"This isn't hell, so why does it feel even more terrifying?"
I, Li Yuan, had just narrowly escaped death. Only minutes ago, I was nearly a meal—in the most literal sense—for a pack of ravenous female Goblins in a damp, stinking cave. But a freak dimensional rift had snatched me away, tossing my small body onto the cold, hard concrete of a bridge in the dead of night.
I gasped for air, the small succubus wings on my back trembling violently. I tried to stand, but the sight before me made my brain freeze. I was on a massive bridge spanning a dark, rushing river. All around me, skyscrapers loomed like the spears of gods piercing the clouds, adorned with blinding neon lights.
This was a modern world. But something was wrong.
The women walking past on the sidewalk... they weren't normal. They were tall. Impossible tall. The shortest among them seemed to be at least 180 cm, walking with absolute confidence, while the men accompanying them looked petite, submissive, and... pampered?
Just as I prepared to scramble behind a bridge pillar to hide, a massive black shadow suddenly swallowed me. I froze. The air around me turned cold, filled with the scent of sandalwood—a fragrance so potent yet strangely calming.
I looked up slowly, and my heart nearly stopped.
Standing before me was a woman who looked as if she had been carved from the finest marble. She wore a charcoal-grey business suit that fit her extraordinarily tall frame—exactly two meters tall—perfectly. Her straight black hair fell to her waist, and behind thin-framed glasses, a pair of sharp eyes stared down at me with an intensity that could melt steel.
"Little one," her voice was heavy, deep, and vibrated in my chest. "Jumping from here won't solve your problems."
She thought I was trying to kill myself? I wanted to scream at her. I wanted to tell her that I was a 25-year-old man, a male Succubus with pride! But as I stared at her leather boots, which reached the height of my knees, all my courage evaporated.
"I... I'm not—"
Grab!
Before I could finish my sentence, her large hand gripped the collar of my tattered shirt. With one casual motion, she hoisted me into the air. My feet kicked at the empty space. I felt like a stray kitten being picked up by an apex predator.
Our faces were level now. Her warm breath brushed against my skin. Her eyes scanned my body, lingering for a moment on my pointed ears and the small wings peeking shyly from behind my shirt.
"Quiet now. You're shivering as if you're freezing," she said expressionlessly, but with a tone of dominance that brooked no argument. "My name is Su Qian. From this moment on, you are my responsibility. I don't like messy sights on my bridge."
Without waiting for my consent, she carried me toward a black SUV that looked like a tank in my eyes. She opened the door, tossed my body onto the plush passenger seat, and electronically locked the doors.
I tried to reach for the door handle, but my hand couldn't even reach it. I was trapped. In this alien world, I had just been kidnapped by a two-meter-tall woman who thought I was a depressed child.
And the most terrifying part? My Succubus instincts began to whisper that I... actually liked the scent of her perfume.