After Running Away from My Wedding, I Became the Insectoid's Only Repairer

Passed review! Stacked buffs! This is my only top-focused novel! I'll dodge my own landmines!

"Off-Key Singing, Overpowered Combat" is currently being serialized. Its blurb is at the end!

Blurb:

[Hidden charmer top, a bottom whose hard exterior hides an equally soft heart]

Lannuo transmigrated. One moment, he was a revered successor to the Suzhou embroidery tradition; the next, he had become a useless, late-blooming male bug in the insect race.

The male bug was cowardly, nasty, and irresponsible. After finally being matched with an excellent fiance, he ran away from the wedding.

That left Lannuo to face the huge debts he had racked up.

His creditor was a towering, burly man who threatened to sell Lannuo to a red-light district as a male prostitute if he did not pay up. With his chastity about to be lost, Lannuo tapped into his potential and finally awakened a mental weapon: an embroidery needle.

Lannuo: What am I supposed to do with this thing? Perform embroidery in a red-light district? A mental weapon can't actually sew clothes!

Gritting his teeth, Lannuo finally chose a different path.

His comfortable old life was gone for good. Driven by the high cost of living, he was forced to become a jack-of-all-trades.

On a rainy night, after earning his first pot of gold, Lannuo came across a little bug cub covered in wounds.

The little fellow only remembered that his name was Al. He was quiet, but sweet and sensible.

He healed his external injuries and pretended to have recovered. To ease Lannuo's burden, he hid the damage to his mental landscape, until it tore apart again while he was protecting Lannuo.

Regret, remorse, sorrow... These negative emotions brought Lannuo's second differentiation forward. The insect race's only mental landscape repairer was born.

Al was brought back from the brink.

The long-missing God of War of the insect race, Marshal Altuwa Luge, appeared at military headquarters, his mental landscape damage healed.

The news sent the Star Network into an uproar.

What? The God of War is back? His mental landscape was damaged? It's been healed? Who on earth awakened such an incredible ability???

For a time, the entire internet searched for this mysterious bug.

To be honest, Lannuo was just as stunned as he looked at the Imperial Marshal before him.

If anything could be more shocking than learning that the little bug cub he had raised was the Imperial Marshal, it was probably this... The Imperial Marshal was the very person he had once run away from marrying.

As the empire's most powerful female bug, only Altuwa knew that male bugs did not find him appealing.

When he received word that his future male spouse had fled from their wedding, he felt little emotion. He had already decided how his life would end: fighting for the empire until his mental landscape collapsed, and continuing until his soul faded away.

But just as his mental landscape truly collapsed and his soul was about to disappear, a handsome male bug reached out to help him.

The male bug was brave, gentle, and responsible. He was the partner every female bug dreamed of, and also the fiance who had run away from marrying him.

The day his identity was exposed, Altuwa fled in panic.

But before long, the male bug would pin him between his arms and declare him his own.

"I'm here to catch a coward. In my name as his spouse, I'll keep him by my side forever."

Lannuo x Altuwa

Younger top, unconventional pursuit of the one who ran away

He runs, he chases, but he won't get away even with wings

Some original worldbuilding, one-on-one romance, no children in the main story, happy ending

Important: This is a fictional setting unrelated to reality. Please do not read it as a reflection of real life!

Currently being serialized: "Off-Key Singing, Overpowered Combat"

Blurb:

Legend has it that merfolk are shy creatures with beautiful singing voices and delicate, weak bodies. Like the Little Mermaid in the stories, once they come ashore, they walk on the edge of a blade, ultimately turning into sea foam and vanishing.

Hai Wangshu is a merfolk who turns that legend on its head.

He can't sing, but he can take on ten opponents at once. After coming ashore, he's more like a tiger let loose in the mountains. His perfect looks help him stand out in a variety show audition, making him the only amateur contestant. Then, by sheer luck, he's paired with movie star Yue Zhuo, and his popularity rises by leaps and bounds.

The viewers watching at home have no idea that this guy, who picks up parkour in a flash and climbs cliffs so fast that the safety rope can't keep up, is a merfolk from the sea.

Just as they haven't realized that, apart from Yue Zhuo, the big shots paired with trainees and little-known celebrities aren't human either.

A succubus who likes neither men nor women, a werewolf allergic to fur, a vampire who faints at the sight of blood...

Hai Wangshu feels like he's found his own kind. So I'm not the only oddball!

After the variety show ends, Hai Wangshu makes his debut as an action actor. Yue Zhuo is involved in the first production he successfully auditions for.

Yue Zhuo's fans and friends are all astonished. Everyone knows that the movie star only works for three months a year and spends the rest of his time sleeping at home. Why has he suddenly become such a workaholic?

Everyone guesses it's because of Hai Wangshu. Only Hai Wangshu doesn't think so, always assuming they're simply colleagues.

That is, until Yue Zhuo finally loses patience and corners him in a corner of the set. "Have you really forgotten the man you rescued from the sea during the summer music festival?"

"I... haven't forgotten?" Hai Wangshu asks, looking utterly bewildered. "What are you trying to do?"

Yue Zhuo resists the urge to flick his forehead, gritting his teeth as he says,

"You saved my life, so of course I'll repay you by giving you myself."

An energetic little sunshine bottom who's slow on the uptake x a laid-back, sleep-loving top with a severe case of laziness

The top pursues the bottom, spoils him, and tempts him into figuring out his feelings

A sweet romance that takes place on the company's dime. If it's not sweet, it's free!

They're each other's first love, one-on-one romance, happy ending

Theme: With embroidery and these two hands, I will turn the future around and win love