Is the Male Insect Still Putting on an Act Today?

While unpacking a new set of paints, Yu Yan found a strange stone.

The stone painlessly transformed him from a refined painter into a “Cinderella.” As the least welcome kind of sub-female in insect society, and one saddled with a whole stack of bad-luck curses, his first priority was simply to survive...

But gradually, he realized that surviving was a seriously difficult task!

He had to deal with the black-hearted System inside him while also figuring out how to keep himself alive.

As Yu Yan kept lying low, he realized that not only was he changing, but his paintings were changing too.

When an irritable female insect in heat turned into a puppy in front of the dog he'd casually painted, Yu Yan said...

After that day, all the female insects in the palace knew that one sub-female's paintings could cure their berserk periods, even if they turned them into strange creatures.

*

Kaiser was the most volatile and unpredictable member of the royal family. All the servants avoided him.

At first, it was because of that cursed bondmark. The shameful oddity and demanding conditions for “contact” left Kaiser seething, so he gritted his teeth and seized the sub-female he hated most, keeping him at his side.

But as they spent more and more time together, Kaiser began to think that this sub-female was... really interesting. More interesting still, he seemed to like Kaiser.

At first, Kaiser only meant to toy with him. After all, how could he possibly like a lowly sub-female?

Gradually, Kaiser decided a sub-female might not be so bad...

But just as he finally decided to court a sub-female, he discovered that this one dared not to like him. Had he been pretending the whole time?

Yu Yan looked at the prince kneeling before him, his expression twisted, without a hint of emotion in his eyes.

“Your Highness, I just want to paint in peace.”

A beautiful top, gentle on the surface but cold-hearted and an expert actor x a vicious bottom, cruel at first and then going berserk and losing it

PS:

The top is stunningly beautiful.

Kaiser has a truly awful personality!

Palace setting, with stark class differences. Kaiser is extremely cautious at first. At its core, this is a training-and-discipline story. The protagonist isn't a sub-female; he's a male insect, and his true identity will be revealed later, but the bottom falls for him before that happens.

This is a fictional setting and has nothing to do with reality. Please don't draw parallels with real life!

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After the Male Insect Picks Up Trash

Noah is a disabled insect living on a garbage planet. He has no beautiful scaled wings or strong body, so he can only sneak out to drink expired nutrient solution discarded by the female insects nearby after they've eaten their fill.

One day, while heading out with his dirty face to scavenge nutrient solution, he found a strong, healthy military insect, one who didn't belong in the underground city.

A hideous scar stretched across the military insect's face, making him look like a wanted criminal. Noah quietly stole the nutrient supplements he was carrying. Halfway through running away, though, he sighed and struggled to carry the bloodied insect back to his own shabby home.

I'll keep him as a bodyguard! he told himself.

But he forgot the first rule of scavenging: never pick up a living creature!

*

The name Arland Sutis stood for victory. The Empire's “Obsidian Blade” had led his legion through one victorious campaign after another, yet his extreme views on male insects and arrogant temperament had repeatedly made him a target of criticism.

On the first day after he faked his death and fell onto the garbage planet, a male insect picked him up and took him home.

The male insect was weak and scrawny, with nutrient solution that even dogs wouldn't eat dangling from his mouth. He had so little common sense it was astonishing, and he was a fool who couldn't even figure out his own sex.

Arland watched with interest as this male insect, who was used to having males dote on him, sang bedtime songs and wore clothes with strange stitching...

A male insect treating a female insect like a god. How amusing.

But Arland never expected that what began as a bit of fun would turn into a habit, and habit was the most terrifying thing in the world.

*

The royal family's only male heir was stolen during the “Incident.” No insect was willing to recall that bloody day. The Darrells, driven mad, crushed every rebel into a pulp, but still failed to recover the Empire's lost treasure.

Until the emperor arrived in person at the Black Obsidian Army base. A spacecraft came crashing down like a shooting star. The moment its hatch opened, a bloodied, frail insect stepped out, holding a prey many times larger than himself in one hand. With icy eyes, he hurled it at Arland.

“Are you enjoying this game, Arland?”

They watched as the figure fell straight down. The royal family's distinctive red markings, along with a male insect's pheromones sweeping over the entire base, left no doubt.

The usually arrogant general's eyes were bloodshot. His face, always twisted in a mocking grin, looked like a shattered mirror. His hand trembled as he clutched the male insect's. It was the first time Arland Sutis had ever shown fear.

“I... didn't, my lord. I...”

He carefully kissed that broken body...

*

The hero of the Amando Campaign was an unknown military insect. Yet on the very day the war ended in victory, two pieces of news spread across the Empire.

First: The long-missing Lord Noah Darrell has been found.

Second: General Arland Sutis's fourth marriage proposal has been rejected.

The public: Whose marriage proposal did you say?

A sunny, introverted male-insect top who becomes cold and withdrawn later x an arrogant, fun-loving bottom who becomes gloomy and loses it later

PS:

The top's split personality is caused by an illness, and the personalities will merge later. He is an unconventional strong top. He will be weak early on due to his illness and developmental issues, but his combat ability will soar later.

The bottom has a terrible personality and doesn't realize he's in love, so he'll have to go through a heartbroken redemption arc.

Theme: Breaking prejudice through one's own efforts