Chapter 7 The Ex-Husband’s Brother Has Been Reborn
On the way back, Su Mu bought another large bag of honey seeds candy.
She didn’t have much money to begin with. After deducting rent, daily expenses, and the 20 taels of silver spent on buying Xie Yi flowers, there was little left.
But thinking that Xie Yi loved to eat them, she bought more for him.
In her previous life, Xie Yi had suffered a lot following her, and ended up committing suicide by poison. Su Mu felt a hidden guilt in her heart.
Su Mu knew all too well how painful it was to die from poisoning. In her previous life, she had been given a slow-acting poison. By the time she discovered it, it was already too late for any remedy. The toxin had spread to her five viscera and six bowels, her internal organs felt like they were being pounded and crushed into pulp in a stone mortar. She couldn’t eat porridge, couldn’t swallow life-saving medicine, just dragging on like a walking corpse, waiting for death to come.
The poison Xie Yi took was □□, with a toxicity as fierce as fire and sulfuric acid burning and corroding. He must have been in even more pain than her when he died.
Su Mu dared not recall the image of Xie Yi lying in her skeletal embrace, blood slowly seeping from the corners of his mouth.
She just didn’t understand, when did Xie Yi start to like her?
In her previous life, Su Mu, constrained by her identity as a married-in husband, even after buying Xie Yi from the human trafficker, only made him an ordinary servant cleaning the garden in the Yan family.
Later, when Xie Yi was harassed by other servants, she stepped in to help a few times. Perhaps out of gratitude, Xie Yi often came to her courtyard to keep her company and chat.
At that time, Su Mu only regarded Xie Yi as an ordinary friend, never discovering any other ambiguous feelings in his eyes.
So much so that when her soul saw Xie Yi take poison to follow her in death, there were only four words in her mind: unbelievable.
If it weren’t for Xie Yi finally crawling into her coffin, enduring the severe pain of the poison, no longer concealing the deep affection leaked from his eyes, she wouldn’t have even thought in the direction of romantic love, but would only have felt grateful for his loyalty as a servant.
Xie Yi had hidden his feelings for her too deeply.
But no matter what, Xie Yi was the only person who truly cared for her in her previous life. Even now, when Su Mu recalled such intense emotions as dying for love, she felt as if her heart had been scalded.
Su Mu clutched the bag of honey seeds candy tightly and pushed open the door.
She had expected to see Xie Yi’s familiar smile, but what she saw was a familiar pair of master and servant in the courtyard.
Yan Zhujun sat high in the main seat, with his personal attendant and most capable henchman, Ling Hua, standing beside him.
And her Xie Yi was kneeling obediently at Yan Zhujun’s feet, his thin back pressed down.
“Su Mu, you’re finally back.” Yan Zhujun’s eyes held a gentle shallow smile, crow’s feet gathering at the corners.
Ling Hua also bowed respectfully to Su Mu.
Su Mu ignored them, directly pulling Xie Yi up from the ground in front of the two, and stuffed the honey seeds candy in her hand into his.
Seeing the honey seeds candy stuffed into his hand, each round and emitting clear colliding sounds, Xie Yi’s expression was surprised.
Early this morning, as soon as Su Mu left, this old man brought people in.
Without a word, he pressed him to kneel on the ground, under the pretext of ‘standing properly’.
Xie Yi was very familiar with this ‘standing properly’, as Teacher Li’s husband often used this word to punish him.
Before Su Mu returned, he had already been kneeling on the ground for an hour, until Su Mu came back.
He raised his eyes to look at Su Mu.
Her smile carried the warmth of spring and summer river water rippling and flowing, instantly dispelling the cold he had felt kneeling on the damp, chilly ground for an hour, and even feeling a bit scorching.
“Go back to the room, you don’t need to kneel to anyone in the future.” Su Mu took him into the room, letting him sit on the bed to rest.
