Chapter 1

As purebred humans, my sister Lily and I arrived on the Beastman Continent with the Breeding System, meant to help the beastmen breed and secure their future..

The system offered two talent trees for us to choose from.

Lily hated the idea of pregnancy, so she jumped first and picked the low-tier talent: Surrogacy.

I got stuck with the high-tier one: Litter of Many.

We ended up mated to the wolf alpha and the tiger alpha, respectively.

Lily had a wandering heart and secretly slept around with all kinds of beastmen behind closed doors.

But she was terrified that getting pregnant would expose her affairs, so she kept using her Surrogacy talent on me.

Over and over again, I was forced to birth litter after litter of low-grade beast pups. The whole continent was buzzing with rumors about me—that I'd spread my legs for anyone.

My so-called mate, the wolf alpha Tyron wouldn't listen to a word I said. He called me cheap, a slut, a whore. Every time I gave birth, he'd kill the pups.

In the end, I was tortured to death.

When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day the system was activated.

Chapter 1

As purebred humans, my sister and I arrived on the Beastman Continent with the Breeding System, meant to help the beastmen reproduce.

The system offered two talent trees for us to choose from.

My sister hated the idea of pregnancy, so she jumped first and picked the low-tier talent: Surrogacy.

I got stuck with the high-tier one: Litter of Many.

We ended up mated to the wolf alpha and the tiger alpha, respectively.

My sister had a wandering heart and secretly slept around with all kinds of beastmen behind closed doors. But she was terrified that getting pregnant would expose her affairs, so she kept using her Surrogacy talent on me. Over and over again, I was forced to birth litter after litter of low-grade beast pups. The whole continent was buzzing with rumors about me—that I'd spread my legs for anyone.

My so-called mate, the wolf alpha Tyron Greyclaw, the most honored beastman of all, wouldn't listen to a word I said. He called me cheap, a slut, a whore. Every time I gave birth, he'd kill the pups, stuff them into my mouth, and force me to swallow.

I couldn't take that kind of inhuman torture anymore. In the end, I was tortured to death.

When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day the system was activated.

Chapter 2

The day finally came when my sister and I were set to activate our talents.

Alphas from every major tribe across the Beastman Continent poured in, crowding around our sacred altar until there was no room left to breathe. Because my sister and I were about to receive Heaven-blessed Breeding Talents, meant to help the beastmen carry on their bloodlines.

Before the activation even started, Lily was already swaying her hips like a snake, putting on a show for all those alphas, flaunting every bit of her charm.

She looped her arm through mine, her voice dripping with honey. "Seraphina, darling, you're still young. You don't understand how complicated this world is. Let me go first, and I'll save the best one for you."

That was exactly what she said in my past life. And she did pick the low-tier Surrogacy talent, leaving the high-tier Litter of Many for me. Back then, I was so grateful. I actually thought there was some real sisterly love between us. I never saw it coming, that from the very start, Lily planned to make me her stand-in, to take every single fall for her. She spent her nights tangled up with different beastmen, while I went through the agony of childbirth over and over again, becoming the filthiest woman in the eyes of every beastman on the continent.

Thinking about it now, a wave of hatred crashed over me. Since fate was giving me a second chance, this time I was going to rewrite my own story.

Right then, two golden rays descended from the sky. In front of us appeared the talent options, visible only to my sister and me.

With the memory of my past life burned into my mind, I lunged toward the light on the left. That should have been the low-tier Surrogacy. But when I got a clear look, I realized it was something else entirely, a Celestial-tier talent I'd never seen before in my previous life: Bloodline Evolution.

While I stood there frozen, Lily's muttering reached my ears. "Surrogacy? That means I don't have to go through the pain of childbirth? Perfect. I'll take it."

Hearing that, my confusion turned into pure exhilaration. Lily clearly wanted me to cover for her reckless affairs again, but this time I was going to break free from her grip for good. With this Bloodline Evolution talent, I'd never have to carry that stain again.

Without wasting a second, I quietly absorbed the Celestial-tier Bloodline Evolution into my body while Lily wasn't watching.

Lily took her Surrogacy talent, then turned to me with a probing tone. "Seraphina, I left the good one for you. What talent did you get?"

I lied to her. "Litter of Many."

A flicker of a smile darted across her face before she quickly smoothed it down.

Then Lily raised her voice, calling out to all the alphas around us. "Alphas, it's time for you to choose your mates. I'm Lily, I don't fight over anything. But my sister Seraphina has to be first at everything. So I gave up the higher talent for her. You should all consider her first."

That was exactly the speech she used in my past life, lifting herself up while throwing all the attention onto me, planting the seeds for what came later.

