["Dear Host, will you choose the fluffy Beast Husband, the cool-to-the-touch Beast Husband, or do you prefer the scaly Beast Husband...?"]
In a daze, Shi Li seemed to hear something calling out to her.
["Host, are you stunned speechless with joy?"]
The system was just about to verify the host's identity when it discovered a huge problem.
It seemed to have brought the wrong person over.
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"Shi Li, you've gone too far! If you have a problem, take it out on me! Threatening me with my family—what the hell do you think you are?!" A furious roar brought Shi Li back to her senses.
Countless images flooded her mind—all of them memories from the body's original owner.
Shi Li steadied herself, wanting to curse out the original owner. 'She was inhuman!'
'In this Beast World where females have such high status, how could she have five handsome Beast Husbands and not know how to enjoy life? Instead, she had to court disaster by competing with her so-called "best friend," He Bai Bai, over everything.'
'Just because her own White Moonlight Beastman was attracted to He Bai Bai, and the two of them quickly got married, the original owner started frantically taking on Beast Husbands. But she didn't treat them well at all, only thinking they could never compare to her White Moonlight in any way.'
'It got worse and worse, to the point where she was now torturing her Beast Husbands.'
"Stop!! Let them go! Let them all go!" Snapping back to reality, Shi Li hurriedly ordered the guards to release the men.
Staring at Heige's devastatingly handsome face, Shi Li wanted to slap herself right then and there. 'The original owner was wasting a heaven-sent gift!' she cursed internally. 'How could she not enjoy such an exceptionally handsome man? Why torture him?'
"Unlock the chains, all of them! Open them! What are you all standing around stunned for?!" But the guards just stood there like NPCs, their faces frozen in shock, completely motionless.
Anxious, Shi Li snatched the keys and unlocked all the chains binding Heige.
"Get lost!" But after being freed, Heige expressed no gratitude. Instead, he transformed into his half-beast form and shoved Shi Li to the ground.
Gazing at the beastified Heige before her, Shi Li almost started drooling. She loved handsome men to death.
'Even though the system bound the wrong host and got her killed in her original world when she wasn't supposed to die, this Beast World—where females are rare and hold extremely high status—is just too damn good!'
'As an orphan, seeing such an exceptionally handsome man, Shi Li realized she didn't have much attachment left for her original world anyway.'
Quickly accepting her new identity, Shi Li immediately got into character.
"Listen to my explanation. I think my brain wasn't working right before. I've thought it through now, and I was wrong to act that way."
"I apologize." Shi Li knew how to be flexible. 'If you want to get by,' she thought, 'you have to give people a way to save face.'
Shi Li didn't even bother with the pain from her fall and immediately started begging for forgiveness.
"A divorce!!!"
"Your sweet talk won't work on me! We're getting a divorce today!!" But Heige could no longer tolerate Shi Li's tyranny, especially since this time she had used his family to threaten and torture him.
Wolves are pack animals. Even as evolved Beastmen, they still retained some of their basic instincts.
Family had always been incredibly important to them.
This was especially true for Heige, who was of the White Wolf King bloodline. As one who carried the blood of his people's leader, he had an even greater innate duty to protect his family.
The original owner's actions had undoubtedly crushed any affection Heige had left for her.
"But you'll be punished if we divorce." Shi Li was a bit stunned. Divorced males couldn't hold any jobs and had no way to survive.
"Hah. Is living with you not a punishment in itself?" Heige scoffed, his eyes filled with sorrow. As the youngest general in history, he should have had a brilliant future ahead of him.
Such a glorious future had ultimately been destroyed at the hands of the female before him.
No army would be willing to recruit a divorced male. They believed that someone unfaithful to his wife would be even more disloyal to his country.
"I'll change!" Shi Li's eyes were full of sincerity. 'I really will change,' she thought. 'I'm not the original owner. Even I think she was too cruel.'
Shi Li even felt that the system's mistake in bringing her to this world as its host was so she could save these people.
"Change? Hell will freeze over before you change." Heige could no longer contain his anger. He strode over to Shi Li, grabbed her by the wrist, and lifted her completely off her feet.
SMOOCH!
It was an incredibly loud sound, and Shi Li even left a red mark on Heige's cheek.
Under the watchful eyes of everyone present, Shi Li had just kissed Heige on the cheek.
The entire scene went silent. The surrounding guards were dumbfounded and instantly stared down at their feet. Heige's family also quickly averted their gaze.
As for Heige, he went from being on the verge of a feral rage to flushing beet-red in an instant. He was completely petrified.
'My wife actually kissed me?'
'Ever since they got married, she'd act like she was dirty and frantically wash her hands if he so much as touched her.'
'And now she had taken the initiative to kiss him?'
"You..." Heige dazedly let go of her hand. He wanted to curse at her to vent his feelings, but he found that his brain had completely crashed.
'So a female's lips were this soft?'
Moreover, when Shi Li had suddenly leaned in, Heige thought he had caught a faint, elusive scent on her.
It was light, not like the strong perfume some females wore that made you want to sneeze. Instead, it was like a natural fragrance she was born with. A Beastman with his sensitive sense of smell couldn't even identify what it was, only that it smelled wonderful and was incredibly intoxicating.
The body he had inadvertently touched was also unbelievably soft. Heige even wondered if Shi Li was made of cotton. How could her body be so soft?
These were all things he had never experienced before.
It was surprisingly intoxicating.
"I swear to the heavens, I will really change!"
"And... I'll agree to let you be reinstated in the army, okay? As long as you can come home to see me when you have time." Shi Li wanted to properly compensate her Beast Husbands from the bottom of her heart. Following the original owner, they had lived through such terrible days.
Abuse, threats, confinement—she wouldn't even let them continue working in the posts where they had once shone.
It was simply worse than death.
Heige felt like he was dreaming. Shi Li was actually going to let him go back to work?
When everyone in the army learned that he had been chosen by a female and that the Imperial King had decreed their marriage, they had all looked at him with pity. And now she was telling him he could go back?
"Really?" Heige instantly calmed down, his face no longer red. He looked at Shi Li with utmost seriousness.
'Apart from the lowest-class slaves, all males were matched for marriage when they came of age. If Shi Li would let him return to the army, then maybe this divorce wasn't absolutely necessary.'
'One wife is the same as any other, right?'
'But then Heige thought about all of Shi Li's previous actions and felt she was just spouting nonsense again.'
"I'll permit you to go back right now." After speaking, Shi Li stuffed the house key card into Heige's pocket and looked at him with sincere eyes.