Even a Crowd Favorite Has to Feed a Family

[Not updated daily / Updates with the rankings. Also known as "Wu Yu"]

[Not an insectoid special / An unconventional harem magnet]

A warm-faced but cold-hearted bottom trying to support himself X a twisted top who acts up everywhere

No. 1

Wu Yu was a penniless, aspiring planet lord. Young and reckless, he refused to be exploited by capitalists, so he immediately decided to start his own business.

First things first: he needed startup capital!

And so...

Ding! The Sky Screen Game NPC Victims' Alliance is being formed...

Victim No. 1: "I was such a fool. Truly."

Victim No. 2 scoffed, only to see the next moment...

In the Terror Village dungeon, before everyone's eyes, a sacrifice that had been burned to ash re-formed into a human shape in a horrifying display.

NPCs: ?!?!

Wu Yu calmly straightened his slightly crooked head and gave the dungeon's boss on the altar an extremely tender smile. Then he lifted his leg and kicked the stunned boss off the altar.

As countless NPCs below stared in shock, he turned around as if nothing had happened. His voice was unhurried, almost conciliatory:

"Want to keep playing?"

The NPCs were furious!

Hangings, poisonings, artillery bombardments... Every kind of terrifying killing method came in one after another, each more lethal than the last.

But no matter how hard they racked their brains or how many tricks they tried, that human was like a nightmare that wouldn't go away, crawling back from death again and again.

The big boss got so angry that he got angry all over again.

Victim No. 2 understood.

Victim No. 3 still didn't get it. It was time to make sure it did.

No. 2

Of course, fate wouldn't let everything go his way forever.

[Phoenix Talent]: Every death may grant a brand-new ability, and sometimes it even refreshes some strange stuff.

So the beautiful boy who had been riding high one moment was ambushed by the NPCs the next, after his ability's cooldown ended, and ended up with a whole host of debuffs.

Sick and weak, both legs crippled...

The more brazen he'd been before, the more wretched he was now.

The monster NPCs around him could barely keep from laughing. They looked on gleefully at the demon, who could hardly even breathe and could no longer escape, all eagerly awaiting the boss's grand entrance to cut him to pieces and avenge their humiliation!

Then they saw...

The demon showed not the slightest fear. Instead, he held out both arms to the boss descending through the air, looking pitiful and saying lazily:

"Baby, give me a hug."

The NPCs were about to burst out laughing, but the next moment, their laughter caught in their throats all at once.

Their aloof boss really did obediently step forward, bend down, and scoop the weak human into his arms.

NPCs: ?!?!

With his back to the boss, the demon gave them a provocative smile and mouthed:

"Your treasure's mine now!"

The NPCs had lost their treasure and, for some inexplicable reason, their leader too: ???

And that wasn't all.

By the time the lovesick fake boss finally realized something was wrong, the "wife" he'd been longing for had already dragged off the whole chest of treasure without a second thought.

He didn't even get so much as a glance.

Boss: O-O

With his money in hand, Wu Yu happily made his way back to his drafty little shack.

Then...

He froze.

An outrageously expensive hovercar he could never afford was parked right in the weed-choked courtyard. And inside his drafty little shack, several strangers had appeared.

They were all dressed in expensive, eye-catching clothes, looking completely out of place in the bare room.

The young man at their head wore a robe covered in tiny diamonds. Sitting casually on the rickety old sofa, he deftly directed a group of miniature robots as they patched up the house.

But the instant he saw Wu Yu, his eyes lit up.

This guy...

Looked kind of familiar.

Before Wu Yu could remember who he was, a figure suddenly darted between them, blocking their view of each other.

A familiar voice rang in his ears, full of grievance and complaint:

"Baby, you're back!"

Wu Yu sighed helplessly, patted his head, and corrected him:

"Don't copy the livestream comments and call me that. I'm your brother."

"We're brothers."

[Wu Yu is the sole protagonist, 1vN]

[Content warnings: 1. Not an insect queen or insect king story. Eldritch-horror and body-horror insectoids, all villainous insectoids with a no-fat, all-muscle aesthetic.

2. High human content, pure overpowered golden finger, and a purely sweet romance-focused story]

[All Wu Yu, main love interest Jin Mi (both the top and bottom are adults, hundreds of years old in reality)]

[None of the character portraits of Wu Yu or his main love interest capture even a fraction of their beauty. I'm stumped...]

Theme: Life lies in movement.