Her confession on graduation day had been a failure.
Shu Ning returned to her rented apartment, feeling utterly dejected.
She bought some alcohol, thinking, ‘After tonight, I’ll just forget him…’
Unsure of when she had fallen asleep, Shu Ning awoke to find herself in a cave.
The piles of junk scattered around the cave gave off a foul, rotten stench.
Shu Ning cried out in her mind, ‘Where am I?
Don’t tell me someone took advantage of me while I was drunk and trafficked me to some remote backwater?!’
“Hah.
So you’re finally awake,” a man said mockingly, looking at the just-awakened Shu Ning with disgust.
“Weren’t the three of us enough for you?
You’re taking even more husbands.
You’re really something else.”
Shu Ning pushed herself up and looked toward the source of the voice.
She soon spotted a man with what could only be described as perfect features standing at the mouth of the cave.
He had delicate features, a handsome face, and a pair of beautiful silver eyes that were currently glaring at Shu Ning, his disgust impossible to hide.
An animal hide was wrapped around his waist, revealing firm, toned muscles—not overly bulky, but clearly radiating strength.
He had broad shoulders and a narrow waist.
A necklace made of bone adorned his neck, further accentuating his handsome looks.
He was, without a doubt, the most handsome man she had ever seen in her life!
‘But why are his clothes so strange?
And his appearance is unusual, too—not quite like a modern person.’
‘What is he even talking about?
What three?
What ‘taking more husbands’?’
DUM DUM DUM…
DUM DUM…
Before Shu Ning could even process what was happening, a strange rhythmic drumming from outside suddenly pulled her back to her senses.
It sounded like some kind of celebration, which only confirmed her suspicions.
“Um, excuse me, where is this?
And who are you?” Shu Ning asked, mustering her courage.
Even though the man’s gaze was hostile, she still had to ask.
Being stared at so brazenly by Shu Ning, the disgust and anger in the man’s eyes intensified.
“What are you trying to pull now?
You don’t even remember me?
Looks like you’ve been having quite a bit of fun out there,” the man sneered coldly.
“If you hadn’t failed to show up so late, the Clan Leader wouldn’t have sent me to check on your preparations.
Did you think anyone would actually want to be here with you?!”
After speaking, the man pinched his nose in disgust and got up to leave.
“Now that you’re awake, hurry up and get over there.
Don’t keep everyone waiting.”
Leaving her with those words, the man departed without a backward glance, not wanting to stay a second longer.
Shu Ning was stunned.
‘What did he mean by that?’
She couldn’t worry about that now.
Seeing that no one was around, Shu Ning, who had seen far too many human trafficking cases online, had only one thought: escape, and fast.
But as she was about to get up, she finally noticed the changes to her own body.
“What’s going on?!” Shu Ning discovered her body had suddenly become incredibly fat.
Her limbs were thick, her waist was enormous, her hair was a tangled mess, and her fingers were stubby.
Her fingernails were so hideous they looked like they hadn’t been trimmed in a thousand years.
Her whole body felt sticky, and she could even smell the foul odor of her own sweat mixed with grease.
Ignoring the changes to her body, Shu Ning’s only desire was to flee this place as quickly as possible.
However, she hadn’t yet adapted to this new body, and as she tried to stand, she fell hard, tumbling off the stone bed.
“Hiss…” It was so painful!
She had landed head-first.
Her mind felt dizzy, and suddenly, strange images and memories flooded into her brain.
‘Isn’t this the plot of a novel I read…?’
The original owner of this body was a minor character in that novel, ugly and fat.
In the novel, her name was also Shu Ning.
The main characters of the novel only came to this Beast World by accident due to an error with their Time-Space Machine, and they left after just a few minutes.
And this world perfectly matched the description in the novel.
Beast World, tribes, rare and precious females…
The original owner’s mother was the Holy Female of the Wolf Clan Tribe and held absolute authority.
She had chosen three Beast Husbands for her daughter, each one a top-tier male with the greatest strength in the tribe.
