“Madam, this is the divorce agreement that the Colonel instructed me to deliver to you. As you wished, the Colonel has already signed it.”
Inside the Star Manor’s council chamber, Adjutant Shen Zheng stood before the desk and presented the agreement.
The document lying before Lu Yan was something she had spent the past three years doing everything in her power to force Gu Chenyu to sign.
Yesterday, after learning that Gu Chenyu had returned to the Imperial Star from the frontier fortress to attend a military conference, Lu Yan had recklessly pursued his starship and forced him to go through with the divorce. The confrontation had nearly resulted in a catastrophe.
If Gu Chenyu had not forcibly transformed into his beast form to shield her, Lu Yan would not have been sitting here safe and sound now.
Lu Yan opened the document.
The terms inside were clear—and painfully glaring.
Gu Chenyu had transferred all the planetary assets under his name, his affiliated mining planets, and three luxurious estates in the core district of the Imperial Star, among other properties, to Lu Yan.
The only thing Gu Chenyu had claimed for himself was a name she had nearly forgotten over the past three years.
Gu Xinghuai.
The three-year-old son she had given birth to with Gu Chenyu.
Gu Chenyu had taken both the child’s custody and guardianship entirely under his own name.
Lu Yan was not surprised.
She had been born into an aristocratic family on the Imperial Star. Back then, for the sake of securing the family’s future access to strategic resources, her family had arranged for her to marry Gu Chenyu, a rising noble of the Imperial Star whose compatibility with her was exceptionally high.
In the eyes of outsiders, Gu Chenyu was a rare top-tier Beastman of the Imperial Star, possessing unparalleled combat genetics. That was precisely why her father, Duke Lu, had chosen him.
But in Lu Yan’s eyes, Gu Chenyu was no different from a beast whenever he transformed.
She had always regarded their marriage as a humiliation.
When she was pregnant, Gu Chenyu had voluntarily applied for paternity leave and stayed by her side throughout the entire pregnancy, taking care of every little detail.
Even so, Lu Yan had remained cold and harsh toward him every day. Whenever anything displeased her, she would berate or even hit him, never once giving him a kind look.
Gu Chenyu, naturally taciturn and reserved, never defended himself against her harsh treatment. He simply continued to care for her throughout her pregnancy with the utmost attentiveness.
From beginning to end, he had never lost his temper with her even once.
Later, she gave birth to their heir, Gu Xinghuai.
As expected, the little white lion cub inherited Gu Chenyu’s top-tier Beastman genes. He even had a pair of white eyes.
And with the deep-rooted prejudice among Imperial Star aristocrats that regarded purple eyes as superior, Lu Yan had disliked the little cub from the very first moment she saw him.
As far as she was concerned, she had merely completed the task her family had assigned her.
After giving birth, she simply abandoned the child to Gu Chenyu and left him to raise the boy alone.
During their three years of separation, she had never once set foot in Gu Chenyu’s residence, nor had she ever taken the initiative to see the child.
No wonder… Gu Chenyu had insisted on taking custody of the child.
Lu Yan lowered her head, staring at the divorce agreement she had dreamed of obtaining for the past three years. Her fingertips trembled slightly.
“Once you sign here, the agreement will take effect…”
Before Shen Zheng could finish speaking—
Lu Yan suddenly raised her head.
“Where is Gu Chenyu?”
A trace of surprise flashed through Shen Zheng’s eyes. He bowed slightly and answered,
“Madam, the Colonel received an urgent military report this morning and has already returned to the starfield fortress ahead of schedule.”
Lu Yan nodded and immediately rose, walking toward the exit of the council chamber.
Seeing this, Shen Zheng hurriedly called after her in astonishment.
“Madam! You haven’t signed the divorce agreement yet…”
Lu Yan’s footsteps paused.
Her gaze fell upon the document she had left at the edge of the desk.
She turned back, picked it up—
and, in the next second—
Riiip!
Lu Yan tore the document into pieces right in front of him.
Under Shen Zheng’s utterly stunned, speechless gaze, Lu Yan instead smiled brightly.
