Beast World: The Crazy Female Is Chased by Five Beast Husbands - Chapter 1

February ushered in spring, and all things came back to life.

At this time, the Hundred Clans once again entered the season for seeking husbands and continuing their lineage.

In the Phoenix Clan’s Fenghuang Hall, Li Xuanyue, dressed in red, looked at the five kneeling consorts before her. Her eyes were filled with conflict, complexity, and, more than anything, the relief of someone who had narrowly escaped death.

Yes.

She had been reborn.

In her past life, on her wedding night, she had suddenly gone mad and tortured three of her consorts to death. Before dawn, the news had spread throughout the Hundred Clans.

From then on, Li Xuanyue bore the stigma of being bloodthirsty and cruel.

Later, when the Phoenix Empress passed away and the Hundred Clans elected a new ruler, Li Xuanyue was unanimously rejected. In the end, the throne went to her half-sister, Li Qinghe.

And the first thing Li Qinghe did upon ascending was to make an example of her.

The reason given was that Li Xuanyue, the eldest princess of the Phoenix Clan, had brought no glory or benefit to her people since birth. Instead, she had caused the tragic deaths of princes sent by other clans for political marriages in Fenghuang Hall. Moreover, she was incorrigible, with an insatiable thirst for bl00d. Previously, she had been shielded by the late Phoenix Empress, so Li Qinghe dared not touch her. But now that the former empress had been dead for a month, keeping Li Xuanyue alive would only be an insult to Li Qinghe.

That very night, Li Qinghe arrived at Taihe Hall with her attendants.

Clad in the new empress’s phoenix robes, her beauty was striking, her brows and eyes carrying an indescribable, captivating smile.

Every gesture exuded nobility and dominance.

Compared to the disheveled and pitiable Li Xuanyue, locked away in Taihe Hall, the difference between them was like heaven and earth.

And this was exactly the outcome Li Qinghe had longed for over the years.

Now that her dream had finally come true, she felt nothing but satisfaction.

“Why?”

Li Xuanyue lifted her gaze to meet her sister’s, who stood above her, looking down with cold superiority.

She couldn’t understand why Li Qinghe was being so ruthless.

During their mother’s reign, Li Xuanyue had never mistreated or wronged her half-sister.

How could she scheme against her again and again?

“No reason.”

Li Qinghe’s voice was icy. “This empress simply wants to crush you beneath my feet. I want you dead.”

She crouched in front of Li Xuanyue, gripping her chin harshly, her eyes dark with malice.

“Weren’t you so proud of being the Phoenix Clan’s eldest princess? So noble, so revered every clan had to bow before you. But did you know, Your Highness, that all these years, you’ve been drinking the mind-controlling poison I prepared for you?”

Li Xuanyue’s eyes widened. “What do you mean?”

Her breathing grew ragged. “You’re saying my past episodes of madness were because of you?”

“Mhm.”

Li Qinghe hummed lightly, admitting it without hesitation.

Then she released Li Xuanyue’s despised face and stood up.

“So what if you’re the eldest princess? So what if you were born noble? Did you think that just because you were kind to me, I had to grovel at your feet in gratitude?”

“Why should I?”

Her question was casual, but her disdainful gaze burned with endless, inexplicable hatred.

“We’re both princesses.”

“Why were you born into privilege while I was left in the cold palace to suffer?”

The moment Li Qinghe recalled the scenes of humiliation and abuse she and her father had endured in the Taihe Palace, a bloodthirsty madness flashed in her eyes.

“Am I merely your foil?”

She continued speaking to herself.

“Or is it because your father is the rightful consort, because you were born from the Empress’s womb while I was not, that I must always be beneath you?”

“From the day I understood this truth, I swore in my heart that one day, I would trample youthis lofty eldest princess into the mud.”

“And I am delighted to say I have succeeded.”

Li Qinghe now stood before Li Xuanyue like a victor, eagerly sharing the fruits of her malice.

“There’s more. One thing your father told you that day was correct.”

Her lips curled as she paused, savoring the devastation on Li Xuanyue’s face before whispering into her ear:

“I did have ulterior motives by your side.”

“Pity that you, ever so self assured, never took his warnings to heart.”

“That’s why he met the same miserable end as you.”

Her eyes darkened with eerie delight as she remembered Hua Shan’s gruesome death in the Zhonghe Palace.

“You!”

Overwhelmed by the truth, Li Xuanyue didn’t even notice she had bitten her lower lip until bl00d seeped out.

“And the most laughable part? You drove away the two surviving consorts by your side.”

“Did you know their clans never intended for them to return alive after sending them to the Phoenix Tribe? You arrogantly thought you were sparing them further suffering, yet in the end, it was you who doomed them!”

By the end, Li Qinghe was laughing wildly, her voice bordering on hysteria.

Li Xuanyue trembled like sand in an hourglass, her face ghostly pale, lips tinged with unnatural black purple a clear sign of deep poisoning.

“Li Qinghe, may you die a wretched death.”

Her voice dripped with endless regret and madness as she cursed.

If given another life, she would never let Li Qinghe off so easily.

“Mark my words even in death, I will return as a vengeful spirit to haunt you.”

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“Your Highness, the Second Princess has arrived.”

Meanwhile, in the Fenghe Palace, Li Xuanyue still trapped in memories of her past life was strategizing how to expose Li Qinghe’s true nature step by step when a maid hurried in with the announcement.

“Congratulations, dear sister!”

Li Qinghe’s voice rang through the hall before she even entered.

The woman, who always wore white, had surprisingly donned pale pink robes today.

With delicate brows, an aloof demeanor, and a slender waist, she perfectly embodied the image of an icy beauty.

Yet the moment she stepped inside, her gaze kept darting toward Li Xuanyue’s five consorts.

“What is my sister looking at?”

Li Xuanyue knew exactly what Li Qinghe was scrutinizing.

She was checking if her consorts had been drugged.

In her previous life, the reason her five consorts had no power to resist and were tortured to death by her was that they had been drugged with the Ten Fragrance Soft Tendon Powder beforehand.

Otherwise, with their martial skills, they wouldn’t have been tortured to death on their wedding night.

And the mastermind behind all this was none other than the person standing before her now.

Li Qinghe!