Name: The Cannon Fodder Male Insect Refuses the Crematorium
Author: Boba Milk Ball

Synopsis

Gentle, all-around househusband gong x aloof, fiercely capable, loyal-dog shou

(An imaginary fictional setting, unrelated to reality. Please don't read it as a reflection of real life.)

Lu Qing was an F-grade, useless male insect, and his family had never thought much of him. On the night his female parent died, he found a little female insect lying in a corner, barely alive. After pleading with his male parent over and over, he finally managed to bring the child home.

The little female insect rarely spoke. He always stayed silently by little Locke's side.

One day, an accident sent the jade pendant his female parent had left him falling outside. The insect child, imprisoned at home by his male parent, gazed blankly and helplessly at the cage they called "home."

Just then, the little female insect, covered in mud, climbed over the wall.

With a blank little face, he clutched the small jade pendant tightly and held it out with great care. "...Here."

The first ray of light found its way into the dark, cramped little room.

*

Lu Qing poured all his feelings into caring for Ailete. He cooked for him, mended his clothes, studied mecha engineering, and learned medicine, all so Ailete would never get hurt.

He never expected that on the day he planned to propose, he would hear that Ailete was marrying his stepbrother.

Heartbroken, he left alone.

One day, a new male insect streamer appeared online and attracted attention with his outstanding looks.

The wounded female insects used him as an outlet, jeering at him: "What a joke. A male insect is out here selling smiles."

But... cooking, gardening, making perfume, healing, even designing mecha, the disabled male insect they had dismissed as a pretty face could do practically anything.

Even the insect pheromone imbalances that troubled the female insects were cured after they ate Lu Qing's special medicinal dishes.

Former haters turned fans: Holy crap, wifey, wifey, look at me!

The empire went wild. Insectkind hailed him as the perfect male insect.

The father who had once considered him a disgrace came to ask him to return.

Powerhouses from every field sought his advice and help.

Lu Qing: "Thanks for asking. I'm in self-imposed isolation and don't concern myself with worldly affairs."

*

Ailete hurried from the alien-beast battlefield, travel-worn, with a chest full of spoils of war, to propose.

But in the peaceful little courtyard, he saw the young man smiling and chatting with his rival, so close they seemed inseparable.

The cold, wooden mask shattered. The female insect stared fixedly at them, until at last he could no longer contain the bloodshot eyes and madness. He pinned the male insect to the sofa as he returned to his room.

"Male lord."

Ailete leaned down, pressed close to Lu Qing, and mingled their burning breaths. Pain and possessiveness alternated in his upright, uncanny beastlike eyes, twisting him almost to madness. "Please forgive me."

"Please... look only at me."

Reader's Guide:

1. Main pairing, gong POV, one-on-one, both virgins, happy ending, no switching the shou!

2. The shou's engagement is due to a misunderstanding, a huge misunderstanding!

3. The setting is after the equality movement. The story mainly focuses on the couple's relationship, and the wider world won't play much of a role.

Upcoming story: "The Wicked Male Insect Awakens"

Weixi was a low-ranking male insect from the slums of a third-tier planet.

He was spoiled, crude, and had picked up a whole host of bad habits from low-tier planets. Yet General Arisen bought him at an auction and made him his secret lover.

He spent five years learning the rules of the upper-class nobility, and two years learning how to be a proper lover.

Everyone said he had won the insect lottery.

Weixi thought so too.

His female lover spoiled him rotten. He squandered her affection with abandon. The commander whom all the female insects revered would kiss only his forehead and take him in her arms.

Until he learned that the general had an unrequited love, a perfect ideal who had exactly the same face as him.

Everyone said: The perfect ideal is a rare treasure to be admired from afar and never touched. He is just a filthy weed, fit only to rot in the dirt where no one can see him.

He didn't believe it.

At the imperial banquet, the perfect ideal was surrounded by admirers as female insects helped him slowly down the stairs.

And draped over his shoulders was a military jacket Weixi knew all too well.

Later, space pirates invaded, and the stranded male insect waited in vain for his patron to come for him.

In a panicked escape, he fell into a bottomless black sea.

Unconventional wicked-baby male-insect gong (?) x authoritative, parental-figure shou

(1) Classic angst-filled groveling arc, extremely angsty!!

(2) Misunderstandings, all misunderstandings

(3) Probably a coming-of-age story (?), aiming for a short one

(4) The shou is controlling, but there will be no switching the shou! (fidgets)

(5) Weak gong, strong shou.

The gong is a bit of a bad boy, loves to act cute, and is a very spoiled kid. He's strong in bed (?)