After Pampering Her 5 Beast Husbands, the Villainess Struck It Rich

Chapter 21: Chapter 21: A Bed Full of Handsome Men

The large hand gripping her arm was scorching hot.

She subconsciously looked up, catching sight of tall Beastmen standing all around her. Without exception, their eyes held a faint, crimson glow.

The presence of several towering figures in the enclosed room made the air grow thick and heavy.

The temperature climbed steadily, centering on her as if it meant to melt her.

She could feel them struggling to hold back. But the one before them was their female, their master. And even if this master had committed all sorts of evil, they had just heard a completely different perspective from her own lips.

Did that mean... they could...?

Hot breath washed over the top of her head. "W-Wait a minute!" Bai Zhi cried out in a panic.

The man in front of her seemed to freeze at the sound of her voice.

Seeing him stop, Bai Zhi breathed a sigh of relief and quickly asked the system in her mind, "System, can I exchange for a few Detoxification Pills?"

System: [You may, but the corresponding amount will be deducted.]

Without a moment’s hesitation, Bai Zhi said rapidly, "Do it, do it, do it! Give them to me now!"

System: [Host, all system products are extraordinary items, and their prices are quite high. A single Detoxification Pill costs one million Star Coins. Your current balance is insufficient to purchase five Detoxification Pills.]

Hearing this, Bai Zhi froze. ’That’s not just expensive!’

Bai Zhi thought for a moment then said, "Just give me the Detoxification Pills first. I’ll do missions to pay off the debt after this is over!"

System: [Elixirs have been disbursed. Debt: 8,000,000.00 Star Coins.]

Bai Zhi was so shocked her voice rose. "Eight million! Isn’t it one million per pill? Are you price gouging me?"

System: [Host, please calm down. One million is the cash price, not the credit price.]

Bai Zhi: "..."

’So a normal purchase is one million per pill, but since I don’t have the money, buying on credit makes it two million per pill?!!’

But the situation was critical. Even knowing the system was jacking up the price, she could only grit her teeth and accept it. "I understand."

Worried that another minute’s delay would make them lose control, Bai Zhi quickly took out the Detoxification Pills, poured them into her palm, and held them out. "I have Detoxification Pills. Here, try eating these."

She was so nervous that her voice trembled slightly as she spoke.

The Beastmen before her were all towering, powerfully built figures—broad-chested and standing over 1.9 meters tall!!

She could barely handle one of them, let alone all of them at once.

’I’ll die!’

The last time she had soothed Hu Yan’s spirit sea, she had been in control, and it was only one time. She could handle that.

But this damn induction grass, just from the name, sounded like it wasn’t something that could be resolved in one go. She had no desire to be the first person to die from... *that*.

Standing closest to her were Hu Yan, Yan Yichen, and Lang Qiu. Only Sang Mo, who seemed to want no physical contact with her whatsoever, had moved to a distant corner the moment he entered the room.

As she held out the Detoxification Pills, Hu Yan stared at them for a dozen seconds before finally taking one from her hand and swallowing it.

Lang Qiu hadn’t completely lost his senses and looked at the Elixirs in her hand with some hesitation.

He had never heard of an antidote for induction grass.

In his experience, once induction grass triggered a premature rut, the only solutions were for a Beastman to mate with a female or to endure it with sheer willpower. There were no other options.

Not long after Hu Yan took the pill, he felt the turmoil in his body gradually subside. Although his eyes were still crimson, his reason returned. The urge to break something that had just consumed him vanished, and the heat in his body dissipated.

Seeing that Hu Yan had no adverse reaction and, in fact, seemed much calmer, Lang Qiu also took a pill from Bai Zhi’s hand and swallowed it.

When the others saw this, they too each took a pill and consumed it.

Yan Yichen and Yue Junxiao’s superpowers were weaker in comparison, so their self-control wasn’t as strong as Hu Yan’s and Lang Qiu’s. It had been Yan Yichen who had first grabbed Bai Zhi’s arm. Hu Yan had then wrapped one arm around her waist while using his other forearm to pin Yan Yichen against the wall, preventing him from losing his mind.

This was what had given Bai Zhi the time to get the Detoxification Pills.

Lang Qiu stuffed one pill into Yan Yichen’s mouth with one hand and handed another to Yue Junxiao.

Not long after taking the antidote, they all returned to normal.

Bai Zhi’s eyes had been fixed on them ever since they took the pills. Seeing them return to normal, she let out a breath of relief. ’Even though I’m up to my ears in debt now, at least the antidote worked. It’s good that they’re back to normal.’

Bai Zhi didn’t know that her actions this time had thoroughly exposed her in Hu Yan’s eyes.

She was just feeling grateful that she had dodged a bullet.

Sympathizing with the fact that they had just endured a rut, Bai Zhi said kindly, "Do you want to rest for a bit?"

After a quick glance around, she saw that aside from the bed, there was only a single sofa, which Sang Mo was sitting on. She offered, "Why don’t you all sit on the bed?"

Subsequently, four handsome and distinct Beast Husbands sat on the bed. The sight dazzled Bai Zhi.

She had honestly just been thinking of their well-being, but looking at a bed full of handsome men...

’This... why does this feel a little erotic?’

Yan Yichen felt a little strange. He didn’t understand why Bai Zhi had rejected them just moments ago, only to invite them onto the bed now.

’Was she worried that we’d be too rough during our rut?’

Bai Zhi didn’t know what he was thinking. If she did, she would have cried out: ’You’ve got it all wrong!’

Looking at a room full of handsome men, even though the effects of the induction grass were gone, Bai Zhi still felt an indescribable awkwardness. She didn’t know whether to sit or stand.

Imagine just having been drugged with an aphrodisiac with a group of people and almost having a group... thing. Even though it didn’t happen, the atmosphere alone was enough to make things awkward.

Bai Zhi was no social butterfly; she couldn’t just instantly forget what had just happened.

Thinking about it made her heart pound with lingering fear. She’d heard stories about people getting drugged before, but she never imagined there’d be something here that could induce a rut in Beastmen on such a large scale—the kind of thing you only read about in novels.

She didn’t dare to imagine what would have happened today if Hu Yan and the others hadn’t been there, or if she hadn’t had the Detoxification Pills.

Bai Zhi suddenly seemed to remember something and asked, "How did you know it was induction grass?"

Lang Qiu explained, "We encountered it once before while hunting. At the time, an SS-class Flame Beast was guarding a red fruit. The SS-class Flame Beast had attracted many mercenary teams to hunt it, but someone mistakenly took some induction grass. It caused all the beasts in the area to go into a frenzy. Between the stampeding beast horde and the rampaging SS-class Flame Beast, many mercenaries were killed or injured. The smell was exactly the same as the one in the banquet hall today."

If Lang Qiu hadn’t identified the induction grass immediately, and if Hu Yan hadn’t given her a handkerchief to cover her face so she didn’t inhale much of it... if she had been the one to inhale the induction grass...

Bai Zhi knew she didn’t have their kind of self-control...