“This is a procedure specifically designed by the Male Protection Association for single male bugs without a female partner. It’s super convenient to use!” Laura snatched Connor’s smart brain and excitedly helped him download the Bug Marriage APP. “You register your information first, and then I’ll tell you how to use it.”

Perhaps considering that most male bugs have simple minds and not-so-developed limbs, and are particularly irritable and impatient, the Bug Marriage APP is designed to be very simple and straightforward. You just need to input your identity code, and the system will automatically pull your individual bug information from the resource database. It’s like a beacon of technology, a paradise for lazy bugs.

In less than a minute, Connor completed the registration, and his username was adorned with a shiny golden V-shaped badge.

Connor returned to the homepage and, without any guidance, clicked on “Schedule a Blind Date.” A concise and clear questionnaire immediately popped up on the screen, allowing him to filter everything from the age requirements for female bugs to their appearance, body type, mental strength level, place of origin, and current residence.

Age requirement?
As long as they are adults and not too much older than him, that should be fine.
Considering that the average age of the bug race has already exceeded 200 years, Connor cautiously selected the range of 18-40.

As for appearance and body type?
A familiar female bug with sharp features, tanned skin, full chest muscles, and smooth abs involuntarily floated into Connor’s mind…

It wasn’t until the tail hook coiled around his waist began to stir that Connor suddenly snapped back to reality.
What was he just thinking about?!
He had already moved on, yet he was still so hung up on it—what a loser!
Connor clenched his fists tightly. But he couldn’t really blame himself; that female bug was completely his type. He hadn’t interacted with any other female bugs, so what else could he do?

With that thought, Connor noted that he preferred a more muscular build in the appearance and body type section, then limited the current residence to Ant Star, leaving everything else blank before submitting the questionnaire.
Finding a three-legged frog is hard enough; finding a two-legged female bug shouldn’t be that difficult, right? He didn’t believe there weren’t better female bugs than Garrett out there!

A line of text quickly popped up on the screen.
—Submission successful, matching in progress, expected to complete within seven working days.

Connor handed the smart brain back to Laura. “Is that it?”

“Yep, in seven days, the system will match you with around fifty female bugs, and then you can pick and choose!” Laura winked at Connor. “Good luck, my friend.”

“Fifty?” Connor was stunned. “Is that really how many?”

“You know how big the gender ratio gap is. This is also the Male Protection Association’s way of preventing male bugs from getting overwhelmed; otherwise, high-quality single male bugs like us would have the threshold for blind dates trampled by those female bugs!” Laura pulled out her smart brain, opened the selfie camera, posed for the lens, and winked at her reflection.

Connor: “…Stop taking pictures. You look the same no matter how many you take.”

Laura, annoyed, rushed over with her claws out: “Ahhh, Connor, I’m going to kill you!”

While they were joking around, Connor’s questionnaire had already been sent back to the Bug Marriage backend, and the platform began filtering suitable single female bugs for Connor using big data, sending out blind date invitations to the successfully matched female bugs one after another.

The shared starship sped towards the Excellence Company building. Since they had made an appointment in advance, Connor and Laura passed through without any obstacles and were directly sent to the office of the general manager, Enzo.

Sitting in a leather chair was a middle-aged female bug, impeccably dressed in a suit, with phoenix eyes and thin lips, her silver short hair neatly styled. She wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses perched on her nose, looking less like an artist and more like a strict, old-fashioned high school math teacher.

Connor knocked on the open door. “Hello, Mr. Enzo, I’m the streamer who made an appointment with you the day before yesterday.”

“Teacher Mango, right? Nice to meet you…”

The middle-aged female bug immediately stood up from her chair, but before she could finish her sentence, Enzo froze. He stared at Connor’s long black hair, stuttering, “You are a male… male bug?”

Before Connor could respond, Enzo’s gaze shifted to Laura. Without waiting for the female bug to speak, Laura stepped forward and threw a flirtatious wink at Enzo. “Nice to meet you, uncle! I’m Teacher Mango’s assistant, and I’m also a male bug.”

The middle-aged female bug, already over forty, was startled by Laura and quickly stepped back. “Please behave yourself; I already have a male partner.”

Laura immediately lost interest, pouting and muttering under her breath, “So boring.”

Connor, feeling embarrassed, quickly changed the subject. “Mr. Enzo, I received a contract invitation from your company and wanted to discuss the signing details with you.”

“Oh, oh, sure, please have a seat.” Enzo finally snapped back to reality from the shock, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead and starting to discuss business.

The middle-aged female bug looked Connor up and down and cautiously asked, “May I ask why you want to be a streamer?”

After all, male bugs generally disdain being streamers and don’t need to earn money through live streaming. There are only a handful of male bug streamers in the entire star network, mostly those who can’t provide mental comfort to lower-level male bugs.

But the male bug in front of her was tall and handsome, exuding a sense of calm and ease with every gesture, looking nothing like a lower-level male bug.

A flicker of annoyance flashed in Connor’s dark eyes as he brushed aside the stray hair by his forehead and replied coolly, “Whatever the female bug streamers do, I do too.”

Seeing that the male bug streamer immediately understood the implication of his words, Enzo felt a bit embarrassed and chuckled awkwardly. “I was being presumptuous. I’ve watched your streams; you have selling points and cute moments, and the bug design is excellent. If we can collaborate, becoming a top influencer with millions of fans is just around the corner. Actually, before you arrived, our company had already designed a detailed packaging plan for you, and the executive manager intends to invite our most experienced teacher to manage you.”

As the middle-aged female bug spoke, she projected a document onto a virtual screen.

At the top of the document, in bold font, it read “Packaging Budget: 10 Million Star Coins,” followed by a dense block of small text.

