When a faint light entered my eyes, a pair of bright little tiger eyes were blankly staring at me. I opened my eyes and carefully observed my surroundings. This was a spacious mountain cave, with dense green vines intertwined covering…
ng the entrance. The mother tiger was lying inside dozing, and several tiger cubs curiously approached me when they saw I was awake. I carefully counted them – six in total.
A little tiger suddenly climbed onto me, extending its tongue to continuously lick my right face, sticky and wet, mixed with painful sensations. Only then did I recall being attacked by the mother tiger before losing consciousness, my right face viciously clawed.
I supported myself against the cave wall and sat up with difficulty, reaching out my weak hand to gently touch my right face. One mark, two marks, three marks… three clearly felt scars, rough and uneven. I gave a bitter smile, thinking this face was probably already disfigured.
Suddenly remembering Liu Yu’s words in the dungeon that I was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen, a bitter heartache swept through me. I slowly lay down, letting the tiger cubs lick the wounds on my right face, unable to imagine that I had actually survived the tiger’s mouth – probably saved by these inherently kind little cubs…
The sleeping mother tiger seemed to hear a sound and suddenly opened her eyes, her sharp gaze startling me. She stood up and walked towards me, lying down beside me. I panicked and turned my head, yet vaguely felt the taste was somewhat familiar. Heaven, how long had I been unconscious? Could I have been surviving by drinking tiger milk?
“How long was I unconscious?” I blurted out, immediately realizing my ridiculous mistake – as if she could understand.
The mother tiger, seeing me refuse her milk, suddenly stood upright, gently tapping me with her head, then parted the vines and walked outside. Was she taking me somewhere?
I stood up without hesitation and followed her, though my body was too weak to walk quickly. This made the mother tiger turn back every three steps and stop every five steps to wait for me.
