Chapter Summaries

During Su Lin’s bloodline examination, Medises stripped and examined him, then used a bloodline summoning procedure that revealed Su Lin belonged to Dew Nest, a servant colony affiliated with Blood Wing. The discovery unsettled the other Zerg in the room, while Su Lin remained confused about what his newly revealed colony status meant.

• Medises held Su Lin in a levitation device and cut apart the coat Carlos had left for him.
• Medises recorded that Su Lin had no visible or hidden colony markings and carried pheromones from the Pale Calamity colony.
• Medises examined Su Lin with special instruments and recited data about his body.
• Medises pierced Su Lin’s chest and performed a bloodline summoning procedure.
• Medises revealed that Su Lin bore the mark of Dew Nest, a servant colony of Blood Wing, surprising the other Zerg present.

Medises claimed the Dew Nest larva Su Lin, whom Carlos had brought back from a human research institute, despite the larva carrying Carlos’s scent. The chapter left Su Lin in agony as Medises seized him and bit into his neck.

• The Zerg learned that the Dew Nest, long believed extinct, had survived as a larva found by Carlos in a ruined human research institute.
• Medises declared that ownership of the larva would transfer to him, while a subordinate warned that Carlos might object because Su Lin bore his scent.
• Medises dismissed the claim that Su Lin was Carlos’s honey bug and turned his attention to Su Lin.
• Su Lin tried to placate Medises by using the same pitiful expression that had once softened He Zisen.
• Medises grabbed Su Lin by the hair and bit into his neck, drawing blood and leaving Su Lin trembling in pain.

Medises claimed Su Lin as his property and ordered him taken to the Security Committee’s main ship, where he would be kept in Medises’s private quarters. As Medises started to leave, Su Lin hurried after him, fell into his arms, and called him “Senior.”

• Medises overwhelmed the Zerg in the examination room with his pheromones and ordered them to notify Carlos Pale Calamity.
• The other Zerg left, leaving Medises alone with the injured Su Lin.
• Medises ordered Su Lin released from restraint and assigned him to his private quarters under the Blood Wing colony’s protection protocol.
• Su Lin followed Medises as he turned to leave, stumbled, and fell into his embrace.
• Su Lin looked up at Medises and called him “Senior.”

Su Lin tried to convince himself that Medises was He Zisen, even as Medises rejected his claims and treated him as a servant. After Medises ordered his wound treated and left, Su Lin concluded that his behavior still gave him reason to suspect the truth.

• Su Lin, dazed by the pheromones in his body, clung to Medises and called him Senior.
• Medises told Su Lin to address him as Master, accused him of trying to seduce Carlos, and revealed his frightening original form.
• Su Lin called Medises Master, then insisted he had only lost his balance after reopening his wound.
• Medises ordered the bionic tentacles to treat Su Lin's wound and left the examination room.
• Su Lin accepted treatment and reasoned that Medises was probably He Zisen, since he had neither acknowledged the name Senior nor overlooked Su Lin's Zerg-human nature.

Su Lin accepted Medises as He Zisen and passed out after deciding his senior might help him survive and return to the human world. In a meeting, Carlos confronted Medises over taking Su Lin, and Medises challenged Carlos’s claim that Su Lin was his responsibility.

• Su Lin concluded that Medises was He Zisen and hoped he would forgive him and send him back to the human world to see Airena.
• Su Lin relaxed and fell unconscious.
• Carlos objected to Medises taking a larva under his jurisdiction from the Pale Calamity.
• Medises cleared the meeting room so he could speak with Carlos alone.
• Medises accused Carlos of using pheromone fluid to make Su Lin seem like his honey bug.
• Carlos said Su Lin was not his honey bug but remained his responsibility because he had rescued him from humans and Su Lin had lost his memory.

Carlos tried to bargain with Medises for Su Lin, but Medises refused and declared Su Lin his. Carlos returned to his command room shaken by Su Lin’s scent on Medises, while Hill warned that the Blood Wings’ addiction to Dew Nest honey put Su Lin in grave danger.

• Carlos offered Medises three kilograms of benzoin spice for ownership of Su Lin, but Medises refused and reminded him that Dew Nest belonged to Blood Wing.
• Medises told Carlos that Su Lin was his and warned that Carlos should focus on surviving the coming selection of a new lord.
• Carlos struggled to control his mental power after detecting Su Lin’s scent mingled with Medises’s pheromones.
• Hill confronted Carlos for failing to get Su Lin back, then revealed that Blood Wings were addicted to Dew Nest honey and that Medises might drain Su Lin dry.
• After leaving Carlos, Hill felt increasingly annoyed and found his own mental power becoming unstable.

Carlos asked Ariel to help retrieve a low-ranking Dew Nest larva from Medises Blood Wing, and Ariel agreed. After losing consciousness, Su Lin dreamed of his school days with He Zisen, who discovered a pink confession letter in his schoolbag.

