[Zerg] After being reborn as a male Zergling, he refused to be a kept man.

Zhuang Nian had a dream, his second dream since he transmigrated.

In his dream, he returned to his own funeral...

As a spirit of the dead, I followed the crowd all the way to the ancestral hall.

—It was blocked by the talisman placed on the door to ward off evil spirits.

Zhuang Nian was stunned for a moment.

He used to be a staunch atheist, but now he has to believe that there really is a god watching over us.

He stood on the porch with one hand in his pocket, watching the eighteen branch families crammed into the courtyard, arguing so fiercely over the position of heir that they almost came to blows.

For so long, the position of head of the Zhuang family has been firmly held by the main family. Now that the only son of the main family is gone, that chair that once held billions of dollars and endless power...

Everyone wanted to go up and sit down.

Zhuang Nian turned his attention to a little boy who was only a few years old. Based on his understanding of his grandfather, he guessed that the boy would be adopted by his parents and raised as a new heir.

In the long years that followed...

Zhuang Nian witnessed his grandfather's funeral, watched his father painstakingly mentoring the new successor, saw his mother's hair gradually turning gray, and noticed her secretly weeping while holding his photograph.

He also witnessed the little boy grow up, gradually forgetting his roots under the instigation of his biological parents, and developing a rift with them as they aged. He watched as the boy, now fully grown, returned to his biological parents' embrace, repeatedly defying his ailing father, ultimately causing his mother's death…

Zhuang Nian observed coldly, and after being a wandering ghost for so long, he found that he had lost even the most basic emotional feelings.

The once-glorious, century-old aristocratic family gradually declined before his eyes, until it was completely forgotten by people as time passed.

The world changes.

Everything is constantly changing, but he alone has been forgotten by time.

Another few hundred years...

Zhuang Nian's soul finally rose again and arrived on a war-torn planet.

He saw the monstrous beast, cleaved in two and crawling with maggots, and he also saw himself lying on the scorched earth. He also heard insects chirping loudly.

"Major General Fei! Come quick! There's a male insect here!"

Zhuang Nian turned around and saw a silver-haired female soldier wearing a white military uniform.

Some distant memories suddenly resurfaced...

Zhuang Nian instinctively called out to him, "Fei!"

The female soldier didn't respond. She simply folded her blood-stained bone wings and carefully picked up the black-haired male insect from the ground. Her cold, thin vertical pupils were filled with joy.

Zhuang Nian remembered that Fei had said he had fallen in love with him at first sight, and now it seemed that it was true.

After being bound to the human world for hundreds of years, he was now bound to a female soldier.

Zhuang Nian watched Fei become his female servant, watched him carefully try to please him, and watched him hide under the bed and cry secretly when he was wronged, singing that off-key song to comfort himself...

Zhuang Nian was surprised to find that the female soldier had so many secrets. He found it interesting and thought that he wished he could have fallen in love with her sooner.

Four years is not a long time. For Zhuang Nian, who had been forgotten by time, the hardest thing was watching Fei tirelessly tell another version of himself that he liked and loved him, watching them whisper sweet nothings to each other, take off their clothes, and then roll around together in front of him.

At that moment, Zhuang Nian seemed to understand the meaning of jealousy.

Even though he knew it was him, he still couldn't help but want to kill him when he saw his hands covering the female soldier's body.

Rifei finally achieved her wish and became the female ruler...

Looking at himself sleeping soundly on the bed, Zhuang Nian vaguely remembered that he seemed to have had a dream around this time.

In his dream, his soul drifted back to his homeland hundreds of years ago, then drifted back to the past four years ago, and after going around in circles, he returned to the starting point.

Zhuang Nian wanted to wake himself up, but heard hurried footsteps behind him.

Fei shook the male insect on the bed awake and said to him, "My lord, the marshal has run into trouble on the battlefield of Planet Del. I... I must go and save him... I..."

Zhuang Nian paused for a moment, then paused again when he saw himself on the bed. After asking a few questions, he let the female soldier leave.

Later, Zhuang Nian saw himself standing in front of the house every day, looking north towards the direction Fei had left. Instead of seeing the female soldiers return, he only saw a corpse covered by a military flag.

According to Fei's personal guards, the ring slipped from his hand during the battle and fell into the monster's lair. Fei ignored their advice and went to retrieve it alone, ultimately perishing along with the monster.

As Zhuang Nian listened, he watched as the woman pried open the soldier's hand, and in her palm lay a perfectly intact ring.

"How stupid."

He curled his lips into a smile, gently brushed his fingers across the female soldier's face, and uttered only this one sentence without any emotion.

Zhuang Nian felt a sudden pang of pain in his heart. He wanted to see the expression on his face, but the scene shifted back to the bed in the master bedroom.

A cool night breeze drifted in through the window, causing the red gauze curtains on the tent to sway gently. The tangible sensation reminded him that he had returned to his wedding night when he married Fei as his queen.

Zhuang Nian wiped the sweat from his brow, and when he stepped barefoot onto the ground, his body swayed involuntarily.

—I've been drifting in my dreams for so long that I've almost forgotten how to walk.

Zhuang Nian glanced at the time, thinking that if everything in the dream was real, then in another ten minutes or so, Fei would tell him about going to the battlefield...

Zhuang Nian lowered his eyebrows and walked towards Yu Chen's room.

