With a Wife Like This, What Time Do You Come Home?

In her friends’ eyes, You He’s wife is a terrible woman.

When You He is sick, her wife is nowhere to be seen.

When something goes wrong at home, her wife isn’t there for her either.

Friend 1: “What do you even see in her?”

You He: “She’s beautiful.”

Friend 1: “Then just look at my heavily edited photos. I’m a stunning beauty too.”

You He: “There’s no point trying to explain it to you.”

Friend 2: “What does she even do for work? How is she always working overtime?”

You He: “Saving the world.”

Friend 2: “You actually believe that?”

You He: “Of course.”

No one had ever seen You He’s wife.

Everyone said You He was delusional, going around bragging that her wife was prettier than the campus belle, made more than the richest person in the country, and loved her more than anyone in a fairy tale.

One day, at a get-together, You He was cornered in a private room.

Her friends, worried she was being deceived, insisted that her wife show up.

You He: “I told you, she’s off saving the world.”

Friend: “I think you need to book an appointment with a psychiatrist.”

For once, a call that never went through finally connected.

Friend 1: “You never told us your wife was a famous star!”

Friend 2: “I could’ve sworn this woman had been dead for years.”

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Wu Luo is a star NPC in the World System.

Her job is to play an ordinary passerby in key story events.

For example, an unknown benefactor who suddenly helps the protagonist through a crisis when she’s young,

or the owner of a sweet potato stall who appears before a protagonist on the verge of starving to death.

…

People never remember what she looks like, but the System developed a bug.

A girl recognized Wu Luo time and time again, even taking her to the hospital when she played a passerby covered in blood.

Coworker: “This bug is really hard to fix. Why don’t you stay in touch with her for now?”

Wu Luo: “Okay.”

During her many missions, Wu Luo kept getting messages from You He.

[Wifey, what time are you coming home today?] x99

Coworker: “When you said to stay in touch, did you mean marry her?”

Wu Luo: “Isn’t that the longest-lasting, deepest kind of relationship?”

Coworker: “No, seriously, is something wrong with her? The biggest taboo in our line of work is falling in love with a passerby.”

#Early story: Older NPC pursuer × younger passerby pursued

#Middle story: Senior who steals someone’s love × famous-star wife

#Later story: Circus clown/tycoon × oddball researcher

#Some setting details will be updated between story arcs, such as character backgrounds

#A little side couple / Later story includes scenes from the pursuer’s perspective

#Of course a married woman has to have a marriage arrangement!

Theme: Your life holds endless possibilities