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Li Yaozhen was born in District 13, a place famous for its concentration of the underclass.
She envied those born with power and status, but she also deeply resented them.
Theodore was the first person she hated: a young scion of a wealthy family who had looked down on everyone since childhood.
He enjoyed watching her struggle at the bottom. Countless times, he exposed her disguises on the spot and ruined her carefully laid plans.
He Lewei was the second person she hated, her "older brother" from the orphanage where they had grown up together.
When opportunity came, he resolutely abandoned her to climb into high society, steering clear of her as if she were a plague.
Vius was the third person she hated, an official who styled himself as a man of the people.
He had kindly recommended her for military academy, but only saw her as a disposable cog to pave the way for his younger brother.
Li Yaozhen hated them all.
But before she could get everything she wanted, she died in the midst of violent infighting.
Lying in the cold mud, she was filled with resentment.
Before she died, a "little meteor" fell from the sky and landed on her.
It was an insect egg that had lain dormant for over a thousand years, unable to hatch.
They fused.
The memories passed down to her told her that she was the Insect Mother, queen of the insect race.
Although her entire species had been reduced to just her, she still possessed powerful abilities to transform and reproduce.
Through intimate contact, she could turn human men into her male insects.
Those who hated and looked down on her would, whether they wanted to or not, gradually submit to her, willingly offering their bodies as nourishment to raise her eggs.
Li Yaozhen struggled to rise from the mud.
A dark idea took root in her heart.
*Dark Mary Sue, melodramatic romantic entanglements
*BG romance, but the men can get pregnant
*An alternate-world setting with mixed elements; an unconventional take on the insect race
*All the men are virgins and fairly chaste, but not particularly virtuous in any other way (?)
Premise: Even when you're stuck in the mud, keep striving upward.