• Carlos felt disturbed by Hill’s words about the Blood Wings and contacted Ariel through a private channel.
• Carlos asked Ariel to get a Dew Nest larva back from Medises Blood Wing and offered his life as payment.
• Ariel agreed to help Carlos and asked him to go easy on his first attack if he was ever sent to hunt Ariel.
• Su Lin dreamed of being back at Border High School with He Zisen after Medises had bitten him before he passed out.
• He Zisen found a pink envelope in Su Lin’s schoolbag, called it foul-smelling, and Su Lin awkwardly agreed.

He Zisen opened a holographic letter containing an explicit message, and Su Lin fell into his arms as He Zisen destroyed it. Years later, Su Lin woke in a Zerg cabin wearing shackles and found He Zisen entering, so he called him “Master.”

• He Zisen opened the envelope, revealing an explicit holographic recording from an unknown boy.
• Su Lin laughed at the recording, then fell into He Zisen's arms as he reached for the letter.
• He Zisen crumbled the letter and called it disgusting, a memory that stayed with Su Lin for years.
• Su Lin woke in a cold biological cabin with healed bite marks, lingering weakness, and shackles on his wrists and ankles.
• He Zisen entered the room, and Su Lin caught himself calling him “Senior” and addressed him as “Master” instead.

Su Lin tried to appease Medises by acting like a servant, but Medises took his clumsy advances as seduction and pinned him down. When Medises crushed Su Lin’s sensitive wings, Su Lin realized the Zerg before him no longer looked at him like the senior he remembered.

• Medises questioned whether Su Lin had been as obedient to Carlos and demanded that he act like a servant Zerg.
• Su Lin awkwardly tried to remove Medises’s coat and offered to massage his shoulders and back.
• Medises pinned Su Lin to the floor and accused him of doing anything for personal gain.
• Su Lin’s wings were crushed beneath him, causing him intense pain.
• Su Lin looked into Medises’s eyes and realized they were unlike the clear, detached eyes of the Senior He he remembered.

Su Lin tried to calm the hostile Medises by apologizing and calling him Senior He, his former classmate. Medises accepted that Su Lin recognized him, but after Su Lin mentioned his sensitive fledgling wings, Medises picked him up and tore open his clothes to inspect them.

• Su Lin recognized the intense look in Medises's eyes and feared he was in danger.
• Su Lin apologized to Medises and insisted he had always known him as Senior He.
• Medises told Su Lin it was too late to apologize, though he acknowledged the apology.
• Su Lin stroked Medises's insect limb and complained that the fledgling wings on his back were painfully sensitive.
• Medises changed the limb into a human arm, picked Su Lin up, and tore open his clothes to examine his wings.

Medises explained that he was an S-rank Zerg sent to infiltrate human territory, then demanded to know why Su Lin had entered the empire in such a vulnerable form. He revealed that Su Lin would have had almost no chance of surviving discovery, and that he had rushed to the screening room after sensing a strange fragrance.

• Su Lin thanked Medises for helping with his wings and avoided asking why he had become a Zerg.
• Medises introduced himself as Medises Blood Wing, a senior inspector and candidate for the next Blood Wing lord.
• Medises said the empire had sent him to infiltrate the human world because his strength gave him a strong chance of escaping if discovered.
• Medises asked why Su Lin had infiltrated the empire in a form so weak that he had less than a one percent chance of escaping the Zerg.
• Medises recalled that he had gone to the bloodline screening room after sensing a faint fragrance and realized Su Lin might have been tortured if he had not arrived.

Medises confronted Su Lin over his transformation, while Su Lin tried to hide that he carried Zerg mother genes. Medises blamed Professor Xue Yao for making Su Lin half human and half Zerg, and recalled seeing Xue Yao question Su Lin during a past mission.

• Medises admitted that he had considered killing Su Lin, then kept his thoughts about consuming him to himself.
• Su Lin gave Medises a vague answer and tried to conceal his Zerg mother genes.
• Medises accused Xue Yao of turning Su Lin into a half-human, half-Zerg experimental subject for a dangerous mission.
• Su Lin wondered how Medises knew about Professor Xue Yao and his connection to Xingchuan University.
• Medises recalled watching Xue Yao ask Su Lin why he worked so hard at research he did not like.

Su Lin asked Medises to help him return to the human world after learning that Xue Yao had modified his Zerg genes with unknown species. Medises promised to find a solution and placed Su Lin in a healing pod, leaving Su Lin to wonder whether his senior was still watching him.

• Su Lin told Medises that he had never intended to infiltrate the Zerg and asked whether his Dew Nest genes made him safe.
• Medises revealed that Xue Yao had likely used modified genes from unknown Zerg species and said Xue Yao had not considered Su Lin's safety.
• Su Lin asked Medises to send him back to the human world, and Medises promised to find a way to solve his situation.
• Medises placed Su Lin in an A-grade healing pod to treat the strain from his modified genes and protect his newly formed wings.

Xue Yao told a senior adviser that the Zerg attack on Research Institute No. 37 was unlikely to have been caused by its Queen-clone fragments, while the adviser sought to learn whether war would resume. Xue Yao made a small mistake in his work as the adviser pressed him about the attack.

