[Insectoid] A Guide to Saving the Beautiful but Tragic

Synopsis:

Xi Shumian, a professional White Moonlight in xianxia novels, is the most difficult agent at the Space-Time Administration. He can only play the doomed White Moonlight who dies early in xianxia stories: little work, great pay, and unforgettable impressions.

He excels at doing things his own way, treating the System's words like background noise, yet always managing to complete his missions in unexpected ways. He's driven more than ten top Systems at the Space-Time Administration to the brink of madness. His record speaks for itself.

But how can you keep doing bad things without eventually getting caught? The Systems Xi Shumian drove mad finally stopped holding back and decided to throw him into an angst novel to teach him a proper lesson.

Who is Xi Shumian?

If he were the type to obediently accept his fate, he wouldn't be himself.

He went in determined to drag someone down with him if he was going to die. A chaotic battle drew several of his close friends over to watch, and they successfully turned it into a mass transmigration.

World: Let That Male Insect Go, Take Me Instead

Setting: Insectoid society, beautiful and tragic, redemption story

Objective: Stop the villain from turning evil. Current progress: 0/4

Arc One

Two-faced White Moonlight specialist gong × stoic, powerful male insect general shou

Xi Shumian woke up at home, dizzy and disoriented. A series of plot points tied to his current identity flashed through his mind. He had actually become the fated partner of this book's future villain: a vile insect who did every wicked thing imaginable and was cruel by nature!

Good news: He's a male insect.

Bad news: He arrived at the exact point where the plot reaches its most disastrous low!

So, is it too late for me to mend my ways?

Changing is out of the question. Xi Shumian says: If I'm going to die either way, I might as well do whatever I want and enjoy myself.

General Ayle Hicks, commander of the three armies and an S-rank male insect, has a distinguished military record and a beauty rivaling the setting sun over the galaxy. But after a psychic sea disturbance left him no choice but to trade his military honors for a place as the A-rank male insect Xi Shumian's primary spouse, he never imagined it would be the beginning of a nightmare.

The evening shadows stretched across the room. The male insect, covered in wounds, knelt ramrod straight by the bed, the bloody welts across his back a horrific sight. He had been kneeling for a day and a night, and his body was at its limit.

The sleeping male insect slowly opened his eyes. Nearly numb, he thought this might be the start of another round of torment.

"What... Oh my god!" The male insect scrambled up and glanced at him, then clutched his head in anguish. He lowered his eyes and shut them, waiting for the pain to come.

But instead of continuing his punishment, his male spouse gently tore open his clothes and applied medicine to his wounds.

Was this some new tactic?

Arc Two

Cheerful, lively young gong × stiff, taciturn, sickly beauty shou

Cen Xiao stared at the mandatory matching notice on his personal terminal, dumbfounded and utterly at a loss.

Xiumite was born into the flourishing Abe family. Frail and sickly from childhood, he was an A-rank male insect, yet his ability to heal was even worse than that of a C-rank male insect.

Even after rising to the high-ranking position of cabinet minister, he was still criticized.

After all, male insects were cruel by nature, and beatings and scoldings were commonplace. With his frail constitution, he could easily die at their hands. He simply couldn't satisfy a male insect's cruel nature, and no male insect wanted a partner who would spoil their fun.

But male insects were forcibly matched once they reached a certain age, and even a cabinet minister was no exception, unless he paid an exorbitant fine.

Whether a male insect with a spouse could continue working depended entirely on the spouse's wishes. Xiumite didn't want to give up his career, but he had already accepted his body's limitations and was even mentally prepared to die during the period of training and discipline.

Yet when he arrived at the location provided by the male insect, utterly hopeless, and was about to kneel to show his obedience, the beautiful male insect opened the door and pulled him inside...

Arc Three

Overpowered, love-struck gong × gloomy, sickly CEO shou

Kejialier was the wealthiest male insect in the Federation.

His male parent went to war when he was young and never returned. His female parent soon fell into despair, leaving him alone to bear the curse of bringing death to his family while keeping their vast estate afloat.

Under a system where male insects were as lowly as dust and weeds, a male insect's wealth was itself a crime. And because he was high-ranking and had no plans to find a spouse, the exorbitant fine was mere pocket change to him. If a fortune beyond measure could not be taken into a male insect's hands, then that was an unforgivable sin.

So, when Kejialier went out for a meal, a male insect who coveted him set his sights on him. No matter how high a male insect's status was, he had to show deference before a precious male insect. Even though Kejialier hated male insects to the core, he could only humble himself.

When the male insect saw that Kejialier still refused to agree to become his secondary spouse, he let his malice get the better of him and deliberately used his pheromones to agitate Kejialier's psychic sea.

His already precarious psychic sea instantly broke through its final restraints. His psychic power ran wild, destroying every fixture in the restaurant in the blink of an eye.

Seeing that things had gone wrong, the male insect immediately fled. The male insect who had lost control attacked everything around him indiscriminately.

Jiang Suxing knew nothing of this. He walked out of a private room, rubbing his head, and was caught off guard when the psychic force sent him flying into a wall.

The patrol squad arrived quickly and forcibly suppressed Kejialier's psychic rampage. While cleaning up afterward, they spotted a male insect unconscious in a corner, blood running from his head, and nearly died of fright.

When Kejialier woke up in the hospital and learned that he had injured a high-ranking male insect, his expression suddenly turned ashen. He lowered his eyes and shut them, ignoring his nearly exploding psychic sea as he struggled out of bed to go to the male insect's room and beg forgiveness.

He would accept any punishment, as long as he wasn't made into a disposable male slave, whose life could be traded away at will. He would even accept becoming a secondary spouse.

He knelt outside the hospital room, prepared for the male insect to torment him and refuse to forgive him no matter how many days and nights he spent on his knees. But when he tapped on the door, ready to die, he received an immediate answer.

Inside the room, a completely unfamiliar young male insect with a bandage wrapped around his head looked toward him in the sunlight...

Arc Four

Cool, gentle powerhouse gong × insecure, fallen prince shou

I never imagined I'd be this unlucky. Not only did I transmigrate into some strange book while watching the fun, I ended up on a desolate planet!

Lin Zhan stumbled through the dense forest. His prolonged high fever gradually blurred his consciousness, and then he passed out.

After the great war, Aranster's rank fell, and he lost his position as crown prince. His status plummeted. The noble male insect he had once been engaged to wasted no time finding someone new, and Aranster became an ill-omened male insect whom everyone despised.

Despondent, he took his aircraft out to clear his head. When its fuel ran out near a desolate planet, he had to search for a usable energy source. To his surprise, he detected a powerful male insect's pheromones.

He followed the scent and found a male insect undergoing a second awakening in the wilderness. The moment he got close, the male insect's pheromones triggered his heat...

After a night of passion, Lin Zhan successfully made it through his awakening period. When he woke and saw the beautiful male insect beside him, a mess from head to toe, he fell deep in thought...

Content warnings:

1. A series of fluffy short stories, with a focus on excessive sweetness. Readers who enjoy angst should steer clear.

2. I rushed my previous book and didn't write it well. I've prepared carefully for this one and hope to restore my reputation.

3. The setting is entirely made up. Extremely gong-biased. Shou fans, proceed with caution.

Theme: Sincerity can move even stone