Name: I Can't Stand My Bastard Wife
Author: Si Yi Shi He

Synopsis

Bonus chapters have dropped. Come and enjoy them, dear readers.

[Three couples across the same timeline and world, six reborn characters]

[Unit One: The hateful female insect who rejected me is now sobbing at my bedside!]

After Casper rejected his marriage proposals twice, Leslie stubbornly refused to seek a guide for his biological awakening. He endured more than half a month of the agony of having his bones broken and reshaped. The moment he woke, he received news that Casper had been sentenced to prison for trying to forcibly take an A-rank male insect and, after his advances failed, harming the male insect out of spite.

Leslie nearly went mad with rage.

What was this supposed to mean?! How could he, an S-rank, not measure up to a useless A-rank?

He forced a match, making Casper his female spouse, and had him released from prison. But by then, Casper was lifeless and bent on dying.

After one moment of carelessness, Leslie returned to his estate and found Casper's bloodied corpse. The female insect had cut out his own heart and ended his life.

In an instant, Leslie's mental realm collapsed, and he was reborn on the night before Casper was tried and imprisoned.

This time, he would save the insect he loved.

After learning what Casper had gone through in his previous life before being imprisoned, Leslie locked away his memories despite the pain, thinking that this was how things would be in this life.

But when he was unlucky enough to fall into a nightmare, Casper recovered his memories and spoke of the love he had buried deep inside through his tears, then cut out his heart to show Leslie.

[Unit Two: Whether you're a slave, a servant, or a female spouse, your male master imprisoning you is an outrageous violation of the proper order!]

In his previous life, for Mephillier's sake, Taporia was willing to sever ties with his family to marry him. Yet years into their marriage, he discovered love letters Mephillier had written to "another male insect"?!

The letters, every line revealing a love so profound it cut Taporia's heart to ribbons.

For the first time, he raised a whip against the insect he had cherished since childhood.

Mephillier often went out and came home soaked in the chaotic pheromones of drunken revelry, but he never asked a thing.

After yet another drunken night out, Taporia came home to find Mephillier's face pale and lifeless.

The shock was too much. Taporia's mind broke, and he was reborn on the night he had raised the whip against his female spouse.

This time, Taporia wept as he held Mephillier and decided to set him free.

Who could have guessed that the moment he asked for a divorce, Mephillier, a rising political star who had become a member of the council, would knock him unconscious and imprison him?

Staring at the golden shackles around his wrists, Taporia: ?

It wasn't until that day that Taporia discovered the frail little rabbit he had imagined was all an act by Mephillier, put on to suit his tastes and win his affection.

"You don't like the delicate type anymore? That's all right. Whichever type you like, I can be it."

Taporia: ... What a lunatic.

[Unit Three: My workaholic female spouse, who "cheats" on me, always makes me cry!]

Caromaris had always known that the female spouse he had married for political reasons loved another insect. Still, he chose to be selfish for once and married Ingvar.

He thought their marriage was just a bond of mutual interests, until Caromaris discovered a room full of surveillance cameras, all evidence of Ingvar's unhealthy obsession with him.

But so what if it was love? When it came to benefits and power, Ingvar still had to get close to that A-rank male insect.

He had accepted the lunch Caromaris carefully prepared for him, yet still went to a restaurant with that male insect.

He had pinned Caromaris down in the bath and taken what he wanted just the day before, yet still went to see that male insect.

Caromaris had accompanied his older brother on a drunken night out and came home smelling of alcohol and chaotic pheromones. Ingvar harshly interrogated him and held him down, forcibly extracting his pheromones.

He completely ignored Caromaris's cries and struggles.

At the last gathering before his death, Caromaris saw Ingvar in a bar, "kissing" that male insect.

To protect his family, Caromaris left behind forged medical records and personally ended a life that had already been running on empty.

When Caromaris opened his eyes again, he was back on the night he had quietly cried after bringing his female spouse dinner.

But this time, the spouse who had said he had to work late rushed home and canceled all his work to take Caromaris on a trip.

Caromaris: ?

Was this really his workaholic spouse?

