After completing the transaction and receiving the heavy control token for the chains, Lin Wan brought the completely silent, brooding Cassian back to her temporary quarters, a secluded, luxurious courtyard rental at the edge of the border city, it was bought by Long Zhan to make it appear as if they had a house and not make people notice that they always disappeared into thin air after

The moment they stepped inside the house, Cassian walked over to the corner of the room and stood there like a cold shadow. He didn’t say a single word. His golden eyes just quietly scanned the simple wooden furniture, the wide bed, and the locked windows.

Deep inside his chest, Cassian’s blood was boiling with absolute fury and humiliation. He was a pure-blood imperial prince of the Manticore royal clan from the Upper Realm.

A few days ago, during a political ambush by his treacherous brothers, he had been severely wounded, his internal core fractured, causing him to fall through a spatial tear and faint near the Middle Realm borders.

To think that he, a supreme ruler who commanded millions of beast soldiers, had actually been captured by common slave traders and bought like a piece of livestock by a weak, tiny female!

’This is an insult to my royal bloodline,’ Cassian thought to himself, his fingers clenching into tight fists inside his heavy black iron cuffs. ’The moment my fractured core gathers even a tiny shred of spiritual energy, I will break these pathetic common seals, crush this house into dust, and kill this weak female immediately. On no account should the knowledge of me being sold become known to another. When I return home I will decimate everyone who crossed me.’

He shot a deadly, icy glare toward Lin Wan, who was currently busy setting down her shopping bags on the table.

However, before Cassian could even begin to channel his weak energy to break the iron cuffs, a sudden, violent change occurred in the atmosphere of the room.

Lin Wan suddenly froze where she was standing. A sharp, burning cramp gripped her lower belly out of nowhere, making her gasp softly as her face turned slightly pale.

Her calculations were completely off, due to the chaotic energy changes of giving birth to the two high-tier eggs two months ago, her internal female cycle had been completely disrupted. Her period was arriving right now, entirely out of nowhere, with a terrifyingly intensity.

As a high-grade, human female in a world full of beastmen, her body’s natural cycle was not a normal thing. The very second her period arrived, a sudden, massive rush of unique, ultra potent pheromones flooded the enclosed room like an exploding dam.

The scent was sweet, intoxicating, and carried a pure, primal life-force energy that belonged only to the highest tier of females in the universe.

The moment that sweet scent hit Cassian’s nose, his entire body went completely rigid.

His golden eyes instantly widened, the slitted pupils expanding until they almost filled his eyes.

The cold, calculating thoughts vanished from his brain within a single heartbeat. His beast instincts, instincts that had been sleeping for hundreds of years because no female in the Upper Realm was ever good enough to trigger them, snapped awake with a terrifying, primal roar.

His breath became heavy, loud, and raspy, his bare chest heaving violently as he stared at Lin Wan.

The unbridled scent of a female in heat completely overwhelmed his broken core, forcing his predatory dominance to take over his mind.

He didn’t care about his fractured core anymore; he didn’t care about his pride. His body demanded one thing and one thing only: to claim the female in front of him.

Lin Wan turned around, her mind still completely clouded by his passive charm, and looked at his burning golden eyes. The thick, heavy pheromones in the air made her own body feel completely hot and melted. She couldn’t resist him at all.

Cassian stepped forward, his heavy black chains rattling loudly against the wooden floorboards as he moved with predatory speed.

He reached her in a split second, his large, calloused hands gripping her waist with a rough, unstoppable force, pulling her body flush against his hot, bare chest.

"You..." Cassian growled, his voice incredibly deep, rough, and completely stripped of his usual noble accent. "What have you done to me, female?"

Lin Wan didn’t answer with words. She simply wrapped her slender arms around his neck, her dark eyes looking up at him with total, charmed surrender.

That single movement completely shattered the last thread of Cassian’s self-control. He bent his head down, his lips slamming against hers with a wild, rough, and completely unbridled passion.

The chains on his wrists rubbed against her soft skin as he lifted her effortlessly and threw her onto the wide bed.

That night, under the heavy influence of the pheromone catalyst and the man’s beast instincts, they spent a wild, continuous, and completely unbridled night together, the shadows of the room dancing under the moonlight.

In the exact middle of the night, while the room was dark and quiet, Lin Wan’s eyes suddenly snapped open.

The heavy, intoxicating charm that had been clouding her brain for hours was suddenly shattered into a million pieces. Why?