Right then, a powerful, towering figure stepped forward. He was clad in silver armor, my so-called mate from my previous life, Tyron Greyclaw. As a wolf alpha with ancient Bloodline, he held the highest claim to choose his mate among all beastmen on the continent.

His eyes landed on me. I quickly looked away. I didn't want him to pick me again. He was domineering and brutal. No matter how much I tried to explain in my past life, he'd already decided I was unfaithful, and he kept tormenting me over and over.

But he still walked up to me and took my hand.

Lily looked a little disappointed on the side. She'd thought her act of playing weak would make Tyron choose her. But Tyron had always valued bloodline and talent above all else. In my past life, if it hadn't been for Lily's jealousy driving her to make me carry nine dog-beast pups right away, if I'd first given Tyron a pure-blooded pup, maybe things would've turned out differently.

But none of that mattered anymore. This time, I wasn't staying with him.

Chapter 3

Tyron held my hand and spoke in a voice dripping with false affection. "Seraphina, will you be my mate?"

Thunderous applause erupted all around. In the eyes of the other beastmen, Tyron's bloodline was noble, and with me, he was sure to produce high-tier offspring, maybe even a new Beast King. These years, the tribes had been torn by endless conflicts and wars. They desperately needed a new king to rise and unite the continent.

I was racking my brain for a way to turn him down without giving away that I'd lived this life before.

But before I could get a word out, Tyron shoved me away hard. He stared at me with pure disgust and spat out, "Filthy human woman. Even with a high-tier talent, I'd never take you."

The crowd erupted in chaos. They all turned to Tyron, demanding an explanation, because I was supposed to be Heaven's blessed vessel for new life.

Tyron looked down at me with utter contempt, even spat at my feet. Then he swept his gaze across the crowd and announced, in the tone of a judge passing sentence, "I carry the ancient Bloodline. I can see fragments of the future. The moment I touched Seraphina's hand, I saw it, she would birth nothing but lowborn beasts, worthless bloodlines, every single time. So there's no way I'm mating with her. She's a loose woman, unfaithful to her core. Any beastman who takes her is inviting shame into his home."

The alphas exchanged glances, faces full of disbelief.

Then Lily stepped up beside me, shaking her head like she was so disappointed she didn't even know what to say. She pointed at me, her voice dripping with performative heartbreak. "Seraphina, what am I supposed to do with you? Even after the system activated, you still can't change your old ways? Back in the day, you'd flirt with every stray mutt that walked past. How many times did I warn you? A girl needs dignity and restraint. How could you just forget all of that?"

I was about to explode. She was describing herself. I shouted back, "That's not true! I'm nothing like that. They're lying about me!"

But no one listened. Under the combined smear campaign from Tyron and Lily, I was swallowed whole by the mob's fury. They leered at me with revolted looks, hurling insults one after another.

"Wouldn't have guessed it. Looks so clean on the outside, but this dirty behind closed doors."

"What a waste of Heaven's gift. You think we beastmen don't have standards?"

"Since you love to play so much, maybe we'll throw you a beastmen party and you can perform for us in public."

My face went pale. My whole body was trembling. I'd come back for a second life, and the filth was coming at me even faster and harder than before.

And Tyron, the one who started all of this, couldn't care less about how I felt. He walked straight over to my sister Lily, grabbed her hand, and bent down to kiss it. "I may value bloodline," Tyron said, "but I value reputation more. I'll only take a clean, pure woman like Lily as my mate."

Lily looked flattered, her cheeks flushing pink with false modesty. Then she shot me a smug look and said, with meaning dripping from every word, "Dear sister, your turn to choose."

The watching alphas scattered like they were fleeing the plague, leaving a wide berth around me. In the end, only a handful of disgraced, lowlife beastmen remained in front of me.

Their eyes lit up, drool hanging from the corners of their mouths, calling out to me greedily.

"Seraphina, since the decent beastmen won't have you, come home with me."

"Don't let my snake form fool you. I've got skills that put any wolf to shame."

"I run an underground fighting pit. Come to me and I'll give you any kind of man you want."

My stomach churned. Their vile, leering faces were on full display right in front of me.

Even Tyron seemed a little uncomfortable, probably because he still remembered I'd once been his mate. He looked at me with contempt and said coldly, "Seraphina, if you can learn to be a little more restrained, I wouldn't mind taking you back as a servant girl."

Lily didn't like the sound of that at all. She hurriedly urged me, "Seraphina, just pick someone already! What's there to be picky about with a reputation like yours? It's already a miracle that anyone's even willing to take you. Just grab one quick, or you'll lose even that chance."

