Bai Lin, commander of the Ash Raven Corps, thrived in the gray zone along the border, until she found a badly wounded silver-white kitten in the ruins of Brokenbone Star.
The cat was impossibly beautiful, fluffy and soft, and purred as soon as you pet it.
Bai Lin adored it. She held it close and cuddled it every day, even bringing it into her mech cockpit on missions.
She petted the cat, cuddled the cat, and curled it up into a little ball.
Strangely, whenever she petted the cat, she felt someone watching her. That gaze was burning hot, full of embarrassment and resentment, yet also longing.
Later, a frail beauty named Wu Wan joined the corps as an adjutant.
Beautiful and delicate, gentle and obedient.
The beauty was breathless after every few steps, yet she was always pressing close to Bai Lin, looking at her as if she were a faithless woman.
At first, Bai Lin thought she was just a spoiled nuisance. Bai Lin paid her little attention, but she kept getting closer and closer. Then one night, she stroked her belly and said, "I've had your baby."
Bai Lin was stunned. "Impossible! I've never even touched you!"
The beauty stroked her belly and smiled, tender and unhinged. "You touch me every night... for an entire year."
Bai Lin searched her conscience. She hadn't even touched the woman with a single finger.
But looking at the beauty's pale, fragile face, Bai Lin's heart softened and she gave in. Fine, I'll take responsibility.
She thought she had hit the jackpot in the stars: picked up a cat and charmed a sweet, gentle wife.
Until one day, Bai Lin saw a gigantic snow-white silver tiger appear behind her adjutant. It was exactly like the cat in her arms.
The adjutant removed her mask, revealing the face of Imperial Marshal Wu Simian. "So, are you going to take responsibility for me, or declare war on the empire?"
Meanwhile, federal news was reporting that the enemy nation's Marshal Wu Simian had ascended the throne the day before.
You're telling me my gentle, frail wife is the notorious tyrannical marshal of the Silver Radiance Empire, the one who plans for every eventuality, wiped out the noble clans, and kills without blinking?
Bai Lin: "...Is it too late to run?"
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