The cold stone floor bit into their knees through the thin silk of their robes, a harsh reminder of the depths to which they had fallen. Su Muli kept his head bowed, his jade-white hands clenched into fists at his sides, the nails digging crescents into his palms. The pain anchored him, kept him from dissolving entirely into the shame that threatened to consume him whole.
Beside him, Luo Yuening trembled with a violence that could not be stilled. His slender shoulders shook, the delicate line of his throat working as he swallowed against the bile rising in his gorge. He was a man—had been a man, would always be a man in the deepest core of his being, no matter what his body had become. And yet here he knelt, his soft, female body bare and vulnerable, waiting for the word of two brutes from the Black Domain.
Su Muli risked a glance upward, through the curtain of his dark lashes. Mu Zhiyu and Mu Yunshu stood before them, their faces unreadable, but their eyes... their eyes held something that made Su Muli's stomach clench. Not pity, exactly. Recognition. As though they looked upon mirror images of their own downfall.
"You hesitated," Derek's voice rumbled from somewhere behind them, deep as the grinding of stones in a riverbed. "That displeases me."
A chill that had nothing to do with the cold floor raced up Su Muli's spine. He felt the weight of the dark man's gaze on his back, felt it like a physical pressure, pressing him lower, bending his spine toward abasement.
"I will not hesitate again," Su Muli heard himself say, the words dragged from somewhere deep inside him, a place that had already surrendered. "I... I am ready. To serve."
Luo Yuening's breath caught beside him. Su Muli did not need to see his face to know the war raging behind those cold, beautiful eyes. They had stood together as equals once, two immortals whose power had commanded the heavens. Now they knelt together, two soft, yielding bodies, stripped of everything but the desperate need to survive.
"Look at me," Larry commanded, his voice lighter than Derek's, almost playful, but with a sharp edge that promised pain for disobedience.
Luo Yuening raised his head slowly, his movements stiff, mechanical. The light caught the perfect planes of his face, the delicate line of his jaw, the full, soft curve of his lips. He was beautiful, even now, even in his degradation. The knowledge of that beauty seemed to wound him.
"I said ready," Luo Yuening whispered, the words barely audible. "But I have not... I have not yet sworn."
"You will," Derek said, and there was no mercy in the words. No escape.
Su Muli's hands unclenched. He spread his fingers flat against his thighs, feeling the warmth of his own skin, the softness that had crept into his flesh over the past days. Or had it been weeks? Time had lost meaning in this place, measured only by the cycles of pleasure and pain they endured.
"I, Su Muli," he began, his voice cracking on the first word. He stopped, drew a breath that shuddered through his frame. "I, Su Muli, former Immortal Sovereign of the Celestial Realm, do hereby... do hereby renounce my rank. My station. My..."
The words lodged in his throat like stones.
"My manhood."
Beside him, Luo Yuening made a sound, high and wounded, as though the word itself had been a blade.
Su Muli forced himself to continue. The cold air against his bare skin. The weight of four gazes upon him. The knowledge that once spoken, these words could never be unsaid.
"I renounce my claim to the title of man. I submit myself, body and soul, to the authority of Derek and Larry of the Black Domain. From this day forward, I exist only to serve... to serve as their... as their pleasure. As their comfort. As their..."
He could not say the word. *Bitch.* The word his mind supplied was too vile, too degrading for lips that had once spoken commands across the heavens.
"A female dog," Derek supplied, his voice flat. "Say it."
Su Muli's eyes squeezed shut. Tears forced their way through, hot against his cold cheeks.
"I exist as their female dog," he whispered. "Bared. Begging. Forever grateful for the use of my body."
The words hung in the air, heavy as funeral shrouds.
Luo Yuening's hand found his. Their fingers intertwined, a desperate grip, two drowning souls clinging to each other in the dark.
"I, Luo Yuening," the immortal began, and his voice was stronger than Su Muli's had been, but there was a crack in it, a fault line that ran through every syllable. "I swear the same. I renounce my manhood. I renounce my immortal pride. I give myself wholly to the Black Domain, to Derek and Larry, to be used as they see fit. As a bed-warmer. As a vessel. As a... as a bitch in heat, grateful for every drop of attention bestowed upon me."
The words twisted in the air, took on form and substance. Su Muli felt them settle over his skin like a second layer, binding him, claiming him. The contract sealed itself with a pulse of dark energy that made his bones ache.
"Good girls," Larry said, and the words were almost kind. Almost. "See? That wasn't so hard, was it?"
Su Muli opened his eyes. The world looked different, somehow. Dimmer. As though a filter of grey had settled over everything, leeching away the color, the warmth. He was still Su Muli. He was also something else now. Something less.
Mu Zhiyu stepped forward, his movements fluid, graceful. He had been beautiful once too, Su Muli recalled. Still was, in a broken, polished way. The way a flower pressed between the pages of a book is beautiful, preserved but dead.
"Rise," Mu Zhiyu said softly. "Come. There is no need to kneel on the cold floor any longer."
Su Muli rose on legs that threatened to buckle. His body responded automatically, the muscles moving before his mind could catch up. Beside him, Luo Yuening rose as well, his movements stiff, reluctant.
Derek's massive hand closed around Su Muli's arm, guiding—no, pulling—him forward. Su Muli stumbled, his smaller frame no match for the dark man's strength. He found himself deposited onto Derek's lap, the hard muscle of the black man's thighs beneath him, the heat of that massive body seeping into his own.
