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Arc 6: Chapter 22

In the world plot, it was during the Beast God Festival that Yan and Tian, ​​the young patriarch of the White Tiger Tribe and the protagonist gong, met and fell in love.

The reason for their first meeting was because a male had taken interest in Yan and pestered him annoyingly, but a hero passed by and saved him.

Lin Yuan rested his chin in both hands and watched the scene with great interest. His ears twitched to hear what they were saying and his tail swayed behind him happily.

Seeing the protagonist gong coming to save the beauty, Lin Yuan looked at him curiously.

Tian was about as tall as Yue, and counted as having a handsome appearance. His muscles were also not as strong and robust as some other beastmen. Tian was okay, but his husband is still the most good-looking beastman. Yue was number one~

When Yue came out of the hut, he saw his little female sitting in front of the door, shaking her head.

Not knowing what Lin Yuan was looking at, and there were too many beastmen coming and going, Yue didn't want his little female to be mocked at because of his slave status, so he just squatted behind him: “What are you looking at?”

Lin Yuan turned back towards his husband. He had always had a clingy disposition and liked to cuddle with his husband, moreover, now his waist became easily sore with his pregnant belly, making him even more dependent on Yue. When Yue was next to him, he subconsciously wanted to snuggle into his husband's arms, but Yue grabbed his shoulders to stop him

“Sui Sui!!” There was a hint of warning in the man’s beautiful dark eyes.

“???”

Lin Yuan was dumbfounded. 

What happened? His husband won’t let him hug him anymore! He... he...

Lin Yuan’s eyes immediately reddened, and a watery light gradually covered his pupils. He looked at Yue aggrievedly, like a poor kitten who was abandoned, and cried softly: “You...you won’t let me hug you…”

Seeing the tearful face of his little female, Yue's heart softened and he wanted to comfort him. But he couldn't do that, because they were now in the Beast Temple, not in the Creek Forest Tribe.

Outside the Creek Forest Tribe, it was wrong for a slave to be with a female. Yue didn't want his little female to be harmed by their judgement.

“No…” Yue’s dark eyes were filled with heartache. He could only secretly caress the little female’s neck and coax her in a low voice: “It’s not that I don’t want you to hug me, Sui Sui, if you want to hug me, let’s go inside the house, okay? We really can’t do it outside where we’ll be seen by others.”

Lin Yuan knew that his husband was doing this for his own good. Although him didn't care at all that Yue was a slave, and their tribesmen were already used to them being intimate together, the other beastmen would still look down on Lin Yuan for being with a slave. Some might even accuse Yue of seducing him with the devil’s work.

Aaaaaaaaah!!! Angry!!

His husband was so beautiful, tall, mighty and handsome, able to beat ten, no, a hundred beastmen by himself!! A hundred!!

Such an excellent beastman was discriminated against just because of his beast form. This world was really too much!

Lin Yuan was very angry and very sorry for his husband, and he didn't have the heart to watch the scene of the hero saving the damsel in distress. He supported his waist, stood up, and quickly walked back into the hut.

Yue immediately followed him in. When the little female pounced on him, he couldn't wait to hug him back. Yue’s voice was low and hoarse, and his hot breath exhaled and fell into Lin Yuan's ears: “Sui Sui, it's my fault. It's all my fault. If I were an ordinary beastman, if I... if I weren't a slave…”

His voice trembled slightly, like an ancient beast trapped in a cage, and beaten down by time.

Lin Yuan wrapped his slender arms around the man’s neck, stood on his tiptoes and kissed him, tasting the slight saltiness that silently spread between his lips.

Lin Yuan could sympathize with this kind of pain, but he couldn’t share it. He knew that the identity of a slave was a disease in Yue’s body and heart that was ugly, sad, and cruel.

But it didn’t matter, he could be Yue’s medicine.

Lin Yuan kissed Yue hard. His flexible and soft tongue was like a small snake moving and exploring Yue's mouth. He teased the man’s lips and tongue until he tasted the faint taste of iron.

“Yue…” Lin Yuan panted hard. The tip of his tongue was stained with a trace of scarlet blood, wrapped around in clear threads of saliva, like silks of love.

“You’re not! There’s nothing bad about you, you are really really good, I’m telling the truth!”

He rubbed the corner’s of the man’s narrow eyes with his fingers, and a nameless flame burned in his heart seeing his husband’s tears: “In fact, rules can be changed. You can be a slave, but you can also not. Even… you can even be a god…”

Yue blinked and asked in a hoarse voice: “Sui Sui, what do you mean?”

A god?

Lin Yuan ordered Yue to hold him and sit down. He sat down on Yue’s lap, and his fingers played with the ends of the other’s black hair. He said quietly: “Yue, I can cook good food because I’ve learned the knowledge of the Beast God. In His teachings, the first thing I learned was freedom and equality.”

