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

Given Fei's infatuation and obsession with Zhuang Nian, Zhuang Nian's success rate in pursuing Fei is 100%. The only uncertainty is how long it will take.

Maybe a few days, maybe a few weeks, maybe a few months, maybe longer...

It all depends on how Zhuang Nian pursues it.

It's possible that a few sweet words are enough to win over a female soldier, and a few thoughtful gifts can earn you a kiss. And once you've accepted the kiss, what's more, right?

Or perhaps a position as a female ruler is enough to make a female soldier overjoyed, and a promise of "one insect for one lifetime" is enough to make him marry her on the spot. If she takes advantage of the offspring a little, how long can a female soldier hold out?

As long as Zhuang Nian is willing, he can be opportunistic and cunning in any way. Not to mention anything else, he can sell his looks and leak his pheromones, and the lustful insects will have to surrender obediently.

But... um...

What Fei wants is sincerity.

In the quiet hospital ward...

The male insect first meticulously analyzed the female soldier's personality traits, and then wrote a plan on how to pursue her. As for when to implement it, he would have to resolve the issue of the female soldier's household registration first.

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Zhuang Nian compromised on the issue of reproduction, promising to produce male insect offspring as a condition for the Male Insect Protection Association to put pressure on the Coulson family.

In the punishment room...

Curry was so exhausted he was barely clinging to life.

Sub-females are not troubled by mental issues, nor are they as tough as military females. They don't need a whip; anything can make them wish they were dead.

The petite executioner insect, wearing a protective mask, wasn't satisfied and said to an insect much taller than itself beside him, "Just kill him!"

Gao Chongzi shook his head: "Don't cause trouble for the Marshal."

Dwarf: "Then I'll go scratch his face! Who told him to shamelessly seduce my lord!"

Gao Chongzi immediately corrected him: "That's my master!"

The dwarf exclaimed, "Lord Zhuang Nian divorced you two years ago! How shameless of you to say that!"

Gao Chongzi: "Even if we divorce, I'll still be mine!" Anyway, I'll get married again.

Dwarf Insect: "I've never seen an insect more shameless than you!"

Gao Chongzi: "Same here!"

Dwarf: "I! The 'master' I'm referring to is Lord Guo Shu! You despicable brother! He broke off our engagement because my master broke his leg, and now that he's nice to me, he wants to steal her away! He comes to my door every day to seduce me! It's infuriating!"

Tall Bug handed a knife to Short Bug, who was baring his teeth and claws and trying to scratch Curry's face: "Hit harder."

After leaving the punishment room, Gao Chongzi went to the hospital.

Beda, whose only precious insect offspring was Kuli, nearly fainted when the Male Insect Protection Association threatened to imprison him for life for endangering the life of the Empire's valuable SSS-level male insects. With red eyes, she knelt by the hospital bed and pleaded with Zhuang Nian:

"Your Excellency Zhuang Nian, since you so kindly saved Kuli, it proves that you are a truly kind and upright person! Please forgive his unintentional mistake! I beg you!"

Fei stood outside the door, seeing the arrogant Beda so disheveled and humbled for the first time. She thought to herself, even the most vicious insect can love its offspring.

Fei wasn't moved at all; he just felt exhilarated.

Zhuang Nian's injuries have fully recovered under the meticulous care and excellent medical treatment of the medical staff. However, the head injury he suffered that day was severe, and the doctor strongly requested that he stay in the hospital for observation for a few more days to avoid leaving any sequelae.

The lack of sunlight for a long time made the male insect's skin somewhat pale. Although he looked weak, his features were well-defined and his bone structure was good. In particular, his long black eyes looked down when he looked over, showing no signs of illness.

Zhuang Nian was an introverted person. Dressed in a hospital gown and with his pale skin, he appeared gentle and easy to talk to.

Beda had also heard of Zhuang Nian's good reputation and looked at him with hope. Zhuang Nian said in a flat tone, "You may have misunderstood. It was Curry who suddenly fell down the building and hit me. I did not save him."

Beda: "!!!"

"Rescue" and "being hit" are two completely different concepts. The former is voluntary and there is room for negotiation, but the latter...

Beda said somewhat anxiously, "You were the one who saved Curry! All the bugs present saw it!"

Zhuang Nian looked puzzled, his tone calm and gentle: "I have no relation to him, so why should I save him? Are you so certain because there's some kind of evidence?"

All the crickets at the party that day sided with Fei. Now that Beda is confronting Zhuang Nian, where can he find evidence against the crickets?

The final result is self-evident.

By threatening Curry's freedom for the rest of his life, Zhuang Nian successfully obtained proof that Fei had been removed from the Coulson family's household registration. Always thorough in his work, he also removed Fei's father's household registration while he was at it.

However, Zhuang Nian didn't mention this. He was a man of action and few words. He didn't negotiate with Jun Ci when he helped Fei close his household, and he didn't need to owe her any favors now.

Holding the cancellation certificate, Fei felt as if the huge weight that had been pressing on her heart for days had finally been lifted, and her eyes welled up with tears of excitement.

It seemed that everything he was powerless to change could be easily resolved after Zhuang Nian intervened. He bowed deeply at a ninety-degree angle: "Lord Zhuang Nian! Thank you!"

Zhuang Nian frowned, feeling slightly uncomfortable with the excessive politeness from the female soldier, when Fei tentatively asked in a low voice, "I'd like to cancel my father's household registration as well, I wonder if that's possible?"

