The Bug Mother’s Late-Night Livestream

[Everyone's Favorite Insect Mother / Live Streaming]

Rising streamer Shelley worked herself to death after staying up all night. When she opened her eyes again, she had become a worthless worker drone at the very bottom of a future insectoid society.

The insectoid race had spread across the stars.

The royal insects held themselves high above the rest, with undercurrents surging beneath the surface.

The worker insects were enslaved and trampled underfoot, their ambitions of overthrowing the order brewing.

Yet the Insect Nest Mother, the only one capable of soothing them, had vanished for ten thousand years and was presumed extinct. Without her soothing, the insectoids were afflicted by a bloodline curse, growing savage and violent and unable to sleep through the night.

A disastrous start? Shelley smiled.

The insectoids' fanatic devotion to the Insect Mother ran deep in their bones?

Every one of them a mama's boy? With an intense mother complex?

No problem! A professional streamer was now live.

Shelley put on his secret identity and got started in a single frame.

[Title: Midnight Mommy]

[Streamer: A Snowflake]

[Description: Good child, want to taste honey in Mommy's arms? Be good, and you'll get a reward~]

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A livestream room called [Midnight Mommy] quietly appeared on the insectoid StarNet.

On screen, a young man wearing a black mask rested his chin on his hand, languid and alluring.

His misty, dewy fox eyes, long lashes, and tender gaze, along with his honey-sweet, teasing voice, easily stirred the insectoids' ten-thousand-year slumbering thirst.

He was a late-night streamer who never showed his face. His figure was beautiful and softly plump, and his voice was pleasant to hear. Most importantly, he attracted huge audiences by presenting himself as the "Insect Mother."

Before watching: A worker drone pretending to be the Insect Mother? What kind of nonsense is this? Isn't that disgusting? Who'd spend money on a guy like that?!

After watching: Waaaah, great and merciful Mother, please stream for just one more hour! I'd do anything for you! If I can't watch your stream, some of my wonderful qualities will just disappear!

That very day, [Midnight Mommy] landed in the StarNet Top Ten, and the streamer "A Snowflake" became an overnight sensation.

He gently cared for viewers suffering from bloodline agitation and joined calls with lucky viewers.

He wore slit qipaos and swayed his hips in the suggestive lighting to husky music.

And through the screen, with his tender voice, he called the battle-hardened insectoids "good children" and "husbands," soothing them to sleep.

More and more viewers entered the livestream to curse him, then tipped him with flushed faces and refused to leave.

They both scorned themselves for sinking into the gentle embrace of a worker drone in disguise and completely fell for him, unable to stop themselves, willingly letting Teacher Snowflake train them into exactly what he liked.

I-if it's Teacher Snowflake... I could even kneel down and call him Master Mommy!

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Teacher Snowflake's charm swept indiscriminately across insectoid society.

But one day, he missed a livestream, despite always going live on time.

At the same time, District Nineteen, where a worker drone uprising had broken out, was violently sealed off by the royal insect army. A cold electronic scanner swept over the prisoners, forcibly activating the device on Shelley's wrist.

An emotionless mechanical voice rang out abruptly across the silent ruins.

[Teacher Snowflake's livestream has started! If you like it, follow the channel! Mwah~]

The billions of viewers waiting for the stream: ?

The hidden leader of the worker drone resistance: !

The stationed royal duke commander: ?!

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Later, in his memoirs, Shelley, the Insect Mother, wrote:

"At first, I only wanted to make money, but they urged me to climb higher."

"I thought flowers, applause, and status would be enough, but those who nurtured me said I could have more."

"So I stood at the summit and built a magnificent, powerful, united insectoid empire."

"I am their king, and their one and only mother."

Notes:

1. Contains lots of chat comments.

2. The main pairing is decided before the story begins.

3. A story about an everyone-loves-him Insect Mother.

Theme: Finding the right path for yourself in adversity