A Guide to Redeeming Unhealthy Personalities in the Insectoid World

(A fictional setting with no connection to reality. Please don't draw parallels to real life.)

This story will go premium on Friday, May 22, with chapters 29-52 becoming paid chapters. If you've already read them, please don't purchase them again. There will be three chapters when it goes premium, combined into one update of over 10,000 words. Thank you for all your support so far, and please keep supporting me.

(Proceed with caution for the first arc. Something happened in the author's personal life while writing it, so updates stopped for a long time, and the writing isn't very good. If that bothers you, please skip it. If you're interested, you can start from the second arc.)

First Pairing:

Lan Er transmigrated into a book he had written himself. In the story, the protagonist, Reese, suffered terribly from childhood because he was a female insect in an insect society that favored males over females.

After enduring one grueling struggle after another, Reese finally got revenge on those who had bullied him, led the Federation's movement for equality between male and female insects, and made his mark on insect history.

That was Reese's glorious life, the kind that would make anyone say, "So satisfying!"

But Lan Er couldn't be happy at all. He had transmigrated into his own book. Was this his comeuppance?

Looking at the miserable Reese beside him, whom he had just bought back from the slave market, Lan Er felt a throbbing ache in his head!

Yet the System in his mind kept needling him: "Look! Just look! How could you do this to such a cute kid?"

Fine. In that case, he'll join Reese in raising the banner of rebellion and bring peace to this wretched society.

Someone once told Reese that he was born with a mission, and that the fate of the insect race would be rewritten by him. But Reese had no desire to rewrite history. He only wanted to live a good life with the male who had developed an inhibitor with him.

(The equality part is only touched on, very briefly. Please don't read if that bothers you.)

Second Pairing: A gentle, obedient, somewhat depressed male insect × an outwardly lecherous, libertine power broker who treats male insects as toys, but has already fallen for one

To most people, male insects are beings to look up to and worship. But to Hermang, they weren't. To him, they were merely playthings, warm comforters. But after his male, Glenn, appeared, it seemed he had begun to care about him.

Third Pairing: A male insect with emotional difficulties and mild avoidant attachment × a scheming female insect who has no genuine feelings at first and uses him, then pursues her husband in a desperate, tearful attempt to win him back

After ambitiously putting everything in order, defeating every rival, and reaching the pinnacle of power, he suddenly looked back and realized that he had fallen in love long ago with the commoner male he had chosen as a puppet. But when he tried to get closer, his male had already drifted farther and farther away.

Fourth Pairing: Hill, a clear-eyed, aloof, insecure, and skeptical-of-match-scores flirtatious male insect × Cers, a female insect who once failed to force him into love, then returned years later as a scheming black-hearted woman turned into a crazy green-tea type

Back when the green-tea type was still a blind schemer, he fell for a male insect he'd never met, guided by his sense of smell. Later, after recovering, he took a 99% compatibility score to the male and proposed, but the male calmly said, "I don't believe in that." The schemer broke down and imprisoned him, but later released him under pressure from his family. Years later, the schemer had become a crazy green-tea type. Armed with a forged 100% compatibility score and the male's "first love" in his heart as leverage, he forced the male to marry him again...

(Can he use every trick in the book to win the heart of the male he loves this time? Stay tuned!)

Fifth Pairing: A gentle, devoted husband of a male insect × the outwardly cold but highly principled, traditional, and caring female insect next door

Sixth Pairing: A timid, socially anxious, insecure male insect like a parasitic vine × a citrus-leaf-pheromone female insect stepbrother hated by male insects

A male insect raised in the arms of his female stepbrother will naturally become his stepbrother's male once he grows up...

The next book is an ABO story (already started, with over 40,000 words)

(Reader's Guide: told from the bottom's perspective, unlike this story)

First Pairing: A devoted, possessive Alpha with a long-standing crush × a gentle, resilient human who transmigrated into an ABO world and is a homophobic Omega

The moment Gu Yuan saw Shen Yu again overseas, he knew his years-long secret crush was finally coming to an end!

When Shen Yu was reborn and returned to the day he and Gu Yuan met again, he decided that this time, he would make it up to Gu Yuan and never do anything to hurt him again.

Second Pairing: An Alpha who finally wins his place after waiting ten years × a short-tempered, divorced Beta

Beta: "I'm just a divorced Beta who can't give you high-quality offspring. Are you sure you want to marry me?"

Alpha: "My love for you comes from my heart, not a genetic test report."

