Picked Up a Beast, Turns Out He’s an Emperor

Your esteemed master must not have told you. You have to leave a mark on this body to become the master of a beast. Otherwise, the wild beast will burst forth and rampage. If you must leave a mark, make it deep and rough. The Emperor, with amber eyes, lifted one corner of his mouth and stretched out his long neck. Arabelle, the unwanted daughter of a charlatan healer living off a rural noble’s relative, saves a dying black panther in the woods, only to be approached by the red-eyed Emperor inviting her to the palace. Asked to enter the palace as a candidate for Empress to break a curse, she firmly declares with enchanting lips not to even dream of becoming Empress. Somehow, the man she mu...