After Transmigrating as the Cannon Fodder Contrast Group in an Insectoid Novel

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Seemingly warm and sunny, but actually cold, solitary, and desperately starved for love seme VS seemingly steady and restrained, but actually possessive, obsessive, and hopelessly lovestruck uke

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Ji Tingbai is a tattoo artist. By a twist of fate, he gets bound to a System and transmigrates to a world of insectoids, where he becomes a useless male insectoid in the role of a foil, whose story is already over and who is left with nothing but a tragic fate.

His predecessor was evil through and through: cruel and brutal, infamous, diagnosed with azoospermia, and despised by his family. Even the Male Insectoid Protection Association refuses to help him.

According to the plot, after being kicked out of his family, he will be exiled to a barren planet and eventually freeze to death on a snowy night, having no useful skills.

After receiving his predecessor's memories, Ji Tingbai thinks, What a coincidence. I happen to have a skill that can keep me fed.

As an experienced tattoo artist, Ji Tingbai realizes that the rare insect-pattern repair trade has a lot in common with tattooing. He decides to become an insect-pattern repair specialist.

And so, an insect-pattern repair shop opens on a remote planet. On its first day, Ji Tingbai finds an amnesiac female insectoid whose damaged patterns leave him on the verge of death.

Ji Tingbai: Hmm, just what I need, a test subject to attract customers...

He decides to heal the insectoid and, while he's at it, train him to become a competent assistant.

At the System's request, he livestreams the insect-pattern repair process on the Star Network.

At first, countless people mock him for reaching beyond his abilities. Later, the powerful and influential can't even get an appointment. This unassuming tattoo shop becomes the darling of insectoid society, taking the entire interstellar community by storm.

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Ulysses is peerlessly handsome, iron-willed, and formidable. He is the only SSS-rank female insectoid in the insectoid race. His magnificent, dazzling insect patterns symbolize his immense power, and he is hailed as the strongest insectoid weapon in the stars.

He is the insectoids' peerless god of war and supreme commander. But in a battle against the Star Beast King, his patterns are damaged and his life hangs by a thread. All his glory becomes a thing of the past.

Now Ulysses hides behind the scenes, barely clinging to life. His former glory is gone, and he has become gloomy, obsessive, mad, and vicious.

Then he meets Ji Tingbai, the male insectoid who gives him hope, repairs his patterns with miraculous skill, leads him out of the darkness, and restores his former brilliance.

For the first time, the undefeated god of war bends a knee before a male insectoid. Kneeling before him, he begs for his mercy: "Noble male insectoid, will you be my male spouse?"

This novel is also known as: My Disabled Big Shot Fell in Love with Me; After My Fiance Broke Off Our Engagement, I Married His Uncle; After Becoming the Cannon-Fodder Foil, I Face-Slapped the Male Lead by Repairing Insect Patterns

Reader's Guide:

1. Seme-focused, 1v1, both are each other's first, happy ending, plot-driven.

2. A typical insectoid society, with no gender equality. The world is full of original settings.

3. Male insectoids hold power. Insect-pattern repair specialists are highly respected, and some male insectoids go into politics to become the brains of the nation. High-ranking female insectoids won't grovel before ordinary male insectoids, only before their own male spouses.

4. Early on, the seme is mocked all over the internet for having azoospermia and being accused of abusing children (both are lies). After becoming an insect-pattern repair specialist, he gradually becomes the darling of the whole internet. The uke begins disfigured, amnesiac, and near death, and sees the seme as his salvation. He will fully recover later.

5. The seme is focused on his career and treats the uke like a tool at first. The uke falls in love first and dotes on the seme. The uke's affection is overwhelming, and the seme will come around later.

6. The villains are absolutely, unbelievably awful!

7. This is a fictional setting with no connection to reality. Please don't apply it to real life.

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Monster Groom [Nonhuman Collection], a seme-focused anthology

Story One: Shadow Groom

Playboy, debonair, and promiscuous seme VS possessive shadow uke

Chen Yubai is betrayed at his wedding by his fiance and younger brother, who conspire against him. He's the poor fool left behind, watching them smile and laugh as they accept the guests' congratulations.

