After Accidentally Placing a Love Curse on the Insect King

Su Li, a Chinese occult arts practitioner, accidentally fell off a cliff while gathering herbs on a mountain.

The good news is that she survived. The bad news is that she transmigrated into a book, becoming the vicious female character in a spacefaring novel who constantly sabotages the heroine and is eventually swallowed by a black hole.

Worse still, the story has reached the point where everyone has discovered and despised the foolish things her original self did. Her family has disowned her and cut off all her financial support, and now she's stranded in the slums with the precious life-bound gu she just picked up, both of them about to starve to death in this other world.

With no other choice, Su Li stayed up all night thinking and made a decision that would make her ancestors turn in their graves: cast a love gu on her rich-looking deskmate.

One short-term meal ticket secured!

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After finally becoming a little rich thanks to her gu, Su Li decides to turn over a new leaf. First, she kneels before her ancestors' memorial tablets all night and loudly recites her written confession. Then she prepares to remove the love gu from her deskmate, confess her wrongdoings, and beg for forgiveness.

Su Li drops to her knees at lightning speed, weeping as she apologizes, and finally asks him to be the bigger person and give her the love gu back.

After all, the love gu is the best-selling product she has right now!

But her usually expressionless deskmate smiles. His eyes are like deep, dark caves, with a beast lurking inside.

He says, "All right. Come with me, Lili."

But when Su Li sees the gu, which has grown to half the height of a building, she trembles in fright.

It seems... it seems to have gotten just a tiny bit bigger!

Wait, did your genes mutate or something? Holy crap!!!

At the same time, her life-bound gu finally arrives, having molted into human form. Only then does Su Li realize...

Her life-bound gu looks exactly like the young man in front of her?

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Every hundred years, a new king is born. They unite the scattered insect race and make it the most indestructibly powerful species in the universe.

But this time is different. For the first time in the history of the insect race, two new kings have been born.

Their decade-long war gives humanity a chance to catch its breath.

But at some point, the war changes its nature...

It begins as a fight for the one throne and the loyalty of the insect race, but eventually becomes a struggle over the same woman.

Reading Guide

1. Written to indulge my tastes. A spacefaring insect-race version of a brothers' rivalry, essentially a contest between men, with the men pulling each other's hair and scheming against one another.

2. The blurb was revised for a second time on December 16. The heroine's characterization is unchanged, and the premise has been tweaked slightly. The original has been archived.

Theme: Live your own life!