[A Black Lotus Top Who Was Stained Black Through and Through After Emerging from the Mud × A Knight Role Who Pretends to Be a Tyrant but Is Actually Pure-Hearted Bottom]
When Feimir woke up, he found himself sprawled at the feet of several insectoid monsters, each 1.9 meters tall, with bone spikes and beastlike eyes. He was on the verge of death.
"The one we lured here under the pretense of offering a job really is useless!" The monster at the head of the group scoffed. "The glands in his soft tissues are intact. Sell him to a back-alley doctor for painkillers and stimulants."
"Pull out the bone spikes. Turn the short ones into barbs, and save the long ones for Sawtooth to use as weapons."
"Throw the scraps of rotten meat to that nest of young. They haven't had fresh meat in three days."
"We can't waste such a fine specimen!"
Feimir's vision went black. What kind of hellish transmigration from the start was this?!
Where was the System? Where was the System?!
If I don't get my golden finger soon, I'll be sold for parts as insect material!
The next second, the monster jabbed a bone spike through his temple.
[The gang's female insect, Feiluo, beat you to death after luring you here under the pretense of offering a job. Just as he was about to carve you up and sell you for parts, he discovered that you were actually a low-grade male insect disguised as a sub-female, and deeply regretted it.]
[Death settlement complete. Virtual reconstruction of the world loading... Returning to the initial anchor point.]
[Chosen Host, keep up the good work and achieve the ultimate goal of turning around this collapsing insect-world novel ^^]
Feimir's vision blurred. He was back at Feiluo's feet, still clinging to life.
Feimir: "..."
*
The original story's collapse has turned every insect into a brute. The more brutal they are, the more ruthless and powerful they become.
To stay alive and complete the System's mission, Feimir quickly devised a survival strategy.
Shoot first, draw the target later: assume every insect who gets close to me is out to harm me, then work backward to figure out how they'll do it. That can't go wrong.
First, he would become a brute, then defeat the brutes!
Bullies and local thugs picking a fight and shaking him down?
No problem. Using the information advantage from his time resets, Feimir had already recruited a military female insect bodyguard with max combat power. She beat the local thugs into a hasty retreat.
A two-faced schemer stabbing him in the back?
No problem. After resetting, Feimir got the jump on the other party, using every trick in the book to ambush the schemer.
It wasn't until after N resets that Feimir realized that, despite his frail male-insect body, he had become a force to be reckoned with among insects. He had gained wealth beyond measure, power and status, and the undying loyalty of He Jialayin, the female-insect villain of the original story.
*
Feimir died N times.
And every time he died, He Jialayin would turn to darkness on the spot, changing from a virtuous knight into a cold-blooded tyrant, then perish together with the mastermind behind the original story's collapse.
"For you, tens of thousands of times."
In the worldline of destruction, virtually reconstructed by the System,
Feimir saw He Jialayin holding his corpse and saying those words.
Feimir reached out to touch the handsome, bloodstained face of the female insect in the virtual scene and thought:
I will always appear before you again. I will meet you tens of thousands of times.
P.S.:
1. My take on an insect-world setting full of intrigue
2. One-on-one, both leads' first relationship, happy ending
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