My Ex-Husband Became The Male Lead

Chapter 1: The End Is Coming

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“Catch them all!”

There was fire everywhere.
After a long period of time, the acrid smell of the fire went into Renna’s bedroom.

I covered my mouth and nose with a towel and stood by the window, coughing.

The people’s screams came from outside the flaming windows, but there was nothing Renna could do.

‘What happened to you….’

My mouth dried up as I waited nervously.

How much time has passed? Renna’s tightly shut bedroom door opened and her husband, Kaligo, came in.
Even in this situation, as usual, his face was expressionless.

Renna, who stood by the window, hurriedly ran towards Kaligo.

“Kaligo! What the hell is going on!”

“……”

Whether he knew her nervousness or not, Kaligo put his hand in his pocket without saying anything.

He took a small necklace out of it and hung it around her neck, and called her name in a low voice.

“Renna.”

“…….”

Her eyes grew bigger when she heard her name come out of his mouth.

It was the first time.

Instead of being called “you” or “ma’am”, he called me by my name.
Maybe, that was the reason why his name sounded so unfamiliar to me.

Kaligo, who finished putting the necklace around Renna’s neck, held her and said.

“Don’t leave.”

“…..”

Renna’s once shaking body now stiffened after hearing Kaligo say those words.

What? Don’t leave? Even in this situation?

During our five years of marriage, there wasn’t a moment where I escaped my duties as a Duchess.
But, even when I’m about to die, he’s still telling me to stay in this mansion?

‘……Are you saying….I should die here?’

His orders, under the guise of a favor, still remained even when the world was in chaos.

She bit her lower lip gently, escaped from his arms, and asked.

“How about you?”

“……..”

“Are you….coming back?”

To this room, where I am waiting? Are you coming back alive? Until then, can I stay alive?

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‘No, do you even have the intention of saving me from this place?’

I wanted to ask a lot of questions, but my voice was shaking tremendously.
In the end, I decided to just close my mouth.

Instead of replying to her question, Kaligo stepped away from her.

“I’ll be back…..no matter what.”

Kaligo turned away and went out of the room without looking back.

After 5 years of being married, his back looked no different.
No matter how many times I looked at it, it always looked cold.

And…

That was the last time I saw him alive.

“Find all the remnants!”

The knights of the Imperial Palace eventually reached the front of Renna’s room.
It didn’t take long for the locked bedroom door to break because of the immense force of the knights.

Until then, I tried to remain calm.

Since he was the Duke of Edmund, who had a lot of enemies, she was worried this would happen someday.

It happened today.
Before it has come to this, schemes and plots would always be directed towards the Duchess.

‘The fact that they’ve come all the way here……’

It was clear to me that the worst had happened.
That’s why I tried to keep my composure.

As the wife of the Duke of Edmund, she will neither fall in disgrace nor will she beg for her life for fear of death.

That’s what I vowed.

But….

When one of the imperial knights was holding her husband’s head came into view, Renna immediately collapsed.

Yes, it was the Duke.
It was her husband, Kaligo.

It was his head.

“Kal…igo?”

On both hands of the imperial knights were traces of the suppression of the rebellion.

The blade of one of the imperial knights has blood dripping from it.
On the other hand, he held the head of her husband.

It was a shocking sight to see that she collapsed the moment she saw it.

“Ka…Kal…”

“The head of the rebel army was immediately disposed of.”

“Kali…go…Ka…ligo!!”

What rebellion? What disposition?

Even if I hate him or love him, he’s still my husband.
It’s true that I resented my husband, but I didn’t want it to end like this.

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His unusual gaze and voice when he first called my name still lingered in my head and ears.

‘But, what good change can it bring now that this happened?’

Nothing can comfort me in the face of fear and vanity.
Saying that he would come back were all…empty words.

“According to the law, all the families that participated in the rebellion will….”

The bloodstained sword rose high up into the sky.

“Be punished according to the imperial order.”

“…….”

In the bedroom, the sharp sound of the sword cut through the air landing on the back of Renna’s neck.

On the same day, at the same place holding on to the memory of her husband’s terrible death, that’s how she died.

***

The morning sun brilliantly shone over the river in the city.
The laughter of the people, and the savory smell of bread filled every corner of the alley.

The usual mornings of Carmain, the capital of the Karhan Empire.
A place where people are friendly and greets everyone they pass by.

As Ashia passed the narrow alley with a basket full of freshly baked bread and fresh milk, shopkeepers who were cleaning the alley greeted Ashia.

“Ashia, good morning!”

“Likewise, Aunt Chelsea.”

“How’s the business going?”

“It’s great, of course~”

Ashia’s face, as she answered with a bright smile, was as fresh as the morning sun.

The scent of flowers blooming in spring, the heat felt in summer, autumn with its golden fields, and the cold wind during winter.

It’s a place where you can see it with your eyes, hear it with your ears, a