What had he ever done to humans?
Treated no better than livestock, kicked and beaten while being told he couldn't even do something so simple and still, he couldn't resist.
He could only endure.
How many times had he wished to die and be free?
If death was the only way to gain freedom, then why had he even been born?
With no hope left in living, he had been nothing more than someone waiting for death.
And then there was what Qiong Xing gave him.
Qiong Xing saw him not as a beastman, but as an individual.
Even when he nearly hurt him, Qiong Xing said it was fine and told him they would become family, and gently patted him.
He invited him to eat luxurious food together, food a slave would never have been allowed to eat in their entire life.
He asked him to become his mate, someone who otherwise would have died alone.
He could declare, without hesitation, that this moment was the happiest he had ever been in his life.
