Reforming a Scumbag Insect After Swapping Bodies with My Nemesis

[Younger, straightforward playboy gong x cold, taciturn, rebellious shou]

Evan Sutherland has an angelic face so beautiful that even the Insect God would be moved. Beneath that pretty exterior, however, beats a devil's heart.

He possesses every vice inherent to male insects.

He looks down on female insects and bullies military insects without restraint. His world-renowned beauty is nothing but a mask hiding his rotten nature.

One day, Evan wakes up to find that he has switched souls with the lowly military insect he has tormented for years.

Evan: ?

He's become the very military insect he despises most!

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[Dear Sir Evan Sutherland, I am the Scumbag Insect Reform System.]

[Your scumbag behavior has made a deep impression on us. Congratulations on being selected! Our goal is to reform the male insect role model!]

[Putting yourself in another's shoes is the first step toward reform. Please enjoy life as a military insect~]

From disbelief to breaking down in tears, Evan tries everything, even throwing a shameless tantrum, but nothing works!

All the insects he once trampled underfoot are now bullying him!

Evan's proud, noble self-esteem as an aristocratic male insect is utterly shattered.

He finds himself... or rather, his own body, now occupied by the soul of the civilian military insect from a remote star who he bullied for years.

"Waaah... Kieran, I'm sorry. It was all my fault. I shouldn't have bullied you. Can you forgive me?"

Give me back my body!

Evan: I was wrong, bro. I'll behave, I swear!

Evan: Am I really behaving now?

A scumbag insect's story of remorse, transformation, and becoming a devoted husband.

His legendary journey from a useless male insect who can't lift a finger to the Empire's first male insect general.

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Kieran Murray is one of the lowest-ranking commoners in the Empire's Fourth Star Chain, barely scraping by from one day to the next.

When his mental strength tests as a rare A, and he is specially admitted to an elite military academy on the Capital Star, Kieran is filled with hope for the future.

But when he arrives on the Capital Star, he finds it crawling with the powerful. An A, treated as a treasure on a remote star, isn't even worth a pile of insect droppings to the nobility.

Every insect can step on him, especially Evan Sutherland, who crushes his dignity until not even dust remains.

He grits his teeth and bears it, only to realize that if he can endure, there's no end to the suffering!

Kieran despairs.

Then one day, he wakes up to find himself in the body of Evan Sutherland, the beloved son of Prince Sutherland, the most powerful noble on the Capital Star!

He vows to use this identity to do something good for the insects at the bottom of society!

Kieran does not worship the Insect God.

But in his heart, there can be room for a god who brought him both hardship and holy light.

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The Empire-backed veteran dating show, Insect Marriage and Sweet Romance, livestreams the daily lives of male insect lords living with their primary and secondary spouses.

Military and female insects afraid of marriage often call this dating show the most depressing pile of insect droppings on the air.

The show regularly features male insects cheating and abusing their partners, along with fierce battles between primary and secondary spouses.

The newest season has invited Prince Sutherland's beloved son and his secondary spouse to join the show.

Their life together will be livestreamed in its entirety, with the premiere airing in every full-dive plaza across the Empire!

[That rare second differentiation took him from A to the only S-rank in existence, Lord Evan! Insect God, tell me this isn't real!]

[I'm a student at Corfoss Military Academy! Lord Evan was my idol even when he was still at the academy. He not only led the commoner students in a petition against discrimination based on status, but also personally funded a safe training facility for them!]

[Wait, I go to Corfoss too. How come I've never heard that he was a good insect?]

[Without him at the academy, I wonder how many insects will get to live a better life.]

[The royal family must be paying for fake comments. How many male insects are actually good... This comment may violate the rules and has been hidden.]

Once the show goes live, its viewership quickly breaks every record in the Empire, while the barrage of comments nearly floods the plazas.

The threshold of the Sutherland residence is practically worn away by all the insects coming to propose marriage.

After the show ends, Evan Sutherland becomes the undisputed number one dream husband, holding the title year after year.

Reader's Guide:

1. The soul swap happens intermittently and occurs several times. During the dating show, the gong is in his own body.

2. The mental sea is bound to the soul. When the gong leaves his body, he cannot release mental energy to soothe any female insect. The shou's mental breakdowns do not disappear just because their souls have switched.

3. Weak gong, strong shou. Marriage before love, with a crematorium arc.

4. (I'll add more if I think of anything...)

Theme: It is never too late to mend one's ways