After graduating high school, an Alpha who had gained weight from medication worked up the courage to confess his feelings. But by chance, he overheard a hot-tempered Beta mocking another Beta who had just confessed: "Fun fact: there's nothing wrong with liking male Betas. Also, people who like male Betas and people who like eating shit are two different groups. Don't flatter yourself. If you can't afford a mirror, surely you've got some piss? Take a look at yourself. You weigh so much you could go straight to slaughter without even stepping on a scale."

The Alpha was consumed by insecurity and turned around, giving up on his confession.

Third Pairing: A cool, aloof lawyer Alpha and twin brother × an Omega with a devoted crush

To win the heart of the Alpha she loved, who was so cold he seemed to have no feelings at all, the devoted Omega had to try a different approach: becoming friends with the cold Alpha's younger brother...

Fourth Pairing: A sunny, somewhat oblivious, caring Alpha × a gloomy, damp little dog, an atypical Alpha who's cruel to others and even crueler to himself

When the little dog Alpha was bullied for not acting the way the ABO world's expectations of an Alpha demanded, the worst part was that he had defied convention and fallen for another Alpha. Two Alphas could never be together, so he scheduled surgery to have his glands removed...

Fifth Pairing: A poor, hardworking, ambitious Beta × the landlord's dim-witted son, a Beta

The landlord's dim-witted Beta son had been pushed to the margins since childhood because of his inferior genes, so he gave up and decided to live as a couch potato. Later, he met a poor Beta who was also hardworking and ambitious, and decided to support him.

Coming soon: The Years I Was Forced to Be a Scum Top

First Arc: A gentle, fatherly boyfriend and top forced to be a scum top × an insecure, gloomy, twisted bottom who doesn't know what love is

Lu Wen is a mission-taker for the Time Administration Bureau. During one unexpected mission, he met Lin An, another mission-taker who was in danger, and casually saved the rookie. He never expected that Lin An would cling to him afterward.

The way Lin An clung to him was rather unusual. He accompanied Lu Wen through various worlds, destroying whatever Lu Wen wanted.

Wasn't this guy supposed to be his enemy?

Then they transmigrated together into a cultivation world. Because of Lin An's naturally gifted furnace physique, others coveted him. Lu Wen entered a perfume trap to save him, and after a night of absurdity, Lin An disappeared...

Lu Wen had planned to take responsibility, but was left bewildered. Had he been forced to become a scumbag?

After that, as they transmigrated through various worlds, Lu Wen could always feel Lin An's gaze fixed on his back. Then, in a new world, Lin An appeared before him and offered to keep him...

Second Arc: A cold, unfeeling top forced to be a gold-digging son-in-law, unaware that he's in love × a powerful bottom who takes by force in his career but is a green-tea parasitic vine in love

Due to a System malfunction, Lu Shi was dumped into an ABO world with male pregnancy and forced to be a scumbag. Following the System's instructions, he was "forced" to marry Xie Yu, the powerful antagonist in the book. He subtly pressured Xie Yu to help his family while treating him with disdain, having it both ways as he waited for Xie Yu's destined partner to appear and expose his hypocrisy, letting him get away clean.

At first, he kept up the act of a cold, heartless man forced to marry into the family. Later, he realized that no matter how cold he acted, Xie Yu could always see the cracks in his heart and gently, imperceptibly make him fall.

Until one day, Lu Shi discovered that Xie Yu had been reborn. The reason Xie Yu understood him so well was that in his previous life, they had...

But after a series of misunderstandings, Lu Shi chose someone else for the mission, and Xie Yu took things to an extreme because of it...

Third Arc: An entertainment-industry heartthrob and scum top forced to kick his sugar daddy to the curb × a bottom who returns years later to turn the tables and get revenge on the scumbag, but can't bring himself to do it

If someone asked Lu Yan what the most embarrassing thing in the world was,

he would say it was having his former boyfriend, whom he'd dumped because he thought he was poor, sitting in the main seat and watching with amusement as Lu Yan groveled and toasted people for connections.

"System, can you just fast-forward to the ending? I really can't take this anymore!"

"Sorry, dear, I don't have permission to do that!"

One memory after another surfaced. Lu Yan recalled his own scummy behavior: "People have different needs at different stages of their lives. When I hadn't made it, I chose you because I had no other options. Now I'm about to become a rising star in the entertainment industry. Do you think you're still good enough for me?"

Lu Yan steeled himself and walked toward Xi... who had been watching him from the moment he entered...

Fourth Arc: A naturally airheaded, highly intelligent rabbit top forced to juggle N lovers × a foil-paper-curled peacock bottom, a coquettish yet purehearted bad student

Plot details to be decided

Theme: Fight hard for a new life!