since it’s not new.
“Shshy.”
Once, I was out of my mind due to alcohol, and the other time, I was not myself due to the shock of a kidnapping drama.
In both cases, there was no time to feel shame or anything else because I was swept away and committed such acts in an insane state.
But now? I’m too sober! It’s too sudden! His presence and his touch felt much bigger and more stimulating.
From his perspective, this must seem like an act, but Riley was more disoriented than she thought in this stimulating situation.
Gibnen chuckled at her like that.
“What arrogance was it to call me this night?”
“It’s not that I called you. I just said I wanted to see you.”
“It’s the same thing.”
Riley just fumbled her lips without any reply and spoke, looking at him.
“Do it if you want. It’s okay.”
At that, Gibnen narrowed his eyebrows and slapped her lips with his hand.
“Don’t say that carelessly.”
“…?”
“Don’t act like you don’t have control over your own body.”
“….”
“Don’t look at me for everything. Even if I’m garbage, I don’t have the wicked hobby of forcing women.”
Gibnen snapped his fingers once. Then, the table, which had become a mess from the earlier act, was neatly arranged. Still, he held Riley tightly, who was sitting on his lap.
“It might be unfamiliar to have a private chat in the bedroom, but that’s not bad.”
“Then can you let go of this?”
At Riley’s words, Gibnen tightened the hand holding Riley.
“It’s okay to just hold.”
“….”
“Don’t like it?”
Riley was taken aback by the young man who stared at her sharply. What’s this? For a moment, she saw a puppy with its tail lowered.
She bowed her head and nodded.
“…I don’t hate it. Just embarrassed.”
“Get used to this level of embarrassment.”
He smiled, caressing Riley’s cheek with his long fingers.
“Now you only have me to trust.”
“…Huh?”
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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