Luo Yuening fared no better. Larry had already settled into a chair, the wood groaning under his weight, and he tugged Luo Yuening down onto his knee with casual ease. The immortal's face burned crimson, but he did not resist.
"You did well," Derek said, and his voice vibrated through Su Muli's back, through the place where their bodies touched. His hand came up to cup Su Muli's chin, tilting his face upward. "But you still look like you're attending a funeral. Smile, beauty. You've found your place in the world."
Su Muli's lips twitched. A smile. He was supposed to smile. He had just sworn away everything he was, everything he had been, and he was supposed to smile.
But Derek's thumb pressed against his lower lip, and something in Su Muli's chest unknotted. Relaxed. The tension bled out of him like water from a cracked vessel.
"Yes," he heard himself say. "Yes, Master."
The word tasted strange on his tongue. Foreign. And yet, not entirely unpleasant.
"My, my, what obedient little toys we've acquired," Larry said, his hand sliding up Luo Yuening's thigh, over the curve of his hip. The immortal shivered, a tremor that ran through his entire body. "I think I'll keep you both. Warm my bed on cold nights. What do you say, brother?"
"Suits me well enough," Derek replied. His hand had moved from Su Muli's chin to his hair, fingers threading through the dark strands. "Always preferred the jade-white ones. Soft. Pretty. Made to be fucked."
Su Muli felt Luo Yuening's gaze on him. He turned his head, met those cold, beautiful eyes. For a moment, they were simply two immortals, looking at each other across a gulf of shared degradation.
Then Luo Yuening's gaze dropped. His lashes fluttered, a fan of shadow against his cheeks. "I am grateful," he said, his voice barely above a whisper. "To be chosen. To be... to be wanted."
The words hit Su Muli like a physical blow. He understood them. He even, somewhere in the twisted new landscape of his heart, agreed with them. But hearing them spoken aloud, hearing the surrender in Luo Yuening's voice, made something inside him splinter.
"Such pretty words from such pretty lips," Larry said, and he leaned in, pressed a kiss to the corner of Luo Yuening's mouth. The immortal did not flinch. Did not pull away. "You'll make fine bed-slaves, both of you. Better than those two, I'll wager."
He gestured with his chin toward Mu Zhiyu and Mu Yunshu, who stood to the side, their eyes averted.
Mu Yunshu's face flushed. "We have served faithfully," he said, and there was a thread of hurt in his voice.
"Faithfully enough," Derek allowed. "But you were captures. These two came to us willingly, in the end. There's a difference."
Willingly. The word echoed in Su Muli's mind. Was this willingness? This desperate, cornered animal surrender? He did not know. He was no longer certain he knew anything.
Larry's hand found Luo Yuening's chest, cupping the soft mound there, squeezing. The immortal gasped, his body arching into the touch before his mind could intervene.
"Look at that," Larry laughed. "Already responding. You'll be dripping for us soon enough."
Su Muli's own body stirred at the words, at the sight of Luo Yuening being touched. He felt heat bloom in his belly, felt his nipples tighten against the air. It was wrong. He knew it was wrong. But his body no longer listened to what he knew.
"Tell me," Derek said, his voice casual, conversational, even as his hand began to explore Su Muli's body, tracing the curve of his waist, the dip of his spine. "Have you ever wondered how you came to be this way? How two immortal lords could be transformed into such perfect little beauties?"
Su Muli stiffened. He had wondered. Every day, every night, in the moments between degradation and despair, he had wondered.
"Yes," he breathed. "Master, yes."
Derek's laugh was low, rumbling. "I thought so. Every day, we soaked you in female lust powder. In spring wine of desire. In seductive incense that seeped into your pores, your bones, your very soul. Little by little, your bodies changed. Your hips widened. Your chests softened. Your voices grew sweeter."
Su Muli's breath caught. He had noticed the changes, had felt them happening, but hearing them laid out so plainly, so clinically, made his blood run cold.
"And with every dose, your minds changed too," Derek continued. "The powders didn't just reshape your bodies. They reshaped your desires. Your wants. Your needs. Until the thought of a man's touch was no longer repulsive, but necessary. Until your cunt ached to be filled."
"Please," Luo Yuening whispered, but whether he was begging for the words to stop or for the touch to continue, even he did not seem to know.
"Black essence as a supplement," Larry added, his voice taking on a singsong quality. "We marked you with it, tattooed your very flesh with female marks. Your bodies belong to us now, inside and out. Every cell, every thought, every dream."
Mu Zhiyu made a sound, soft and wounded. Mu Yunshu's hand found his, their fingers interlacing in a gesture of shared pain.
"You knew," Mu Zhiyu said, and his voice was flat. "You always knew what was being done to you."
"I suspected," Su Muli replied, and his voice was equally flat. "But knowing and hearing are different."
"Different," Luo Yuening agreed. "Knowing is a shadow of a thing. Hearing... hearing makes it real."
Derek's hand slid lower, over Su Muli's belly, between his thighs. The immortal's breath hitched, his hips tilting upward, seeking the contact.
"Does it trouble you?" Derek asked. "Knowing that you were made into what you are? That you did not come by your desires naturally?"
Su Muli stared at the far wall, at the patterns of light and shadow playing across its surface. Did it trouble him? It should. It should troub
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