And So the Insect Mother Offered Her Heart to Her

Three years after the insect race completely occupied Blue Star, Ji Miao unexpectedly came back to life.

She had lost many of her memories.

She only remembered that before she died, the insect queen Lan Yeer pierced her heart with her tail stinger, and she had fought with all her strength, piloting her mecha to shatter the queen's wings.

After being resurrected, Ji Miao became the empire's last hope. Disguised as a female insect, she entered an insect military academy, where her outstanding combat skills made her the brightest star in the academy's history.

Naturally, that gaze turned toward her.

Its owner was Lan Yeer, the most noble and powerful insect queen, with beautiful, sturdy wings.

Ji Miao did not reject her advances. In their close encounters, she kept searching for an opportunity to kill her.

Ji Miao thought to herself:

If I could shatter the insect queen's wings last time, then this time I can pierce her armor and destroy her heart.

She would kill the insect queen.

Three years ago, the battle against humanity's strongest mecha pilot had left the insect queen Lan Yeer with the worst injury she had suffered since her birth.

Her attendants searched everywhere for miraculous medicines to heal their queen, but she stubbornly kept every wound, including the missing piece of one wing.

They knew that the queen's relationship with that mecha pilot had been anything but ordinary. The queen had even pinned her to the throne and kissed and licked her, until Lan Yeer personally killed her.

After three peaceful years, a beautiful and powerful female insect suddenly appeared by Lan Yeer's side.

Rumor had it that when the two were together, the insect queen cut away her own exoskeleton, revealing the pale membrane covering her chest cavity, and offered Ji Miao the heart beating fiercely beneath it.

"Love me,"

Lan Yeer lay sprawled over Ji Miao, her voice hoarse with satisfaction. Her sharp canine teeth sank into the side of Ji Miao's neck, leaving a ring of red marks, some darker than others.

"Or hate me."

Feeling the sharp pain in her heart, Lan Yeer instead curved her blood-red eyes in delight. Long-suppressed madness flowed within them.

"Be entangled with me forever."

Reading guide: My take on insect folk, space, and mecha. All worldbuilding serves the story.

This is a fictional setting with no connection to reality. Please don't read it as a reflection of real life.

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[Coming Soon: Please Add to Favorites] The Salty-Fish Refuses to Be Courted

[An indulgent, wealthy salty fish who transmigrates into a book as the Demon Lord x a scheming junior sister bound to a courtship System]

After pursuing her crush for half a month, salty fish Luo Ciyan learned that the woman was straight. Rejected, she transmigrated into the cultivation world as its Demon Lord.

The Demon Lord was beautiful, fair-skinned, highly skilled, and fabulously wealthy, with countless followers.

Luo Ciyan: How is this any different from finding five million yuan?

Having reached the pinnacle of life in another world, the first thing Luo Ciyan did after making it was

forget where she came from.

Luo Ciyan lived a blissful life, spending money like water and getting close with countless beautiful female demon cultivators. Then she noticed that a disciple of an immortal sect kept appearing around her, deliberately creating chances to approach her.

Oh, another woman with a secret crush on me, Luo Ciyan thought.

After all, she was living the dream now.

Luo Ciyan waved the woman over, thinking she might bring her into the Demon Palace to serve her as well.

Then she realized that the woman looked exactly like her straight crush.

Luo Ciyan: I'll have to pass. There are plenty of women I can have now. I'm not about to become someone's lovesick little lapdog.

Qi Yuewei, the personal disciple of the Cloudclear Sect's leader and a beacon of the righteous path, was bound to a strange System.

It told her that a restriction prevented her from ever advancing her cultivation, unless...

Unless she went to Demon Lord Luo Ciyan, got close to her, earned her trust, and made her fall in love.

Qi Yuewei had always despised using her looks to please others. Besides, getting involved with that demon was completely improper.

But breaking through was a serious matter, one that could determine the sect's rise or fall. With no other choice, Qi Yuewei decided to give it a try.

Who knew Luo Ciyan would be such a flirt, surrounded by countless beautiful women and acting ambiguously with several senior sisters from the sect? Yet every time she faced Qi Yuewei, her smile disappeared.

After repeatedly hitting a wall with Luo Ciyan, Qi Yuewei thought perhaps fate could not be defied.

Just as she was about to give up and leave, Luo Ciyan tugged at her sleeve after drinking, whining and refusing to let her go.

Qi Yuewei found it a little amusing. By day, Luo Ciyan could barely be bothered with her, but at night she was especially clingy.

She leaned closer and heard Luo Ciyan mumble through a slight sob, "You don't even like me, so why do you keep leading me on?"

Only then did Qi Yuewei learn that Luo Ciyan already had someone she liked.

And that person must have looked a great deal like her.

Qi Yuewei scoffed. How could someone as proud as she was ever agree to be a substitute?

Yet before long, her eyes grew red:

"There are so many people from the immortal and demon paths, and you accept them all. Why am I the only exception?"

"Would this make me more like her? Could you... love me a little more?"

Theme: Strive hard and live life with optimism.