Chapter 1: Eavesdropping on Her Thoughts

Su Mo opened her eyes and heard a series of alluring gasps.

There was also a faint sound of iron chains clinking.

Her blurry vision met a pair of sinister, fierce eyes, and she involuntarily shuddered.

Though his face was stunningly handsome, his gaze was vicious, as if he wanted to kill…

Lower down, his pecs, abs, broad shoulders and narrow waist were perfect!

At this moment the man was almost naked—only a black cloth covered his loins…

Hmm, somewhat inappropriate for minors.

Su Mo blushed and looked away.

What's going on? Am I dreaming?

She just stayed up late reading a beastmen story, and ended up dreaming of such an intense scene?!

The man snapped angrily: "Su Mo! Even if you feed me that stuff, I'll never want you! I'm calling off the engagement!"

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Su Mo fell silent for a moment, her mind racing, and then she suddenly understood.

She'd transmigrated into a book?!

Was it the beastmen story she'd stayed up reading yesterday?!

Su Mo? That's just the namesake cannon‑fodder female—delicate yet wild and selfish. At marriageable age no beastman wanted her, and she instantly became the town's laughingstock.

In a rage, her father the town mayor forced her to marry several outstanding male beastmen nearby, making all the town's females jealous.

The original protagonist was already brainless, and the ill‑meaning females kept egging her on to pull off shocking, bizarre feats, making those beast husbands hate her even more.

Today's incident was also stirred up by a few females who secretly said her fiancé Mo Xiao had taken a liking to a female from the neighboring village and was about to break off the engagement.

Unwilling to accept this, the original protagonist resorted to a risky move, hoping to consummate the relationship with Mo Xiao.

Although this is the beast world, such despicable tactics are still shameful.

According to the original plot, soon someone would bring her other fiancé beast husbands to catch her in the act.

Her several beast husbands then used this excuse to successively break off their engagements with her.

The original protagonist, resentful over this, eventually died depressed and alone.

Su Mo looked at the man beneath her—his black hair disheveled, his dark‑blue robe carelessly tossed aside, his crimson eyes blazing with fury as he glared at her.

"If you dare force me, everyone will laugh at you! I'll never let you off either!"

His tone thick with killing intent made Su Mo shudder.

Right, in the original book those fiancés of hers were all the strongest villains.

Especially this Mo Xiao—his temperament is unfathomably unpredictable, ruthless and vengeful.

The original protagonist later died depressed and alone, which may well have been connected to him.

Mo Xiao's hands and feet, bound by iron chains, had veins bulging.

The expression on his face seemed to be at the limit of endurance.

Black scales began to appear on his chest, gradually revealing his true form.

His crimson eyes, poison‑sharp, locked onto her as he let out a repressed, angry growl.

Su Mo frowned. In the book, wasn't it said he could control the drug's effect with his ability, or was he deliberately waiting for the crowd to come and embarrass the original protagonist?

What's going on now? Could it be that I accidentally gave too much?!

Mo Xiao gritted his teeth and snarled, "Give me the antidote! Otherwise I'll make you wish you were dead!"

Seeing those man‑eating eyes, Su Mo instinctively fumbled in her pocket and said, "I… I don't have any antidote!"

Mo Xiao, teeth clenched and breathing hard, said, "You vile female, you're just after this, aren't you? Fine—if you die here, you'll have deserved it!"

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Su Mo's eyes widened.

【Psycho! Which ear heard me say I wanted that?!】

【Mating with snakes takes three to four hours of entanglement—is this grudge‑fuck or a strangulation game…? Lady, I value my life!!】

For a moment, Mo Xiao wondered if he was hallucinating.

Where did that voice come from?!

The next second, Su Mo felt the snake tail coiled around her leg loosen a bit.

Just as Su Mo was about to step on the snake tail, Mo Xiao suddenly tightened his grip.

In the midst of despair: "Ding—"

"Congratulations, host, you have successfully bound with Xiao Jiu."

