After Our Engagement Was Broken Off, He Disguised Himself as a Female Insect and Carried the Team

[Upcoming novel: How Did I Become a Bound Spirit Beside My Archrival? Blurb below]

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An insectoid pollution outbreak begins, and one small planet after another falls.

Landon is stranded in the worst-hit region of a contaminated planet, and the rescue team never arrives.

With no choice, he escapes the doomed planet aboard a dilapidated starship his father repaired. Just as he places all his hopes on the female insectoid on the main planet to whom he was betrothed as a child, she breaks off the engagement by sending him a list of the dead.

With nowhere to turn for help, he decides it's better to rely on himself than other insects. Using an insectoid woman's identification papers, he infiltrates the military and disguises himself as a female soldier.

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After being bullied by noble insects, sent by the military to a suicide vanguard unit, and scapegoated by the nobles...

Landon grows stronger with every battle, turning himself into a legend among the demi-females.

When the truth finally comes out, the legendary military king Landon is revealed to be an S-rank male insectoid. A group of female soldiers who suspect they've fallen for a demi-female immediately kiss him without hesitation.

His former fiance, who broke off the engagement: "Your Excellency, what about our engagement?"

Landon smiles faintly. "Isn't your fiance already dead?"

The noble insect who threw his weight around: "Beautiful and charming sir, might I have dinner with you?"

Landon raises his fist. "Looking at your face, I'm afraid I won't be able to control myself."

His comrades who fought alongside him: "Sir, we went through life and death together."

Landon wipes down his mecha. "I like the sea of stars more than female insects."

Seeing that everyone had discovered the treasure he'd been watching for so long, Pei Ji immediately traded all his military merits for a chance to go on a private date with Landon.

He'd practiced his confession, but then the secretary rushed in. "Count Campbell, sir says he's busy fighting a mutant beast. Maybe next time."

"Reader's Guide"

"This is an entirely fictional setting unrelated to reality. Please don't conflate it with real life."

"The former fiance is not the romantic lead. The romantic lead is someone else."

"Some worldbuilding elements are original to this story."

Next novel: How Did I Become a Bound Spirit Beside My Archrival?

1. Xi Baiyan died in the car accident when he was eighteen.

But after becoming a bound spirit, he found himself at the time when Sheng Zhuo was thirty.

His archrival, who had always clashed with him and competed to be first at everything, now sat in a garbage-strewn home, drinking to drown his sorrows and looking utterly wretched.

Even if he was nothing but a pile of bones, Xi Baiyan wouldn't let his archrival get the last word.

"Sheng Zhuo, so this is what your life looks like at thirty? What an idiot. Tsk, how pathetic."

Unfortunately, his archrival heard him.

The thirty-year-old clutched a beer bottle and cried his eyes out at Xi Baiyan's words.

Xi Baiyan had never seen Sheng Zhuo like this. "You're such a loser, and now you're crying just because I said a couple of things? If you don't want me to mock you, then get your life together and show me what you've got!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Sheng Zhuo staggered to his feet and tried to hug him, but his arms closed on empty air.

Xi Baiyan and Sheng Zhuo had been at odds for eleven years. It was the first time he'd ever seen his nemesis collapse at his feet, sobbing uncontrollably as he said:

"Baiyan, I miss you so much."

2. Later, Xi Baiyan learned that he had lived past nineteen.

But he went missing at thirty.

All that remained was a wisp of his soul, returned to Sheng Zhuo's side.

Whether he was alive or dead remained unknown...

Theme: Even the weak can shoulder responsibility and don the brightest cloak amid the smoke of battle