My Boyfriend Is a Starship

[There are still tens of thousands of words left in the story. If there's no update by 10 p.m., there won't be one that day.]

At first, I always dreamed that my future boyfriend would be a space hero.

He would pilot the most advanced battleship in the universe and rescue me from space pirates.

Later, a battleship feared throughout the universe appeared before me.

But my boyfriend wasn't the battleship's commander.

He was the battleship itself.

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Bai Xingran had always thought her boyfriend had died amid the scorching flames and the vastness of space.

As she planned to buy a starship of her own and fulfill the dream he'd left behind, he became her ship.

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He'd finally made his way back to her, only to become a cold, colossal mass of metal.

If he couldn't embrace her, he would build the home of her dreams with his own body to make her happy.

If he couldn't hold her hand, he would use his cannons to clear every obstacle in her path.

If he couldn't kiss her, he would wrap her in his psychic power so she could feel his love more clearly.

Later, when they talked about his feelings, she gazed at him with starry eyes, tender and affectionate, looking at the body so unlike her own. "Actually, from the very beginning, I'd been prepared to sleep beside that big pillar in the ship's cabin."

Him: ?

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Reading notes:

1. Nonhuman romance, told in third person.

2. The male lead really is a battleship, one with consciousness and feelings.

3. Inspired by the classic animated series Space Sheriff and Love, Death & Robots.

Blurb written on 2022.03.20, revised on 23.01.26 with the second half rewritten.

Theme: Pursue your dreams and stay positive