Laura gasped, whispering in shock, “Ten million!”

A satisfied smile appeared on Enzo’s face. “We didn’t expect you to be a male bug, so this packaging plan might need adjustments. The bug design we set for you is cold on the surface but gentle at heart. Considering you are a male bug, we need to find a suitable opportunity for you to reveal your true self, then shift the bug design towards a gentle male partner who respects female bugs…”

“I don’t plan to reveal my identity as a male bug; I just want to be a pet communicator and a cute pet blogger. If we collaborate, I will write this into the contract.”

Enzo’s eyes widened, looking like two round pigeon eggs.

“Huh?”

Connor ignored him, expressionless as he flipped through the packaging plan. “Also, I don’t plan to turn Xiaoxue and the others into internet celebrity cats; I intend to stream stray cats.”

The pigeon eggs instantly transformed into ostrich eggs.

“Ahhh?”

Connor closed the packaging plan and tossed the remote back into Enzo’s arms. “There are many stray cats on Ant Star. So, besides daily pet consultations, I also plan to live stream stray cats.”

Enzo’s jaw nearly dropped in shock.

You see, cute pet streamers never attract fans because of the streamer; it’s always the pets themselves. Ninety-nine percent of the viewers are there for the pets, which is why cute pet streamers are the most unstable in the streaming industry. Once a pet gets sick or even dies, they can no longer continue streaming.

Enzo’s mouth twitched. “Live streaming stray cats? How do you plan to do that? Live streaming the rescue process?”

There are indeed streamers who specialize in rescuing stray cats, focusing on the contrast before and after the rescue to satisfy viewers’ savior complexes, making the rescued pets more likely to become internet celebrities. For example, the most popular cute pet streamer in their company, Mia, gained fame by rescuing a stray dog. If a male bug wanted to go down this path, it could be feasible.

“No, if we collaborate, my main company will provide me with an apartment decorated as a cat room. I will catch five stray cats each time and put them inside, then use a secondary account to live stream them twenty-four hours a day. Every time a stray cat gets adopted, I will replace it with another stray cat.”

In fact, when Xiaoxue and the others unexpectedly became popular during the cute pet live streaming event, Connor had already had this idea, but at that time, he was too busy planning his escape to implement it.

Enzo was utterly blown away by Connor’s idea, and his attitude towards Connor shifted from a potentially cooperative streamer to a spoiled rich kid who just got lucky. He pressed his gold-rimmed glasses on his nose and spoke with a hint of sarcasm, “If that’s the case, our company might not be able to collaborate with you.”

Connor chuckled lightly, clapped his hands, and stood up from his seat. “No problem, sorry for the disturbance.”

*

“Hey, wait, you’re just going to give up on a ten million packaging budget and becoming a million-dollar influencer?” As soon as they left Enzo’s office, Laura nagged in Connor’s ear, continuing all the way to the first-floor lobby. “You can still go back and sign now.”

Connor lowered his eyes and smiled faintly, his long, thick eyelashes casting a shadow. “Star coins, I’m not lacking at the moment, so I want to stream things I enjoy. As for using my identity as a male bug, that’s out of the question.”

Before Connor could finish his sentence, a bug shadow suddenly dashed out from around the corner of the lobby. “Did you two not sign successfully? How about considering our Dream Pursuit Agency?”

“Dream Pursuit?”

Connor and Laura both froze, simultaneously seeing the confusion in each other’s eyes.

Taking advantage of their moment of daze, the bug shadow rushed in front of them and handed over a stack of materials. “This is our company’s basic introduction and my business card; you two can take a look!”

Connor finally got a good look at the bug in front of him, sporting a pink big wave hairstyle and dressed in a bright pink fashionable suit, looking just like a peach that had come to life. Fortunately, the features were delicate, and the skin was fair, especially those pitch-black, upward-turned phoenix eyes, making the bug look both beautiful and cool.

Wait, this bug’s eyes are actually black?

Before Connor could speak, the peach bug saw through his thoughts, flipping her pink waves to reveal her dark roots. “Yes, like you, I’m also a male bug. Male bugs are rare, and meeting one on Ant Star is fate. How about you two join me for a cup of coffee?”

Connor frowned slightly, about to refuse, but the peach bug had already cozily linked arms with both of them. “Come on, come on! I know a café that tastes great, just three hundred meters away. It’s on me!”

Meanwhile, hundreds of kilometers away, Andrew was negotiating with a group of military female bugs and the police officers of Ant Star.

The worker ant officer, with two antennae raised, politely said the official line, “Sorry, the police are legally obligated to protect the privacy and freedom of every legally entering bug citizen. We cannot retrieve the surveillance footage for you.”

The usually honest military female bug was blushing with anxiety. “We are subordinates of Marshal Garrett of the Bug Star, and the male bug we are looking for is Marshal Garrett’s partner.”

The worker ant maintained a polite smile. “I’m very sorry, but if it’s a missing bug case, you can contact the Bug Embassy. After obtaining permission from the Ant Star government, we will cooperate in the search.”

Just as Andrew was about to continue arguing with the worker ant, one of the military female bugs suddenly exclaimed, “Captain, I matched successfully for a blind date!”

Similar to single male bugs, single female bugs can also register on the marriage APP. However, due to the severe gender ratio imbalance, very few female bugs receive blind date invitations, making it as rare as winning the lottery.

The other military female bugs instantly shot envious and jealous glances. Andrew, who was already dealing with a pile of official business, turned around and scolded, “What blind date invitation! Don’t deal with personal bug matters during work hours!”

“No, no!” The lucky military female bug trembled as she raised her smart brain, showing the blind date invitation. “My blind date match seems to be Lord Connor.”