Lethal Stunner: Kicking Off with Five Beast Husbands
Chapter 19 Find an Innocent and Easy to Manipulate

Chapter 19: Chapter 19 Find an Innocent and Easy to Manipulate

Que Zelian’s fingers lightly caressed her right cheek. Xiao Jinsheng set down the handkerchief she had been using to dab at her lips and suddenly remembered that Li’s hand had also grazed her face not long ago.

She worried whether Li had left some kind of mark on her face.

Forcing herself to remain calm, she tilted her head and asked Que Zelian with a puzzled but smiling expression, "What’s wrong?"

"There’s some dust on your face. Just cleaning it off for you." Que Zelian withdrew his hand and shifted his gaze away from Xiao Jinsheng’s exposed neck on the right, where he had brushed aside her hair.

Xiao Jinsheng’s smeared lipstick—it looked more like it had been smudged by someone else rather than just nervously bitten by herself, at least in Que Zelian’s eyes.

Xiao Jinsheng’s acting skills were excellent, but no matter how composed she appeared on the surface, she couldn’t completely hide her inner unease—or more accurately, her guilty conscience.

Que Zelian wasn’t sure what she had to feel guilty about. Adding to the mystery was how Xiao Jinsheng had fallen from the building and then suddenly reappeared in a high-risk area on the outer perimeter. The whole matter was odd.

But he had looked carefully—there was no Contractual Totem on Xiao Jinsheng’s body.

On the Mist Continent, females and Beastmen would bind themselves together through the terminal, forming a legitimate marital relationship.

And during acts of intimacy, both parties would mark each other with a Contractual Totem.

These Totems varied depending on the Beast Husband and could appear in different locations on the body.

However, there was one universal rule: the totem formed from a female’s first intimate contact with a Beastman would always manifest on the back of her neck.

Even just a simple kiss would cause the Totem to remain on both individuals for twenty-four hours.

But Xiao Jinsheng didn’t know this.

After all, the system had provided her with only the core points of the storyline—mainly details about her eventual demise—leaving many blanks.

The terminal didn’t even explain how females could enhance their spiritual power, let alone go into the nuances of Contractual Totems between men and women.

On the Mist Continent, Fog Corpses that reached 6 Star strength would awaken some human-like cognition.

After Xiao Jinsheng went missing, the five men battled a 6 Star Fog Corpse but didn’t manage to kill it.

At the time, they were too preoccupied with searching for Xiao Jinsheng, and the 6 Star Fog Corpse trapped them with an Illusion Realm.

During the ambush by the 6 Star Fog Corpse, the durability of everyone’s wristbands dropped by four digits.

They had entered with 10,000 durability points, but since they had been herding Fog Corpses and battling the 6 Star one, by the second day in Mist West, their wristband durability had been reduced to just 5,360 points.

Considering her own wristband’s original durability of 10,000 was barely holding up, Xiao Jinsheng didn’t dare imagine how females with only 1 Star or 2 Star spiritual power—receiving wristbands with only 1,000 or 2,000 durability points—could possibly survive in Mist West.

Her curiosity stemmed from her inexperience—this was Xiao Jinsheng’s first mission, and she hadn’t yet fully learned how things operated in Mist West.

After all, normal Task Takers avoided Fog Corpses altogether and focused on searching for the sparse Star Stones.

With that strategy, durability was spent solely to resist the Poisonous Fog, and even with just 1,000 durability points, a wristband could last four days.

Who would be reckless enough, like their group, to burn through over 4,000 points in just two days?

Who else, like their six-member group, would charge headfirst into clusters of Fog Corpses and provoke a 6 Star Fog Corpse?

Still, danger came hand in hand with opportunity. By late morning today, they had already collected over two hundred Star Stones.

Comparatively, if they referenced 1 Star spiritual power female teams, their half-day’s haul was equivalent to four days’ worth of effort for an average group.

Xiao Jinsheng felt incredibly conflicted, especially now that she knew the method to enhance spiritual power. It made her even more uneasy.

She couldn’t figure out why she had ended up entangled with someone as unpredictable as Li, a 10 Star Beastman.

