I Heard You Want to Kill Me Too?

[This is a fictional setting unrelated to reality. Please don't project it onto real life. The entire novel is already written, so dive in without worry! Mwah!]

Yan Chen had just killed the Zombie King when the System abducted him.

Unfortunately, the System that kidnapped him wasn't very good at its job, and the two of them were tossed onto the wrong timeline.

A sweet romance plot had been completely rewritten into a battle royale. Yan Chen genuinely wanted to name this story, The People Are Always Trying to Kill Their Emperor.

He stared with a complicated expression at the ancient Zerg, whose sexes could only be distinguished by their tail hooks. They were equally muscular, and even ate one another.

The biggest problem now was that nearly every Zerg wanted to kill and eat him, including his own male spouse.

And the System was completely oblivious, even looking eager to join in.

[The timeline's wrong, and lots of Zerg want to kill you... But that's not important. Just do your missions! Our goal is world peace!]

Yan Chen: ...

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As a useless male Zerg of high rank but without any mental power, Yan Chen, a dual-ability user, worked out a set of survival rules all his own:

1. Maintain your useless persona while gathering as much information as possible.

2. Make flexible use of every Zerg around you that can be used.

3. Always remember that you're human. Don't trust any Zerg in the traditional sense.

But reality was always cruel. His persona fell apart on the first day his male spouse moved in.

The first rule had already fallen apart. It was only a matter of time before the rest were broken too.

My next novel, Being a Husband Is Better Than Being a Father, is now underway (pseudo father-son relationship).

A true mastermind villain and gleeful menace seme X a scheming, sinister fake good guy uke

Blurb:

As a professional world cleaner, Sui Yin had the looks of a classic villainous beauty and a wicked sense of fun.

When he returned to the Zerg world after finishing a cleaning mission, his sworn enemy, who had just fallen from power, came to him for shelter and proposed a wager.

Three months. They would bet on who would fall in love first. Either the truth would be revealed at the end of the three months, or they would kill each other and end the wager. The winner would get everything the loser had.

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Sui Yin didn't know what his enemy was after, but he was always more patient with the female Zerg he had personally hatched and raised. Besides, this world was boring. He needed some amusement before destroying it.

So Ge Fei, the former council speaker who had become notorious and was hated by every Zerg, appeared at military headquarters as Sui Yin's adjutant.

By day, they were inseparable, constantly at odds. By night, they shared a bed, their cheeks and temples brushing.

Sui Yin's randomly refreshed sense of morality hadn't even had time to protest before Ge Fei slapped it away.

Father? Husband?

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No matter what, he still had to complete the System's mission. The fate he had planned for the Zerg would not change.

But anything could happen.

The day before the wager ended, Ge Fei, who had never had a partner, was found to be pregnant during a routine checkup. The news caused a huge sensation, and every Zerg became intensely curious about the father of the egg.

System: [Are you... still going to destroy the world?]

Sui Yin: ...

I've worked for three thousand years straight. Can I go on strike now?

You never said I could have a child with an NPC from a small world!

Extra 1:

One day, Sui Yin held up the cameras he'd found in the room and flung them in front of Ge Fei. "Twenty-five cameras in one room, and five more in the bathroom. Are you plotting a rebellion?"

Ge Fei stayed silent, sneaking glances at his expression. The System piled on: [You also have a camera, a tracker, and a listening device on you, one of each.]

Sui Yin: ...

"When did I teach you all this, hmm?"

Ge Fei kept playing dead.

Extra 2:

Sui Yin was woken from a dream by the System shrieking.

"Did you eat a virus?"

[Go check on that female Zerg!]

"What?"

[In the middle of the night, he's looking in the mirror! It's terrifying! I'm scared he'll look at himself in the mirror and start calling for his mommy!]

Sui Yin's eyes were bleary and his brain was barely functioning. After a long pause, he said, "Zerg don't call their mothers 'Mommy,' do they?"

System: ...

Is that really the point?

Content warnings:

1. This isn't pure fluff. Most of the time, the focus is on the plot.

2. Readers with extreme shipping preferences, beware. Though this is a Zerg novel with a male lead, the author is a fair-minded shipper. I'm just writing what I want to read. This setup is so fun, so fun: a protagonist navigating a crowd of people-like beings, some normal and some twisted. Unfortunately, the platform limits what I can write, though it doesn't limit my side characters, so the protagonist follows the plot...

3. There are a lot of original settings. This is different from traditional Zerg stories. It takes place a thousand years before the extreme Zerg society, when laws were incomplete and society was in a state between order and chaos.

4. Everything in this story is there for a reason, and it will all be explained. The Zerg have very divided ways of thinking, shaped by their environment, age, and family. It's best not to read them as if they were normal people, or you might get lost later. Some of them eat their own kind to steal their mental power.

5. The insect world is based on my own headcanon. Most of the main characters are butterflies, mantises, and so on. I explain this in the author's note for Chapter One. It's a slow burn. I thought I could write the plot while enjoying the ships, but by the second half I was mostly searching for sweet moments in the plot. TAT

6. If this wasn't your kind of fun, sorry! See you in the next one? (Pats your head.)

Feel free to check out my upcoming novels too! (Waves.)

Theme: Supporting each other and striving to grow.