Spy by Day, Husband Trainer by Night [GB]

[This is a girl-boy romance: female Omega seme, male Alpha uke. It's a role-reversal romance, with a male Alpha in the receiving role, so don't get it wrong, ladies!]

In her fifth year with the Galactic Empire's Special Operations Group, Annie is finally promoted to a Level One agent.

Though her physical abilities are average and she's an Omega, her brilliant mind and exceptional hacking and mechanical skills make up for her weaknesses in this age of interstellar travel.

But Annie never expected her first assignment after her promotion to be so complicated: she must pose as a married couple with an agent from the hostile Interstellar Federation, spending a year on New Thebes to gather local intelligence.

Unfortunately, her partner is Arthur Kane, a handsome, tall, immensely capable male Alpha with a 100% mission success rate since becoming a Level One agent. He's near the top of the Empire's assassination list.

At the same time, Arthur is notorious for being uncooperative and disobedient, acting on his own, and being a chauvinist.

Arthur is deeply unhappy when he receives the assignment.

The Empire and the Federation have been at odds for years, their relationship as hostile as fire and water. Now he has to work with the enemy, and bring along a fragile Omega with no field experience?

Fine. As long as they get the job done and she doesn't slow him down, he'll treat the female Omega like dead weight.

But Arthur never expected that one day he would lay aside all his pride and self-respect, kneeling beside Annie's bed strewn with spare parts, letting her lift his chin with a wrench, and, eyes red, beg her to love him.

Techie girl Omega x Alpha chauvinist, a classic fake-marriage-to-lovers story about two agents.

It's a girl-boy romance, female seme and male uke, Omega seme and Alpha uke. The male Alpha takes the receiving role, so don't get it wrong, ladies. A submissive Alpha is still an Alpha!

July 10, 2025: I made a few small changes to the worldbuilding. It isn't very different from before.

[Preorder for Jiang Hua's next book] Days of a Writer in the Nineteenth Century

"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." So said Woolf.

Catherine Ruskin, who transmigrated to nineteenth-century England, truly understands the weight of those words.

In her previous life, she was a celebrated mystery writer. Now she's trapped in London a century ago:

Her family is on the verge of bankruptcy. Her father is honest but unlucky, and her mother only knows how to pressure her into marriage. Her beautiful eldest sister is hopelessly romantic, determined to abandon her fiance and get engaged to the officer she loves. Her younger sister is upright but terribly old-fashioned. At sixteen, the neighbors already say she's destined to become an old maid.

Caught in the middle, Catherine feels the pressure. After much thought, she can only turn to writing as a way out.

Drawing on the modern writing techniques of the twenty-first century, she makes her way from a country estate into London and finally establishes herself in literary circles. Each time a new book comes out, a long line forms outside the bookshop, newspapers compete to cover it on their front pages, and all of London is swept up in the excitement.

Charles Christie intensely dislikes his fiancee's family.

He's engaged to the eldest Ruskin daughter, but they can't stand each other: he thinks she's frivolous, while she thinks he's a fossil. Their fathers won't allow them to break the engagement, and the Ruskin family is on the verge of bankruptcy, relying on the marriage to turn their fortunes around.

Distraught, Charles finds comfort in a serialized story by an author signing as "George Bell." Many critics accuse the writer of chasing publicity and producing work without value, but Charles, known for his refined learning, defends the author on his own, even going so far as to wage a literary war against the entire literary world.

Until the identity of "George Bell" is revealed: Catherine, the second daughter of the fiancee he detests.

Catherine: "I'm sorry my sister has caused you trouble, sir, but she has someone she loves and is willing to break off the engagement with you."

Charles stares intently at Catherine. "...How convenient, Miss. I believe I've found someone I love, too."

Theme: Love and hope can save a person, and even the whole world.