Zhuang Nian: "..." It seems that the perverted insect still likes to push his luck, just like before.

Fei cautiously looked up to observe Zhuang Nian's expression. Seeing the black-haired male insect's cold gaze and slightly amused expression, he said to her, "What were you doing all this time?"

Fei lowered his head: "It was my oversight..."

Zhuang Nian looked at Jun Ci, his gaze slowly sliding down Fei's lowered head, along his upright upper body, and finally landing on his slightly clenched hands, noticing the nervousness in the pervert.

Fei felt a little awkward. His mental energy told him that his master was watching him, but he wasn't responding to his words.

It felt like being stripped naked; it was as if the male insect knew everything he was thinking, but just wouldn't do as he pleased.

This made Fei feel like she was being played, and she pursed her lips, looking somewhat aggrieved, and said, "If it's inconvenient for you, then forget it."

Zhuang Nian raised an eyebrow and said calmly, "It seems that Commander Fei is used to being in a high position. Anyone who didn't know better would think that I'm begging you."

Fei wasn't the type to be fragile, sentimental, or prone to tears, but for some reason, he couldn't help himself in front of Zhuang Nian. His eyes immediately welled up with tears as he said, "I was being presumptuous." He turned to leave, but was pulled away.

Fei pushed him in a panic, and Zhuang Nian pulled him close, bringing the red-eyed insect face to face with him. He lowered his eyes and asked Fei, who was struggling, "I've helped you again and again. How are you going to thank me? Don't even mention shedding a few tears for me."

Fei, arrogant and spoiled, knowing how much his master cared for him, tentatively threatened, "You didn't ask me to thank you when you helped me, so I don't owe you anything now. As for the matter of the female father, just pretend I didn't say anything..."

The female soldier's words were heartless. The male insect was slightly annoyed, released her, took out another household registration cancellation certificate, and asked the female soldier, "Your female father's household registration has been cancelled. How are you going to thank me?"

Fei: "!!!" He hurriedly reached out to grab it, but was dodged.

Zhuang Nian hid the certificate behind his back: "You haven't said how you're going to thank me yet."

Fei pursed her lips: "You said, as long as I have it, as long as I can do it..."

"Come here." Zhuang Nian waved the certificate in his hand, like a wicked villain tempting a greedy cat with candy. "Closer."

Fei, her eyes red-rimmed, leaned against the wall like a little white rabbit cornered by a big bad wolf: "No, you can't do this to me."

"???" Zhuang Nian: "How have I treated you?"

Fei bit her lip: "You haven't even won me over yet, and you're already trying to take advantage of me..."

Zhuang Nian: "..."

He raised his hand and rubbed the corner of the lecherous insect's slightly moist eye with his thumb, saying speechlessly, "I just wanted to wipe your tears."

Fei Cai didn't believe it, turning his head away from Zhuang Nian's touch, and cleverly said, "You clearly just want to trick me into coming to your side, hug me, touch me, press me against the wall and kiss me hard, and then take me. Anyway, this is a hospital room, even if I scream my lungs out, no insect will come to save me..."

Zhuang Nian: "..." Is this what I thought or what you thought?

Speechless, Zhuang Nian withdrew his hand, handed the certificate to Fei, who was overthinking things, and then turned to the window, leaving the wary female soldier a safe distance.

Fei looked at his male master's tall, straight, lonely, and injured back and wondered if he had gone too far in rejecting him and hurt him.

Fearing that the male insect might give up and stop pursuing him, he slightly turned his vertical pupils and encouraged him, "If you really desire my body, you'll have to work hard to pursue me. If you're sincere enough, I'll naturally agree..."

Zhuang Nian: "..."

Military women seem easy to pursue, but also quite difficult to handle; at the very least, their bizarre thought processes are very unpredictable.

Zhuang Nian adjusted the proposal to avoid making Fei feel that he was only lusting after his body and was not in a hurry to go on a date. He would first let Fei get used to his presence step by step.

First came the fixed times for good morning and good night greetings, followed by the fixed afternoon tea every day.

Zhuang Nian didn't chat much; aside from simple good morning and good night greetings, he just kept track of the time and delivered things.

Fei was also reserved, responding with the same simple "good morning" and "good night" before accepting the gifts and saying thank you.

Three weeks later...

Zhuang Nian suddenly stopped afternoon tea, and Fei, who had gotten used to it, waited a few days. When Zhuang Nian said goodnight to him again, he couldn't help but tentatively ask:

[Mr. Zhuang Nian, have you been very busy lately?]

Zhuang Nian: [Yeah, I'm busy promoting the upcoming opening of Blue Star to the outside world. What about you?]

Blue Star's food court, snack street, and fruit stalls have always been exclusively for the military. Opening them to the public means expanding business, but it also means more female insects will flock there...

Fei felt a little uncomfortable. The better the male insect developed, the more inferior and uneasy he felt. He pursed his lips forlornly and typed in the box:

It's alright, you're busy...

Seeing that the time was right, Zhuang Nian extended his first invitation to Fei on a date:

Are you free this weekend? I'd like to take you somewhere.

Fei was about to agree immediately! Excited, she wanted to ask where they were going, but then remembered she should be more reserved. After half an hour of editing, she finally replied:

There might be a meeting this weekend, but it's not confirmed yet. Please ask me again on Friday.

Zhuang Nian: "..." It seems the timing isn't right yet.