Arc 6: Chapter 8
Lin Yuan was already in a bad mood, after hearing the chief’s words, he was even more angry.
His fluffy white fur exploded, his tail stood up stiffly, and his eyes glinted dangerously.
Hisss, he knew this would happen! He knew the moment he let his guard down someone would bully his husband!!
The rational part of Lin Yuan told himself to calm down in order to think of a way to save his husband.
Compose yourself…
Stay calm…
He couldn’t f***ing stay calm, this was his husband!!
Lin Yuan exhaled a few angry breaths and then showed a smile that looked like he was going to eat people and said through gritted teeth: “Chief, please wait a moment. I have a question to ask my slave.”
The chief, on the account of eating lots of Lin Yuan’s food, had quite a good attitude towards Lin Yuan: “Ok, you can ask.”
Lin Yuan quickly walked over towards Yue. The man’s head was lowered, making it hard to see his expression. As Lin Yuan approached, his body visibly tensed and his muscles hardened, looking extremely nervous.
Wuuu, Lin Yuan was distressed seeing Yue look like this. He put his hand on top of Yue’s hair and gently stroked his head, like soothing an injured beast: “It’s ok, Yue…”
His voice was soft and light, like the sun shining through the fog: “Yue, don’t be afraid…”
But Yue was afraid. Now he was filled with anxiety and dread. Before, he had nothing so he wasn’t afraid to lose anything. As a beastman who awakened an abnormal beast form, he was given a merciless judgement the moment he awakened. Not because he committed any crimes, but just because he was different. As a slave, he didn’t know what to live for because the next moment might be death. He didn’t even realize he had been baselessly judged and oppressed, like other slaves, he meekly accepted his fate without resistance.
Until… Yue met Lin Yuan. Lin Yuan was the little female he liked, like a ray of light, Lin Yuan showed him the warmth of having a home and ignited the flame of hope for a better future. After meeting Lin Yuan, he would often think about their future today, days that would be filled with happiness, with no cold and no hunger.
By thinking of such a beautiful picture, Yue endured it when those beastmen besieged him. He felt those beastmen were just jealous of how the little female treated him. He thought that a beating would be enough to satisfy them. But he soon realized that they wanted to kill him, and he had no choice but to fight back. Looking at the beastmen lying on the ground, Yue’s dark eyes were filled with blood-red fury, gloomy and terrifying.
He knew very well what kind of punishment awaited him, a slave who hurt the tribe’s beastmen. He would be exiled, and from then on, no tribe would ever accept him. He would die alone outside, under the teeth of beasts, never to receive the Beast God’s forgiveness.
This punishment was the cruelest form of execution for beastmen.
Yue wasn’t worried about himself, he was worried about his little female, his Lin Yuan, his Sui Sui.
After he was exiled, would his little female be sad? Would he cry? After a while… would his little female forget about him and fall in love with someone else?
Would the little female treat them as well as he treated himself?
Would the male do what he hadn’t, mark the little female, and have cubs with the little female?
Yue thought about these pictures like self torture.
But when Lin Yuan told him it was okay and not to be afraid, all of the despair and agony in his heart disappeared.
Yue raised his head to look at his little female and hummed softly.
As long as his little female was by his side, he wouldn’t be afraid.
【Di! Congrats, host, the blackening value has decreased to 80%.】
Lin Yuan squatted in front of Yue, his fingers running through the man’s hair. He asked softly: “Yue, can you tell me what happened? I know you’re very good, and would never hurt others for no reason.”
This simple question actually caused an uproar among the beastmen. To them, there was no right or wrong when it came to a slave. A slave was originally a sinful creature, and in their eyes, the fault would always lie with the slave.
One of the bleeding beastmen roared despite their injuries: “Yuan, your slave injured me and other warriors of the tribe, and I lost so much blood that I will probably die. How could you say that? Outrageous!”
Lin Yuan still had a fire of anger in his heart, and he impatiently turned to the beastman who had just spoken and his cat-like pupils contracted sharply: “Did I ask you? What are you blabbering for, do you think you’re not bleeding out fast enough? If you want to die, I’ll gladly help you.”
Females were supposed to be meek and harmless, but Lin Yuan looked like a cold-blooded predator, chilling, cruel, and aggressive. The bleeding beastman and the others were stunned.
Lin Yuan turned to Yue and his voice immediately softened: “Yue, what happened? Say it.”
Yue’s heart seemed to pound more explosively than when water dropped into a hot oil pan. His dark eyes greedily swallowed Lin Yuan’s figure, surging with obsession.
“I… I was hunting in the forest when they suddenly surrounded me, saying I was a slave and not qualified to eat such delicious food.”
“At first, I didn’t resist. It was only when they tried to kill me that I fought back…”
Lin Yuan didn’t expect that the cause of this incident was food, but it didn’t surprise him too much. As the saying goes, humans die for wealth, and birds die for food, it was quite normal to see a beastman dying for food in this primitive era.
Lin Yuan cupped Yue’s face and gently wiped away the blood on his cheek: “En, I understand. This isn’t your fault…”
A lot of beastman were shocked by Lin Yuan’s actions. One of them exclaimed with disbelief: “Yuan must be partners with this slave, that’s why he makes so much good food for him.”
The others felt this was reasonable, why else would Lin Yuan treat a mere slave so well? But despite knowing, they still felt that Lin Yuan acted very abnormally, very unlike the usual relationship between male and female beastmen.
The blood had dried and no matter how much Lin Yuan wiped, red streaks remained on the pale skin. Finally, Lin Yuan stood up and said to the priest: “Granda Priest, Chief, as you’ve heard, this matter is not Yue’s fault. He shouldn’t be punished with exile.”
The priest remembered the time when Lin Yuan asked himself about how to change the identity of a slave and realized that it wasn’t a random question at all. This little female was so bold to actually get together with a slave, he might be punished by the Beast God!
The priest tapped his staff sternly and said: “Yuan, your slave still did something wrong. The Beast God will not forgive him. Only by exiling him from the tribe can he atone and receive forgiveness.”
Lin Yuan sneered, coupled with his blood stained hands, he gave off a sinister air: “Grandpa Priest, if this happened to someone in the tribe, would you make the same decision?”
The priest raised his voice and scolded: “Yuan, he is a slave!”
Lin Yuan’s white hair looked almost transparent in the sun, like falling snow, and his voice was even more cold: “Grandpa Priest, please put aside his slave status and answer me, if this happened to someone from the tribe, would you make the same decision?”
The priest paused and stared at the little female, then he finally said: “If it was someone from the tribe, they would not be punished.”
Lin Yuan's voice was light: “Oh, so that’s it. Grandpa Priest, I also want to ask, is the Beast God almighty? Is He fair? Does He cherish all life?”
Of course, the priest didn’t deny it and nodded: “The Beast God is almighty and fair.”
Lin Yuan smiled and said: “In this case, the Beast God would judge Yue to be innocent.”