Faking My Death Three Times in Front of a Hopeless Romantic

When Xing Mian drifted to Earth with her family, she started dating a local guy.

Qi Heyu, twenty-five, handsome and tall, cool and composed. He works for the national security department and holds the rank of major general. On one corner of the back of his ID is a pink brain.

She wonders what it means.

He says, “The weakest area in a comprehensive competency assessment gets recorded for monitoring and prevention.”

Xing Mian: “So what does yours say?”

Qi Heyu: “Hopeless romantic.”

On the night she accepts his proposal, her family's assessment ends. Earth is only a Level 0.73 planetary civilization, unsuitable for them, so they have to keep looking for a temporary home.

Xing Mian is thunderstruck. She asks timidly, “What about my boyfriend?”

Her parents: “Break up. Earth's people are too fragile for you.”

Xing Mian's eyes well up. “I can protect him... keep him from getting hurt... I can even bring him back from the dead.”

Her parents: “No.”

Xing Mian doesn't dare disobey. Feeling miserable, she goes to break up with him.

He refuses, adamant.

At last, her mother's patience runs out. She arranges a “car accident,” then grabs Xing Mian by the ear and hauls her onto the spaceship.

The last thing Xing Mian hears and sees is the man clutching her and howling in unbearable grief, before he coughs up blood and faints.

*

After a year of faster-than-light travel, they search through star systems and find conditions worse than Earth's. Her family decides to turn back.

By then, seven hundred years have passed on Earth, and civilization has advanced enormously.

Xing Mian meets another Qi Heyu.

The same name and appearance, but cold and formidable. At twenty-five, he is the youngest commander in the Earth Ability Alliance's General Bureau.

By coincidence, there's still a pink brain on the back corner of his ID.

He looks so much like my white moonlight, QAQ.

She works up the courage to pursue him. He seems impossible to win over, but she has him in no time.

The night he accepts her proposal, she's exhausted and falls asleep. His arms are like iron bands, and he seems to choke out in her ear, “Don't leave me again.”

Not long afterward, good news arrives: the crisis on their home planet has passed, and the drifting people can go home.

Her family has the responsibility of rebuilding their homeland. This time, Xing Mian says nothing. She obediently spends Valentine's Day with him, then fakes her death the same way as before.

After two years of faster-than-light travel, they return to their home planet. A thousand years have passed on Earth. Xing Mian thinks she'll never see Qi Heyu again.

Until one day, the home planet detects an unidentified fleet and confirms that aliens have landed.

The figure who traveled thousands of light-years, solitary and unyielding, steps onto this land and stands before her. His eyes hold tenderness and compassion for someone returned from the dead.

“Mianmian, I really, really missed you.”

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Only much later does Xing Mian learn that to join the Ability Alliance's General Bureau, you need more than all kinds of abilities and exceptional skill. There's one basic requirement.

Everyone there is immortal.

1. One-on-one romance, happy ending

2. A rescue story with a faked-death trope. The male lead is beautiful, powerful, and tragic: a widower who has lived for a thousand years

3. Tentatively around 300,000 words

The strongest ability user on Earth × an alien healing angel

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