The cold wind blew on Lin Zhaodi's face. She stood on the edge of a towering cliff and looked down, but the water was bottomless.
"Lin Zhaodi! What the hell are you doing, you little bitch? If you don't get married, what are you going to do with your brother's betrothal gift? Hurry and get here! Stop trying to scare me!"
The woman opposite had dark skin and wore faded clothes. She had a ferocious look on her face and pointed her index finger straight at her.
Lin Zhaodi shuddered subconsciously. Whenever her mother showed this expression, it meant that she was going to drag her over and beat her to death in the next second.
She took a step back and stepped on the rubble at the edge of the cliff. The rubble fell from the cliff and hit the cliff wall, making a crisp sound.
Lin Zhaodi's body also swayed because of this. She looked at the bottomless cliff with empty eyes.
Seeing this, Lin's mother became nervous: "Zhao Di, you can't be so depressed, come back quickly!"
Lin Zhaodi knew that her mother was not concerned about her life or death, but was just worried that after she died, no one would go to the family to exchange the dowry for her younger brother.
It was already winter, but she was wearing thin clothes. The wind from the cliff made Lin Zhaodi's skin hurt.
No, her name is not Lin Zhaodi, her name is Lin Qiu.
She was originally a female orc of the rabbit tribe from the Somali continent. When she was young, a beast tide caused the rabbit tribe to be dispersed. Lin Qiu was rescued by the orcs of the tiger tribe and grew up in the tiger tribe. As for their upbringing, Lin Qiu not only took it for granted, but also always felt that the male beasts of the tiger tribe were rude and bloodthirsty.
Females are rare in the animal world, so they are treated with great care. Even though she has an arrogant and mean personality, the tiger orcs are very tolerant of her and raise her carefully.
Females are weak and can only rely on males for support. The price, or rather, the female's responsibility, is to mate with a male to reproduce. Upon reaching adulthood, all females in the Beast World must mate with a male under the guidance of the tribe's sacred stone. Due to the scarcity of females, each female must mate with at least two males.
After Lin Qiu became an adult, he was matched with two males, Ling Yunsong Mu, in front of the Holy Stone.
They were the most prestigious pair of brothers among the young men of the Tiger Tribe. All the females envied her match, but Lin Qiu hated them as male tigers and never gave them a good look, let alone mating with them and being willing to give birth to cubs for them.
Later, the rabbit tribe that Lin Qiu belonged to before actually found the tiger tribe. Lin Qiu wanted to leave with them immediately, but she didn't expect that the real purpose of these rabbit tribe orcs looking for her was to hand her over to wandering orcs in exchange for a habitat on a mountain.
She ran away and lost her way in the forest. As night fell, the forest was full of dangers. She huddled in the hollow of a dead tree and closed her eyes tightly.
When she opened her eyes again, she was in Hongshi Village and had become Lin Zhaodi, who was only five years old.
This world seems to be different from the animal world. Men, that is, males, are precious.
As an unloved girl, she had to make a living under her parents who favored boys over girls. From then on, she had endless work to do and endless beatings to endure.
Lin Qiu resisted at first, but she was still young and would be beaten so badly that she couldn't get out of bed if she resisted even a little. Lin Qiu was afraid, so she began to submit. She went to the mountain to cut grass for pigs before dawn and went to the river to wash clothes in the twelfth lunar month. No matter how unreasonable her brother's request was, she had to do it and was often ridden like a horse by him in the yard.
Lin Qiu was afraid of death, so she endured it all and lived a miserable life.
But she was more afraid of a life worse than death.
Her family arranged a marriage for her. Lin Qiu originally thought that she would leave home and start a good life again, but she found out today that the man she was going to marry was the old man in the back mountain who had beaten to death three of her ex-wives-in-law and was older than her father!
Lin Qiu glanced at Lin's mother, then turned around and jumped up with almost no hesitation and great determination.
Her body was falling and the wind was whistling past her ears.
More than ten years have passed, and the time has passed so long that she seems to have forgotten the faces of Ling Yun and Song Mu.
She only remembered two pairs of equally blue eyes, as if they were staring at her at that moment.
For more than ten years, Lin Qiu fell asleep every night by recalling them. As time went by, she could no longer remember some things. Her support was about to collapse, and it would be better for her to die quickly.
Lin Qiu closed her eyes, and the tears that just came out of the corners of her eyes were blown away by the wind. She felt the weightlessness at the moment, without any worries or nostalgia.
This is the retribution for her harming people's hearts, and she is willing to pay the price for it.
If there was anything she was reluctant about, it was that she really wanted to see them again.
......
Lin Qiu no longer felt cold all over, but instead felt stuffy and suffocated.
Her limbs ached and she was covered in sweat.
Lin Qiu opened his eyes and found himself curled up in the hollow of a dead tree.
She is not... here. This is the temporary place where she found shelter after escaping from the rabbit tribe and getting lost in the forest!
Lin Qiu's right leg felt a little numb, and the pain made her feel so good for the first time. This couldn't be a dream, it was real, she was back in the Somali Continent again.
Lin Qiu smiled so ugly that she covered her face.
She's back, she's back!
The Beast God must have mercy on her and be willing to give her a chance to repent and make up for her previous mistakes!
Lin Qiu leaned against the wall of the tree hole, letting the tears flow all over her face.
"Look for her quickly! She must be nearby! I can smell her!"
Before Lin Qiu could be happy, the voice of the rabbit orcs came from nearby.
Lin Qiu felt empty inside again.
If they caught them, they would be handed over to wandering orcs for forced mating.
The wandering orcs of the Somali continent are hatched from eggs and have no females of their own race.
Except for mermaids, females are born in human form. The Feathered Tribe are also hatched from eggs and survive by seeking mates and reproducing in other tribes.
However, the reason why wandering orcs cannot form a tribe and are not accepted by orcs of other tribes is that after mating with them, the females, even just once, will continue to become pregnant and give birth until they become weak and die. They completely use the lives of the females to reproduce offspring.
However, the strength of the wandering orcs has always been very strong, and they are feared by all tribes. Fortunately, their numbers are small, and they generally survive independently. All tribes do their best to protect the females from being captured by them.
Lin Qiu would never have thought that the current leader of the rabbit tribe would exchange the females in the tribe in order to share the territory of the wandering snake beast.
Before this, countless female rabbits had been contributed by them, and now it was her turn.
Lin Qiu couldn't help but tremble. If she was caught like this, she might as well die directly under the cliff!
The tree hole where she was was covered by bushes. Although her right leg was in terrible pain, Lin Qiu held her breath and dared not make a sound.
She could only pray that the rabbits' sense of smell was not so sensitive that they could not find her.
Lin Qiu closed his eyes and listened carefully to the noise outside.
The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and the feet were stepping on the lush grass, making a "swish" sound.
"I found you."
A sinister voice came, and Lin Qiu felt a large hand reaching out, roughly grabbing her arm and pulling her out: "Chief, I found her! She's hiding here!"
Dozens of male rabbit orcs looked at her. Lin Qiu looked at these familiar faces. The feeling of returning to the beast world became more real, but also more frightened.
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