After I Mistook a Wounded Marshal for a Criminal and Took Him Home

Good news: I've transmigrated! Into an insectoid world! Males reign supreme! And I'm a male!

Bad news: My name is Lei Ligou, and I'm on a trash heap of a penal planet...

All I can do is scavenge to survive. Scavenging is great! Step on that discarded water bottle... Sorry, bro, you're stepping on my hand. Could you move?

I looked up and saw an insect bound in chains. A female.

The female was very tall and covered in blood. One of his arms was exposed to the bone, and his body was covered with burn and lash marks. His antennae were still in pretty good shape, though, and his hands were beautiful, long, and slender. His gaze was vacant, without a glimmer of focus.

Looking at his tattered military uniform, I guessed he'd been abused by his male and then abandoned on the penal planet. He must be a criminal insect! That's how it always goes in the novels!

I quickly took the female back to my home, then hurried out to scavenge for medicine. See? I told you this garbage planet was great! You can find everything you need! It doesn't cost a thing!

Sure, I was bitten on the leg by a sandhound after leaving the safety zone to find all the medicine a female this huge needed, but look at his face. It was worth it!

The female was unconscious for a full two months. The moment he finally opened his eyes, I couldn't wait. "Tell me! What's your name?"

After a long pause, the female rasped, "Ai... Yamo."

Oh my god! His name is Ai Yamo! My name is Lei Ligou! I knew we were made for each other!

"From now on, I'm your male!" I patted his shoulder, then pulled a little stick from behind my back and grinned at him. "You have to listen to me! Call me your male!"

Just kidding! If you aren't into this kind of thing, who'd want to be in an insectoid world?

*

Six months later.

Interstellar News: "The missing commander of Planet Yar, last seen after the victory, has finally been located! But he may have been abducted. A male insect is forcing him to fly in circles through the skies above the trash planet... Good heavens, there's a male insect on the trash planet! Stay tuned for more!"

When the rescue team arrived, the male was hitting the female marshal's palm with a little wooden stick.

"No! At a time like this, you're supposed to say, 'Thank you, my male!' Then give me a kiss!"

"Thank you, my male." The female gazed at the little redwood stick tapping his palm, its touch ticklish. The cheek leaning toward him carried the sweet fragrance that was uniquely his.

Just as he was about to kiss him, a crowd of interstellar guards suddenly appeared in the doorway!

The rescuers rushed into the shabby little house, interrupted everything that was happening inside... and took the male away.

"Military females! I knew it! I knew you had to be a general or a marshal!" The male raised his little hand, beaming. The next second, he stared in shock. "Wait, wait, why are you arresting me? Weren't you supposed to rescue him? Hey! Help! Help, Ai Yamo! Ai Yamo!!"

*

After Yamo returned to the military base, he spent half a month recovering in a sealed chamber. The whole time, he thought of the amusing male who had saved him, looking forward to seeing him again.

He never imagined that the male, now washed and looking even more delicate and beautiful, would be flirting with one of his subordinates: "Listen to me! Call me your male! Don't tell the others! Say it once and I'll give you candy!"

Yamo silently crushed the jeweled brooch he'd brought in his hand, then caught the male and carried him back to his tent.

Theme: Work hard so you can choose how to live, instead of letting life choose for you!