A Guide to Raising an Artificial Insect Mother

[Short story, complete]

This world is entirely fictional and has no connection to reality. Please don't relate it to real life.

1.

Before Qiu Yiwan was killed, he heard the First Queen's telepathic broadcast inside the laboratory pod.

[Counterfeit]

[Kill him]

[My species doesn't need a second mother]

Shattered nutrient fluid dripped from Qiu Yiwan's hair. His killer wrapped a scorpion tail around his waist and said, "I've changed my mind! I'm defecting."

2.

The entire interstellar community knows the insect race has gone mad.

They tore up the alliance's peace treaty and aimed their most advanced fleet at the planet where Qiu Yiwan was hiding.

The interstellar news headlines scrolled by:

[Insect Civil War! The New Queen Will Be Executed!]

Meanwhile, at the heart of the storm, Qiu Yiwan lounged in the arms of a certain "pursuer," twirling the other's long hair around his finger. "Didn't you say you were going to take my life?"

The king insect, who had always been nothing but a weapon of war, bowed his head and reverently kissed his fingertip. "The moment I saw you, I decided to betray them."

3.

Qiu Yiwan's secret was exposed when he met the First Queen.

The instant the First Queen pushed him into a black hole, the mental network of every insect in the species erupted.

His mental network could soothe rampaging insects, and his honey could repair defects in their genetic chains.

He was the true salvation the insect race had awaited for a thousand years.

A vast swarm tore open the black hole. The male insects who had once clamored to kill him knelt amid the ruins, holding out their hearts at his feet.

"Please... become our king."

Reader's Guide:

# Not 1v1. There should be four partners.

# Everyone will end up falling for him.

# From being hunted by the entire universe to being coveted by the entire universe: how a beautiful Queen tames her rebellious offspring.

Coming soon: After the Villainous Beauty's Plan Backfires

As the Time Management Bureau's worst-performing employee, Qi Yun Zhao gets bound to a high-risk System

He must transmigrate into the villain who bullies the protagonist and destroy them using the cruelest methods in order to earn survival points.

But the System never warned him:

The protagonists he trampled into the mud would return, consumed by hatred, and imprison him on a throne of thorns they had built with their own hands.

[Interstellar ABO World]

Qi Yun Zhao is the youngest major general in the empire.

He throws the protagonist, who grew up in the slums, into an arena. "A low-grade gene like yours doesn't belong in the mecha division. Why not let the beasts teach you what survival of the fittest means?"

Years later, the protagonist, covered in blood, pins him against the command console by the throat. A fingertip traces the gland at the back of his neck.

"So the legendary Major General Qi, undefeated in battle, is actually an Omega who's been faking it by injecting Alpha pheromones?"

When the suppressants wear off, a sweet, heady scent fills the entire command room. The protagonist bites his gland.

"If you don't want the whole army to know their god of war is an Omega, come to the training pod every morning at midnight."

[Ancient Qian and Kun World]

Qi Yun Zhao recognizes a prince who grew up among commoners as his adopted son, then poisons him and blinds him on the eve of his coronation. "A puppet should know its place."

Five years later, rebel forces breach the imperial city. The new emperor blindfolds himself with silk and locks the trembling Qi Yun Zhao onto the imperial bed.

"You taught me to drink poison to quench my thirst, adoptive father. Have you ever tasted another kind of 'poison'?"

His fingers slip beneath the fine robes.

"Bear me a true heir."

[Post-Apocalyptic Superpower World]

Qi Yun Zhao is the black-market boss who monopolizes purifying agents. He throws the injured protagonist into a radiation zone. "Even zombies won't eat a useless wretch like you. You're only good for fertilizing mutated plants."

Two years later, the protagonist returns with vines spreading as far as the eye can see. They coil around Qi Yun Zhao's swollen belly as he laughs softly.

"Thank you for the ability core you gave me. It let me transform your body... Tell me, in the new age, should humanity call you 'Father God' or 'the Mother'?"

Vines burrow into his body to draw nourishment. Qi Yun Zhao thinks he can faintly hear a demon whispering:

"Nurture these seeds well. When the day comes for them to burst from your body, they will bow down to the womb that brought them into the world."

Theme: No matter what you become, I will love you