I ignored her completely. Instead, I lifted my gaze to the distant, towering peak of Fanghold Mountain.

The mate I wanted was up there.

Chapter 4

Up in that mountain lived a man once known as the Beast King, the supreme ruler of the entire continent, yet long forgotten by everyone. His true name was Kael Stormwind.

In my past life, I'd heard countless versions of Kael's story. Some said he'd been confined to the palace on the mountain by Heaven for his tyrannical rule, forbidden to leave. Others said he should have died long ago, that the beastmen who'd gone missing over the years were all secretly killed by him, that he was surviving by stealing beast cores through dark magic. Plenty of theories, all of them negative.

But when I jumped off that cliff in my past life, I accidentally discovered Kael's secret. As I fell past the mountain palace, I saw him taking a group of young beastmen out for air. Those little ones were all disabled beast infants abandoned by their tribes, the kind that would normally be thrown off the mountain to die.

I refused to believe that a man with that much compassion could be the monster everyone claimed he was. More importantly, Kael's bloodline was said to accept all species. With him, I could birth any kind of beast, which would also help me cover up Lily's schemes against me.

That was why Kael would be my best mate in this life.

I walked quickly toward the mountain palace, and the beastmen followed behind me, jeering and cursing.

"Seraphina really has no other options left, going after the Beast King of all people."

"I heard that Kael doesn't even like women. That little body of hers wouldn't even be a mouthful for him."

"Maybe that's exactly her plan, using the title of queen to make it easier to run around behind closed doors."

I ignored them and soon reached the path leading up to the palace. The beastmen, however, were wary of Kael's lingering power and didn't dare follow any further.

I kept walking, and soon Tyron's voice rang out from behind me. "Seraphina, don't think you can do whatever you want just because you've hidden yourself in that mountain palace. Kael won't want you. If you don't want to die, come back with me now and serve your sister properly as a slave."

I stopped and turned to look at him. A faint, cold smile curled at the corner of my mouth. "We've only just met. What business of mine is any of your concern?"

Tyron froze. In my past life, I'd always felt so guilty about giving birth to those mixed beasts that I'd obeyed his every command, hoping he'd defend me. This was the first time I'd ever talked back to him. His face flushed with rage and he stomped his foot hard.

I didn't care how he reacted. I just kept walking.

Lily, on the other hand, raised her voice to a shrill pitch and shouted toward the mountain palace. "Kael! My little sister here says she wants to marry you! Make sure you keep a close eye on her, because in the blink of an eye, she might be carrying someone else's pup!"

Finally, I reached the palace gates. The moment I stepped through, a wave of pressure pushed me back. A cold voice followed. "Leave. Now."

I hurriedly said, "Lord Stormwind, I've been slandered and framed. There's nowhere left for me on the entire continent. Please take me in."

He said flatly, "I heard enough of your conversation. I'm not interested in you. Leave."

I couldn't back down. I pressed on. "I know you take care of abandoned beastmen. I'm not asking you to take me as your mate. I just want to help you look after them."

He paused for a moment, then finally said in that same cold tone, "Come in."

Chapter 5

I made it inside the mountain palace and met Kael Stormwind face to face.

He wasn't as old as I'd imagined. Even though a hooded black cloak covered most of his face, he gave off the feeling of a cold, aloof young man. He was distant, keeping me at arm's length, only telling me to help care for those disabled beastmen.

But I believed this was a good start. As long as I never left the mountain palace, Lily's schemes against me would fall apart on their own.

And Lily moved even faster than she had in my past life. The very next day, I felt a wave of pregnancy energy enter my belly. My dear sister sure worked fast, having an affair on the very first day of her new marriage. I sensed it, this time she'd been with a ratman. She'd clearly chosen the beast that could reproduce the fastest, wanting to get me thrown out of Lord Stormwind's side as soon as possible, before he actually took an interest in me.

I activated my Bloodline Evolution talent immediately. If nothing went wrong, what I'd birth this time wouldn't be an ordinary ratman, but a griffin.

Over the next few days, I stayed on edge, wanting to tell Lord Stormwind the truth, but afraid he'd kick me out before I could give birth. Luckily, he didn't pay much attention to me. Even when my belly started to swell slightly, he didn't seem to notice.

But ten days later.

Lily and Tyron showed up at the mountain palace with a troop of beast soldiers. Ratmen had a very short gestation period, only ten days. Lily had clearly timed it perfectly.

She shouted from outside the palace gates. "Oh, my dear sister, what am I supposed to say about you? A few days ago I saw you sneaking off with a ratman, and now I sense you're pregnant. You didn't actually get knocked up by some lowly ratman bloodline, did you?"