System?!

Su Mo let out a fierce sigh of relief—finally, heaven had not left her without a way out!

She communicated with Xiao Jiu via consciousness: "Quick! Give me a pill to calm this snake down!"

At this moment Mo Xiao's snake tail was coiling tighter and tighter, creeping upward…

The surging drug effect in his body left Mo Xiao with no energy to think of anything else.

Xiao Jiu: "Host, you can redeem a Newbie Gift Pack in the System Space to obtain a Detox Pill!"

Su Mo immediately summoned the panel in her mind, redeemed the Newbie Gift Pack, and obtained a Detox Pill.

The next second, Mo Xiao jerked hard, throwing her onto the grass, then loomed over her from the side.

He spat hatefully: "Su Mo, you're looking for death yourself!"

At the critical moment, Su Mo accurately slipped the pill into his mouth!

Then she reached out, pinched his jaw, and forced him to swallow: "Antidote!"

Mo Xiao's sharp teeth knocked Su Mo's finger, leaving a tiny wound.

Su Mo only felt a sting in her fingertip, but she had no mind to worry about these details now.

As Mo Xiao swallowed, Su Mo felt the force controlling her loosen; she shoved the person on top of her away and fled far.

Su Mo looked at Mo Xiao as the redness faded, her heart still pounding: "The medicine is already given to you; from now on we'll keep to our own wells and rivers, go our separate ways..."

Before she could finish, a rustling of footsteps came from outside.

Soon the people of the tribe surrounded Su Mo and Mo Xiao.

Su Mo despaired… the great social death scene had finally arrived……

The medicine's effect on Mo Xiao wore off; he easily broke free of the iron chains, picked up the nearby clothes and quickly put them on.

The females in the crowd greedily swept their gazes over that hint of male beauty.

Someone pointed at Su Mo and shouted: "Everyone saw, Su Mo intends something improper toward Mo Xiao! So shameless!"

"Pah, how could a female do such a thing? Despicable!!!"

A male Beastman said: "I smell the Love-inducing Flower; she used it on Mo Xiao!"

Priest Fei Yan furrowed his brows, looked at the gloomy-faced Mo Xiao aside, and asked: "Is that so?"

Su Mo recognized that bird; it was one of her fiancés.

As High Priest, Scarlet Face usually manages the tribe's marriages, rituals, and other affairs, and also observes the stars to predict the future.

Beastmen with some ability always regard themselves as lofty; especially Fei Yan, who still has some authority, looks down on the Original Protagonist, an insignificant cannon fodder.

The three Beastmen standing behind Fei Yan are also her fiancés, each handsome in his own way, but to the Original Protagonist they are just cold-faced Yama kings.

At this moment they all wore the look of watching a good show, staring at Su Mo.

Like Mo Xiao, they all wanted to break the engagement.

Only see Mo Xiao's disdainful gaze sweep over Su Mo, coldly saying: "I want to break the engagement!"

In the Beast World, a female being publicly demanded to break engagement is a great disgrace.

The females among the Beastmen already openly mocked.

"Su Mo, being a female to this extent is also embarrassing!"

"High Priest, for a shameless female like Su Mo, not only should we rule that she and Mo Xiao break engagement, but best to send her to Lao Shen Shan for reform, to set an example!"

Su Mo startled, Lao Shen Shan?

Isn't that place just a primitive forest? It has miasma; one careless step and you could die.

Those who went there before hardly ever came back alive.

These people are too vicious; they want her to die!

No, I'd rather scrape by than easily go to death.

Su Mo's eyes shifted, and she immediately showed a frightened, terrified expression.

Her slender body trembled like a sieve, she sobbed: "Fei Yan, I just made a mistake in a moment of confusion; seeing as it's my first offense, please spare me once..."

Fei Yan's clear, cold gaze swept over Su Mo, with undisguised dislike lurking in his eyes.

