I Ran Away After Flirting with the Insectoid General [Insectoid]

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Synopsis:

[Naturally flirtatious, blunt, outwardly timid but inwardly steady top x seemingly rational and restrained, actually an extreme jealous bottom]

Tang Shisi, an orchid mantis and an unremarkable demon cultivator, has two goals that are not so ordinary:

1. Work hard at cultivation and take human form.

2. Stay away from female insects and never get eaten.

He falls off a cliff, transmigrates from the cultivation world to the Insectoid world, and wakes to find that he's already achieved his first goal. He's also picked up a badly injured man.

The man is good at everything, treats him wonderfully, and even smells like orchids, Tang Shisi's favorite.

Then Tang Shisi suddenly realizes that this good-smelling man is actually a female insect, and he's slept with him.

Tang Shisi's mind fills with images of female insects eating male insects after mating. He remembers his second goal and promptly runs away.

Only after fleeing does he realize that the streets are full of female insects, and there are almost no male insects in sight.

Tang Shisi, male insect, knows very little about the Insectoid world: There are so many female insects. The males must have all been eaten. Good thing I ran fast.

When they meet again, the good-smelling female insect is gaunt, his complexion terrible, and his silver eyes full of pain. His S+ mental power is fluctuating wildly.

In Tang Shisi's eyes, that pain becomes a desire to take him apart and devour him.

How could he not want to eat me? He's gotten so skinny from hunger!

*

The Empire's General Xierwei is renowned as a god of war, and even more notorious for his disrespect toward male insects. He never expected to be saved by a male insect child.

This male insect is strange and powerful, but not at all spoiled. He's naturally straightforward and often makes Xierwei blush and lose his composure without even realizing it.

Xierwei can't help being drawn to him. The usually rational and restrained general even uses himself as bait, all to possess him and keep him for himself alone.

Everything proceeds so naturally, until the male insect vanishes without explanation.

Xierwei searches desperately, only to see the male insect personally soothing the mental energy of a crowd of female insects.

The male insect smiles as he does it, gentle and attentive, just as he had been countless times when soothing Xierwei.

Xierwei struggles to keep his expression under control, but his eyes betray a raging jealousy. He wants to spread his mental web at once, capture the male insect among the female insects, and ask if he's grown tired of him.

He doesn't want to share a male with other female insects, but he wants even less to let go of the hand he's held.

*

PS. During or after mating, female mantises sometimes eat the males. This is a biological phenomenon.

Reading Guide:

1v1, top's POV, both are each other's first, happy ending.

Includes author-invented details.

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☆ Tearing Up the Stage, Taking the Interstellar World by Storm

[Beta bottom with expressive acting skills and a strong career focus x Enigma top, a star pirate leader who acts like a CEO to the world but is restrained and doting toward the bottom]

After dying, double-award-winning actor Luo Ying returns to the interstellar era and to age eighteen, when his adoptive father and brother were exploiting him. In half a day, they plan to sell him to a star pirate gang to pay off their debts.

Luo Ying immediately signs a bet with He Ting, the former star pirate leader and current business tycoon. He takes the new name Luo Ying and returns to his old profession to buy back his freedom.

For nearly a century, the entertainment industry has been dominated by surgically altered faces and AI post-production. Audiences have completely forgotten the meaning of acting and natural beauty.

When Luo Ying first appears on screen, the audience doesn't care:

"That whole face looks fake. Disgusting. Get lost."

Later, they find themselves obsessively admiring Luo Ying in footage where he hasn't even shown his face properly, and can't hold back:

"Has cosmetic surgery gotten that good?"

Later still, photos and videos of Luo Ying looking flawless from every angle, with not a single bad frame, spread across the internet. The audience says:

"He's incredible! Begging Luo Bao to grace us with his presence more often and cleanse our eyes!"

Luo Ying smiles faintly and keeps dazzling the interstellar world with his acting.

He draws the murderer card on a cheap online variety show, but both the guests and viewers think he's innocent, letting him escape with zero votes.

He delivers heartbreak in a sugary-sweet production, and the comments wail, "We came in voluntarily to get our hearts broken." After his character dies, thousands sign a letter on the production studio's official account demanding more scenes!

His new works come out one after another. Award committees rush to put trophies in his hands, afraid they won't be able to prove the awards are prestigious enough.

Great directors and award-winning actors praise him as a muse and a god of beauty. The government personally invites him to appear in a national film. Even a criminal organization that has never been caught is willing to surrender to the authorities, just for the chance to have a video call with Luo Ying.

His adoptive father and brother, now struggling to stay above the poverty line, come crawling to beg him. All they get in return is Luo Ying's icy expression.

*

At the peak of his career, Luo Ying and He Ting's agreement is suddenly exposed, and he's dragged through the mud for a supposed exchange of money and sex.

Top-tier star: Making up rumors can have legal consequences.

Strict director and aloof movie star: Luo Ying belongs to film and the audience, not to any one person.

He Ting appears with his household registration booklet and an engagement ring. "Will you let me put 'husband and husband' in the relationship field?"

Luo Ying: ?

He Ting looks at him tenderly, his voice restrained: "I can wait. I can keep us a secret. You want a career. All I want is you."

In a makeup room:

He Ting holds Luo Ying tightly, kisses the back of his neck with the tip of his nose, and greedily inhales his scent.

"You smell so good..."

He wants to bite down and mark him permanently.

In the cramped room, He Ting's icy, powerful pheromones spread everywhere. Luo Ying's whole body burns, his forehead is slick with sweat, and his head spins.

Why can I smell him? Aren't I a Beta?

Reading Guide:

- 1v1, bottom's POV, both are each other's first, happy ending. Interstellar ABO entertainment-industry setting, with all kinds of author-invented details. No characters are based on real people.

- The bottom dies in the interstellar era, transmigrates to the modern world as an actor, and later transmigrates back to the interstellar era.

- Enigmas can permanently mark anyone of any ABO gender. The ultimate Alphas among Alphas.

- The characters' values do not represent the author's. Thank you for understanding.

Theme: The importance of communication.