CHAPTER 49: CHAPTER 49: MAKE HER A FORBIDDEN SLAVE

In the dizzying darkness, Wen Shu was harshly thrown to the ground, a sharp crack resounding from her tailbone as her spine crashed onto a protruding stone, the piercing pain forcibly jolting her awake.

She painfully opened her eyes, taking in the sight of coarse fabric, with faint firelight seeping through its seams. As her gaze lowered, she realized her hands and feet were bound by sticky silvery-white threads, her whole body curled up in a familiar dirt-yellow bundle.

Lucius had captured her.

Before she could think further, a series of chaotic footsteps approached, and Ku Jia’s somewhat anxious voice sounded, "Leader, this female somehow provoked those Blood Beasts! The dense forest is now full of them, and their numbers are increasing!"

As soon as he finished speaking, another hurried footsteps rushed into the cave.

A young male panted heavily, his voice tinged with distress, "Leader, five squad members have died, and the rest are more or less seriously injured. The Blood Beasts will likely find us soon."

After the males spoke, Lucius did not immediately respond.

The tree hole fell silent, with Ku Jia and the males bowing their heads, occasionally casting glances at the bundle in the corner.

They all knew there was a female inside, but none understood why the leader had captured her.

Originally, they thought the leader had developed feelings, but when he dragged the female from the entrance into the cave and mercilessly tossed her into the corner, they dismissed that idea.

Yet the leader’s mood was unpredictable, and they dared not ask.

Hearing the successive bad news, Lucius’s expression remained unchanged. After a brief consideration, he instructed, "Tell the injured males to return, and the others..."

He paced towards the corner, tearing open the spider silk at the bundle’s mouth, pulling Wen Shu, still unconscious, out and handing the bundle over, "Take this and lure the Blood Beasts away."

The young male immediately took it, sprinting out of the tree hole, with Ku Jia following suit.

The cave fell silent once more.

Wen Shu kept her eyes tightly shut, feeling a large hand grasp her collar, unable to see anything, all her senses concentrated in front of her.

The male’s heartbeat was light but strong, his faint breath brushing against her face, and she could sense an icy gaze piercing her face.

Just as she hesitated whether to awaken, a sudden crackling spark exploded, and a hand colder than ice gripped her face.

Lucius’s eyes were obscure, his gaze slowly sliding from Wen Shu’s brows to her lips, eventually resting at her gentle eye corner, murmuring to himself, "Really looks like..."

His voice was gentle, but the force of his fingers seemed intent on tearing her skin, Wen Shu resisted the urge to frown, her heart filled with confusion.

Who exactly did she resemble?

Was Lucius relentlessly pursuing her because of this?

As sharp as Lucius, he caught the flicker of her eyelids immediately, staring at her face with a malicious glint, a faint smile saying softly, "Stop pretending."

Wen Shu’s body stiffened, and before she could open her eyes, a sharp pain flashed across her cheek, a warm dampness trickling down the side of her face.

She abruptly opened her eyes, raising her gaze to meet Lucius’s eyes, his face inches away, his expression still gentle, but his blood-red eyes gleamed with bloodthirsty excitement.

In them, Wen Shu saw her own face, her tired cheek etched with a deep wound, bleeding its way down her face, staining the male’s pale fingertips crimson...

A creeping chill climbed up her spine, her throat dry, she forced herself to hold onto rationality and alertly asked, "Lucius, why did you capture me?"

The male heard her words but did not respond.

He watched the trickle of blood-red, his breathing slightly ragged, slowly raising his fingertip, smearing the blood over the female’s face, watching her pale skin blossom with blood, his pupils trembling with excitement.

His eyes darkened, a stronger smile tugging at his lips, "Ah, why capture you? Just seeing your face, it feels like you’re very suitable for Beast City..."

He looked into Wen Shu’s eyes, enunciating each word, "To become the lowest of the Forbidden Slaves."

Forbidden Slave?

Wen Shu couldn’t resist a frown, just like there were slaves during the Empire period, Forbidden Slaves also existed in Beast City.

However, the Forbidden Slaves in Beast City were often males, treated as commodities by the nobility, bought and sold at will, without freedom, and without dignity!

She felt repulsed, even more puzzled by the male’s animosity towards her, but the next second, Lucius answered her doubts.

With no other Beastmen around, he completely dropped his facade, manically squeezing Wen Shu’s face, his fingertip pressing into her eye corner, "Since you are my Forbidden Slave, I ought to give you a name that matches your identity! Let’s call you..."

He slightly widened his eyes, forcing a word through his teeth, "Lan."

Hearing this word, Wen Shu’s heart sank instantaneously.

Lan!

Of course, she remembered this name, as to redeem the male leads, the author wrote extras for each of them.

Lan’s name almost spanned Lucius’s entire childhood.

Before becoming the leader of his clan, Lucius lost his parents and was adopted by his uncle’s family.

He was young and weak, and the Spider Clan revered the law of the jungle; naturally, he was bullied and ostracized, and even once, almost drowned by his cousin.

At that time, Lan appeared, saving him, taking him home to care for.

Initially moved by her gentleness, Lucius didn’t realize this would be the start of a nightmare.

This female of the Fox Clan, dark and twisted in personality, enjoyed torturing beautiful children, watching them struggle in pain, and Lucius became her most beautiful toy!

Enduring seven years of torment, Lucius grew up in a dark, bloody dungeon, finally one day taking the risk of backlash to slay the Fox Beast.

To avoid detection, he chopped the Fox Beast into pieces, meticulously disposing of them in batches into the dense forest...

And now, Lucius named her "Lan."

Why did the original protagonist resemble her? In the novel, Lucius had never met the original protagonist, nor was this ever mentioned!

Wen Shu tightened her spine, looking again into Lucius’s excited eyes, she only felt he resembled a vengeful demon!

Was he intending to dismember her too?

She had no doubt about it; Lucius was ruthless to ordinary Sin Beasts, let alone to her, his "adversary."

But she didn’t want to die here!

With this thought, she quietly clenched her fist, making up her mind, her eyes meeting Lucius’s directly, "Lucius, I want to talk to you..."

The female’s calm gaze dispelled the shadow of resemblance to Lan between her brows, Lucius’s smile cracked, irritation boiling within; did this female not understand the meaning of Forbidden Slave?

If it were other females, receiving such insult, they might have considered killing him, yet she still had the mind to talk?