The Art of Pretending with My Wife

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Here's a coming-soon title, with the blurb at the very bottom. If you're interested, please add it to your collection~

An Cun is an esper.

To keep her identity secret, she is forced to comply with her organization's demands and find a suitable partner to marry.

These days, it's easy to find someone for a sham marriage, but finding someone suitable is genuinely difficult.

Fortunately, there is always a way. Just as she was getting worried, a kind stranger offered her an olive branch. Or rather, a wedding ring.

The other woman is Gong Wandai, one of the Empire's most prominent tycoons.

"A two-year contract. You'll live at my place and act as my wife during that time. When it's over, I'll give you fifty million star coins. Don't worry, I won't touch you during those two years. You probably won't see much of me, either."

"Oh."

An Cun showed no emotion, but inside, she was over the moon.

Not seeing each other was ideal. Otherwise, she'd have to figure out how to hide her identity.

Of course, things don't always go as An Cun hopes.

Not seeing each other often doesn't mean they never see each other.

After a mission, An Cun came home exhausted, her clothes splattered with blood. She had just flown in through the window when Gong Wandai walked out of the bathroom in a bathrobe.

Gong Wandai: "What's going on?"

An Cun: "Um, if I said I was on my period, would you believe me?"

Gong Wandai: "...?"

Another time, Gong Wandai happened to catch An Cun looking after a teammate when she came home.

Afraid her identity would be exposed, An Cun made the first move: "That's right, exactly what you think. I cheated! I've been sleeping alone every night for a whole year. Am I not allowed to find someone to have a little fun with?!"

Gong Wandai: ???

Her teammate, on the verge of death: "Six."

Gong Wandai has a secret. On the surface, she's a tycoon in the Empire, but in reality she's the Empire's ace agent, solving all kinds of problems for it.

One day, she saw a post on the galactic network: a marriage ad, posted by the woman she'd loved for years, her unattainable dream girl.

She arranged everything without a second thought.

She'd planned to marry first and fall in love later, then win An Cun over within two years. But because of work, she couldn't even pursue her, let alone win her over. A year passed, and they weren't even as close as familiar tenants.

Things were getting out of hand. Thinking of An Cun's accusations, she resolutely submitted her resignation.

"Wandai, you've been doing great. Why do you suddenly want to resign?"

"Busy."

If she didn't quit and spend time with her wife, her wife would run off with someone else!

Her boss valued her talent and offered to transfer her from the front lines to a desk job, assigning her to work at the Esper Bureau.

At the mission handover ceremony:

An Cun: An awkward but polite smile

Gong Wandai: A knowing smile as she gradually puts it all together

The teammate who was brought back to life: "Six."

[Please note:

1. Same-sex marriage is legal in this setting, and two women can have a daughter, so having two moms is perfectly normal.

2. An alternate future.

3. One-on-one romance, happy ending.

4. Thanks for stopping by! Let the flowers fly!]

(Coming soon)

Question: What do you do when you discover you're an NPC in a game?

Answer: Hahaha, that's fantastic! Just get an exclamation mark over your head and players will line up to do your work for you.

Qi Mingsen is a transport worker in the lower city. Every day, she scrapes by on her meager wages, just enough to keep herself alive in the sunlight.

After a friend recommended it, she bought the popular full-dive game Dreamweaver Chronicles, planning to level up casually and make some extra money by exploiting bugs.

And what was this bug?

Any account logged in on her machine could collect unlimited daily quests from the NPC "Hengzhegou," the son of a condemned official. The points weren't much, but as long as she was willing to grind, one day she could earn enough for a light engine of her own.

Then she realized that the bug might not be a bug at all, and the NPCs in the game might be real people.

So "Hengzhegou" really was the "son of a condemned official" in this world?!

[All-female world

Cyberpunk setting

Lower-city transport worker × rebel against the established order]

Theme: Treat others sincerely