Because inside her head, a frantic, red-alert system alarm was screaming at a frequency that made her ears literally ring.

[WARNING! HOST IS IN EXTREME LEVEL FIVE DANGER! WARNING!] Weiwei’s voice was frantic, screaming at the top of her digital lungs inside Lin Wan’s mind. [Host, wake up right now! What on earth did you do while I was in the backend?! This man... this man sleeping next to you is not a common slave! My deep scanners just finished updating! His name is Prince Cassian, the supreme imperial prince and the most ruthless, villainous powerhouse of the Royal Manticore Clan from the highest Upper Realm! He is a monster!]

Lin Wan sat up slowly, her whole body aching from the wild night. She looked down at the massive, heavily muscled man sleeping deeply beside her.

Even in his sleep, his handsome face looked dark and dangerous, and a terrifying, pitch-black residual aura was slowly oozing from his skin, wrapping around the entire bed like a physical cloud.

[Host, listen to me carefully!] Weiwei yelled, her voice shaking with genuine panic. [His dark aura is so incredibly powerful and dense that it is currently creating a localized magnetic field, completely blocking my system’s spatial teleportation function! I cannot send you into the system space right now! You are trapped in this room with him! The moment his core finishes absorbing your energy, his seals will break completely, and he will wake up! You need to run right now! Escape this house immediately before he opens his eyes, or he’ll kill you!]

The sheer panic in Weiwei’s voice completely cleared the last bit of sleep from Lin Wan’s brain. Realizing the terrifying reality of what she had done, buying a man and sleeping with him, she felt a cold sweat break out across her back.

With trembling hands, she carefully slid out from under the heavy blankets, making absolutely sure not to rattle the black chains resting on the mattress.

She picked up her torn tunic from the floor, quickly changed into a fresh set of clothes from her storage bag, and didn’t even dare to put on her boots inside the room.

Holding her breath, her heart pounding so loudly she was terrified it would wake him,

Lin Wan tip-toed across the cold wooden floor. She slipped out of the bedroom door, ran through the quiet courtyard, and escaped straight into the dark, foggy night, running as fast as her legs could carry her away from the city.

A few hours later, the first rays of the morning sun broke through the window, painting the bedroom in a bright, golden light.

On the wide bed, Cassian’s long eyelashes fluttered slightly before he slowly opened his eyes.

The slitted golden pupils were completely clear now, the primal beast madness of the previous night having fully receded, leaving behind his cold, calculating royal intellect.

He felt a sudden rush of warmth inside his chest. He looked down and realized that his core had completely healed overnight, having thoroughly absorbed the pure, female’s energy.

With a simple, effortless flex of his massive arms, the thick black iron cuffs on his wrists instantly cracked and shattered into small pieces, tumbling onto the bed. His full, god-tier beast power was completely restored.

But as he reached out his large hand to pull his female back into his chest, his fingers touched nothing but cold, empty sheets.

Cassian’s handsome face froze completely. He swept the blankets aside and sat up, his golden eyes scanning the entire room. The delicate human female was completely gone.

There was no sign of her clothes, no sign of her bags, and the front door of the courtyard was swinging open in the morning wind.

She had used him to satisfy her desire and then she had abandoned him in the middle of the night, leaving him alone in an empty bed like a discarded toy.

For an imperial prince who had never been touched by anyone without his explicit command, this was the ultimate, most humiliating blow to his royal pride.

His first time had been stolen by a tiny, nameless human female who bought him out of a cage for a few measly spirit stones, and then she had the absolute audacity to run away before sunrise!

Cassian’s face turned completely dark, a terrifyingly heavy pressure exploding from his body that caused the wooden walls of the house to crack and splinter violently.

He slowly stood up from the bed, his tall, toned body looking incredibly menacing under the morning light. He calmly fixed his tattered clothes, suppressing the roaring anger inside his chest into a cold, deadly focus.

He had urgent royal affairs to handle back in the Upper Realm, and he needed to crush his treacherous brothers first. He would leave this border city today. But as he walked out of the ruined courtyard, his golden eyes looked toward the distant horizon, a dark, wicked smile appearing on his lips.

"Enjoy your freedom while it lasts, my little buyer," Cassian whispered into the wind, his voice full of an absolute, deadly promise. "I will handle my matters first. But I vow... I will find you, dismantle your little life, and lock you in a cage of my own design whenever our paths cross again. You cannot run from a Manticore."