• A senior adviser asked Xue Yao whether the Zerg had attacked Research Institute No. 37 because it held fragments of a Zerg Queen's remains.
• Xue Yao said the institute had only possessed fragments of a clone.
• Xue Yao's assistant explained that the Zerg had created many flawed Queen clones and treated them as valuable scrap.
• The adviser noted that the Royal Court Guard had destroyed the institute and asked whether the incident meant war with the Zerg would resume.
• Xue Yao made a small mistake in his work as the adviser continued discussing the institute's destruction.

Xue Yao kept working after hearing about Research Institute No. 37’s destruction and left a daily cake offering beside a keepsake. Aboard the Security Committee’s spaceship, Su Lin craved barbecue and beer while struggling with a strange sweet scent in Medises’s cabin.

• Xue Yao’s quiet snort frightened his assistant, who hurriedly led a panicked adviser out of the lab.
• The assistant recalled that Xue Yao had asked how to pay tribute to someone without a gravestone, and the assistant had suggested leaving favorite things by a keepsake.
• The assistant saw a fresh cake offering placed before a cheap star-shaped stone on Xue Yao’s desk.
• Su Lin drank tasteless nutrients aboard the Security Committee’s spaceship and longed for barbecue and beer.
• Su Lin wondered about the sweet fragrance in Medises’s cabin, which made him dizzy and brought back memories of working with Professor Xue Yao at university.

Su Lin struggled to stomach nutrient solution aboard the Security Committee’s ship until Medises explained it would help disguise his scent from high-ranking Zerg. Su Lin cooperated and hoped Medises would send him back to the human world, where he could ask Professor Xue Yao to separate him from the Zerg Queen.

• Su Lin remembered how Xue Yao had fed him cake and then made him eat cake throughout the following semester.
• Su Lin complained that the nutrient solution tasted awful and asked Medises whether the Zerg had more normal food.
• Medises explained that the nutrient solution would make Su Lin smell more like a Zerg and help hide his human-Zerg nature from high-ranking Zerg aboard the ship.
• Su Lin drank the nutrient solution in large gulps and decided to rely on Medises until he could return to the human world.

Medises examined Su Lin’s wings after making him drink an unmarked nutrient solution, and found no signs of rejection or damage. Su Lin was relieved that his condition remained stable and hoped his body would not develop further Zerg traits.

• Medises took Su Lin’s empty nutrient solution pouch and reached for his wings.
• Su Lin resisted until Medises explained that underdeveloped wings could become necrotic and that standard treatment could involve removing them, then offered to expose his wings himself.
• Su Lin spread the tips of his wings while Medises examined them without touching him.
• Medises said Su Lin’s wings showed no rejection and had developed normally despite the previous day’s impact.
• Su Lin pulled on his shirt and buttoned it, relieved that his body seemed stable.

Su Lin worried about the changes to his wings, then tried to evade Medises's questions by praising his gentleness. When Medises asked whether Su Lin liked him, Su Lin gave an earnest answer, and Medises handed him a chip to use with his wristband so he could move safely around the spaceship.

• Su Lin noticed that his wings had become stronger, more supple, and more sensitive, and wondered whether the change came from a mutation or special modifications to the Zerg queen specimen.
• Su Lin told Medises that he had become gentler, and Medises asked whether Su Lin liked him that way.
• Su Lin said he liked Medises both as he had been in high school and as he was now, despite Medises being a Zerg.
• Medises gave Su Lin a chip and instructed him to insert it into his wristband, which marked him as a slave Zerg and protected him from the spaceship's defenses.
• Su Lin accepted the wristband after Medises explained that it was necessary for his safety aboard the ship.

Su Lin learned that Medises had assigned him the job of librarian instead of making him Medises’s personal source of honey. As Medises escorted him to the library, Su Lin grew anxious about other Zerg watching him, and Medises leaned close to his neck.

• Su Lin saw his bracelet display his assigned position as librarian.
• The narration revealed that Medises had considered assigning Su Lin as his exclusive source of honey before choosing the librarian job instead.
• Medises escorted Su Lin to the ship’s library, where other Zerg watched them as they passed.
• Su Lin worried that the Zerg had detected something unusual about his scent and called Medises “master” in public.
• Medises told Su Lin to ignore the watching Zerg, then hooked a finger into his collar and leaned close to his neck.

Medises realized Su Lin’s Dew Nest scent was attracting Blood Wings and injected him with pheromone fluid to mask it with his own scent. Su Lin recovered from the dizzying injection in Medises’s arms, now carrying Medises’s distinctive scent.

• Medises explained that Su Lin’s nutrient solution reproduced the Dew Nest scent, which strongly enticed Blood Wings.
• Medises told Su Lin he would inject him with pheromone fluid so other Blood Wings would recognize him as already claimed.
• Su Lin asked Medises to be gentle, and Medises carefully injected pheromone fluid into his neck.
• Su Lin smelled Medises’s distinctive scent and felt dizzy and overwhelmed by the pheromones.
• Su Lin gradually recovered in Medises’s arms and touched the numb puncture on his neck.