The little female is incredibly sweet and soft, healing the five evil beasts right from the start.

Chapter 17 Suspicion
Zhao Ci frowned, but still went over and drank it, downing the whole bowl in one go, and casually wiping the soup stains that had spilled from the corners of his mouth.

He casually washed the bowl and put it back, then walked back to Jiang Mian and coldly said, "All done."

Jiang Mian paused, her gaze falling on the sofa opposite her, and then said, "Sit down, let's talk slowly."

Zhao Ci glanced at Jiang Mian, then lifted his long legs and sat down on the sofa opposite Jiang Mian. His brows and eyes still held a rebellious and aloof air, as if his rebellious spirit could not be broken no matter what.

Jiang Mian:......

"What happened this morning was not my intention. Punish me however you wish." Zhao Ci's expression was indifferent as he quietly looked at Jiang Mian. "I will not retaliate."

Jiang Mian paused. He thought he had figured things out and was going to accept her rules, but he didn't expect it was because of what happened that morning.

However, a thought suddenly struck her. This was a good way to ease tensions. She thought of something and said, "I won't punish you, but you have to follow the rules I set out with you a few days ago."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Ci sneered, "Trying to please you? Dream on."

Jiang Mian took a deep breath. Why did these people always misinterpret her words?

"When I say 'good to me,' I mean the kind of good that exists between friends, not the kind of flattering good that exists between a master and a beast slave," Jiang Mian had no choice but to explain, while also looking at the other beastmen, "You guys listen to me carefully, this is what I mean by 'good.'"

She slowly began to speak: "The purpose of this rule is to hope that we can live in peace, forgive each other, and settle all scores. Being good to me is my evaluation standard. When I think you have met this standard, I can let you leave, and even give you the status of free orcs."

Jiang Mian gave a lengthy explanation, hoping they would stop misinterpreting her meaning.

"Why make things so complicated when we're even?" Zhao Ci looked at her coldly.

Jiang Mian's eyebrows twitched slightly, and then she heard Zhao Ci speak in a low voice: "If you cut off your own arm, we'll be even."

His wings were broken by the original owner, and now he wants Jiang Mian to cut off her own arm?
Jiang Mian:......

Putting aside the fact that she wasn't the one who tortured them, why should she cut off her own arm?

Besides, he is now another Jiang Mian in the future, so it's impossible for him to have lost an arm.

Seeing Jiang Mian's silence, Zhao Ci gave a mocking smile: "What? Didn't you want to settle things evenly?"

Jiang Mian thought she had a pretty good temper, but being ridiculed like this time and time again, did they really think she had no temper?

“Since that’s the case,” Jiang Mian laughed in exasperation, “you can disregard the rules, then all the other beastmen can leave, and you can stay by my side forever as my beast slave, doing laundry, cooking, kneeling and serving me.”

Upon hearing this, Zhao Ci's expression indeed turned grim.

"Sister, can we really be friends?" Chi Lin suddenly smiled with interest. "You don't have to be a lowly beast slave anymore?"

Jiang Mian paused, glanced at Chi Lin, wondering what the point of his question was.

Because for the past two weeks, they hadn't treated the original owner as their master at all, and they didn't have any sense of being beast slaves.

Each of them was more like the original owner than she was, and everyone treated the original owner like an enemy. She said that treating them like friends would be considered good enough.

I dare not hope for anything more.

After all, in the original owner's memories, other people's beast slaves would kneel and serve their masters, with their heads bowed and eyes lowered, and they would be inferior to their masters.

The five beast slaves on this starship were all disrespectful and rebellious, and they were looking for an opportunity to break free from the control of the brain chip and kill their original owner.

"Hmm." Jiang Mian collected her thoughts and simply nodded slightly.

She herself did not like the way humans and beastmen interacted in this era where humans kept beastmen as pets.

She was happy to return to this era because humans had a high status and no longer needed to be domesticated.

However, I don't like this way of getting along.

"That sister is so kind." Chi Lin smiled slightly.

Jiang Mian always felt that he was being sarcastic.

However, she didn't say anything more. Zhao Ci merely frowned, stood up, turned, and left, it was unclear whether she had taken her words to heart.

However, in the following days, whenever Jiang Mian asked him to come out for a nutritious soup, he would come out, although he still didn't give Jiang Mian a friendly look.

Even if Jiang Mian doesn't call out, he will come out on his own.

Moreover, we are almost at the polluted planet where we were exiled.

Jiang Mian finally felt that her relationship with the five orcs had progressed. Although it wasn't quite like that of best friends, at least they had achieved the goal of not wanting to kill her.

However, this idea was shattered again this morning.

When Jiang Mian woke up this morning, she felt dizzy and lightheaded.

She felt unwell all over, especially in her head!

After Jiang Mian finished washing up, she stared at the two or three reflections of herself in the mirror and shook her head slightly. With this shake, the reflections instantly multiplied.

She was certain that there was nothing wrong with the nutritious soup she drank.

The nutrient solution is naturally fine as well.

As for the plants from which nutrients are extracted, she confirmed that they were not poisonous.

Could it be that someone put something in the nutritious soup?

Jiang Mian's slender, pale fingers supported the white porcelain on the washstand, her fingertips applying slight pressure.

Soon after, a wave of nausea washed over her, and she leaned against the sink, vomiting violently.

After a while, the blurry figure in front of me finally disappeared.

Jiang Mian slowly placed her slender fingertips on her hand to take her pulse.

Before long, her heart sank.

She first washed her face and dried it before slowly walking out, taking out her medicine box and starting to prepare the antidote.

This body was poisoned; it was already poisoned before she arrived.

Moreover, it's a slow-acting poison that first makes a person gradually lose their senses, then slowly becomes completely stupid, and finally dies.

Jiang Mian speculated that many people were responsible for the poisoning.

She could be the fake heiress of the Xingjiang family in the capital, or she could be any of the orcs on this starship.

It's speculated that the poison was administered about two weeks ago, so these people could have poisoned her.

The fake heiress of the Jiang family in the capital originally wanted to kill the original owner, so poisoning was a possibility.

As a butterfly beastman, Zhao Ci's glittery wings are an aphrodisiac for courtship, but a poisonous powder when killing.

Rinyu, as a snake-beastman, also has venom in his teeth.

Chi Lin, as a scorpion beastman, also has a poisonous tail tip.

Rong Fei is a lizard beastman, but he is skilled in medicine. Last time, the injection directly poisoned an adult beastman, so he might have poisoned him.

Li Yan is a wolf-beastman, and there is currently no reason to suspect him, but it is possible that he is hiding poison.

Jiang Mian felt a chill run down her spine as many memories flashed through her mind, but she couldn't find the person who had poisoned her.

Everyone is a prime suspect.

(End of this chapter)