The Husband Who Disappeared Is the Good One

San Qian Dai was 22 and still in graduate school when she married Jianggu Zero, who had just graduated from the police academy. Every friend around them was astonished, since she hardly seemed like a woman in a hurry to get married.

However, their rushed married life did not last long. Jianggu Zero suddenly vanished without a trace. At first, he was considered missing, and after the required number of years had passed, he was legally declared dead.

Everyone thought this young woman was deeply devoted to her missing husband. For all these years, she had lived alone in an empty house and had never looked for a new relationship. Perhaps she still spent every day crying where no one could see her. But only San Qian Dai herself and a few of her close friends knew that life like this... was unbelievably wonderful!

She had her own job and ways to entertain herself. She did not have to come home to a male creature who did nothing but wait for a woman to serve him. She did not have to worry that her family might pressure her to get married. Her friends even carefully avoided the subject so they would not reopen her wounds. And best of all! She did not have to give birth to a man's children!!!

What a perfect life. It was so good that she would sometimes think about it in the middle of the night and laugh out loud.

Though it might seem a little morally questionable to treat her husband that way, since he was gone, San Qian Dai still remembered to burn incense for him during the holidays, thanking him for all the wonderful times he had brought her

Until the man who had disappeared for more than seven years finally completed his undercover mission and resumed his true identity. Wearing that blue police uniform once again, just as dashing as when he had first left the police academy, he looked at the wife who had "waited for him for seven years," "never fallen for anyone else," and "loved him with all her heart," his purple-gray eyes filled with affection and a smile.

"San Qian Dai, I'm back."

Help! Is there still time to find a time machine?

Although the blurb makes it sound this way, the pairing is not necessarily with Toru. Any of the Police Academy group except Date could be the love interest (probably). Readers with strong preferences about pairings, beware. It's been seven years, Zero, your buddies really have been taking good care of your wife (not).

In this setting, the entire Police Academy group survived, though I haven't figured out how yet. Anyway, they survived. The Black Organization has already been smashed by Conan and Toru, so Officer Jianggu has reclaimed his identity!

The blurb makes it look like things might go wrong, but the heroine is steady, so don't worry. I'm firmly on the women's side (.

Theme: What matters is love and companionship