Lin Jian, a freelance illustrator, gets hit in the face by a tablet and wakes up in an insectoid world where males rule and females are subservient.
Here, male insects are rare treasures, kept by the government and given a monthly allowance. Their greatest obligation is simply to “stay alive.” Marrying a female insect means gaining all her property and loyalty outright. Females are powerful yet lowly, dependent on males’ mental guidance to survive. They are willing to endure anything for it, asking only for the chance to be chosen.
Lin Jian is overjoyed: at last he can lie flat and draw, without rushing deadlines, revising illustrations, or listening to people lecture him about how “freelancing is unstable”!
He shuts himself away and gives up on everything else, drawing whatever he wants, until one day
A news alert flashes across his screen: Imperial Marshal Ling Han has been gravely wounded and is near death. His mental sea is almost depleted, and his stern features are shadowed by the pallor of a dying man. Lin Jian casually swipes it away, giving it no thought.
Who could have guessed that a few days later, the Matchmaking Center would force a successful match between him and this “dying” marshal?
Faced with his new husband, Lin Jian only wants to go through the motions and provide guidance from time to time in exchange for some peace and quiet. But little by little, he discovers a tenderness hidden beneath Ling Han’s cold, murderous exterior: he quietly remembers every one of Lin Jian’s paint preferences, shields him from every outside disturbance, and never asks anything of him, no matter how badly he is hurt.
Then, deep in Ling Han’s study, Lin Jian finds a thick stack of sketches, all practice drawings he had casually thrown away, carefully gathered, smoothed out, and treasured one by one.
And the marshal, rumored to possess a violently unstable mental power, stands quietly at the entrance to his studio and asks in a husky voice, “Could you… paint me today?”
You want to paint freely, while all I ask in this life is to be painted into the rest of yours.
Emm... How can I put it this way? I came here for that setting. I really like the setting of the protagonist. The beginning is a bit wordy, but it's okay. I can still read it. It's just the descriptions after another protagonist appears that give me the feeling that everything is for the sake of the other protagonist. It serves, but because my main perspective and my motivation for reading this book is the protagonist, I will feel a sense of discomfort. Because of my preference for the protagonist, I will have an unpleasant feeling towards the other protagonist, emm... I will let it go for a while, and I will read it again after a while, let me adjust it.
This novel is quite good, and is different from other Zerg novels. More suitable for plain, everyday style. Moreover, the character's three views are very upright and he currently has no nerves. Besides that. I feel like the protagonist is a bit OOC. Didn't the author say that the protagonist is sociophobic? I feel a little more outgoing now. And the two protagonists are too normal, and the emotional line is very slow. The article is mainly about the plot now (the protagonist investigates the black rock, and then reflects the uniqueness of the protagonist's ability. Secondly, according to the conventional Zerg literature, there are fewer males and more females and inequality. But I feel that the protagonist does not have much majesty after traveling to the Zerg. His character seemed a bit too gentle and accommodating when I looked anxious, unlike the uneasiness and intention that one should have after traveling to a strange race. Alas, it's actually not bad. Another point that I think is surprising is that the protagonist is a female insect. In the article, he fell into a coma due to a mental riot. Later, the protagonist helped him recover his mental power. This is normal, but isn't this female worm a zerg marshal? It has very powerful power, and doesn't this race mainly focus on military expeditions? And shouldn't competition between females be fierce? I don't understand why even after he recovered to a certain extent, he still followed the protagonist as if he were a security guard and went with Black Rock Star. I understand it as a progression of the plot, but it always feels weird, without the majestic feeling of a high-ranking soldier. And I don't know his background, his family and so on. All in all, this novel is pretty good overall. The brain circuit is very online, and the style the author wants to follow is also a bit unique. It is more suitable for those who are receptive, slow in emotion and biased towards daily life, and the articles do not have the feeling of a group of powerful families fighting against each other. It is also worth reading ❤️ ❤️
The author's writing is plain and simple, it's really nice to read, the world view is also quite interesting, and the atmosphere between the two protagonists is also very good, but please note that it is slow to warm up, really super slow to warm up, the general has a crush on Baili Zhang, and our Lord Lin Jian has not yet figured it out hahaha
Zerg writing, plain and slightly sweet
It's pretty cool. It's just that he had an inexplicable vision of me taking a professional class, and the professor was helpless because of me. Emmmmm... Cai Cai felt very at ease.
It's pretty good. It's not a novice. There's no abuse. There's no conspiracy.
It's quite interesting, even though it's only 19 chapters now, but!!! It's a lot of words [laughs]
It's really beautiful, it made me burst into tears.
Another kind of Zerg novel, very unique and interesting, the interaction between attacking and receiving is very interesting
The characters are very vivid and interesting