After My Husband Died, I Decided to Debut

So far, I've transmigrated through four worlds and gotten married four times.

My first three husbands, Illumi, Arthur, and Fyodor, all died young. So I paid special attention to my current husband, Jin Kurosawa, but he died too.

Worse, he didn't leave behind much of an inheritance.

I'm at my wit's end. How am I supposed to survive in this godforsaken world after getting used to life as a pampered wife?

I looked at my pretty face in the mirror and made a decision: I would become a star!

*

Chie never had to work or cook. The housekeeper Gin hired took care of all the chores. All she had to do was wait for her husband to come home, accept his gifts, and smile sweetly. "Thank you, my dear husband."

She was easy to please, too. Even if Gin stayed away from home for three months, or half a year, bringing her a single slice of cake was enough to make her say, "Darling, I love you so much."

Gin never let her reveal their relationship to anyone outside the house. He rarely let her go out, and he never returned her affection. In a year of marriage, he hadn't given her so much as a kiss or a hug.

But this naive woman still looked at him with loving eyes. She still knitted him useless scarves, folded silly paper cranes, and prayed at shrines for his safety and good health.

Once his mission was over, she was no longer useful.

Gin had planned to kill her outright, but his sniper rifle kept misfiring, his bombs wouldn't go off. No matter what he tried, he couldn't kill the woman who was his wife in name only.

So he faked his death and left her nothing, coldly assuming that a woman who'd never lifted a finger around the house wouldn't last long on her own.

One day, while out on a mission, Gin was driving his Porsche when Vodka suddenly pointed at a huge billboard outside. "Holy crap, Boss, isn't that your ex-wife?"

Gin pulled over and looked at the billboard. The dazzling, radiant woman smiling back at him shook even his cold heart.

Only later did he learn that Chie wasn't a helpless pampered wife who couldn't do anything. She had become "the greatest and most dazzling actress of the century."

And now this glamorous superstar was surrounded by a swarm of men calling themselves her "ex-husbands."

*

At first, everyone thought she was just a pretty face with nothing behind it.

But her albums broke global sales records, and her performances reached every corner of the world. Performing at the Kohaku Uta Gassen was only the beginning. Winning an Oscar wouldn't be the end, either.

She became the radiant moon in the heavens and the brilliant star of the night. All her audience had to do was look up to see her shining on stage.

She was also a blazing flame, the kind that could set the crowd alight the moment she appeared.

Tokyo, Yokohama, Gotham, even other worlds, all cried out one name with all their hearts: "Chie!"

Chie: A thousand blossoms grew on her resilient branches, each one thriving and radiant.

1. A satisfying, career-focused story, told in third person.

2. Arthur is the Joker before he became the Joker. There are lots of original details.

Core theme: True love lasts forever