"What does it matter if he is a Marshal of the Empire with countless military achievements?"
"He is nothing more than a dog at my feet."
Inside a lavish and extremely opulent villa, Yulan slowly opened her eyes on a red velvet and gold armchair.
Taking in the scene before her, she was instantly frozen in shock.
What was going on? Wasn't she sleeping in her own home?
Where on earth had she been transported after a single night's sleep?
Before her knelt a shirtless, handsome man.
Even on his knees, the fierce, powerful, and sharp aura radiating from his entire body was undiminished.
With broad shoulders and a narrow waist, his torso boasted smooth, well-defined abdominal muscles, their chiseled blocks exuding immense strength.
At that moment, the man's rebellious and fierce golden pupils were staring at her with utter indifference and cruelty.
And her own foot was planted with absolute arrogance squarely upon the man's handsomely shaped, full, honey-toned chest.
Not to mention, it felt quite springy.
Yulan lifted her foot and twitched it, looking even more arrogant.
This immediately earned her a dissatisfied glance from the man.
Startled, Yulan yanked her foot back in a flash.
Good heavens, what on earth had she just been doing?
With her own slender arms and legs, she wasn't even as thick as this man's arm.
He could knock her out with a single punch.
Since when had she been so arrogant?
Just as Yulan's heart was trembling with dread, the kneeling man seemed to sense her fear. He lowered his gaze, concealing those cold, merciless golden eyes that resembled those of some wild beast.
He crawled forward on his knees a few steps toward Yulan, and with a strong, powerful hand, he forcefully took her ankle and placed it back upon his chest before speaking:
"I should not have talked back to my Female Master. Please punish me, Female Master."
Good grief!
Yulan's brain instantly crashed.
As her memories flooded back, she finally managed to sort out what was going on.
She had time-traveled.
Waking up to find herself thrust into the interstellar age.
In this world, males outnumbered females, with males holding a lowly status and females revered.
Males were born with unstable mental powers and needed to be disciplined by females.
No matter how lofty their status as Empire Marshals, generals, or parliamentary presidents outside,
upon returning home, they still had to kneel submissively before their Female Master to receive the whip.
And the man before her—
was none other than her primary husband,
the Marshal of the Empire's First Legion,
cold, severe, and aloof. Despite being the commander of an entire legion,
just because the original owner fancied him, he had been sent to her side to suffer arbitrary humiliation.
And tonight was their wedding night.
Yulan: ......
On her wedding night, treating her primary husband like a dog, humiliating him by stepping on him.
She truly lived up to the original owner.
It seemed entirely reasonable that the rest of these men couldn't take it anymore and plotted to kill the original owner later on.
At that moment,
Huo Zhanting crawled forward another step on his knees, his handsome, fierce brow slightly relaxing.
He lowered his head before Yulan, his face showing a trace of embarrassment and shame, his earlobes flushed red.
"The dog has been disobedient."
"Please punish the dog, Female Master."
"Cough, cough, cough."
Yulan was so stimulated that she broke into a fit of dry coughs.
It was only then that she noticed she was clutching a whip in her hand.
Beneath the man's honey-toned chest, several whip marks were already starkly visible across his well-defined abdominal muscles.
"I only hope that once the Female Master has vented her anger and is happy, you will give the Palliative Serum to Suxing Ye. He didn't mean to offend you."
"There won't be a next time."
Huh, huh, huh?
Another man popped up.
Yulan's eyes widened.
Her brain spun rapidly as she instantly figured out who this was.
It was Suxing Ye, who belonged to the First Legion just like Huo Zhanting.
He was one of her several secondary husbands.
Yes, in this world where females were revered and males held low status,
for a female to have multiple males was simply the most normal thing in the world.
When the original owner was five years old, she was exiled to Garbage Star and grew up there due to a royal conspiracy.
It wasn't until she reached adulthood that she was brought back, only to have lost the most basic healing power of a female.
Perhaps out of guilt, the current Queen, her mother, waved her hand and bestowed upon her seven men.
Seven top-tier, exceptionally handsome men.
Men who were supreme in every possible aspect.
However, men who were exceptional to the extreme were equally proud to the extreme.
They could not bear the thought of becoming the mate of a useless female devoid of healing powers.
They flatly refused the Queen's arranged marriage, dragging their feet to the utmost.
There had never been a precedent in the history of the Empire of a male refusing a female; for the original owner, this was undoubtedly a blatant humiliation.
Yet this happened to coincide with a period of turmoil in the Empire, with rebel forces running amok, the Federation eyeing them covetously, and the Dark Planet constantly encroaching.
The safety of the Empire required these powerful males to maintain it, so the marriage contract could only be temporarily shelved.
The original owner became a complete laughingstock.
Despite having seven males, not a single one of them deigned to look at her.
In a fit of anger, the original owner went to the black market and bought arousing agents capable of inducing male heat, which she secretly administered to Suxing Ye, the pride of the commoners.
A male forced into induced heat either had to use a matching Palliative Serum to calm and soothe himself, or find a high-ranking female for pacification.
Otherwise, amidst mental collapse, he would completely lose his mind and turn into a wild beast.
The highest-ranking female in the entire Empire was the current Queen Belina, an SS-rank female.
There was also Princess Louisa, who carried the title of S-rank female.
Yet these two chose to refuse in order to force Suxing Ye to bow his head to the original owner.
What they hadn't expected, however, was this:
Suxing Ye would rather lose his sanity and become a wild beast than accept being with the original owner.
Huo Zhanting, belonging to the same First Legion, could not bear to watch Suxing Ye—who had fought his way through hardships all the way here—turn to ashes, which led to the scene that had just unfolded.
Huo Zhanting's golden pupils gazed steadily at Yulan as he made a promise.
"As long as you are willing to give the Palliative Serum to Suxing Ye, from this moment on, I will serve you as my Female Master."
Yulan was so embarrassed her toes were frantically curling inside her shoes.
She hurriedly nodded, then shook her head.
"No, no, no, I don't need it. What I mean is, I'm sorry, I... I'll go get the Palliative Serum for you right now."
"You don't need to sacrifice yourself."
As a time traveler, Yulan was more than eager to put some distance between herself and these men.
Staying too close would genuinely get her killed.
Just as Yulan was about to go fetch the Palliative Serum, a sharp, mournful wolf howl suddenly pierced the heavy silence of the air.
Yulan jumped in fright, her whole body shuddering.
The next second,
the living room doors were pushed open from the outside by a panicked guard.
"This is terrible, Your Highness, this is terrible!"
"Major General Suxing Ye's mental power has collapsed! He has transformed into his beast form and is losing his mind!"
He was clearly a rising star in the Empire, a young major general with a boundless future.
He had climbed step by arduous step from the slums to where he was today.
Yet simply because he caught the eye of the person before them, overnight he fell from a favored son of heaven into a crazed beast.
His past achievements turned instantly to ashes.
The guard looked at Yulan with deep dread.
Hearing the piercing wolf howl, Huo Zhanting bolted straight toward the backyard without a moment's hesitation.
Upon receiving this grim news, Yulan couldn't help but tremble all over.
That wasn't right, that wasn't right! According to what the seller told the original owner when she bought the arousing agent on the black market, it shouldn't have caused beastification this quickly!
If Suxing Ye really turned into a wild beast, Huo Zhanting would probably tear her to shreds.
The Empire's Marshal was a man of his word with an iron-fisted approach—he was definitely not someone easy to deal with.
Clutching the Palliative Serum she had hidden away, Yulan hurried anxiously toward the backyard.