I Picked Up a Sweet, Adorable Male Insect (Zerg)

Main story complete. Coming soon: After the Black Lotus Is Redeemed; He Looks Delicate and Soft, But...

As the most revered heir to the throne of the Insect Federation, Twelve was the center of every insect's attention even before he was born.

Then... the egg went missing.

Later, the Federation's Marshal found the little Crown Prince on a garbage planet, being "enslaved" by a female insect.

"Hello, sir. Twelve is very well-behaved. You can pet him for just twelve star coins."

The blond, blue-eyed larva propped his chin on his hand and blocked a female insect's path.

Their most revered Crown Prince had really fallen this low! And that female insect vanished as soon as she saw the troops. If he ever caught her, he'd sentence her to life imprisonment.

After Twelve was brought back to the capital planet:

"Oh my goodness, our lost Crown Prince is finally home."

"An ultra-S-class genetic rating! Sob, when will His Highness grow up?"

"He's so adorable, I'm going to faint."

A fanatical craze for babies swept across the insect planet, and every little detail about Twelve made the headlines on the Star Network.

Meanwhile, by a twist of fate, a certain useless female insect on the garbage planet joined the Expeditionary Army, missing the chance to learn the true identity of the pretty little larva he'd picked up.

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[Shocking! Crown Prince Jialan singles out a military female insect for the night at his coming-of-age ball]

Jialan needed only one glance to recognize that the military female insect among the royal guards was the very one who'd made him trade on his looks back on the garbage planet!

That night, in the bedroom.

Seyin: Your Highness, is there anything you need me to do?

Jialan: Come here.

Seyin moved over on one knee.

Jialan placed a hand on the female insect's full, powerful chest. "For twelve star coins, I can pet you a few times, hmm?"

Scheming-on-the-inside top x tough-talking, soft-hearted bottom.

A sweet story set in the local world.

"Pet" here means gently pinching someone's cheeks, like cuddling a cat.

Coming soon

How do you redeem a black lotus?

After thinking it over, Bai Lian wrote:

Appear in his youth and become his only light.

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Bai Lian is the second male lead in every book.

He's delicate and pitiful, beautiful and charming, and kindhearted, though he always manages to make things worse.

He's the greatest witness to the romance between the main couple.

The male lead once loved him, then abandoned him, leaving him to grieve alone.

But Bai Lian thinks: They're just my work record. Who would turn down a chance to improve their record?

Then one day, the System broke down.

[The White Lotus Second Male Lead System has collapsed due to an excess of affection]

Bai Lian: Hah.

[Reassigning your System: The Everyone's Favorite System is at your service. Please enjoy collecting affection.]

World One: The patron changed his mind.

Patron: Come back and I'll make you a star again.

Bai Lian: Hmm? Sorry, I'm already a top-tier star.

World Two: The junior disciple regrets it too late.

Junior disciple: Senior Brother, I mistook someone else for you back then, and that's how I made such a terrible mistake.

Bai Lian: It's good to admit your mistakes, but I cultivate the Path of Unfeeling.

World Three: ...

Bai Lian x the main story's bottom.

Only later did Bai Lian learn that the person whose love had broken free of the System's restraints

had once been a pitch-black black lotus.

And Bai Lian had always been the only light in his world.

----Coming Soon 2---- On My Frail, Helpless, Blind Immortal Lord

One day, while chopping wood, Qi Xi, a villager from Wang Family Village, found a half-dead little beggar who'd been struck by lightning on the wild boar-infested mountain behind the village. In a moment of inexplicable impulse, he brought the child home. From then on, he was forced into a happy life of earning money, raising a child, earning more money...

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Mei Xunxue had been a cultivator, but after failing his tribulation, he fell into the mortal world. Even though Qi Xi had saved him, he naturally detested life in the mountains. But, but! He had lost all his cultivation, and his body was no bigger than a seven- or eight-year-old child's. He was blind and deaf, unable to speak, and his limbs were completely limp. He could only depend on others.

It was bad enough that this brute teased him every day! He even took him begging from door to door and dressed him up as a flower boy to greet people with a smile...

Fine, fine! Once he recovered, he'd chop this man into a thousand pieces to vent his hatred!

In the first month after he was brought home, Qi Xi fed him herbal medicine every day. Mei Xunxue ate so much his eyes turned red.

Qi Xi: "Look at that, you're just like a pet rabbit now." Kind of cute. Let's pinch your cheeks some more.

Mei Xunxue babbled twice: One day, I'll tear this country bumpkin limb from limb!

In the third year after he'd been brought home, Qi Xi sighed every day as he looked at Mei Xunxue, whom he'd raised to be prettier and prettier.

"Sigh, you can fatten a rabbit and then eat it. How come raising you has only made me poor? This won't do."

After that, Qi Xi took Mei Xunxue into town, dressed him up in finery, and entered him in the national Golden Boy and Jade Girl pageant. He won first place in the Jade Girl division in Yongzhou City.

Afterward, still unable to move his arms and legs properly, Mei Xunxue cried into his pillow all night and vowed to make Qi Xi's life a living hell.

In the fifth year after he'd been brought home, someone came to arrange a match for Qi Xi. But it was Mei Xunxue who opened the door. His watery eyes were now as hard as ice, and the air around him seemed to freeze people solid.

"Here to arrange a match? Qi Xi says he doesn't need one." He smiled, his eyes curving, completely ignoring the protestations of the person inside the house.

A proud, aloof, touch-starved beauty of a top x a down-to-earth, honest working-class bottom.

Content warnings:

1. A world where men can marry and have children.

2. Neither lead is a native of the world.

3. Beautiful, strong leads.

Theme: Nurture the next generation with care