IHNMSL Chapter 12

“Your Highness, Lord Hevia has instructed that you are not allowed to go out for the time being.”

Even though the captain of the guard deeply sympathized with the little Male Bug’s situation, an order was an order.

Having met with a rebuff, Yao had no choice but to return to his room in disappointment.

Having finally caught Yao to deliver to the Duke, Hevia was extremely cautious and would not allow Yao any chance to escape again.

Yao, with his movements restricted, felt very melancholic.

He had suddenly disappeared without leaving any message, leaving without saying goodbye. He was done for… Chen Xing would definitely see him as a scumbag Bug who played with emotions.

The place where Yao was confined was Hevia’s private villa on Central Star, which was tightly guarded. Not even a fly could get in without a pass.

“Thanks to your cooperation, we were able to find Little Yao so quickly and smoothly.”

In the office, Hevia said in a businesslike manner, “Don’t worry, the military surveillance footage that was retrieved has been completely destroyed and will not leak any military secrets.”

“I still don’t know your name after all this time. I will definitely praise your performance to the General.”

Praise?

Daina’s expression was as if he had swallowed a fly, disgusted. “There’s no need, Mr. Hevia. My name is Daina, and I am Chris the General’s adopted son. I hope you still remember that name.”

Abandoning his critically ill male parent, abandoning him before he had even hatched, how could Hevia live with such peace of mind?

Daina had grown up being called a bastard. He had no female parent, and he didn’t even know who his female parent was. His male parent kept the name of his female parent a secret.

The expensive private hospital, the male parent tormented by illness on the hospital bed, had almost become an indelible childhood shadow for Daina.

He remembered that the private hospital only provided treatment for high-level Male Bugs of A-grade and above. The Male Bugs who could receive treatment were either rich or noble, except for his male parent, who was an exception.

A D-grade male parent living in a special care ward, rumors inevitably floated into young Daina’s ears every day.

On Central Star, there were not a few high-level Female Bugs with power and influence who kept lower-level Male Bugs.

[Tsk, tsk, tsk! This sugar mama is still conscientious, at least she gave a large breakup fee before finding a new lover, otherwise the Male Bug would have died long ago.]

[For Bugs like them, things that can be solved with money are nothing.]

[Not very conscientious, is she? She doesn’t even want her own child, throwing it to a Male Bug who is about to die to take care of, how cold-blooded.]

[That’s right, that’s right, not caring at all. I couldn’t bear to treat my own Bug cub like that.]

[Just playing around, how much affection can there be…]

“They say your male parent is just a prostitute, disgusting!” The little Bug cubs in the neighboring ward always threw things at Daina from a distance, avoiding him as if he had germs.

“That’s not true!” His gentle male parent would never be that kind of Bug. His father had said that they were clearly in a normal, loving relationship.

Without thinking, he rushed up and wrestled with the little Bug cubs who insulted his male parent.

“You’re not allowed to insult my father.”

The seemingly weak Daina used brute force to press the little Bug cubs to the ground and beat them until they cried miserably, until finally he was grabbed by the collar by the other party’s parents and thrown into the pool.

“As expected, you’re an uneducated Bug, just like your male parent, cheap.”

At that moment, Daina hated the world and even more hated his irresponsible biological female parent.

So, when he used special means to investigate the name of the Female Bug on his birth record—Hevia—a seed of revenge was planted in Daina’s heart.

“You are Daina?” Hevia’s tone, aside from a hint of surprise at the beginning, quickly calmed down.

Without a trace of shame or regret, Hevia was indifferent to all Bugs except Will.

Cold, as if he weren’t his own child. Despite being mentally prepared, Daina only felt ironic. What was he hoping for?

“Executive Officer, you abandoned your own biological child, but ran to the larva garden to humbly please a Bug cub who has no blood relationship with you.”

Daina’s resentment grew heavier.

“Enough! Don’t involve Yao, it has nothing to do with him,” Hevia’s face darkened.

The male parent who jumped from the twenty-ninth floor to commit suicide, Hevia didn’t care. But as soon as Yao was mentioned, as soon as his beloved current male master was mentioned, he immediately became vigilant and showed his claws. Daina hated Hevia like this.

Why was this Bug his female parent?

Daina left angrily. When he reached the garden, he suddenly said to the shadows, “Don’t hide.”

“Bro… Brother…” Yao looked at Daina nervously, stammering, the music box in his hand falling to the ground.

“How much did you hear?”

“I didn’t mean to eavesdrop. I wanted to give this to Brother…” Yao picked up the music box on the ground. “This is a video I recorded when I won first place in a piano competition. Brother said he wanted to hear it last time.”

“Is Brother really Hevia Father’s child? Is there some misunderstanding?”

This matter was shocking enough for Yao. In his opinion, Hevia was responsible and serious, would read him storybooks, teach him to read and draw, and was the best female parent possible.

“Responsible? Misunderstanding?”

“How could a young master like you, who grew up in a honeypot, understand?”

Everyone praised him, indulged him, surrounded him with flowers and applause, and his greatest annoyance was nothing more than being criticized softly by his elders, who couldn’t bear to say even a harsh word, while he could only grow up amidst contempt and sidelong glances.

Daina regretted it as soon as he said it. He didn’t want to hurt Yao, who was the child of his respected adoptive father, Chris.

What’s more, having been called “brother” by the little Male Bug for so many years, Daina had long regarded Yao as his own younger brother.

“Can Brother not hate me? I never thought of snatching Brother’s female parent…” Yao carefully handed over the music box.

Speaking of snatching female parents, Daina remembered saying the same thing to Yao.

Chris spent far more energy on cultivating Daina than on Yao, and Daina almost exclusively enjoyed the huge amount of resources.

Daina’s name was also written as the heir to Chris’s industry.

Daina had worried that Yao would hate him for this, but what he didn’t expect was that Yao never cared. On the contrary, he was extremely happy to have a brother.

Daina sometimes thought that Yao was a small Male Bug who was missing a few screws and liked to deceive himself.

He wasn’t angry that Chris was too busy to participate in his coming-of-age ceremony, and he learned to deceive himself, self-comforting himself that it was enough as long as his female parent had him in his heart.

Did he really not notice Chris’s perfunctoriness towards him?

Not necessarily, Yao always used the excuse that “Chris doesn’t have custody of him” to comfort himself, but in fact, he also vaguely sensed it in his heart.

Daina sometimes felt that Yao was pitying him for not having a biological female parent or male parent, so he didn’t seem to care much about Chris preferring his adopted son.

“It’s okay, Brother is very powerful and is more like a female parent than me.”

Compared to the weak himself, Yao felt from the bottom of his heart that Bugs like Daina, who were brave and unyielding, were more qualified to be the children of a female parent.