99% Conquest [Short Story]

The main story is told in third person. Weibo: @Qianqian Code Machine

Blurb:

I am a plane-hopping mission-taker, and my final mission is the most clichéd romance pursuit scenario.

Unlike my coworkers' stories about runaway mistresses carrying their lovers' babies, forced love, and entertainment-industry scandals that shock the whole internet, my script is a natural, slow-developing childhood-friends romance at school.

The male lead is also unlike the leads in other scripts. He has no unattainable first love, no bad temper, and no gaze that's three parts coldness, three parts mockery, and four parts nonchalance.

I don't even have to win him over. We just got together.

It would be even better if the conquest progress above his head were at 100%.

Because the only measure of mission success is conquest progress. The mission can't be declared complete until it reaches 100%.

But even though he says he loves me, the progress above his head stays at 99% forever.

And only when we're being intimate does it occasionally shoot up to 100%.

I suddenly remembered that the leads in every romance story get married in the end. Could it be that his conquest progress won't reach 100% until we register our marriage?

So I started hinting, both directly and indirectly, asking him when we were going to get married. I'd long since forgotten who I used to be, but I wanted to go home.

He always looked at me strangely and said slowly, "There's no rush."

Until one day, I found a pair of wedding rings and a marriage certificate at home.

[IN BIG, BOLD LETTERS: Reading is for enjoyment. If this isn't your cup of tea, leave right away. Don't force yourself to read something you don't like!]

Blurb dated April 10, 2024

The male lead is wholesome.

Theme: To be decided.