My Wife Is an S-Rank Commander

In the thirtieth year of the apocalypse, pollution spreads, instances tear the land apart, and fissures run rampant.

As the Federation's youngest S-rank commander, Zhong Nan has earned countless military honors. She has led teams into multiple high-level instances, sealed abyssal fissures, and guarded humanity's last safe city.

Everyone believes she has a bright future ahead of her.

Only she knows the truth:

She's dying.

Pollution has already eaten deep into her bones, and her nerves are gradually dying. The medical center's final diagnosis is irreversible, with an expected lifespan of less than three years.

Before she completely loses the ability to move, Zhong Nan decides to fulfill her mother's greatest wish.

She is going to find someone to marry.

The requirements are simple.

A legal marriage, playing along with the act, and living together.

After her death, the other person can receive tens of millions in inheritance and Federation survivor benefits.

There is only one condition:

If she ever reaches a state where resuscitation is futile, they must give up on trying to save her.

Every applicant runs away in a panic.

Until a young man opens the door.

“Yu Hui, twenty-four, A-rank plant-type ability user.”

The young man's features are clean-cut, his smile gentle. He's good at gardening, cooking, and taking care of people, and seems completely out of place in the dangerous apocalypse.

Zhong Nan frowns. “You're too young.”

But Yu Hui signs his name on the last page of the agreement.

“Don't worry. I can do it.”

After all, he's been in love with her for years.

Later, everyone in the Federation knows that the fearsome Commander Zhong Nan keeps a young husband at home.

While she rests and reads, he prepares hot meals.

When she returns from an instance covered in blood, he quietly bandages her wounds.

When she falls ill with a fever that won't break, he stays by her bedside and tends to her personally.

No one knows that beneath Yu Hui's gentleness and thoughtfulness lies another S-rank ability, one powerful enough to destroy an entire instance.

And even fewer people know

that he never approached her for money.

He did it to snatch her back from the hands of death.

Until the day it happens.

Zhong Nan's condition takes a turn for the worse, and she's rushed into the operating room.

The doctor produces the agreement to withhold resuscitation that was signed years ago.

“Mr. Yu, please confirm your signature.”

Yu Hui is silent for a long time.

Then, eyes red, he tears the agreement to shreds in front of everyone.

“Zhong Nan.”

“I'm sorry. I broke my promise.”

“I can't do it. I only want you.”

Reader's guide:

1. A classic marriage-first, love-later story dressed up as an apocalypse novel. I've written too many mild stories, so I wanted something more intense.

2. [Cold, powerful, sickly commander x younger, gentle, devoted healing-type boyfriend]

3. The male lead has a secret crush. The marriage is fake on the surface, but he's been plotting it for a long time.

In one sentence: [One is preparing for her death, while the other is planning their life together.]

Theme: Be strong and self-reliant