You Low-Ranking Male Insect, You Want Me to Seduce the Male Lead?

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One moment, Lin Xi was fighting zombies in the apocalypse. The next, a Tier 10 Zombie Emperor crushed his heart. Blood sprayed, and he lost consciousness.

When he woke up, he was still alive.

There was something in his head, chattering away and calling itself a System.

[Hello! Welcome to the Insectoid World. This is the Beauty-by-Lying-Flat System. Complete missions to earn beauty achievements.]

[Please note:

Note One: As an inferior F-rank, you cannot possess mental power, and you haven't even grown a tail hook.

Note Two: You have been classified as a female insectoid because you have no tail hook.

Note Three: You pathetic waste of space were bullied by your classmates and beaten until you suffered internal injuries and coughed up blood, yet you stubbornly survived. Your vitality rivals a cockroach.]

There was too much to unpack, and Lin Xi couldn't be bothered to comment.

He had thought he was holding a reborn revenge plot, but instead he got a useless lay-flat-and-turn-into-a-sissy plot.

The System kept urging him on: [As long as you have plenty of men, you can lie flat. Live in a flat today, a villa tomorrow.]

Lin Xi sorted through the memories the System had sent him, and his eyes went black again and again. Men could give birth in this world? What kind of perverted world was this?

The System coaxed him: [Being a male insectoid is great. Host, just reveal your identity and female insectoids will come flocking to you nonstop. You won't have to give birth yourself, so don't worry. As long as Host can seduce the ultimate target, you'll go from rags to riches, like Bill Gates.]

Lin Xi: [I'd rather die.]

The System froze, then burst into tears: [No! This is my last internship mission. Once I complete it, I'll be done! Host, think about it. Is there anything you wish for? I can make it happen.]

Lin Xi: [I want to get stronger.]

[I want to trample everyone who bullied me underfoot.]

[I want to kill my way through...]

[Oh, you mean seduce the male lead, right? Don't worry, I'll do it.]

P2

From the moment Lin Xi picked him up, Kalxi's life had meaning.

He was the cheapest, most worthless laborer in the world, a useless nobody found everywhere on Kor Star. He worked hard to get stronger and grow his wings.

So he wouldn't be abandoned.

His older brother was a beautiful, powerful female insectoid, a peerless and magnificent treasure.

He tried to learn the female insectoids' calm composure and worked hard to become exceptional. He wanted to be someone his brother could rely on.

After he came of age, the thing Kalxi feared most happened: he was abandoned.

For no reason at all, or perhaps because his secret fantasies had been discovered.

His brother hated him.

The withdrawal was uncontrollable. He twisted in the darkness, watching everything.

The courage to claw his way up, no matter the cost, came from you.

Content Warnings:

1. No romantic development at first. Feelings develop partway through. The protagonist is career-focused, and the plot makes up 65% of the story.

2. The gong is single-minded about getting stronger. The shou falls first and pursues the gong.

3. Lots of personal worldbuilding.

4. No brain, no brain, no brain! This is a light, fun story, so please read without using your brain. The author is terrible at logic, so this isn't for readers who scrutinize the details or logic.

5. I haven't written in a long time, so I'm getting back into practice. See the announcements for more.

6. If anything bothers you, click the top-right corner and leave before you regret it.

Next up: a lighthearted gong-centric story, currently in the works, about a tyrant raised by someone

Overnight, Gu Wangxi transmigrates into the role of the Imperial Preceptor, a man second only to the emperor and above everyone else in the novel.

Good news: He has a lot of power.

Bad news: He's destined to die young. His health is so poor that he'll kick the bucket in less than three years.

Extremely good news: A System calling itself a System latches on to him and says that completing its assigned missions will earn him survival points.

Xiao Qingshui is the novel's biggest villain, a tyrant who chops people up whether he's in a bad mood or a good one.

Falling for his minister's wife is his fate, while going mad and acting out is his sin.

He cuts down an upright official with a single sword stroke, and the minister's wife he took by force hangs herself with a white silk sash.

Extremely bad news: Gu Wangxi's mission is to reform this tyrant into a wise ruler loved by all.

Is this some kind of joke?

He suspects the System is messing with him, but he can't prove it!!!

What a ridiculous mission. No dog would do it.

System: [Fail to complete the mission and you'll die!]

Gu Wangxi: It's not like I can't do it.

Gu Wangxi: I can do it. I can totally pull this off!!!

In his previous life, he was a fortune-teller by trade, a con artist who fleeced one person after another.

Playing the Imperial Preceptor is right up his alley. He'll nail it.

Steady!!!!

All he has to do is stop the young emperor from taking his minister's wife, and he'll breeze through the mission.

They talked through the night. The young tyrant looked at him with cool, phoenix-shaped eyes and said, "Teacher, I'm cold."

Gu Wangxi silently pulled the blanket over him. Of course he was cold, in the middle of winter, with his clothes on wrong and the blanket hanging wide open.

On a snowy, freezing night, the young tyrant unexpectedly kissed Gu Wangxi.

Xiao Qingshui's eyes were red-rimmed. He said it was a way of showing affection, that he admired and adored his teacher.

Right! The young tyrant was a man, and he liked women. That explanation checked out.

Until one night, the cold kept him awake, and the tyrant pinned him down and bit his Adam's apple.

Wait a minute, is this... normal?

Core theme: Love life and embrace tomorrow with enthusiasm