He looked at Mo Xiao and asked in a cold voice: "What do you say?"

Mo Xiao's tone was heavy: "I want to break off the engagement with her!"

"Someone gloated: "A female who's been dumped will find it hard to get a Beast Husband later~"

"That's what she deserves."

In the Beast World, after a female master pairs with a male Beastman, they generally cannot break the engagement; even if the female wishes to divorce, she must provide sufficient reason.

If Beast Husbands want to break the engagement, it's the same.

Now Su Mo, as future female master, has made a mistake; for her several fiancés, this is an excellent opportunity to break the engagement.

The Original Protagonist would absolutely never agree to break the engagement—after all, who would let go of these handsome men?

But Su Mo doesn't think that way; who would a decent person take a villain as a fiancé? Being with such people means no tomorrow, just exhaustion.

But she still needs to keep up her act now; only see her heartbroken gaze at Mo Xiao as she pleads softly: "Please, give me another chance; I will surely reflect and strive to be a good female master..."

The man looked at her with hatred, then contemptuously shook off her hand gripping his sleeve: "Dream on! I want to break the engagement!"

The force was too great; Su Mo, caught off guard, fell sitting on the ground, she lowered her head and sobbed: "Wuu wuu wuu, I don't want to break the engagement~ I'll change~"

Fei Yan hadn't even opened his mouth when suddenly.

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"Retreat, retreat! Mo Xiao this cold-blooded beast, even if given for free I wouldn't want! Not even as cute and easy to pet as the village next door's kitten~"

"What a waste of his scales, not even knowing how to maintain them, covered in barbs—only a freak would like them, serves him right to be single!"

Beside him, Mo Xiao's ear tips turned red; he nearly gritted his teeth and shouted: "Su, Mo!"

"What barbs? It's because… he's about to shed!!!"

"She actually dares to despise him and say he's not as cute as a kitten?!"

"Really tired of living!!!"

"Fei Yan blinked, auditory hallucination?"

"But seeing Mo Xiao's reaction, it's obvious he also heard that voice just now."

"As High Priest, he's seen many storms; he quickly regained composure."

"Just thinking of that line, "covered in barbs," Fei Yan almost lost control of his expression."

"And the three behind him had already burst out laughing."

"Su Mo, tears like pear blossoms, glanced at Mo Xiao with a look of wanting to speak but holding back; the hint of longing and reluctance in her eyes was just right."

"I truly like you; can't we not break the engagement~"

"She tried to pull his sleeve."

Mo Xiao dodged away in disgust, thinking this woman was probably possessed by a ghost…… He suspected she was deliberately trying to draw his attention!

【The more infatuated I act, the more he will dislike me. Looking at his expression, he's already impatient. As long as Mo Xiao successfully calls off the engagement, the others will follow suit.】

【Life goes on with anyone; I must choose what makes me comfortable! A true leading lady, how could she care about… just a few strands!】

Strange, how did it suddenly become quiet around here?

Mo Xiao's hand hanging at his side clenched tightly.

He looked at the woman whose outward and inward selves differed, both ashamed and angry, and shouted again: "…Su Mo!!!"

Su Mo lowered her brows and eyes, wiping away tears in heartbreak: "I know I was wrong, but which female in this world doesn't make mistakes? Please forgive me this once, okay?"

"……"

Listening to her lofty excuse, Mo Xiao's usual aloof expression vanished completely.

He almost bit through a snake fang.

【Seeing him look like he wants to devour someone, I shouldn't have given him the antidote just now—I should have chopped off his balls, taken them to the Black Market, maybe I could trade them for two jin of fresh meat… boo hoo hoo, how stupid I am~】

"You!" Mo Xiao, infuriated, was about to grab the woman on the ground.

Fei Yan reached out to stop him, reminding softly: "No harming females."

Mo Xiao gave him a speechless glance, just catching the smile Fei Yan hadn't managed to hide.

Could Fei Yan also hear Su Mo's thoughts?!