Clumsy Beast, Keep Your Paws Off novel Chapter 308

Chapter 308: Chapter 308: A Sin Against the Beast God

"This woman," Su Mingxuan said, pointing a shaking finger at the shivering Mu Lihua in the mud, "used black magic to curse my mind. She made me forget my bond with Mulan. She made me believe I was mated to her!"

"Wang Mulan never left me by her own choice. She was a sensible and loving female. She would never have abandoned her tribe or her mate unless she was forced!"

Mu Lihua tried to scramble away, but the circle of beastmen tightened around her. Her face was pale, and she looked like a cornered animal.

"I didn’t! It wasn’t me!" she shrieked, but her voice lacked conviction.

Su Mingxuan stepped toward her again, his shadow looming over her. "She must have done something to her. She hid her, or she drove her out while I was under a spell. And the worst part..."

He looked back at Su Qinglan and Lan Yue standing on the porch. "She made me believe Su Qinglan was her daughter, while she treated the child like trash to hide her own crime!"

Grandma Su looked at Mu Lihua with pure disgust.

"If this is true, Mu Lihua, you have committed the greatest sin against the Beast God. To sever a true mate bond with black magic is a crime that demands blood."

In the beast world, the mate bond was the most sacred thing in existence. It was the ultimate blessing of the Beast God.

To hear that someone had used black magic to sever and fake such a bond was a crime beyond imagination.

The crowd began to whisper the name they all feared: the Black Temple.

The beastmen had only heard rumors of that dark place.

It was famous for hideous crimes, from the trafficking of young females to the kidnapping of male cubs.

Some said that the evil, ferocious beasts roaming the wilderness were actually the spawn of Black Temple workers, punished by the Beast God and turned into monsters.

No one knew if these were just myths to keep people away, but the fear was real.

Suddenly, a female fox beastman screamed, her voice filled with realization. "No wonder we are being punished! No wonder our tribe is suffering!"

The crowd looked at her as she continued. "We haven’t had a single female child born in years, and even our male cubs are becoming fewer. The Beast God is punishing us for giving shelter to a worker of the Black Temple!"

This thought spread like wildfire. The angry voices of the Fox Tribe rose into a deafening roar.

Even the Rabbit and Lion tribe members, who had been watching from the edges of the crowd, were stunned.

Their own hatred for the Black Temple surged. Everyone in the beast world, regardless of their tribe, hated the existence of those who practiced dark magic.

Mu Lihua, sitting in the mud, began to wail and shake her head violently. "No! It’s not me! I didn’t work for the Black Temple! I have never even been there!"

She saw the murderous looks in the eyes of the beastmen and realized that if she didn’t give them a bigger target, she would be torn apart right there.

"It was the Old Witch Doctor!" she shrieked.

She had blurted out the truth to save her life, but she realized too late that she had only confirmed she was an accomplice to the greatest evil in their world.

There was no taking it back now.

She lifted her head, her eyes locking onto Su Qinglan, who stood silently at the treehouse gate.

A fresh wave of hatred burned in Mu Lihua’s chest. The old witch doctor had been right. This girl was a jinx.

As long as she was alive, their plans were doomed. Now, because of this bitch, every secret she had guarded for twenty years was out in the open.

Mu Lihua wanted to scream. She wanted to rush forward and claw at Su Qinglan’s face, to ruin the features that reminded her so painfully of Wang Mulan.

Only Mu Lihua knew how many times she had tried to kill Su Qinglan when she was a child.

She had expected a small, weak cub to die easily, but the girl was like the spawn of a demon. She always survived.

Mu Lihua remembered the night she had snatched the skinny, newborn cub from Wang Mulan’s side.

She had hidden the baby and refused to feed her for two whole days, waiting for the small heart to stop beating. But the cub didn’t die. She had survived on nothing but sheer will.

As the years passed and the child began to grow, the resemblance to Wang Mulan became a nightmare for Mu Lihua.