The toddler, just over a year old, is fair-skinned and chubby like a little dumpling. When awake, he is a delicate and very difficult little devil, but when asleep, he is soft and fluffy like an angel.

Zhuang Nian watched the baby for a while, then reached out a finger and gently tapped the little one's nose.

The baby seemed startled, wrinkling his nose and whimpering before turning over and sticking his bottom out to continue sleeping.

"little things."

Zhuang smiled, covered the baby with a blanket, and then went to look at the plum tree in full bloom in front of the window.

This was something Fei Huai and Chen saw while they were wandering around the undeveloped wilderness of Earth.

At that time, the tree was also blooming so profusely that Junci said he had never seen it before and liked it, so Zhuangnian hired a professional insect expert to transplant it here.

White petals were blown down from the branches by the wind, landing on Zhuang Nian's head, face, and hands, just like the snow he and Fei had shared together.

"I can say that I've grown old with you in this life..."

Zhuang Nian muttered to himself, feeling that there were some things he should have said to Jun Ci long ago. Now that he wanted to say them, the atmosphere and reason were gone, leaving only affectation.

He recalled the events in his dream—the decline of his family and the death of a female soldier—as if they were happening right before his eyes.

I really hope it's just a dream...

When Fei knelt at Zhuang Nian's feet and recited the words from his dream word for word, Zhuang Nian thought this.

The male insect lowers its head to touch the female's forehead, their noses lightly brushing, their lips and teeth pressed together, their breaths mingling, and it says with utmost seriousness:

"Take me with you, I don't want to be separated from you."

When has the male insect ever flirted with me? And when has it ever spoken to me so bluntly?

Fei was dizzy and disoriented, her voice stammering, "You, you, you really want to come with me?"

Zhuang Nian nodded: "Today is our wedding night, we should be together."

Fei blushed slightly and apologized with deep remorse, "My lord, I'm sorry, I..."

"Wait for me, I'm going to change my clothes." Zhuang Nian said and quickly left. When he returned, he added, "Before I leave, I want to go see Zizheng and You Nan."

The military situation was urgent, and the marshal awaiting rescue was in imminent danger. Fei must have been out of his mind to agree to Zhuang Nian's unreasonable request.

But in the end, he actually agreed.

Fei let the fully equipped army set off first, taking Zhuang Nian aboard the black command ship. At a speed a hundred times faster than a spaceship, they arrived at the military academy in just a few minutes.

That night, the usually strictly managed military academy was filled with the sounds of insects. Everyone watched as the sacred and inviolable command ship docked on the school's playground, and two insects disembarked.

One is an SSS-class male insect, a rare find in the empire's millennium; the other is a war god with illustrious military achievements in the empire.

Their high-profile appearance was simply because they missed their baby in the middle of the night.

Zizheng and You Nan, dressed in their pajamas, happily rushed into their parents' arms and asked, "Father, Father, what brings you here?"

"The male father and female father got married today, and I came to tell you," Zhuang Nian said gently, patting the two cubs' heads.

The two cubs cheered and eagerly asked, "Is the female father the female ruler? Is he?"

Zhuang Nian nodded: "But the female father has to go to the battlefield, and the male father wants to accompany him, so he can't come to pick you up this week. How about you go home by yourselves?"

The two cubs nodded obediently, looked up at Fei in a salute, and said in their soft voices, "Father, we wish you a triumphant return." After saying that, they instructed him, "You must protect Father well and make sure he comes back safely."

Fei nodded, her eyes crinkling into crescent moons: "Yes, definitely."

A guard came to urge, "Commander, we should go."

The two cubs waved to their parents, and Zhuang Nian said to Fei, "Let me speak to them alone for a few minutes."

Fei had no idea when his master and the two cubs had started having a little secret. He wanted to hear it, but was urged by his guards, so he nodded and said, "Then I'll wait for you on the warship."

It's clear that the female general has lost her mind, and it's also clear that she has the potential to become a tyrannical ruler.

After Zhuang Nian and Fei boarded the warship, he said to the two cubs:

"Dad might have to go on a long trip, or he might come back as scheduled, but no matter what, when Dad is away, you are the pillars of this family. You must not only protect your younger brother, but also take care of your stepfather, understand?"

The two cubs exchanged a glance, their spiritual senses telling them that their male father seemed particularly uneasy. They asked, "Daddy, what happened?"

Zhuang Nian shook his head: "No, it's just that it's my father's first time traveling so far away, and he's a little worried about the family, so he wanted to give them a few more instructions."

Upon hearing this, the two cubs immediately patted their chests and promised in unison, "Daddy, don't worry, we will protect our little brother and take good care of our female father."

"Good boy/girl." Zhuang Nian opened his arms. "Before you leave, can Daddy give you a hug?"

The two little ones rushed into their father's arms, gave him a hug and a kiss, and said, "Daddy, we love you."

Zhuang Nian smiled, patted the two children's heads, and kissed them: "Thank you, Daddy loves you too."

Seeing that the atmosphere was good, the two little ones tugged at Zhuang Nian's sleeve and made a small request to him:

"Dad, we want to go to the supermarket again. When you and Daddy come back, could you take us and my brother there again?"

Zhuang Nian was taken aback for a moment, then nodded and said, "Okay."

If he can come back...