"Qiao Suluo, you are nothing but a fake heiress who stole another’s nest. Everyone despises you. You don’t deserve excellent Beast Husbands at all.
"We’ve swapped your fiances for these five Beast Husbands. Although they’re useless trash with either broken wings or crippled legs, they suit you perfectly.
"Trash naturally belongs with a useless fake heiress.
"Take them and get the hell back to your lowly Cat Clan Tribe.
"A useless fool dragging along five crippled Beast Husbands back to that remote countryside tribe... Who knows if she’ll even survive, haha..."
While sleeping, Qiao Suluo involuntarily dreamed of many such scenes, trapping her in a nightmare she couldn’t wake from.
RUMBLE! A deafening crash echoed out.
A bolt of lightning struck down from the sky, landing directly on the unconscious female beast lying on the floor inside the house. The female beast seemed to stop breathing for a split second. Immediately following that, Qiao Suluo slowly woke up.
"Wife, please strike... Cough, cough..." A cold, clear voice, chiming like striking jade, suddenly rang out in the darkness.
Having just woken up, Qiao Suluo was still in a daze, thinking she was dreaming. Startled by the voice, she followed the sound. In the flashing light of the thunderstorm, she saw a breathtakingly beautiful man covered in bloody scars.
His features were picturesque, boasting an exquisite and flawless face with an ethereal, gentle temperament. With a light cough, a trace of blood seeped from the corner of his mouth, staining his lips like rouge and making him look like a bloodthirsty night demon.
He had a tall, elegant figure and cool, pale skin. His long, ink-black hair half-concealed his face, creating an extreme visual contrast of black and white that made him look simultaneously immortal and demonic. He was kneeling on the floor, bare-chested, revealing perfect eight-pack abs. He looked lean but exuded a sexy, powerful strength.
If one could ignore the various scars and bloodstains all over his torso, he would truly be perfect. The blood on his chest slid down his V-line, shocking Qiao Suluo so much that her face turned pale.
"S-strike?" Still disoriented from her transmigration, Qiao Suluo stuttered, not knowing where to put her hands. She tried hard to avert her gaze from his bare upper body. Having grown up in a technological era with all her energy focused on culinary arts, she had never experienced a scene like this.
Que Hongjin looked at Qiao Suluo and put down the tray he was holding up. The tray was filled with long, thick needles. "It seems Wife is dissatisfied with these."
He picked up a pile of tools from the side and offered them to Qiao Suluo. "Please choose, Wife. Hong Jin can endure it."
Qiao Suluo was momentarily stunned. Then, seeing what the pile of tools actually were, her face instantly turned beet red. What... what kind of taboo items were these?! Ahhhh...
Terrified, Qiao Suluo immediately took a step back. She had been a law-abiding citizen back in her modern era! Where on earth was this place?
At that moment, a mechanical voice rang out in Qiao Suluo’s mind. "Host, please remain calm. You are currently a vicious female beast. You need to redeem yourself and become a little sun capable of healing the blackened Beast Husbands. As long as you heal them and prevent them from succumbing to darkness, this world will survive, and you will be able to live a good life.
"So, don’t be afraid, Host. Go get them!"
Listening to the mechanical voice, Qiao Suluo finally realized what had happened. To create more delicious dishes, she had gone into the wild to forage for authentic ingredients, only to accidentally be struck by lightning. At that time, a similar voice had echoed in her head. It had babbled something about going to an ancient Beast World to save blackened Beast Husbands, and how healing their bodies and minds would save the entire Beast World. Only by doing so could she survive.
It had forcibly implanted a lot of information into her head. She had assumed it was a damn hallucination—she never expected she was actually dead!
Qiao Suluo’s mouth twitched. "Go get what? I’m not going to get anyone."
She asked inwardly, "First, tell me who he is."
The system replied, "He is Que Hongjin, a Peacock Beastman. Originally, he held a noble status as the heir to the Peacock Family. However, after his wings were broken and his abilities were crippled, he became an abandoned pawn. He was treated like trash and shoved off to you as a Beast Husband. Rest assured, he has not had any intimate contact with the original owner of this body.
"The original owner despised him for being useless and abused him all day long, treating him as her punching bag."
Hearing these words, the original owner’s memories suddenly flooded into Qiao Suluo’s mind. Suddenly, she understood everything.
In this world, female beasts were scarce while male beasts were abundant. It was an ancient Beast World with a polyandrous society. The Beastmen had transitioned from a primitive society to a feudal one, possessing a certain level of civilization akin to backward ancient times. The only difference was that female beasts took husbands, and a single female beast could marry multiple Beast Husbands.
After this body was exposed as a fake heiress, her original marriage contracts were annulled. She was forcibly shoved with five breathtakingly beautiful yet crippled Beast Husbands and kicked out of her family. Left with nowhere to live, the original owner had no choice but to take her five crippled Beast Husbands back to the countryside tribe where her biological parents lived.
Likely filled with extreme resentment, the original owner had constantly abused the five Beast Husbands. Over the past two days, the original owner had coincidentally heard news from the Capital City. Learning that the male beast she loved had married the true heiress, she went mad with jealousy and returned just to torture Que Hongjin. All the wounds and bloodstains on his body had been inflicted by her predecessor.
After digesting a portion of the memories, Qiao Suluo looked at Que Hongjin’s shocking injuries and asked the system in a low voice, "Do I have a cheat ability?
"Can I heal his injuries?"
Didn’t all transmigrators get massive cheats? Otherwise, how was she supposed to heal anyone?
The system answered, "Host, for now, you only have the Space Mall. You can sell items in the Space Mall to accumulate points, and you can also use those points to purchase and redeem items from it.
"If you want to buy medicine, you must purchase it from the Space Mall."
Speechless, Qiao Suluo asked, "So if I need medicine, I either have to buy it in this world or get it from the Space Mall?"
"That is correct."
Qiao Suluo wanted to go on strike and refuse the job. "There’s no way to redeem myself like this."
"Host, don’t back down. You still have three other Beast Husbands. A Dog Night Beastman with broken legs was sold by you to the Medicine King Valley. A fox Beast Husband with severed tails was sold to the Nanfeng Building. And a Snake Beast was sold to the underground auction house. They are on the verge of turning evil. You’d better hurry up, earn some money, and redeem them. Otherwise, if you’re too late, they will all succumb to darkness.
"And this world will subsequently collapse."
Qiao Suluo wanted to shut herself away from the world. "I can’t do this task. Let it collapse."
Seeing the host react this way, the system hurriedly urged, "Host, you were carefully selected and bound to me! You can definitely do this! To ensure the mission proceeds smoothly, I’ve prepared a novice gift pack for you. It contains medicine that you can use to treat Que Hongjin’s injuries first."
...
At this moment, Que Hongjin’s gentle yet stunning eyes were staring deeply at Qiao Suluo. Even though he was kneeling, he exuded an overwhelmingly strong sense of oppression. His eyes carried an extreme aura of danger, as if he might swallow her whole at any given second.
He spoke in a clear, cold tone. "Perhaps Wife is dissatisfied with all of these.
"Then Wife can use this knife to stab Hong Jin. Perhaps that will appease your anger... Cough, cough..."
As he spoke, Que Hongjin produced a dagger from nowhere and offered it to Qiao Suluo, though he was careful not to touch her. Perhaps due to his discomfort, he coughed continuously while speaking, yet his voice remained incredibly pleasing to the ear.