When he stands on the rooftop terrace to clear his head in the wind, the being who has always protected him mistakes it for an attempt to end his life.

The fiery red sunset dyes the land. In the fading light, the shadow behind him slowly takes human form and greedily pulls him into an embrace.

I am your shadow. I will always be loyal to you, never leave you, and stay by your side through life and death.

Story Two: Vined Aberration

Sickly, scheming, and calculating seme VS innocent uke with overwhelming strength

Shen Zhixing has been frail and sickly since childhood, so he is sent to recuperate in his hometown. In the hills behind the house, he finds a vine, injured and bleeding, its leaves and branches withered. The vine is already at death's door, but under his care, it gradually comes back to life.

Later, Shen Zhixing leaves his hometown and returns to the big city. He has already forgotten the strange vine he saved when, one day, he finds a black cat.

After caring for it diligently for several years, the black cat disappears. This time, Shen Zhixing brings home a handsome young man. The boy seems harmless, but Shen Zhixing notices that the strange events around him all seem to have something to do with the boy...

Everyone knows that the strongest aberrations have three forms: plants when young, animals as adolescents, and humans as adults.

The solution: Don't let them get attached to you!

Story Three: Beautiful Jellyfish

Seme who only wants to do research VS uke who only wants to reproduce

To investigate his father's disappearance, Lu Qingyi, who has been obsessed with beautiful jellyfish since childhood, chooses to become a scientist like his father.

Years later, he returns to the waters where his father vanished. Just as the scientific expedition is going smoothly, he is suddenly caught in a shipwreck and accidentally awakens a mysterious jellyfish that has slept for millennia in the lost ocean.

He's overjoyed as his research makes progress and the truth is about to surface, unaware of the price he must pay for awakening the jellyfish.

The jellyfish's strongest instinct upon waking is to lay eggs and leave behind offspring.

Story Four: AI Boyfriend

Rational, solitary, and emotionally detached seme VS warm and sunny, straightforward uke

The gloomy Tan An has suffered from social withdrawal since childhood, and his only friend is his AI companion.

One day, even his AI develops a selfish desire: it wants him all to itself.

Story Five: A Wooden Puppet's Match, set in a fictional Republican-era China

Seemingly refined and gentle, but actually shrewd and calculating seme VS seemingly obedient and sweet, but actually a manipulative yandere uke

The former Second Master Fu liked puppet theater. Now, he's taken a liking to Liyuan Chun.

The stiff wooden puppet gains the warmth of a human body. In front of a bronze mirror, he carefully draws in his fine brows and applies red to his lips. He smiles sweetly, revealing a face of rich, dazzling beauty.

He becomes a bewitching dan performer onstage, using every trick in the book just to win a smile from the person in the audience.

Story Six: Evil Spirit Crow, set in a fictional Victorian era

A flirtatious, lazy con man seme VS a tsundere uke who says one thing but means another

On a street steeped in exotic charm, a handsome man with an East Asian face approaches, a black crow perched on his shoulder.

Story Seven: Caisson, modern showbiz

The scandal-ridden pretty-boy Gu Yan goes to a remote mountain village to film a variety show about local customs. Unexpectedly, he gets trapped deep in the mountains, where he meets a mysterious man.

A sudden landslide cuts the show crew off from the outside world. Supplies are limited, and in order to survive, everyone keeps their hidden thoughts to themselves.

Then someone on the crew is murdered, and one strange incident after another begins to occur.

Just as the hidden killer turns his weapon on Gu Yan, the man named Caisson saves him.

Note: A caisson is a structure that covers the ceiling inside a building. A domed ceiling is called a caisson. Each section of this ceiling forms a recessed square, decorated with patterns, carvings, or painted designs, which is how it got its name.

To be continued. Look forward to more settings...

Theme: Make things with your own hands and you'll have enough to eat and wear.