If Li had agreed to marry her outright, she wouldn’t be this nervous.

But without the security of a marriage bond, Li’s behavior seemed entirely uncontrollable.

Her current strength wasn’t sufficient to create a life-and-death mutual dependency to pressure Li, and Xiao Jinsheng feared that any misstep could lead to disaster.

For now, she could absorb Star Stones to strengthen her body and had even negotiated with Su Ye to train her in combat skills.

The five Beast Husbands, who initially bore hostility toward her, now had various motivations for their changed attitudes. At least Que Zelian appeared to be on her side.

Su Ye had also set aside his previously antagonistic demeanor. Even Yu Yunxiao felt a deep sense of guilt for failing to protect her.

Huaiqing’s gentle temperament made him neutral and distant, someone she could put off for the moment.

Now, the only truly challenging opponent left was Mo Jiao, who had already become her adversary.

Gripping Que Zelian’s brocade waistband tightly, Xiao Jinsheng followed him step by step back to last night’s temporary shelter, her mind spinning with plans.

So... the key for now was to focus on enhancing her spiritual power.

Her gaze drifted downward, landing on Que Zelian’s lean waist cinched by the elegant Brocade waistband, and her throat grew dry as she swallowed.

Noticing her walking beside him, Que Zelian, who had been covertly observing her, turned his head and asked, "Thirsty?"

Xiao Jinsheng nodded sheepishly.

Her eyes met Que Zelian’s, which were like twin sunsets—a mesmerizing mingling of fiery red and orange, where each passing cloud seemed aflame.

Those orange-red eyes always carried a touch of elegant amusement.

And that noble and handsome face—just looking at it was a feast for Xiao Jinsheng’s eyes.

Among the five men, Mo Jiao harbored murderous intentions toward her—priority elimination.

Huaiqing was gentle but distant, Su Ye was ruggedly attractive yet fierce, and Yu Yunxiao was an arrogant figure who constantly needed coaxing.

Only Que Zelian, the refined and courteous nobleman, stood out.

Reflecting on her own past life online, Xiao Jinsheng was the type who, when faced with anyone attractive, had no qualms boasting brazenly and calling out playful taunts in games and forums.

Now, facing these five Beast Husbands, she saw no reason to back down.

With faces and physiques like theirs, and the bonus of boosting her strength, Xiao Jinsheng honestly felt she was coming out ahead.

"I remember you still have water," Que Zelian gently reminded, seeing her staring at him without speaking.

Xiao Jinsheng pressed her lips together and shook her head. "I finished my water."

Her eyes shifted to Que Zelian’s water bottle, and she looked longingly at him. "You still have some, right? Can I have a little?"

"But... I’ve already drunk from it," Que Zelian hesitated, his ears turning red as he quietly pointed it out.

"I don’t mind." Xiao Jinsheng noticed his reddened ears and smiled inwardly, all the more pleased.

Seeing she genuinely seemed thirsty, Que Zelian relented and turned, letting her take the bottle from his bag herself.

When he turned back, he saw Xiao Jinsheng delicately sipping from his bottle. Realizing that he had just been drinking from the same bottle earlier, the redness from his ears quickly climbed to his cheeks.

He hurriedly averted his gaze, no longer daring to look at her.

Xiao Jinsheng wasn’t truly thirsty; she merely took two casual sips.

She watched Que Zelian’s face, now flushed red from their shared "intimacy," and silently laughed to herself, satisfied.

While all five men were useful in different ways, this was, after all, her first time truly leveraging emotional manipulation in the real world. Her actual "experience," as boastful as she had been online, was entirely theoretical.

For her first attempt at being a proverbial "queen of the sea," she needed someone pure and easy to control.

Clearly, Que Zelian was her ideal target.

"I’m not thirsty anymore, thank you," Xiao Jinsheng smiled as she handed the bottle back to him.

"Next time we go out, I’ll make sure to prepare the food and water in your pack," Que Zelian replied, still blushing as he accepted the bottle. Even his voice had softened.

"That’s really too kind of you. I’ll give you an extra 10 points for that," Xiao Jinsheng replied with a grin.