I Became the Early-Dying Wife of a Healing-Type Big Villain [GB]

Wan Sui, a psychic ability user, is dying after suffering a backlash from focusing her powers on a seventh-tier beast.

Just as she prepares to wait peacefully for death, the base buys her a healing ability user.

The slender young man has a pair of timid eyes. His healing ability seems to be unusual, and he was often bullied at his previous base.

Wan Sui berates the base for adding to her workload when she's about to die. She foresees that after her death, the young man, whose abilities are weak, will be seized and fought over, then passed around like an object among the higher-ups of various bases for their amusement. The base she built will be besieged by multiple forces and eventually collapse amid a beast tide.

All of this happens because she dies too soon.

Helpless, Wan Sui decides to spend what little time she has left helping the base shore up its strength and teaching the young man. She doesn't expect him to become an asset to the base later on, but at least he should be able to protect himself.

On the day she dies, Wan Sui, her consciousness fading, sees him looking distraught as he crawls into her coffin and takes her fingertip into his mouth.

The young man is flushed and feverish. When he glances up by chance, he sees Wan Sui's spirit staring at him in utter shock.

Wan Sui begins to wonder whether she's actually dead or not.

In a future Wan Sui never saw, there is a great villain who has endured endless torment and become weary of the world and pessimistic.

He slaughters the people who once humiliated him and collects their abilities, all in the hope of bringing his wife back to life.

A note before reading: This is a scrappy, make-do kind of story! A scrappy, make-do kind of story! A scrappy, make-do kind of story! A short story about an ability user saving someone from a life of degradation. At least two updates a week, and it will end soon.

Also writing an ongoing insectoid-world hurt/comfort story: The Military Female Mistook Me for Her White Moonlight.

The military female insect Aisali is matched with survived an undercover operation. Her damaged limbs and mental collapse forced her out of the maelstrom of power struggles, and she was reassigned from the Central Star System to a backward little planet, bringing with her an astronomical sum of assets.

Aisali, whose family has fallen on hard times, is anxious and spends the entire day and night before their meeting studying a hundred hours' worth of mental comfort courses.

He never expected the military female to kneel on one knee and pin medals of honor, one after another, to his lapel.

With a reverent expression, she kisses Aisali's fingertips.

"Do you remember that we met before?"

Among insectoids, mental collapse manifests as hallucinations, delusions, emotional instability, and abnormal behavior.

But the military female is as docile as a lamb around Aisali, and every mental comfort session goes smoothly. Aisali is beginning to wonder whether the diagnosis is even reliable.

Until Zerus says things he can't understand, again and again:

"I've admired you since we were at school. I never thought a day like this would really come, when I could be by your side."

Only then does he slowly realize that perhaps Zerus's symptoms mean she thinks he's a different male insect.

That's all right. Aisali can weave lie after lie, using tenderness and intimacy to put off and redirect Zerus's attention.

He deliberately ignores the fact that this is precisely the best way to treat mental collapse.

Perhaps one day, the military female will stare at him with a cold, merciless gaze, her sharp bone wings spread between them.

"...You deceived me, Aisali."

The sensitive male insect has worried about countless things, but this one has never happened.

Aisali realizes it only after the fact...

He and Zerus really do seem to have met before, many, many times.

Theme: Independence and a generous, loving heart