Yan Shuming rescued an amnesiac omega on a garbage planet.
At first, the amnesiac omega was aloof and wary, but under her care, her attitude gradually softened.
When Yan Shuming came home, the other woman would put her arms around her neck, press her soft, boneless body against Yan Shuming's heated chest, and breathe warmly against her face. The air would fill with the intoxicating scent of her heat.
Yan Shuming's blood seemed to boil with restless desire, sparked not only by how well their pheromones matched, but also by love at first sight.
But then, one day, the other woman disappeared.
*
Yan Shuming searched for her for a long time. At last, she saw the omega she had once been intimate with on the news.
It turned out the other woman was the empire's eldest princess. A rival in the struggle for the throne had ambushed her, leaving her stranded here.
Now the highborn omega had recovered all her memories. She had been welcomed back to the palace, crowned, and made the empress with real power over the empire.
And Yan Shuming was a stain on her flawless life, an unwanted excess unfit to be seen in public.
Yan Shuming continued to live alone on the garbage planet, scavenging and making a living through repair work.
But one day, a group of unidentified people in black barged into her little house, dragged her away, and locked her inside a private estate, forbidding her from going out.
She saw her former lover again. The woman was dressed in finery, standing high above her, her eyes filled with endless coldness and contempt.
It turned out the woman had only taken her to deal with an unexpected heat. Beyond that, Yan Shuming was nothing but a domesticated animal in her household, unable to escape and with no freedom.
She finally gave up hope and faked her death to leave.
*
Later on.
A starship repair shop opened in a remote neutral zone. Its owner could perfectly restore any long-lost antique mecha or component design, and the booking list stretched almost a year ahead.
The owner was a young female Alpha who always wore a mask. Whenever people introduced an omega to her, she would offer a faint smile and say, "Thank you, but I still can't forget my late wife."
This was the persona Yan Shuming had created for herself. It kept a lot of trouble away, which suited her perfectly.
Then, one day, the empire's vast military forces surrounded the neutral zone, their imposing presence unstoppable.
The residents were all on edge, trembling with fear.
No one could have imagined that the empire's supremely revered empress would appear from the central starship, holding the hand of an adorable little girl, her expression anxious and desperate.
Under the gaze of the crowd, the empress, dressed in finery, hurried to the repair shop. Yet she knocked ever so gently, as if treating something priceless.
"A Ming." The empress was clearly born to the highest station, yet her expression was so timid and careful, like a cat that had fallen into the water.
"I miss you."
"Come back... Give me and the baby a hug, okay?"
Notes:
Female Alpha with no accessories
Less plot, more romance
Theme: Don't wait until you've lost someone to learn to cherish them