To keep himself from having to go through a second regression, Caromaris sought help from the royal family and began conducting research.

Among the first volunteers at the secret research institute was a familiar-looking female insect with black hair and purple eyes. Wearing a uniform, he knelt on one knee and showed Caromaris the signed divorce papers.

"Marriages arranged among the powerful are over. Would you be willing to accept the advances of a test subject with nothing to his name?"

"I'm better than all of them. I'll be the test subject who satisfies you most."

Caromaris did not agree. He only occasionally gave Subject 001 a piece of candy after a painful experiment ended.

Much later, that piece of candy became a kiss.

[Rebirth is a chance to make up for regrets. This time around, love each other and stay together]

[!! Important Notice !!]

1. This is a fictional setting with no connection to reality. Please don't relate it to real life. It does not promote anything harmful and is not based on any real people or events.

2. Not gksk. Let's all get along and prosper.

3. Units 1 and 2 lean toward healing and redemption, while Unit 3 brings the heat of a crematorium romance. Leave bricks or flowers as you please, and follow your heart about staying or leaving. If it's not for you, please click away. I hope you find happiness in other stories.

4. Thank you to every dear reader who chooses to stay. I also wish every reader happiness and joy from the stories they read.

Here's a preview of my next connected collection of stories~

The Person in the Mirror Is My Beloved

In cyberspace, Yu Jingci is a shut-in who never leaves his home and makes a living drawing commissions.

One day, on a whim, he decides to cosplay as a character he drew, bringing the "lovers" who exist only in his imagination into the real world.

But things turn completely upside down.

His perfectly recreated "lover" in the mirror reaches out, grabs him, and pulls him into the mirror.

Yu Jingci: ?

Yu Jingci: !

"Hey! We can talk this out! Don't just start putting your hands on me!"

A panel visible only to Yu Jingci displays an affection meter. Underneath it reads: He can leave only after the affection meter reaches 100%.

Faced with a "husband" who wants to take him apart and devour him, Yu Jingci can only grit his teeth and use every trick in the book to earn affection points. But before he can fill the meter, he is ejected from the world.

The last thing he sees is the "husband's" gaze, full of love and sorrow.

*

[Suave, ruthless CEO x shut-in canary who just wants to lie flat]

The canary has his wrists tied with a necktie, his whole body pinned to the bed, and is being forced to explain why he betrayed him: "..."

Fuck, how should I know! You wrote the script. Don't you know what's in your own head?

*

[Demon in an angel's skin x completely irreverent pope]

A pope who believes in science has no choice but to perform a ritual at the urging of the people, begging the gods to grant their blessings.

Looking at the pure angel he summoned, with a two-meter wingspan and a body sparkling all over, Yu Jingci falls into deep silence.

He did everything he could to sabotage the ritual. How did he still manage to summon one?

No one knows that in the dead of night, whenever the pope falls asleep, the "angel" opens his blood-red eyes and gazes greedily at his treasure.

*

[Yandere doll attendant x gloomy, beautiful young master]

The frail young master lives in a mountain estate, with only one attendant by his side day after day.

Every day, the servant willingly unbuttons his shirt and invites his master to drink his blood.

It's just that the young master has forgotten.

His attendant is only a hollow doll. He has no blood at all.

*

Lonely, icy top student x warm, sunny transfer student desk mate

Help post: My new desk mate is so annoying. He keeps clinging to me and asking to eat, run, and sleep together. Is there any way to deal with this?

Reply: Easy. Just turn him down.

Original poster: No, I mean, how can I get more time to eat, run, and sleep with him? His grades are pretty bad, but I want us to get into the same school.

*

[Suave puppet-making doctor x ditzy android]

"Androids have no emotions, so they're the perfect substitutes."

The doctor told his students this.

"Then... Teacher, why are you crying?"

"Because I'm human. I can love him."

The doctor does everything in his power to save that chip, even though he knows replacing it with a new one would be enough.

But with a new chip, he wouldn't be the same person anymore.

*

[Rebel leader x android who knows how to love]

"We are alive! We have feelings! We have the right to love and be loved!"

"We are not machines!"