Today, I was made to work late, but I can't complain. I'm a slave. My life and time don't belong to me. Besides, I'm a slave of the lowest class, as I haven't even started cultivation. Although, I've been feeling the energy inside me for a while now. Maybe, I'll get it soon, and my status will improve a little. Instead of a slave of the lowest level, I'll be a slave of the second lowest.
I sigh, that's all I can hope for. I'm already over twenty. If I had gotten it before I was ten, maybe some master would have noticed me. I'd have had the chance to stop being a slave, and become a student. But it's too late now. Now, all I can do is try to improve my status a little.
I can't complain too much either. At least, I usually make it back to the dormitory in one piece. My talent for drawing is appreciated by Master Mu, the copyist. There aren't many of us who can help him copy the manuals. So, if we get beaten so badly that we can't work for him, he'll get really pissed off. That's why they usually leave us alone. Although, our safety isn't guaranteed.
The dormitory is as usual, pretty quiet. It's nothing more than a storeroom. There're large rooms in which we put old sheets to separate our portions of the floor. In them, there're our mattresses. They're made of old sheets and straw.
Shi is half-asleep on the mattress. It seems that she hasn't had a bad day today, and she's not in pain. Her biggest flaw is that she has some attractiveness. It makes students often sexually abuse her. There's also the envy of some female students.
She often comes with bruises, and sometimes more serious injuries. But there's nothing to be done about it, we're just slaves. We're little more than a piece of furniture, or less if it's an expensive piece of furniture.
No one punishes a student or higher-level slave for abusing a lower-level slave. Only if they can't do their job can they be fined a small amount. Whatever is considered worth the time we can't work. The same if someone kills us. They must pay for a new slave, whatever the market price. In my particular case, they'd also have to face the wrath of Master Mu.
I lie down next to her and grab her waist. She slowly turns around, she wasn't asleep. She forces a smile and stretches her arms towards me to kiss me. I accept her kiss while my hands caress her legs up and drag her robe.