Cheetah's MaidBride

Nineteen-year-old noble lady Carys Haverly watches as her father Morten Haverly brings his new wife Arvilla Leyton and stepdaughter Kinsley Leyton into the manor. The mother and daughter put on a warm, friendly facade toward her at first, only to drop all pretenses half a year later when Morten dies unexpectedly in the forest. Morten’s death appears to be an attack by 25-year-old black panther beastman Slade Falgren, second prince of the Beastman Empire. In truth, Slade was drugged with a special herbal concoction by his older brother Rafe Falgren — the white panther beastman and crown prince of the empire — in collusion with Arvilla. He lost control of his senses and accidentally killed Morten. Rafe used the incident as an excuse to banish Slade from the empire, leaving him to live as a disgraced, reclusive hunter deep in the woods. Left with no one to protect her, Carys is stripped of all her family fortune by Arvilla and Kinsley, demoted to the lowest-ranking maid, and subjected to endless humiliation and abuse. One day, Slade receives a deliberately insulting invitation from Rafe to attend a noble banquet at the Haverly manor. At the feast, Rafe maliciously arranges a forced marriage between Slade and the now-servant Carys, and secretly slips Slade a love potion. Overwhelmed by the drug, Slade ends up intimately involved with Carys in the manor garden. After the wedding, the two move into a small cabin in the forest and rely on each other to survive. Through countless mis