D-level males reached the pinnacle of life by living off women.

Inside the sealed room, the standing masked insect was coldly questioning the kneeling masked insect.

"What did you say? Only thirty insects were recruited this time. Why so few?"

"Several orphanages that we had contact with before have received new donations and their financial situation has improved a lot. They no longer need additional financial support, so the directors of those orphanages are no longer willing to send their children to work on remote planets," the kneeling masked insect replied.

"New donations? Orphanages are such neglected places. Aside from the Xiongbao Association giving them a pittance to put on a show for those male insects, where else would they donate money?"

"My subordinate investigated and found that the donation came from a newly established charitable foundation, and the actual funder behind it is named Lu Yuan, a male."

"Lu Yuan? Never heard of this insect. Where did it come from? What's its background?"

"He himself has no background; he's just a D-class male insect from a desolate planet. But his mate is Rhine Hatton. According to the records we found, all the foundation's money comes from Lu Yuan's individual insect assets, but I think it should actually come from Rhine Hatton."

"Rhine Hatton, it's him again, causing me trouble once more."

The masked insect, standing upright, spoke these words with considerable grit.

When the joint announcement from the Xiongbao Association and the military was released, ordinary insects didn't know what was going on, but the masked insect, being a member of the "infiltrators," immediately understood: the one who rescued the Crown Prince from the desolate planet and deceived them was Rhine Hatton.

"Master, how about we send these thirty insects to the training camp first?" the kneeling masked insect asked.

"Thirty is not enough. We suffered so many casualties this time. This number of insects is not enough to fill the gap."

After a moment of contemplation, the standing masked insect gave instructions.

"Go to the orphanages on nearby planets and try to gather a hundred insects. It doesn't matter if they are low-level. If they are not strong enough, you can train them to do other things."

"Yes, ma'am."

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Inside the military headquarters office, Rhein sat upright in his chair, quickly reviewing the documents in front of him.

A bouquet of flowers lay in the nearby trash can. The flowers looked as if they had been violently thrown into the trash can, and now they were lying crookedly in the trash can, giving the impression that they had been brutally trampled.

After a while, the adjutant Fred knocked on the door and came in.

Seeing the flowers in the trash can, Fred shrank back but said nothing. Instead, he handed Rhein a light gray invitation.

"Commander, the military headquarters is preparing a banquet and has invited you and your lord to attend."

"Okay, put it down."

After handing over the invitation, Fred did not turn and leave. He hesitated for a moment before speaking.

"Commander, Kara has finished using the Ten Light Whip. He knows he was wrong."

Rhine looked up at Fred, making Fred almost want to run away immediately. Just when Fred was about to give up, Rhine finally spoke.

"You should discipline him properly and teach him what he can and cannot do. If he makes this kind of low-level mistake again, he should be kicked out of the Third Army Group."

"I understand, I will discipline him properly."

After saying that, Fred hurriedly fled the office.

After Fred left, Rhein leaned back in his chair, tossed his pen onto the table, rubbed his nose, and temporarily lost interest in continuing to look at the documents.

After resting with his eyes closed for a while, Rhine reopened them and picked up the invitation from the table.

The banquet itself was nothing special; it was just a regular gathering of high-ranking military officers. The military would organize one every now and then, supposedly to help the officers build relationships.

If it were up to Rhine's original plan, he wouldn't have taken Lu Yuan with him; he didn't want Lu Yuan to appear in front of the insects and become a target.

So after returning to the military headquarters, although he admitted to his colleagues that the news from the Xiongbao Association was true and that he had indeed married a D-level male insect, he never revealed Lu Yuan's information, nor did he allow Lu Yuan to come to the military headquarters to pick him up.

Unexpectedly, this action led to a misunderstanding, which was caused by that damned Song Mo.

A while ago, Song Mo suddenly went crazy and started sending him messages like crazy, saying that she understood his predicament, had forgiven him, and still loved him—words that were nauseating.

And each time they send out a short essay of two or three hundred words.

To avoid causing Lu Yuan to misunderstand, and also because she didn't want to see things that would make insects physically uncomfortable, Rhine decisively blocked Song Mo.

He thought that by doing this, Song Mo, who cared about his reputation, would not come looking for him again. But to his surprise, Song Mo's skin had become much thicker after being bumped into by him.

Unable to contact him directly, Song Mo started sending gifts to his office. Although the gifts were not from Song Mo himself, each time he sent them, the whole military would know about it.

Although he threw away the gifts each time, rumors started to circulate within the military over time.

He claimed that the D-level male insect he mentioned was just a cover, and that he had never actually married an insect. Otherwise, why would no insect in the military have ever seen that D-level male insect, and why would no one even know its name?

The reason Rhine did this was entirely because he loved Song Mo too much.

Because he had hurt Song Mo in the course of his mission, he felt that he was no longer worthy of Song Mo, so he found this reason to leave Song Mo and let Song Mo go find a better female insect.

The reason Song Mo keeps sending gifts is because she has discovered the truth and wants to prove to him that she doesn't mind the past and still wants to be with him, Rhine.

Upon hearing this rumor, Rhine only wanted to find the worm who made up the story and send him to hell to continue making up stories.

However, quite a few people in the military believed it, and many of them talked about this melodramatic love story with great relish behind his back. Even within his Third Army Group, there were quite a few people who believed this story.

That idiot Kara didn't even ask him before placing the flowers Song Mo sent on his desk. When he asked Kara why she did that, she actually had the audacity to say that she wanted to help him and Song Mo rekindle their romance and make them a couple.

So he immediately ordered the insect to take Kara away and whip her with ten light whips, and then threw the flower into the trash can.

However, his actions did not stop the rumors from spreading further. Fred even told him privately that similar rumors had started appearing online.

He couldn't let things continue like this. It seemed he had to let Lu Yuan show his face in front of everyone and at the same time make his attitude towards Lu Yuan clear to the insects.