It didn’t matter if Xie Yi understood or not, the important thing was to say it for Yan Zhujun to hear.
Su Mu had already divorced Yan Jiyue, and Su Mu had no relationship with the Yan family.
Coming to her home early in the morning and punishing her people, his face was too big.
But it seemed Xie Yi understood this sentence, his deep green eyes were suddenly stirred as if by wind, surging at the bottom.
Even after seeing Xie Yi’s green eyes for ten years, Su Mu still couldn’t help but exclaim, how beautiful.
“Rest well.” She smiled and instructed, closing the door.
The moment she closed the door, the smile in Su Mu’s eyes faded: “What business does the Lord have with me today?”
Yan Zhujun had seen everything just now. There must be an ambiguous relationship between Su Mu and that foreign man. Perhaps it was for this man that she was so determined to divorce.
Yan Zhujun was angry in his heart. A lone girl, if it weren’t for him encountering her on his way back from offering incense at the Taoist temple, she would have frozen to death long ago.
He originally didn’t want to care about Su Mu’s life or death, but the little Taoist nun at the temple said that he had been cold and calculating all his life, and needed to accumulate virtue and do good deeds to have a good end. Only then did he bring Su Mu back to the Yan family.
Although being a married-in husband was humiliating, for a lone girl like her, being able to marry into the Yan family was a blessing cultivated over several lifetimes. He didn’t expect her to be so ungrateful, divorcing after only half a month of marriage, ruining all his previous plans.
Although Yan Zhujun was angry, he knew clearly that he must stabilize Su Mu now, and must not let her spread the news of the divorce.
He smiled and said in a humble tone: “I heard you had a conflict with Jiyue before. This child, he just has a bad temper. If there’s anything between you husband and wife—”
“The Lord should know that I and Young Master Yan are no longer husband and wife, we have already signed the divorce papers.” Su Mu saw through Yan Zhujun’s intentions at a glance and said coldly.
“Look at you young people, you’re so impulsive. Marriage is not a child’s play, how can you divorce just like that?” Yan Zhujun’s face remained unchanged, but the prayer beads in his hand had been dented by his fingernails.
Su Mu laughed coldly in her heart. Yan Zhujun had a very good reputation outside, and was also a first-class good person. But a person who believes in both Taoism and Buddhism is nothing more than a tool to satisfy his own desires, not a devout believer who is truly devoted to goodness.
“How does the Lord know that my divorce from Yan Jiyue is impulsive? Only we ourselves know whether this marriage is harmonious or not. Isn’t it good to cut the mess with a sharp knife now?”
“You—” Seeing that his persuasion to reconcile was not working on Su Mu, Yan Zhujun gave Ling Hua a look.
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If you’re like me…
Too tired of reading stories where the female lead is often foolish, weak, feeble both physically and mentally, usually in a subservient and oppressed role in society such as a maid, secretary, concubine… or to put it bluntly, typically the one who has to serve and please the male lead, always needing protection and rescue from male leads, while the male lead is often described as talented, strikingly handsome, powerful,…
Then please continue reading.
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*Spotlight on Finished Novel Translations*
The Male Lead’s Obsessive (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: She is his lifelong obsession, to the point where he was willing to be a third wheel, scorned by society, just to wedge his way into her relationship with her fiancé.
Synopsis:
Cold-hearted and indifferent female lead + Scheming and subservient CEO male lead
Summary:
Rong Xiu’s biggest regret in life was missing out on Fan Xia.
He secretly loved Fan Xia for 7 years.
Watched her go public with her boyfriend.
Watched her kiss her boyfriend at their wedding.
Until that man blissfully nestled in Fan Xia’s arms, obtaining everything he could only dream of.
The crazy jealousy stripped away his hidden secret love, layer by layer, burning like wildfire.
Fan Xia, how can I have you!
【Reading and Trigger Warning Guide】
1. Female dominant, male submissive, male pregnancy
2. Male lead schemes his way to the top, male competition
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