Seven years after transmigrating into an interstellar world, Pu Yue's life has barely changed.
She has an ordinary job sorting goods at a factory and a small, cozy home.
Her husband is as poor as she is, but he's gentle and considerate. His work keeps him so busy that he disappears for half of every month.
Then, while on a business trip to Central Star, she happens to see her refined and gentle lover on a giant screen.
With a polished smile, the man discusses plans to build an interstellar anchor in the Second Star System.
Yet his eyes hold a trace of barely perceptible arrogance, so unlike the humble man she knows.
Pu Yue is stunned.
Eighteen years after his secondary personality appeared, Leo's life has barely changed.
As the dominant personality who controls their body, he has absolute autonomy.
He doesn't care what his secondary personality does during the half-month when he loses consciousness, and he's confident he can sort out any problems himself.
That is, until he discovers that his secondary personality secretly married an utterly unremarkable commoner.
Furious, Leo decides to take his place and return to his home.
He won't allow himself, not even his secondary personality, to do anything improper.
He'll put an end to that family that should never have existed, including the man's wife.
On his first day back home, Leo feels awkward at every turn. He thinks Pu Yue is an exceedingly dull woman and decides to divorce her in secret, so his reputation won't suffer.
After a month at home, he decides that life here is not entirely unbearable, and Pu Yue is not entirely impossible to tolerate. He could take her back to the royal capital, though her identity would still be difficult to make public.
By his third month back, he realizes he has fallen completely in love with her.
The trouble is, the side effects of the drug he's been using to suppress his secondary personality mean it will soon awaken, and he could fall asleep at any moment.
Worse, ever since she discovered who he was, she seems to have wanted to get rid of him and make room for her real lover.
Before meeting Pu Yue, Leo never once reined in his arrogance.
Even when he pretended to be his secondary personality and returned to her, he acted as if he were there against his will, unwilling even to put on a halfhearted performance.
He never imagined he would truly fall in love with her, or that she would truly hurt him.
When he returns to her again, his first thought isn't to confess who he is.
Though his heart is breaking with pain, he can still bear all his sorrow, take on that man's mannerisms, and offer her a faint smile.
It's not that he can't act. Before, he simply didn't want to.
If he wants to, he can keep acting forever.
Until she can no longer tell whether the man beside her is him or him.
* An interstellar romance, with lots of original settings
* The male lead's two personalities will not merge
More stories in the same series:
Harem romances:
"After Bonding with the Insect Queen": Drag every man I hate into having children
"Theory of Oceanic Evolution": How to win over a crowd of handsome mermen after transmigrating to an ocean planet
One-on-one romances:
"Her Guide": A widowed female Sentinel and a younger male Guide
Short story collections:
"After Turning a Tragic Romance into a Sweet One": Can classic tragic-romance tropes become sweet stories too?
"They Insist on Being the Male Lead": A collection of melodramatic tragic romances with happy endings, mostly putting the men through the wringer
Theme: Overcoming prejudice
My wife was my wife when we first met
Can you write a side story about returning home in May? I feel really sorry for her
I'm a little annoyed. What's the use of asking over and over again? There are still other things to do.
I thought that after Del's efforts to send the heroine home, at least the relationship between the two would be better, but it still didn't work out. I'm so sad. I really hope that it will be impartial 😭 😭
I finished reading it and I like it very much, but can the author write a spin-off about May returning home? It's really sad that she didn't make it home😭
I couldn't stand it anymore. When I read the title, I thought I had rediscovered a passage that could travel back and forth from both sides, but it turned out. . . This happened in one breath
The author's first book was quite good, but it made me sad that the heroine didn't go home in the end. Moreover, the heroine gave up on her own, which made me feel that she deliberately made the heroine choose this way so that she could naturally forgive Del. The heroine has always been eager to return to her family, mother, father, sister and friends. Why did she give up in the end? If you want to save people on a planet, is it possible that only the heroine and the hero can use this huge empire? They even evolved into interstellar humans later. They only trained for a few months. Where did the army go?
It's not like you can't go home, right?
Like this book very much! Some time ago I was a little afraid of seeing the ending, so I kept it for a while [bursts into tears] I will follow your wife!
Not enough 😭 It's over so soon ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh [picking my brain] [picking my brain]