Lord Stormwind, who'd been nearby, instinctively looked at my belly. When he saw the slight swell, his brow furrowed slightly, but he didn't question me.

Lily kept yelling outside. "Seraphina, get out here and let me check. I can't let you embarrass all of humanity!"

Soon after, Tyron's voice joined in. "Lord Stormwind, I'm going to check whether Seraphina is pure or not! If you don't bring her out, I'll have my soldiers storm the palace!"

Tyron, arrogant in his position as the wolf alpha heir, clearly didn't take Lord Stormwind seriously, thinking he was old and weak.

I couldn't let them catch me. I had every reason to believe that once they saw my pregnant belly, they'd cut me open to see what beast I was carrying. And the baby inside hadn't evolved yet, still a ratman. I'd have no way to defend myself.

I looked at Lord Stormwind in desperation, tears welling up in my eyes. I pleaded, "Lord Stormwind, please believe me. I haven't done anything wrong. It's all because of our human system talent—"

Before I could finish, he raised a hand to stop me. He walked straight to the palace gates.

When Lord Stormwind came out alone, Tyron immediately demanded, "Where's that whore Seraphina?"

Lily chimed in right beside him. "She's definitely carrying some lowborn beast and doesn't dare show her face!"

The moment the words left their mouths, two sharp cracks rang out. Lord Stormwind had raised his hand and slapped each of them across the face.

Tyron, always proud, froze for a second, then roared at him. "You... you dare hit me?"

Lord Stormwind's voice was cold and absolute, brooking no argument. "I haven't stepped down. All of you are still my subjects. My queen is none of your concern. Anyone still here in three breaths will die."

Chapter 6

The moment those words left his mouth, a chilling wave of killing intent exploded from Lord Stormwind. Even standing several meters behind him, I could feel the vast, overwhelming pressure of a true ruler. He was no ordinary beastman. Even if he'd withdrawn from the world for years, no new king had ever risen to take his place. That alone spoke to how deep his power ran.

After witnessing Lord Stormwind's true strength, Tyron finally calmed down. He only said, "Maybe we were mistaken. But I'd still remind you, my lord, don't let one woman drag the entire beastman race through the mud."

With that, he fled with Lily in tow.

Before she left, Lily couldn't resist one last jab. "Lord Stormwind, just wait and see. Seraphina will give birth to a ratman. Surely your noble bloodline wouldn't produce something so low and filthy?"

I knew she wouldn't stop there. In the days to come, she'd keep using her Surrogacy talent on me, over and over again.

Lord Stormwind walked back into the hall. He looked at my belly again, confusion flickering in his eyes. "How did this child come about?"

He'd stood up for me without knowing a thing, even called me his queen in front of everyone. I trusted his character completely now. He would believe me.

So I told him everything about my sister's talent and mine. I laid out all the humiliation and bitterness I'd endured, across both lives. Even the proud, solitary Lord Stormwind couldn't help but stiffen as he listened. When he looked at me again, his gaze had softened. He spoke gently, comforting me. "From now on, as long as I'm here, they'll never hurt you again."

I let out a long breath. In this life, I'd chosen the right path.

One day later, I gave birth without complications. It wasn't an ordinary ratman. Though it looked like a rodent, it had a pair of wings, and its cry sounded almost like a lamb's bleat. Those were the exact traits of a juvenile griffin. With my Bloodline Evolution talent, I really could give birth to ancient mythical beasts that had long gone extinct!

Through the whole delivery, Lord Stormwind dropped his usual cold demeanor completely. He fussed over me, stayed by my side, his concern written all over his face. Even though the child wasn't his, he was still thrilled. He held the little griffin in his arms, excitement lighting up his voice. "Heaven has truly bestowed such a miraculous gift upon us. Seraphina, you're incredible!"

Watching him like that, warmth spread through my chest. My child finally had a father.

I asked him to take the griffin to another room and come back, because I had something important to tell him. When he returned and asked what it was, I pulled him down onto the bed.

He looked startled, almost flustered. "Seraphina, what are you doing?"

I leaned in close, my breath brushing against his ear. "That griffin isn't really our child. I want to carry your bloodline."

He tried to push me away gently, concern in his voice. "No, you haven't recovered yet."

I let out a soft laugh. "We humans don't need time to recover. Besides, if I don't get pregnant soon, Lily will hit me with her Surrogacy talent again."

I had to get pregnant before Lily made her move. Hearing that, Lord Stormwind finally pulled me into his arms. He pressed a kiss to my cheek, his voice filled with anticipation. "You turned a ratman into a griffin. Seraphina, I can't wait to see what kind of divine beast you and I will create together."