Interstellar General Huo Xishou, Strategist Cheng Ji.
Two people pretending to be elite.
Synopsis:
In 3022, five years into their marriage, interstellar general Huo Xishou personally executed his legal spouse.
Because his spouse was a mole working for the enemy, who had been hiding at his side for ten years.
When the truth came out, the organization ruthlessly abandoned Cheng Ji, the mole hailed in classified files as "the perfect pawn." After his identity was exposed, Huo Xishou never saw him again.
They met once more on the day of the execution. Their brothers, who had faced life and death alongside them, couldn't bring themselves to do it, so they knocked on Huo Xishou's office door.
"He's your spouse. You deal with him." They handed Huo Xishou a gun.
Huo Xishou entered the interrogation room and saw his spouse again for the first time in half a month.
He could barely recognize him.
Special containment devices were used for top-level criminals. Cheng Ji, the strategist who had once stirred the hearts of countless young men and women, had been disfigured by torture.
After an increased dose of truth serum, Cheng Ji could no longer tell a single lie.
Everyone waited for Huo Xishou to pull the trigger, but he asked, "Do you regret it?"
Cheng Ji lifted his head. His battered body bore many old wounds. He had lost his left eye while helping Huo Xishou finish a group assignment. The bullet wound in his leg came from entering a minefield with Huo Xishou. The wound that pierced his abdomen came from the year the four of them fell into a trap set by the Zerg while serving as paratroopers.
"I regret it. I regret marrying you. I regret not killing you!"
Under the truth serum, there were no lies. Huo Xishou was seared by hatred and frantically pulled the trigger.
A gunshot rang out, sending him ten years back.
When Huo Xishou opened his eyes again, he was standing at the welcoming ceremony at the Interstellar Academy, listening to the principal give a speech in person. Not far behind him was Cheng Ji, just eighteen, wearing a civilian uniform. His clear eyes concealed an unknowable curiosity as he searched for his group.
Huo Xishou looked ahead. His two closest brothers were just as baffled as he was. The three of them silently met each other's gaze, at a loss for words, with only complicated thoughts running through their minds.
Shh! Cheng Ji is the only one who hasn't been reborn!
This time, let's make sure he becomes one of us!
Theme: Love each other as equals.