When the Stars Go Dark

Federation Marshal Wen Boche and Prosecutor Ji Linyun have been bitter rivals since they were boys.

After an accident, Wen Boche found Ji Linyun gravely wounded and suffering from amnesia.

Wen Boche raised a hand, his long, slender fingertips supporting the back of the other man's head. He pressed backward, revealing the tip of that pale, delicate chin.

Ji Linyun's hair was unexpectedly soft. Looking down at him, Wen Boche found his features even more striking: cool eyes and brows, and a sharply defined face. His lips looked moist and red beneath the lights, while his eyes brimmed with icy murderous intent.

“Who are you?”

Wen Boche's eyes crinkled with a smile as he coaxed his rival, “Why, I'm your fiancé, of course.”

*

When the Governor heard the rumors, he simply approved their marriage alliance to stabilize the turbulent situation.

Wen Boche thought, I'm done for. Once Ji Linyun gets his memories back, he'll hate me for sure.

But on their wedding day, Wen Boche discovered that Ji Linyun had drunk the drugged wine in his place.

A bewildered, icy heat and a flush of color burned in Ji Linyun's eyes. That intense red spread across the corners of his eyes and his lips.

He was so fierce. Though he clutched Wen Boche's clothes, he trembled as he said, “Get out.”

The two rivals ended up spending the whole night together by sheer coincidence.

Wen Boche couldn't get enough. His mind was filled with Ji Linyun's cold gaze, but his rival's mouth was so red, so soft, and the things he cried out between kisses were driving Wen Boche wild.

He began to obsessively think about Ji Linyun.

He wanted to watch him, eat breakfast with him, hold him by the waist, kiss him, and ¥@#***** him.

He wanted to court him properly. After pursuing him for ages, just as he was about to confess, he was assigned to war for half a year.

When the battle was won, Wen Boche returned with roses, only to be told that Ji Linyun was dead.

The Governor personally welcomed him and offered his congratulations. “The Federation brought down the Ji family and executed its former prosecutor. Marshal Wen, you played a crucial role.”

The roses fell from Wen Boche's hand, and he went completely mad.

Everyone congratulated Marshal Wen on getting what he wanted, but he stormed into the Federation prison and fought his way to the person who had carried out the plan.

A black gun barrel pointed at Wen Boche. He kissed the brooch Ji Linyun had left behind and said, “I'll die with you.”

Then came an explosion, and the entire prison was reduced to ashes.

*

Wen Boche jolted awake in searing pain. When he opened his eyes, he had returned to the eve of his wedding to Ji Linyun.

Overcome with emotion, he resolved to clear up the misunderstanding at once and protect his wife properly.

But on the eve of their wedding, his wife openly disobeyed orders and fled aboard a starship with his love rival.

Marshal Wen, who was all ready to make a grand confession: ?

Features the beloved confinement-room trope, a fake happy ending, and a sickly, vulnerable protagonist.

*A ruthless, decisive, domineering top who clings to his wife as soon as he gets home x a cool, noble, universally adored bottom with a heart harder than stone

Both are reborn, and both characters have points of view. The couple dotes on each other, so enjoy without worry.

A hate-and-love story in the same universe, featuring a fake happy ending. Coming soon: After I Caught My Sickly Fiancé Who Faked His Death

Lu Suming has a fiancée.

His fiancée has long hair and a cool gaze. They trained together at the base from childhood, and when things were at their worst, his wife took a blow for him and once knelt alone in the snow to endure punishment.

Lu Suming knows his wife can fight and loves him deeply. That is, until the day they put on their engagement rings.

He tenderly slid the matching ring onto Jiang Xian's finger. The next moment, he looked up and saw a cold gun barrel pointed at him.

“Bang!”

Jiang Xian fired without hesitation, shooting him in the heart.

Lu Suming's heart was badly wounded, his vision went dark, and blood poured from him nonstop. The other members of the base rescued him. It took half a month on the Federation's most expensive life-support equipment before he finally woke up.

His superiors told him that Jiang Xian had defected, escaping to the illegal research institute “White Rose,” which had once broken away from the base.

During the escape, Jiang Xian took all the base's classified files, including the core data Lu Suming had been carrying.

Lu Suming was punished.

He remembered Jiang Xian planting a foot on his chest as he lay gravely wounded. Looking at Lu Suming's face, twisted with pain and pathetic in its desperation, Jiang Xian had said coldly, “I've never loved you, and I don't want to marry you.”

From that day on, Lu Suming hated him.

He hated Jiang Xian so much that no one dared mention him. The mere thought of him could make Lu Suming's usually gentle face darken, and his heart tremble with rage.

How dare he toy with him?

Lu Suming thought he would capture Jiang Xian and bring him back. He would lock him up, humiliate and torment him as thoroughly as possible, and do everything he had once been too reluctant to do.

Eventually, he finally captured Jiang Xian.

Just as his former fiancée lay on his bed, pale and trembling from his abuse, Lu Suming received a videotape.

It documented everything Jiang Xian had endured at White Rose.

Only then did he learn that long before Lu Suming came along, Jiang Xian had already suffered every kind of humiliation and pain.

He had hated the wrong person. He never should have hated him.

But now Jiang Xian lay on his bed. His cold, sharp features were flushed with fever; after a few violent coughs, he spat up a mouthful of blood. He was already so sick he was barely clinging to life.

He was going to die.

Theme: Classmates should treat one another with kindness.