My Beast Slave Is Far Too Flirtatious - Chapter 1

On the eve of my mating heat, the beast slave who had been with me for ten years told me he loved someone else.

That someone was none other than my cousin, Liu Yue.

I had never cared to fight over anyone. Since my beast slave no longer wished to stay with me, I naturally would not force him. That very night, I sent him to Liu Yue’s room.

Only, my heat came on far too fiercely.

Before it was even due, my body was already giving off the scent of a female seeking a mate.

According to the original plan, Yun Lin should have been here to relieve me.

But…

He was probably kneeling at Liu Yue’s feet right now, begging to pleasure her.

What an ungrateful cur. It suited his species perfectly.

I laughed bitterly at myself, but my body grew hotter by the moment. I curled into a tight ball, unable even to maintain the shape of human legs, and my pink snake tail emerged.

I was a corn snake, a rare sight among my people. Everyone doted on me, but only out of pity.

I possessed neither a cobra’s ruthlessness nor a bamboo viper’s decisiveness.

With a tail like mine, I was destined to be nothing more than a pretty ornament.

Had I not been born into the Liu family, I might long ago have become a beast slave for anyone to toy with.

That was naturally one of the reasons Yun Lin had abandoned me.

He despised the fact that I could not protect him.

I hated pink.

This pink body had doomed me to weakness, to a life sustained by other people’s pity.

There was no time to feel wronged. A tide of bestial desire swept through me, nearly drowning my reason.

I stroked my snake tail—the tail that had been praised countless times—and now it felt like nothing but a burden.

If I cut it off, perhaps the pain would stop.

I tried to sever my tail, but the next instant my body went limp, and I sank helplessly into lust.

Through the haze, I heard the door creak. A moment later, an icy palm closed around my throat.

At the same time, Liu Yue’s voice came from outside.

“Yuan’er, make do with this one for now. We’ll find you someone better later!”

Her words jolted me awake.

My eyes flew open. A strange man had appeared before me.

A thin underrobe hung loosely from his body, revealing glimpses of a powerful chest and eight taut ridges of muscle across his abdomen.

Large swaths of wheat-colored skin lay bare to the air. Pale-gold ancient runes floated over it, mysterious and faintly wicked.

I met his gaze. His light-blue eyes burned with rage, and his tightly pressed lips betrayed his displeasure.

An unusual fragrance drifted from him, mellow and warm, rich without being cloying.

It was the finest sandalwood incense, made specially for the ancestral shrine.

By custom, women of the Liu family seldom married out. We chose suitable mates from among the beast slaves arranged by the clan.

Before a girl came of age, the clan would open the ancestral shrine and paint a binding seal on her chosen mate to keep their affections harmonious and their hearts attuned.

More importantly, the seal allowed a mate to sense his Mistress’s emotions and appear in time whenever her mating heat took hold.

It also ensured a beast slave’s fidelity.

If a beast slave betrayed his Mistress, the seal would make him burst apart and die.

On the day Yun Lin threatened to mutilate himself, he was supposed to enter the ancestral shrine with me.

But he would rather hurt himself than lie with me.

Now the seal meant for him had appeared on another beast slave instead.

The man before me had clearly been seized in haste and made into my mate.

His face dark with displeasure, he kept a crushing grip on my throat and threatened, “Tell the people outside to let me go.”

Yet lust was eating away at him too. His furious eyes had grown liquid with desire.

Instinctively, I shifted my snake tail to ease my uncomfortable position. My cool scales brushed his skin, and the air in the room turned even more charged.

“The seal has already been drawn. Even if you leave, it won’t be long before you burst apart and die.”

At my words, the man frowned.

He must have heard about the Liu family’s binding seal.

It was easy to apply, but nearly impossible to undo.

From ancient times to the present, no beast slave had ever had the seal removed.

After all, the seal bound only the beast slave, not his Mistress. Naturally, no one had cared to devise a way to break it.

The man released me, then tore my clothes open in one motion.

“You and the Liu family will regret this.”

For some reason, a sense of foreboding rose inside me.

But by then, it was already too late.

The last trace of reason vanished from his eyes.

He pinned my snake tail down, pressed my shoulder with his left hand, and with his right dragged me into the abyss of bestial desire.

What little reason remained shattered beneath his teasing touch.

My lucid soul began to yield to the pleasure of the flesh. Whether I had a snake tail or human legs, the man before me claimed all of me.

I did not know how much time passed before the lust that had filled me finally ebbed by more than half beneath his relentless taking.

Yet I still could not discern his true form.

Even at the height of passion, he had never revealed his original shape.

This man had to be formidable indeed.