They were all tall and incredibly handsome, but the original owner had been spoiled by her mother and held no regard for her three Beast Husbands.
Already obese and ugly, she was despised even more by her three Beast Husbands.
But the original owner wasn’t satisfied with just three.
After all, other females in the tribe had six or seven Beast Husbands, while she only had three.
So, she was determined to claim the males sent by the Fox Clan and the Jiao Clan for a political marriage as her own.
Her current three Beast Husbands already despised her, and now she was adding two more.
‘Although they are all very handsome…’
‘No!
Absolutely not!
Otherwise, I won’t even know what hit me when I die one day.’
Shu Ning suppressed her thoughts and followed the memories in her head, rushing to the Holy Pool where the wedding ceremony was being held to put a stop to this absurd wedding.
Just as she arrived at the wedding’s Holy Pool, she saw a middle-aged female walking toward her.
“Ningning, you’re finally here,” the middle-aged female said with a benevolent smile.
“Come, quickly.
Today is your big day.
We can’t miss the auspicious time,” the middle-aged female said, pulling Shu Ning by the hand.
It seemed this person was the original owner’s mother, Mu Xia, the Holy Female of the tribe.
As soon as she was pulled into a small hut constructed of grass and wood, Shu Ning planned to voice her thoughts.
“Mother, I want to…” Shu Ning began.
“Don’t you worry, Mother is here.
You haven’t washed up yet, have you?
Come.”
Before Shu Ning could speak, she immediately called an attendant to bring a piece of fur to wipe Shu Ning’s face.
It conveniently covered Shu Ning’s open mouth.
“Today is Ningning’s big day.
We have to make you look beautiful.”
Although she was much cleaner after Mu Xia’s grooming, the pimples, acne scars, and a face so swollen with fat that her eyes were squeezed shut still made Shu Ning look just as ugly.
“Mother, I have something to say,” Shu Ning said.
“Whatever it is can wait until after the ceremony.
Ningning, we can’t miss the auspicious time.”
After cleaning Shu Ning up, Mu Xia gave her no chance to speak and quickly pulled her by the hand to the ceremonial platform.
Waiting for her on the platform were two exceptionally handsome young males sent by the Fox Clan and the Jiao Clan for the political marriage.
They stood to her left and right.
Though they had been waiting for a long time, their upright postures remained unchanged.
Seeing Shu Ning’s extremely obese and ugly appearance, both men frowned in surprise.
‘This can’t be our female, can it?!’
The disgust and revulsion in their eyes were instantly revealed, and their hearts filled with resistance.
The crowd below, however, had no such patience.
Murmurs of complaint rose from among them.
“What’s taking so long?”
“Seriously.
How does someone that ugly deserve males like them?”
“Yeah, on what grounds?”
“Just you wait.
So what if they’re hers?
With that temper of hers, they’ll just end up despising her like her other three Beast Husbands do!”
“…”
Listening to the discussions from below the stage, Shu Ning felt a sourness in her heart.
‘But…
this isn’t what I want!’
Shu Ning tried to find her other Beast Husbands to see their expressions.
According to custom, the existing Beast Husbands were required to attend their female’s wedding ceremony and complete the corresponding rituals with the new Beast Husbands, symbolizing a harmonious welcome for the newcomers.
But Shu Ning scanned the area and couldn’t find them anywhere.
Shu Ning looked at the two males who were about to become her Beast Husbands, walked between them, and was just about to speak.
“I—”
“Let the ceremony begin—” the High Priest shouted.
As the auspicious time was about to pass, the High Priest could not allow any mistakes.
He didn’t even wait for Shu Ning’s other Beast Husbands and quickly started the ceremony.
Immediately, three attendants came forward.
They approached each of the three, took their hands, and slit their fingers with a sharp animal bone, letting the blood drip into a bone cup filled with fruit juice.
Then, they poured the juice mixed with the blood of all three onto an animal bone inscribed with primitive characters.
“The ritual is complete—” the High Priest announced again.
The entire sequence of the ritual was executed with fluid grace, completed before Shu Ning even had a chance to speak.
So fast—