The laughter that had filled the storage room abruptly ceased.
Cedric looked perplexed as he gazed at me with certainty. His efforts to think hard were painfully evident.
“No one saw anything.”
[“No one saw anything.”]I slowly opened my lips. And I recited the same words Cedric had spoken after pushing Celly from the second floor.
“No evidence, no witnesses.”
[“No evidence, no witnesses.”]Cedric’s face turned pale as he realized what I was saying.
“How did you…!”
Cedric’s lips trembled.
“We just need to keep quiet. After all, she didn’t die.”
[“We just need to keep quiet. After all, she didn’t die.”]I looked at my hand gripping Cedric’s throat and tilted my head slowly to the side.
“You thought there would be no evidence or witnesses?”
“You… how could you…!”
Cedric, with a shocked expression, forcefully pushed my hand gripping his throat away. I calmly lowered my reddening hand and turned away.
The group watched me and Cedric in silence, as if they were unrelated bystanders.
I casually scanned them and chuckled.
“Why pretend to be unrelated bystanders? It was you who made a bet on Celly. Don’t act like you have nothing to do with this.”
“…!!”
As I spoke precisely, they all looked surprised and exchanged glances.
‘A bet involving a person.’
Cedric had suddenly become affectionate toward Celly. Cedric and his group had made a bet on whether he could win Celly’s heart. Cedric poured all his passion into winning the bet and gradually opened Celly’s heart.
As Celly’s heart opened little by little, Cedric and his companions mocked her.
“Trash.”
The talk of repaying debts was also a lie. In reality, they never repaid the debt, yet they deceived Celly.
Celly had not taken good care of her younger siblings as claimed. The food she brought for her siblings was the discarded food from the Hilos family, and Cedric and his group laughed at her for enjoying it.
“Playing with people without any guilt and drinking this crap?”
I kicked the bottle lightly with my foot. The bottle toppled over, and the liquid spilled onto the floor.
“My drink…!”
Someone lamented in a mournful voice. I turned my head in the direction of the voice.
“It was so quiet when someone fell from the second floor. But it seems you’re upset about spilling the alcohol on the floor.”
Celly was wary. Cedric’s physical intimacy was not easily accepted, and the bet eventually ended that way.
Cedric’s group, who had called Celly to the southern annex, revealed that all of this was just a bet.
Celly shed tears in shock and did not forgive Cedric for playing pranks even on her younger sibling. But Celly couldn’t overcome the power of Cedric, a knight.
Cedric, who easily avoided Celly’s attack as if he were about to kill her, could not contain his anger at losing the bet from earlier and pushed her from the second floor.
“…You were there at that time?”
Cedric nodded now as if he understood.
“I was sure no one was there…”
“Even with your skills, you were able to find me?”
Telling someone like him to be happy. I should have stopped him instead of leaving Celly, believing that she would be happy with him.
“…Even if it’s all revealed, it’s better to keep quiet. If I say I pushed her from the second floor, it will be disadvantageous for you and your friend.”
“Why me?”
“Didn’t I tell you to keep it a secret at the time? Your friend will be the one to suffer if it’s revealed, right?”
Cedric clenched his teeth as if he wanted to hit me right away but endured it. He bit his lips tightly.
“A high-ranking knight and a lowly maid’s farewell. …Do you not even think about such trivial things with that head of yours?”
“The one who will be expelled… is it?”
“Expelled?”
“Yes. If you get chased away from here without a letter of recommendation, it will be difficult to find your next job. Can you take responsibility for your friend for the rest of your life? Ah, you’re getting chased away too, aren’t you?”
I didn’t reply. When I remained silent, Cedric seemed to think he had won and a clear sneer crossed his face.
“Do you understand what I’m saying? Just act like you weren’t there, like you didn’t know. Wouldn’t that be to your advantage too? I’ll keep it a secret that you saw it.”
Cedric lightly patted my shoulder with his hand and continued past me, opening the warehouse door.
“Unbelievable.”
My brief sneer caught Cedric’s attention. I turned around and stared coldly at Cedric’s back.
“Who says that a maid is the one who gets chased away when there’s a commotion involving an elite knight and a maid?”
Cedric, who was about to leave the warehouse, stopped in his tracks. He laughed as if he were puzzled.
“Cedric Hilos. If you’re so confident, shall we confirm it?”
“What?”
“Whether I’ll be chased away or you will be. I don’t think you’ll be able to hold a sword again.”
“Is this for real…?”
Cedric was about to say something when someone rushed in through the open warehouse door.
“Ugh, ugh!”
It was a maid I hadn’t seen before. She seemed to have followed the commotion while looking for someone.
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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