The Marshal Insists I'm His Ex

Gentle, resilient, slightly sickly, healing shopkeeper bottom x steady, aloof, devoted, jealous marshal top

Bai Yi (bottom) x Leon (top)

Bai Yi transmigrates one day and becomes an ordinary person in the interstellar age with no money to his name.

Looking at his empty wallet and bank account, he has no choice but to return to his old line of work:

Opening a shop in the stars to make milk tea.

But while getting the shop ready, he somehow attracts a strange man.

Bai Yi is completely baffled when an unfamiliar man storms into the shop, seething with anger.

"You hid from me for three years. You actually had the nerve to come back?"

The legendary imperial war hero, Marshal Leon, grabs his hand and pins him against the wall, a flicker of resentment in his eyes.

*

From that day on, Bai Yi is utterly bewildered by the marshal, who suddenly won't leave him alone.

This marshal whom he's never met is so unpredictable. He picks on Bai Yi and makes things difficult for him, yet awkwardly comes to his aid too:

When Bai Yi has a normal conversation with an employee, Leon scowls and forcibly pulls him away.

When Bai Yi is trapped in the shop by the rain, Leon waits at the entrance with a stern face and drives him home.

When Bai Yi's landlord breaks their rental agreement, Leon says nothing and lets Bai Yi stay at his place.

He also insists that Bai Yi is the ex who dumped him three years ago.

Bai Yi, who's been single his whole life: Somehow, I've ended up saddled with the label of a jerk who dumped someone.

*

As Leon keeps insisting, Bai Yi gradually starts to waver, until someone who looks like him shows up.

Oh no. Leon really did mistake him for someone else.

Realizing this, Bai Yi wakes as if from a dream, quietly hides the feelings Leon stirred in him, packs his bags, and sneaks aboard a starship bound for another planet.

But just as he's about to leave, Leon, normally a just and impartial man, uses his authority for the first time to stop the starship along its route.

In full view of everyone, he boards the ship himself, sweeps Bai Yi up in his arms without a word, and carries him into the lounge.

He ties Bai Yi's hands behind his back with his tie. His cold fingers touch Bai Yi's cheek, and his eyes turn dark and cruel.

"I never mistake anyone."

"What, are you trying to run away again?"

P.S.

1. No substitutes, real or otherwise. The top has only ever loved the bottom, and there was a reason they broke up before.

2. Both are each other's first love, with mutual pampering and a sweet romance. No angst~

Blurb for the upcoming novel The Foolish Sprite and the CEO's Arranged Marriage, launching May 16:

She Nian x Duan Wenzhou

Naturally flirtatious, clueless beauty sprite bottom x outwardly cold, inwardly warm, protective, fatherly CEO top

She Nian was a snake-tongue herb growing deep in the mountains and forests. Just as he was cultivating a human form, he was struck by heavenly lightning and accidentally transmigrated into the body of a foolish young master of the wealthy She family, who shared his name.

The young master wasn't very bright, with the intelligence of a six- or seven-year-old child. He'd been bullied all his life, and was now being cast out as a sacrificial pawn in an arranged marriage.

She Nian planned to use his intelligence to change the pawn's fate, but once he officially entered human society, he gave up:

What? A smartphone?

This thing's just like a piece of wood. How can you use it to scan a horse?

What? You have to take shelter when it rains?

Rainwater is the essence of heaven and earth. Of course you should soak it up. Why would you use an umbrella?

What? You can't eat things that fall on the ground?

The earth is the mother of all things, the purest, cleanest thing there is. How could food be dirty after it falls on it?

Watching his many bizarre antics, the other members of the She family think: He's just as stupid as ever.

She Nian: I'm playing the fool with all my might qaq

His attempts to change his fate go nowhere, and he's forced to agree to marry into the Duan family.

Rumor has it that Duan Wenzhou, the eldest son of the Duan family, is ruthless and self-serving, and has never shown anyone mercy.

She Nian: I can't get by in human society on my own. I can only try to cling to someone powerful qaq

So on their wedding night, hoping to get along with his new husband, She Nian hugs a pillow and knocks on the master bedroom door.

Duan Wenzhou is a business genius. He took over the Duan family's business immediately after graduating, and in just three years doubled the company's market value, creating a business legend.

But with the company facing a cash flow crisis and his grandmother gravely ill, Duan Wenzhou has no choice but to follow his parents' wishes and agree to marry into the old family friends' She family, hoping the marriage will bring good fortune.

When the She family learns of the Duan company's crisis, they only send over their least-favored son, a foolish young master with an intellectual disability, to save face.

Seeing through their intentions, Duan Wenzhou decides to act as the boy's guardian during their marriage, end the sham next year, and send the child back to his family after the divorce.

On their wedding night, he goes to the bedroom alone to rest, only to find She Nian peeking around the door with a pillow in his arms and eyes that blink expectantly.

"Hubby, aren't we sleeping together tonight?"

Gazing into those clear, pure eyes full of anticipation, Duan Wenzhou feels like a beast for the first time in his life.

He takes a deep breath, suppresses his muddled thoughts, and says:

"We are."

Theme: True love above all, my heart forever.