An Impossible Night

[My previous upcoming story was banned because of its subject matter! Here's a new one!]

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[I haven't settled on a new title yet!! I'll change it later.]

Yun Cheng has had a crush on Bai Xixue since childhood and doesn't care about the rumors that her wife had a first love.

But after their marriage, Bai Xixue inherits the family business and forces her to divorce.

Bai Xixue: "I never loved you."

Yun Cheng: "You're the one who kept saying you loved me."

Bai Xixue: "That was for my reputation and my inheritance. If I hadn't, would I ever have been chosen?"

The Bai family is a highly respected clan in the Federal Empire, and countless interstellar celebrities have come from its ranks.

But there are too many children, and the tests to become heir are grueling. Reputation is the most important factor.

Yun Cheng: "Aren't you afraid of a scandal?"

Bai Xixian: "After you died of illness, I tried to kill myself to join you, but they stopped me. The following year, I was forced into a political marriage for the sake of my family."

She had arranged everything, including Yun Cheng's death.

She even dumped her on a trash planet tens of thousands of light-years from the homeworld.

There, night lasts all year. The only things that pass through are garbage trucks, driven by artificial intelligence.

No one could survive there.

Yun Cheng thought she was doomed. Just as the shredder was about to crush her, someone dug through the stinking garbage and exclaimed in surprise.

"Beautiful girl, have we met somewhere before?"

*

Yun Cheng: "I know of an unclaimed planet hiding a fortune."

Bai Xinxian: "And then?"

Yun Cheng: "Once it's done, I'll send you the coordinates."

Bai Xinxian: "You mean you want to marry me?"

Yun Cheng: "As a fake marriage."

She thought Bai Xinxian was a broke little interstellar business owner, so desperate she'd traveled through countless cloud layers to pick through trash on this planet for a living.

Bai Xinxian: "You don't know who I am?"

Yun Cheng: "Are you married, then?"

The woman smiled and said, "I'm Bai Xixue's aunt, sweet girl."

Yun Cheng: "…"

Bai Xinxian: "But I can agree, on one condition."

Yun Cheng: "What?"

Bai Xinxian: "I want us to be truly married."

*

At Bai Xixue's second wedding, her aunt, the legendary interstellar arms-dealing queen, made an appearance.

What left everyone dumbfounded was the woman sitting in the wheelchair she wheeled in.

Bai Xixue: "A-Aunt, who is this?"

Bai Xinxian: "My wife, Jin Ni."

Everyone around them recognized her. It was plainly Bai Xixue's supposedly dead wife.

Yun Cheng: "Hello."

*

Her only plan was to get revenge on Bai Xixue. She never expected her wife in name only to be an over-the-top compliment machine.

Yun Cheng, who had never been praised growing up, found herself showered with all kinds of ridiculous compliments.

She makes a dessert that's worse than crap. Bai Xinxian eats it in one bite, her expression unchanged: "Delicious."

She makes a fool of herself at a dance, playing the violin like a Chinese fiddle. Bai Xinxian leads the applause: "It sounds like heavenly music."

She calls herself a wicked woman, and Bai Xinxian says she's adorable.

Yun Cheng can't figure her out.

Bai Xinxian thinks: Why doesn't she realize I really like her?

Divorce? Not in this lifetime.

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*Still an older woman-younger woman pairing

*Tentatively set in a future interstellar world

*An interstellar arms dealer and the little piece of trash she picked up

*A mysterious compliment machine x an insecure woman with serious trust issues

*The bottom really was married before (she has all the qualities of a wife, but can't manage daily life, hehe)

Theme: Desire is the prophet of fate