Poison Genius Consort

t was nearly imperceptible to the naked eye, even if one walked right by the door.
Beyond the grasses and plants laid a tiger’s den.

Inside the cave, all was dark.

Manager Jin lay unconscious on the ground with the one remaining white tiger quietly guarding his side.
Mu Linger held a baby in swaddling clothes while dozing off by the wall.
She was skinny to begin with, but the torment over the past few days had turned her wan and pallid.
Aside from her thinner frame, her complexion had turned ashen as well, while dark circles lined her eyes.
Even her bright, lively pupils had lost their usual spark.

She was sleepy beyond belief, but clutched tightly at the baby, Tang Li and Ning Jing’s daughter.
With both her parents missing, Mu Linger had taken on the initiative to nickname her Tang Tang (唐糖).[4] She wanted this child to reunite with her parents one day and smile as sweetly as sugar.

Mu Linger soon nodded off again, but it wasn’t long before her eyebrows creased and her face grew taut with fear.
Once again, she was reliving the day of their escape.
Bai Yuqiao had been sharing a white tiger with the unconscious Ning Jing while Su Xiaoyu rode another tiger on her all.
They had killed their way through the enemies surrounding them, while she and Manager Jin had quickly caught up to reunite with the trio.
But when they fled into the forest, they ran into a terrifying black-robed stranger.

She had no idea what he did, but the white tigers behind them had suddenly collapsed and melted into puddles of bloody water.
After the horrifying sight, Manager Jin had ordered everyone to split up and escape, but there wasn’t time before the black-robed figure came snatching for the baby.
At the same time, Bai Yuqiao and Su Xiaoyu’s tigers had also been reduced to bloody puddles.

When she and Jin Zi had been on the brink on despair, Bai Yuqiao suddenly threw herself at the man and held him fast so they could escape.
Manager Jin had no time to worry about Ning Jing or Su Xiaoyu and fled with her and the baby into the deepest parts of the forest.
Mu Linger didn’t even had time to react, much less find out whether Ning Jing and Su Xiaoyu had escaped.
Nor did she know if Bai Yuqiao was still alive.

She couldn’t begin to imagine what would have happened to them if the black robed man had caught them and the child.
Would they too, be reduced to puddles like the tigers?

Jin Zi didn’t dare take any risks.
When he saw the black-robed man didn’t give chase, he had the white tiger run right while he fled with Mu Linger and the baby to the left.
In the end, she couldn’t run any further, so Jin Zi carried them both on his back.
He seemed to be fleeing with his life on the line, because after they reached this den, he set them both down and fell into a stupor.

Mu Linger knew there were cases where people simply exhausted themselves to death, but she never saw she’d witnessed someone she knew going through it firsthand.
Scared witless, she spend the entire day looking after Jin Zi, checking his pulse at multiple intervals while fearing for the worst.
Meanwhile, little Tang Tang grew hungry and cried all day, leaving her at a loss.
She wasn’t sure if the black-robed man was still looking for them.

When she was about to lose it, the giant white tiger tracked them down and even brought back a black tiger that had just given birth.
Without a choice, she could only feed Tang Tang tiger’s milk.
The starving baby simply took the milk-provider as its new mother and didn’t fear the beast at all.
Over the next few days, she and the black tiger grew quite close.

As if awed by the giant white tiger, the mother tiger treated little Tang Tang very lovingly and acted extremely deferential.
Mu Linger was still cautious, however, and only allowed the baby to sleep by the mother tiger’s side after multiple days of observation.
With it comforting the child, she could take time to look after Jin Zi.
Although the white tiger had brought back multiple medicinal plants for her, they didn’t make much of a difference for the man’s injuries.

After staying in the tiger’s den for three whole days, she finally ventured out to look for more ingredients.
She didn’t dare go far, but lingered close to the entrance of the cave.

Abruptly, Mu Linger cried out in the middle of her nightmare.
“Run! Big sis Jing, you have to run away! Run away!”

“Sobsob, big sis Jing, hurry and get out of here! You can’t die when you haven’t even seen Tang Li yet! Big sis Jing, run away already!”

“Tang Tang, where’s Tang Tang? Give Tang Tang back to big sis Jing! Give her back!”

Tears filled Mu Linger’s face as her shouts startled the two tigers awake.
The mother tiger was about to go wake her up when she stopped to look at the white tiger.
Rising to his haunches, the white tiger crept devoutly towards Manager Jin, who had opened his eyes and woken up.
Immediately, the mother tiger turned and bowed piously towards Manager Jin as well, like a vassal greeting its lord.

Manager Jin silently sat up before gently rubbing the big white tiger’s head.
Seeing Mu Linger sobbing so wretchedly, he knitted his brows and prepared to wake her up, but Mu Linger suddenly burst into miserable sobs.

“Qi gege….Qi gege, where are you? Qi gege, don’t you want Linger anymore? Where are you, Qi gege? Qi gege…Mu Linger misses you so much…”

1.
He’s just not that into you bro.

2.
I think this is an error on the author’s part, isn’t Ning Cheng’s cell underground?

3.
iirc this guy was smirking at JYX not long ago so perhaps we’ll get Liar #4 in a few more chapters to add to JYX’s collection? Lolol.

4.
Tang Tang (唐糖) – the first Tang is from Tang Li (aka her last name), while the second Tang means “sweet, sugar, candy.”

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