The Powerful Submit to Love

[Resilient, beautiful, sickly bottom x stern and aloof to others, but gentle and devoted to his wife, wife-obsessed top]

After his mother died, his father remarried. His stepmother disliked him, and Xie Jun grew up sleeping in the hallway. Through every season, day after day, no one cared whether he was hot or cold, had enough to eat, or had warm clothes to wear.

No one loved him. He was used to it.

He gave everything he had to get into the First Mechanics Academy, studying mecha engineering hard every day and dreaming of joining the army after graduation to become an excellent pilot.

Xie Jun's outstanding grades earned him the teachers' admiration, but also the jealousy of the academy's young heir. The other boy came from a powerful family and held an exalted status. The Empire's strongest hero, a major general, was his older brother. Xie Jun, meanwhile, had no one in his corner and no support to rely on.

When bullied, Xie Jun had no choice but to endure it.

His patience only made the other boy go too far, until Xie Jun could take no more and punched him.

The next day, the much-discussed major general came to the academy and, in front of all the students, ordered his men to hit Xie Jun twice in return.

The major general said that someone as lowborn as Xie Jun had no right to lay a hand on his brother.

With blood streaming from his nose, Xie Jun knelt halfway to the ground and said nothing.

Later, that lofty major general would kneel before Xie Jun, begging someone of such low status to fall in love with him.

Later still, the young man from the slums whom everyone had underestimated climbed, step by step, to the highest ranks.

And behind him was always a tall figure,

keeping him company and lifting him up, hoping to clear every obstacle in his way and help him get everything he wished for.

Rumors began to spread that Xie Jun owed his honors to the support of the Empire's major general.

The next day, the major general, revered by everyone, held a press conference and said earnestly, with a helpless smile, "Our newly appointed commander-in-chief is exceptionally capable. He's the partner I'm proudest of. He doesn't need anyone's support. I'm the one who needs him; I can't live without him. So please stop spreading rumors. They'll make my partner angry, and then I might have to kneel on starshard shells when I get home."

Only then did the people of the Imperial Star realize, to their shock, that the rumors were true: the major general really was a devoted husband.

Then the major general announced his engagement to the young man during a live broadcast watched across the planet.

The news sent the countless young men and women who admired the major general into a fit of wailing. They both envied and resented the young man who would get to marry him.

But the person they envied scowled when he heard the news and locked the major general out of the house that night.

The major general, decisive and ruthless in public, stood outside his home and coaxed him in a gentle, low voice. "Junjun, don't be mad. I'm really not trying to force you into marriage."

Leaning against the door, the young man replied coldly, "Bullshit."

The major general chuckled on the other side of the door. He knew that springing the news on his sweetheart would upset him, but that was all right. He had plenty of patience to win him over.

Besides, there was no backing out now.

Everyone on the planet knew they were getting married soon.

Reader tips and content warnings:

1. The bottom is resilient but frail, a beautiful little sweetheart in need of care.

2. The top pursues the bottom relentlessly; most of the story is about him courting him.

3. Both are chaste, but the bottom will date someone else for a while in the middle.

4. That's all for now. I'll add more if I think of anything.

Hope you all enjoy reading~

[Revised July 26, 2025]

Theme: Learn to love yourself first.