The Divorce Agreement with the Zerg General

As the high-climbing son-in-law of the Bubs family, Wei Miao has been playing his role flawlessly. To the outside world, he and his wife respect each other like guests, hailed as a rare “model couple” by headlines and the internet—no concubines, unwavering support for his wife’s career, cheering her on for every campaign, and even raising a beautiful androgynous child together. Only Wei Miao himself knows the truth: over these five years, he has witnessed his bedmate, Admiral Orland Bubs, climb ruthlessly from nothing to the very pinnacle of the power pyramid, sacrificing nearly everything for status and control. Cold, feudal, conservative—lacking the warmth of humanity—Orland is as calm as the most ancient and silent ocean, a machine of precision. Their marriage was, from the start, nothing more than a transaction. Until one day, Wei Miao comes across a book and realizes his bedmate isn’t some clueless monk who doesn’t understand love—but the ultimate villain. Midway through this insectoid novel, Orland suddenly becomes lovesick for a male insect from a remote star system, gambling away wealth, family, and everything else for him, until finally self-destructing in despair, annihilating the male insect’s harem before perishing along with his warship. The tide has finally overturned. As the cannon-fodder final villain in the story, Wei Miao doesn’t even get an intact corpse. Convinced he must act before the plot kicks in, he decides this five-year marriage has to end, immediately. Who cares about the rest? There’s no point in chasing money if he’s dead. He needs an emergency exit. · In the fifth year of their marriage, his lover asks for a divorce. Orland’s mind blanks out for two seconds. Then, after a pause, he smiles softly. “You must be joking. What would you like for dinner tonight?”