“Sorry for making you come all this way for nothing, Adjutant Shen. I’ve decided that I’m not divorcing Gu Chenyu anymore.”
As the spacecraft departed from the Star Manor’s docking area and headed toward the frontier of the starfield, Lu Yan’s chest was still filled with the lingering tremors of someone who had narrowly escaped death.
Thank goodness.
Thank goodness everything was still in time.
After falling unconscious yesterday following her reckless pursuit of Gu Chenyu’s starship, Lu Yan had a dream.
An incredibly long dream.
In that dream, she awakened to the realization that she was actually the beautiful-but-vicious supporting female character in some romance novel.
The story began while she and Gu Chenyu were still living separately.
She reunited with the person who had saved her life when she was young—the true love of her heart, her white-moonlight figure.
He was Cheng Linzhou, the aloof and extraordinary doctor from the military.
After learning that the male lead, Cheng Linzhou, already had someone he loved, Lu Yan began fulfilling her role as the vicious supporting female character.
Relying on her aristocratic power and status, she stopped at nothing and repeatedly sabotaged the relationship between the male and female leads.
At the same time, she ignored her family’s objections, deliberately causing trouble and doing everything she could to force Gu Chenyu to divorce her.
Finally, after her reckless pursuit of his starship nearly caused a major accident, Gu Chenyu signed the divorce agreement as she had wished.
Not long after the divorce, her family fell into ruin.
Determined to follow Cheng Linzhou, Lu Yan went to the front lines to fight against the forces from the Outer Domain.
Unfortunately, the battle ended in a devastating defeat.
She and the female protagonist simultaneously found themselves in life-threatening danger.
Without hesitation, Cheng Linzhou chose to save the female protagonist.
And she…
was abandoned in the enemy camp and died a miserable death in the Outer Domain.
In the end, it was Gu Chenyu—the cannon-fodder ex-husband whom she, the vicious supporting female character, had abandoned along with their child—
who led his army to turn the tide of the battle, annihilated the enemy forces, and silently recovered her remains…
At that moment, the spacecraft streaked through the vastness of space, dragging a long silver-blue trail of light behind it as it followed the designated route toward the frontier of the starfield.
Lu Yan sat beside the porthole.
The bleak ending from her dream kept replaying in her mind, and the lingering fear still refused to leave her heart.
That afternoon, the spacecraft passed through the frontier transition zone and finally arrived at the core star region of the border defense fortress.
The moment Lu Yan disembarked, she headed straight for the military base where Gu Chenyu was stationed.
When the base guards saw that the person who had arrived was none other than the Colonel’s high-and-mighty aristocratic wife from the Imperial Star, they were so startled that they hurriedly escorted her inside and sent someone to notify the higher-ups.
It wasn’t long before Zeng Wei, Gu Chenyu’s deputy general, came rushing over.
When he saw that the visitor really was the Colonel’s wife, he froze for a moment before approaching her.
Even then, he still seemed unable to believe it.
“Madam… did you come here to see the Colonel?”
Lu Yan naturally understood why Zeng Wei was so surprised, but she did not bother explaining herself at that moment.
She gave a slight nod and looked past him.
“Where is your Colonel?”
Could it be that after signing the divorce agreement, he intended to cut off all contact with her completely and never see her again?
Lu Yan was feeling increasingly anxious when she heard Zeng Wei answer,
“There was a sudden emergency on the northern frontier. The Colonel personally led the fleet there. He hasn’t returned yet.”
He hesitated before looking at Lu Yan and carefully asking,
“Madam, should I notify him…?”
“No need. Military matters are more important. We’ll talk after he’s finished.”
Lu Yan hesitated for a moment before asking somewhat awkwardly,
“The child I had with him… where is he living now?”
Thinking about it now, Lu Yan felt that she really had gone too far.
She had personally given birth to this child, yet for three whole years, she had genuinely never cared about him.
And now, she didn’t even know where her own child lived and had to ask someone else…
What kind of mother was she…?