The Delicate Omega Wants to Be Widowed Today, Too

(The full manuscript is complete and will be posted later.)

Jiang Yubai is an outstanding graduate of the Empire's Bridal Academy, an Omega fresh off the assembly line.

Refined, docile, and indistinct, his factory settings are designed to make him someone else's perfect wife.

After an accident during an interstellar voyage, he ends up on a backward, barren ancient planet.

There is no ABO here, and men can't even get pregnant.

But that's all right. Jiang Yubai opens The Bride's Handbook and prepares to return to his old line of work.

Rule One: Choose the best husband.

Wen Yan of Baishui Village is handsome, a closed-door disciple of a renowned scholar, and passed the xiucai examination at twelve.

Jiang Yubai seduces him during that time of the month. The stiff, bookish young man blushes and agrees to defy convention by marrying another man.

After the wedding, Jiang Yubai insists on good food and fine clothes. Facing the envy of his sisters-in-law, he innocently strokes the silver bracelet on his wrist. “Isn't that what you get a husband for, to enjoy the good life?”

Rule Seven: Push your husband to improve himself, then reap the rewards.

Aside from seeking out Wen Yan during that time of the month, Jiang Yubai only pressures him with words: “Husband, you must study hard and pass the provincial exam next year. Then I can enjoy the good life too.”

Rule Thirteen: Husband and wife are birds of the same forest, but when disaster strikes, they fly apart.

Wen Yan is attacked on the road to the examinations and breaks his leg. His path to success through the imperial exams is cut off.

Jiang Yubai is just about to pack his bags and run, already thinking about finding himself a second husband.

But his almost-ex-husband, lying in bed, hands over all his savings and offers to step aside so Jiang Yubai can remarry and live a good life.

For the first time, Jiang Yubai's perfect smile cracks.

He throws away the dignity of a wife, stands up to the vicious relatives swarming around them, and gets ten mu of land in the family division.

The next day, he heads out into the scorching sun with a hoe.

After three days of sticking it out, he looks at his blistered hands and uses Rule Eighteen to encourage himself: If you don't marry a soldier, you can't marry a general.

It's fine, my husband is a promising investment. His stock just hit the limit-down... What do you mean, it's down and out?!

I want to be widowed so badly!

Jiang Yubai grips the cleaver in his hand. Before he leaves, he should take Wen Yan's savings... He'll only take half!

Jiang Yubai is the wife of Wen Yan's dreams: gentle, easygoing, beautiful... even if he's a man.

Besides, his wife's appetite for sex is so high that Wen Yan can hardly keep up.

A flawless jade might have a tiny flaw, but with a little effort at night, it's not impossible to accept.

Until disaster strikes, and Wen Yan can never advance in life again.

Staring at his broken legs, Wen Yan loses the will to live. He gives his wife all his savings, hides a belt under his pillow, and plans to hang himself from the bed rail that night.

But his docile wife loses his temper for the first time, takes up a cleaver, and leads him out to set up a household of their own.

From that moment on, Wen Yan swears he'll do whatever it takes to keep living and give his wife a good life.

It's just that his wife's looks at him are getting stranger and stranger.

In the middle of the night, he holds a knife and waves it around by Wen Yan's bed;

He tries to toss brightly colored poisonous mushrooms into the pot;

At night, he straddles Wen Yan and runs a cold hand over his neck.

Wen Yan feels nothing but concern: A-Bai must be working too hard. He's started sleepwalking.

Just as they're lost in love, a letter arrives from Wen Yan's teacher.

The Four Princes have rebelled, the Xiongnu are invading from the south, the rivers have changed course, and the people are suffering terribly.

Prince Qi is a wise ruler of the age who treats worthy men with respect. You may go and offer him your service.

Wen Yan sets off with Jiang Yubai.

Jiang Yubai, whose many attempts to kill her husband have failed: Great, we're finally changing maps! I'll find myself a new husband under Prince Qi!

After serving as one of Prince Qi's advisers for a while, Wen Yan decides the prince... isn't all that impressive.

He shuts the door and gossips about Prince Qi with his wife, who gives him an even stranger look.

Jiang Yubai strokes his swollen belly, leans close to Wen Yan's ear, and whispers, “If Prince Qi is so cruel and ungrateful, why don't you take his place, husband?”

A feudal-minded scholar top who finds rebellion gratifying x an Omega black-widow sweetheart who pushes her husband to better himself

One-line summary: Two equally feudal-minded people have a love affair that shocks the world.

Content warnings:

1. The bottom has a solar-powered brain-computer interface golden finger.

2. The bottom is a black-widow sweetheart who must have a husband, but who the husband is doesn't matter (top: ?).

3. The top's legs will recover. If they don't, the black widow will eat him.

4. Includes attempted husband-murder, but the top is lucky enough to survive. The bottom has the mind of a feudal sweetheart, and the top will trigger his love-my-husband core programming.

5. Farming in the first half, contending for the realm in the second. Both leads have career arcs, and the couple stays together.

6. The top is strict with others and lenient with himself. He lectures people about the Three Bonds and Five Constants, then decides to rebel himself.

Theme: Build wealth through your own hard work