War in the interstellar age was damn interesting. You never even knew whether the nemesis you'd been fighting all this time was a person or a dog. That was what Imperial General Damian thought the very first time he saw Bai in person.
Before the Empire captured Bai at any cost and the two finally met face-to-face, Damian would never have believed that Bai, the Federation's renowned general who had clashed with him for seven years and consistently outmatched him, was an omega, let alone a female omega so precious that the laws of war had a special clause protecting her from execution.
The Emperor of the Empire came up with a new way to deal with his enemy. He summoned Damian and told him, "In view of your past achievements, you deserve a high-quality female omega. Your pheromones are also highly compatible.
Bai is your omega from now on.
And a prisoner of the Empire, of course."
And so Damian saw Bai for the first time.
The young female omega was tall and delicate, with beautiful white hair and gorgeous blue-violet eyes like a blooming nebula. She was astonishingly beautiful, and astonishingly fragile, a true sickly beauty.
Damian often wondered how she managed to travel so far in such a shattered state, and why she always made it farther each time she escaped after being caught.
With a heartfelt sigh, Damian would help clean up after her. "I'm not that much of a bastard, am I? Could you please stop escaping? I'm really afraid you'll die on the road."
"Thank you." The woman's eyes, framed by beautiful, sharp white lashes, rested on his profile. "But I won't die."
Until one day, the Empire's most advanced patrol dogs could find nothing but a single strand of white hair. Damian held it in his palm. He couldn't even tell whether he felt happy or angry, or relieved to be rid of a troublesome burden. Perhaps he really had become obsessed with this woman.
Many years later, the Federation's new prime minister sat across from him during a visit, with perfect composure, and politely handed him a blank ID card. "Marshal Damian, you can now determine whether our marriage is valid." The white-haired woman curved her pale pink lips into a faint smile. "Then I'll have a First Lady."
"Don't you hate me?" Damian blurted out.
"Hate you?" Bai maintained her gracious smile. "After sleeping with Marshal Damian, the Empire's Star, isn't it worth bragging that he kept himself pure for me?"
A cold-on-the-outside, warm-on-the-inside, guilt-ridden and awkward male Alpha × a gentle-on-the-outside, strong-willed, calculating career-driven female Omega. One-on-one romance.
The heroine suffers a lot early on, but her career takes off.
Theme: Be independent and strong. Never give up on yourself, whatever happens.