He couldn’t tell Yue about his mission background, but he could use the Beast God’s name was a cover. 

Yue had never heard of such words: “Freedom? Equality?”

Lin Yuan nodded: “En. The Beast God Temple is a place that doesn’t advocate freedom nor treat everyone equally. It may be superior to everything in the eyes of the beastmen, but in fact, the high priest is no different from me, and even the same as you.”

“Yue, do you know who God is?”

Beastmen were instilled with the belief of the Beast God since birth. They were extremely devout and respectful, but in fact, they knew nothing about the Beast God Himself.

Yue shook her faint slightly and a shadow seemed to cover his eyes: “I don’t know.”

Lin Yuan’s warm fingers stroked his face like a soft caress: “God above sees all things and is the ruler of all things, including beastmen, flowers, birds, fish, insects, and all kinds of animals. Beastmen themselves are only a small part of the larger world.”

“The high priest of the Beast God Temple uses the name of the Beast God to decide the life and death of other beastmen, but what he does isn’t the will of the Beast God at all.”

Lin Yuan asked lightly: “Do you think such a busy Beast God really cares about an ordinary beastman or an ordinary slave?”

“Yue, you being a slave is not the will of the Beast God, but the will of other beastmen. Simply put, if the high priest of the Beast God Temple now announces that beastmen with beast forms like yours are not the incarnations of the devil, but tiger beastmen are, what do you think will happen?”

Hearing the little female’s words, Yue slightly narrowed his eyes and stared at Lin Yuan with a deep gaze, unfathomable emotions stirred in the abyss. 

He held Lin Yuan’s wrist and gently kissed the slender fingertips, kissing each one devoutly and then even licking them. He whispered: “If the Beast God Temple really said this, then ordinary beastmen would no longer be afraid of my beast form, instead, they would begin to fear the tiger beastmen.”

Yue had never thought of this situation. At this moment, it seemed that the dark clouds and fog that had oppressed him for so many years were being cleared away. 

“Sui Sui, you’re saying that my slave identity is not because the Beast God has abandoned me, but because the Beast God Temple wants beastmen like me to be slaves, right? But why?”

He didn’t understand.

Lin Yuan said: “Yue, remember how last winter, after our tribe was robbed, you turned into your beast form and beat and killed a lot of the robbers?”

Yue nodded: “I remember.”

“Have you ever thought, you can kill so many beastmen alone, if there were a lot of beastmen like you, wouldn’t the Beast God Temple be afraid? Afraid that you will disobey them, afraid that you’ll resist them, afraid that you’ll kill the beastmen of the Beast God Temple one day.”

Yue looked at his little female. Lin Yuan’s amber and gem-like eyes stared at him clearly, and Yue said slowly: “The Beast God Temple is afraid of me…”

It was hard to believe, but a voice in his heart said that what Lin Yuan said was true. 

At some point in time, Lin Yuan had also wondered that the high priest or someone in the Beast God Temple had a past grudge against beastmen with abnormal beast shapes, but he felt that fear was a greater motivator. 

Beastmen like Yue were too powerful, so they had to use the name of the Beast God to suppress them, use the whole population of beastmen to suppress them. Only in this way could they retain the authority and power of the Beast God Temple.

This idea explained the reason why slaves didn’t have the right to hunt. In this way, slaves couldn’t realize their true strength, and staying ignorant made them easier to control.

Lin Yuan felt that he had figured out the truth and nodded: “Yes, the Beast God Temple is afraid of you and other slaves. Although they claim that you are the incarnation of the devil, but you see, when you killed so many robbers, nothing happened, and the Beast God did not blame you. In other words, the Beast God doesn’t care about these matters at all. Even if you kill all of the priests in the Beast God temple, the Beast God will not punish you.”

“Because we are too unimportant to the Beast God. If the Beast God Temple disappears, then another one will be built. If the high priest dies, then a new high priest will be chosen. To the Beast God, these matters are nothing.”

“Even if one day all of the beastmen go extinct, the Beast God will not care.”

Yue believed it, and accepted it. He felt angry and resentful, and murderous intent overflowed from his body. 

He hugged Lin Yuan tightly and buried his face in the other’s neck. His breaths trembled and his chest heaved up and down, like an enraged beast that was ready to attack.

Lin Yuan rubbed Yue’s hair and silently patted the man’s broad back: “Yue, you’re not a slave. To me, you’re not, and to the Beast God, you’re not.”

Lin Yuan’s soft voice repeated this sentence again and again, slowly pulling Yue back from the abyss and calming the man’s murderous breath. 

His Sui Sui said he could become a god.

He would become a god… and make the Beast God Temple kneel down, forever.