The Cannon Fodder Male Insect Uses Green Tea Tactics to Win His Wife's Heart [Insectoid]

(My upcoming story Every Protagonist Who Needs Redemption Has Been Reborn is in the author's collection!) The original title was The Cannon-Fodder Male Insect Wins by Lounging on His Villain Wife. Top fans, beware! Blurb: Xie Lan transmigrates into a book, into a bleak insectoid novel, where he becomes a cannon-fodder prince. He's about to be offered to the empire's youngest major general, Jiang Zhibei, the biggest villain in the story and a female insect. On the surface, Jiang Zhibei is gentle, modest, and impeccably mannered, the dream lover of countless male insects. In reality, he's the mastermind behind the empire's mass disappearances of male insects, and the remains of countless male insects are buried beneath his villa. As the story's biggest villain, he meets a tragic end, too. After the empire discovers his crimes, the protagonist's female insect throws him onto a trash planet to be used by inferior male insects. He's tortured for days before death finally frees him. The original host tries to exercise his rights as a male lord over Jiang Zhibei, only to be led with a smiling face into the basement. From then on, he's hung above a pile of corpses and turned into a pheromone-producing machine, better off dead. Xie Lan was trembling with fear while reading the plot. But the moment he saw a familiar figure at the wedding, he was suddenly overjoyed: Isn't that my wife from my past life? Wife, come here! His wife in this life has a completely different personality from the one in his past life. Faced with his wary, suspicious wife, Xie Lan chooses the simplest, most direct, and most effective way to win him over: acting like a green tea. Jiang Zhibei hates male insects and plots to make him fall hard. Xie Lan doesn't argue or make a scene. His clear black eyes grow wet with pain, and he sits on the floor looking at Jiang Zhibei with an aggrieved expression. Jiang Zhibei: ... Jiang Zhibei suspects the male insect and captures him for hypnosis, trying to uncover the schemes in his mind. Xie Lan obediently pretends to be hypnotized, but every word he says is about how much he cares for Jiang Zhibei, awkward but ardent. Jiang Zhibei: ... Under Xie Lan's relentless green-tea tactics, Jiang Zhibei's attitude softens enormously in a very short time. Until one day, Xie Lan has gotten so used to calling him "wife" in his mind that he accidentally says it out loud: "Wife!" Jiang Zhibei's foxlike eyes narrow. "Male lord, what do you mean when you call me 'wife'?" Xie Lan, whose cover has been blown: ...Oh no. Energetic, always ready to turn on the green-tea act, male insect top VS outwardly gentle and considerate, inwardly cold and cruel, female insect bottom Content warnings: 1. At its core, this is a plot-light, fluffy comedy with a mountain of headcanon. Just have fun with it. 2. Both top and bottom transmigrate. In their past life, the bottom was already the top's wife. In this life, the top remembers, but the bottom doesn't. Once the top recognizes that the bottom is his wife, he immediately starts acting spoiled. 3. The bottom is a very wicked insect early on, and is cold and unfriendly toward the top due to emotional trauma. The top has to cry and coax his wife into falling for him. The sweetness only starts after the bottom falls in love. Top fans, beware! 4. The top is a goofball, and he transmigrates with memories of the book, giving him some golden fingers, but nothing overpowered. If that bothers you, please be cautious too~ Upcoming story: Every Protagonist Who Needs Redemption Has Been Reborn Blurb: An anthology, with different tops and bottoms in each world. The System is given an order to change each protagonist's tragic fate. So the System finds the person each protagonist trusts most in their subconscious and gives them a mission to help the protagonist change their fate. But the System never expected that, for some reason, the protagonists from the original worlds had all been reborn! Reborn, the protagonists seem no different from ordinary people on the surface. In reality, they are consumed by pain and resentment, unable to find release, and determined to make the enemies who ruined their lives in their previous life pay. But in this life, a light hidden in their hearts shines on them as they sink into darkness. World One: Goofy, sunny, dumb-dog, underachieving student top x gloomy, antisocial, reborn top student bottom Many years later, on an ordinary night, Ye Fanzhou cuddles Su Cheng and tries to remember who fell in love first. Ye Fanzhou affectionately presses his nose to Su Cheng's long neck, completely confident in himself. "It was definitely you, darling! You trusted me the most, so I was able to be reborn! You must have secretly liked me for ages!" Sleepy, curled up in his arms, Su Cheng lazily lifts his eyelids and runs his fingers over Ye Fanzhou's waist with a hint of warning. "Are you sure?" "Of course! Back in high school, I was the heartthrob of the whole school, handsome and charming, and always helping people! Other than being a little better at studying, a little better-looking, a little tougher, and more liked by my parents, what else could you possibly find attractive about me...? Ow, darling, that hurts! I was wrong, I was wrong. It was me, definitely me!" Only after hearing Ye Fanzhou's exaggerated plea for mercy does Su Cheng soothingly rub his waist. When Ye Fanzhou finally falls asleep, Su Cheng lets out a soft laugh. Silly dog... His instincts are pretty good. (Cheng Bao isn't like this in the story. The personality in the blurb is the result of years of diligent healing by Ye Bao~) World Two: Cool-headed, self-controlled, easygoing regent top x seemingly innocent but secretly sinister, reborn emperor bottom In the eyes of outsiders, the regent Lu Chuanyan is noble, aloof, and extraordinary, but in truth, he's a complete slacker. He finds being in power too exhausting. Not long after the new emperor ascends the throne, he very readily gives up his authority and goes off to travel. A few years later, however, he hears people from the martial world chatting at an inn about the young emperor dying alone in the Cold Palace. Brought back to his previous life by a strange System, Lu Chuanyan has no choice but to pull himself together, help the young emperor purge the realm and clear a stable path forward, then once again plan to retire after his work is done. "Uncle," says the young emperor, his handsome features dark with gloom. His fingers gently stroke the chin of the sleeping man in his arms. "Stay by my side forever this life, all right?" World Three: Gentle, considerate, scheming, motherly male top x obedient-looking, lovesick, reborn young master bottom World Four: Cold-hearted, resigned, easygoing male insect top x devoted, long-suffering, reborn female insect bottom (an unconventional insectoid story with a little crematorium) Other worlds are still being decided... All couples are mutually devoted and faithful, one-on-one, with happy endings~ Theme: Love is giving