Reader advisory:
1: In a world of beastfolk, females eventually become the rulers of the world after fighting many battles. Only females remain in this world.
2: In the beastfolk world, survival of the fittest is absolute, and beastfolk can reproduce without males. They do not recognize kinship. Beastfolk hatch from special cocoons and are raised together in nurseries. This will be explained in detail in the story.
3: To beastfolk, humans are pets and servants, a species lower than magical beasts. There is a severe disparity in status.
4: This story is only about control and resistance to control in a relationship with an imbalance of power, and what happens when humans are no longer the rulers.
Blurb:
Lin Lu unexpectedly finds herself in a strange world where beastfolk rule, while humans have been reduced to pets and slaves, kept and disciplined by beastfolk.
Lisel meets an intriguing wild human at an auction. The little human is incredibly bold, daring to curse the beastfolk on the stage even while locked in a specially made iron cage. She pays a hefty sum to buy this fascinating human, hoping to keep her close and train her into the most loyal pet.
But the process of training her doesn't go as Lisel imagined. Lin Lu is clever and stubborn, refusing to yield even under Lisel's pressure. She not only tries every way she can to escape, but also attempts to join forces with other humans to overthrow beastfolk rule...
Theme: The human spirit of resistance in the face of oppression