Insectoids: I Mistook the Villain for the Scumbag and Now I’m Living Off Him

I transmigrated into the life of the protagonist's greatest trauma: his first husband, a villainous male bug who wouldn't live past three months. To complete the System's mission, I had to make the protagonist blossom like a flower in the mud and rise to the top of bug society. I had to humiliate him, abuse him, mock him, clip his wings, and cut off his ties to the outside world. After enduring inhuman torment, he would transform into a powerful figure among the bugs, fall in love with the righteous top who would save him in the future, and reach the pinnacle of bug life. * After I opened the door that would change the little white rabbit protagonist's life, I couldn't help feeling that something was off-- He sat like a big shot, his gaze sharp enough to kill. He could take down ten of me with one punch. I carried out my mission with trembling hands, entering humiliation mode as I waited for tears of despair to well up in his eyes. I kept busy working away while staring at him for ages. At last, he deigned to look at me. “That's it?” * Following the System's instructions, I spent three months diligently attacking the protagonist with words and humiliating him physically every day. All I had to do was wait for the protagonist, unable to take it anymore, to follow the plot and make me drink a bowl of medicine... One morning, I cruelly rejected the protagonist's marriage proposal yet again. Under his gloomy, menacing gaze, I drank the poisonous soup in one gulp, ready to return to Blue Star. When I woke again, the protagonist's familiar dark face was right in front of me. He grabbed me by the back of my collar with practiced ease. “You've slept all day. Get up and eat.” Me: ??? I frantically poked the System, asking if it had a bug. [Dear former Host, our investigation confirms that you completed the main quest two months ago and received the ultimate reward. We hope you enjoy spending the rest of your time with Mr. Mones.] Wait, the one I'd been getting all hot and heavy with every day wasn't the protagonist. It was Mones, the story's ultimate villain. The one who held overwhelming power in bug society and was the greatest obstacle to the protagonist couple's rise to the top... So here's the question: “How did I complete the mission???” The protagonist, forced to toughen up in the workplace at a young age and become a workaholic: You'd better have a good reason! A handsome male bug with innocent, foolish eyes and a perfect score for beauty x a scheming, powerful villainous female bug Mostly first-person, with short, silly everyday stories. Written without an outline as a lighthearted change of pace. “Set in a fictional world, unrelated to reality. Please don't read it as a reflection of real life.” If you have time, check out my upcoming novels too, loves~ There are similar completed bug-world novels on my author page. I'm planning to start this one while I'm getting back into writing, so feel free to share your suggestions. I've found that first-person is easier for me to write. The Villain Always Falls for Me at First Sight Sunny, earnest puppy-like top x gloomy, wicked cat-like bottom, with a middle-schooler-style whirlwind romance Shen Tinghan is the villainous boss in the story. He was supposed to meet his end, but instead seized power against all odds, murdered his brother, imprisoned his father, and climbed to the throne over a mountain of blood. In the end, trapped in madness and despair, he destroyed himself, bringing his short, obsessive life to a miserable end. To save the small world where the protagonist dies suddenly and the villain blows up the plot, the plot-correction System, desperate for a solution, grabbed people left and right to protect the protagonist, hoping to fix the story and reset the world's timeline. And I was the unlucky guy who died suddenly. * I transmigrated into a book. The System said: “That's the protagonist, and that's his health bar. Go protect him.” Every time the protagonist shed a tear, I lost a life. I was a five-life nobody whose life was linked to the protagonist's. To stay alive, I had no choice but to follow him day and night, lie in wait, and protect him at close range. In just seven days, I became the number-one lickspittle in Shen Yanqing's retinue. Thankfully, I wasn't alone. He was Shen Yanqing's number-one hater. Shen Tinghan. We kept running into each other by chance, and with perfect understanding, hid together in gutters, corners, and sewers like a pair of wretched rats skulking out of sight. Wherever he went, bloodshed followed. I watched him leap about, attacking the protagonist and everyone around him with no regard for friend or foe. Maybe because I'd followed the protagonist for so long, the only person Shen Tinghan insulted more often than him was me. “Lickspittle.” Unable to bear the humiliation, I fought back. “How are you any different from a lickspittle?” Shen Tinghan: ... Me: Wait, why are you blushing?!!! Wait, why are you kissing me?!! Wait, wait, this isn't right!!! After successfully saving the world, I was interviewed by the System as an outstanding employee and asked to share my success story. “Maybe the villain just falls for me at first sight?” Theme: Everyone deserves to be loved.