Tiger, I rejected the iron rice bowl.

"Hahaha~" Ma Jingye laughed even harder, tears almost welling up in his eyes.

"Damn, you're really pushing your luck, aren't you?!"

Wang Yuyu was furious. He suddenly stood up from the ground, baring his sharp teeth and looking fierce, and walked step by step toward Ma Jingye.

"My God! He's coming! He's angry!"

Ma Jingye's laughter stopped abruptly. Startled, he trembled and quickly put down his phone. He frantically shifted into reverse, stepped on the gas, and the car sped backward.

"Will he eat me? Will the car stop him?"

"Oh no, I shouldn't have teased him!"

"Trying to run? Did I allow that?"

Seeing the car reverse, Wang Yuyu immediately quickened his pace, rapidly closing the distance between them, looking as if he wouldn't stop until he taught the car a lesson.

Soon, he ran to the driver's side window, staring intently at the glass, his right front paw slightly tense, ready to leap and smash the window.

Just then, he caught a glimpse of the bend not far ahead out of the corner of his eye, paused, and then slammed on the brakes, bringing the car to a steady stop on the side of the road.

Ma Jingye had already panicked. He was frantically reversing while staring nervously at the ferocious tiger face outside the car window, completely unaware of the curve behind him, and his speed was increasing.

When he realized that Wang Yuyu had suddenly stopped, he breathed a sigh of relief. But when he subconsciously looked back, he found that the bend behind him was right in front of him, and it was too late to adjust his direction.

He could only slam on the brakes with all his might. The tires screeched as they rubbed against the ground. Although the speed decreased, the car still couldn't stop completely, and it lurched off the edge of the curve.

Fortunately, his last-minute emergency braking worked!

In addition, the road below was covered with trees, and a thick tree happened to block the rear of the car, which barely stopped the car from rolling down the steep hillside, although the rear of the car was severely deformed.

Ma Jingye slumped in the driver's seat, glancing fearfully at the seemingly bottomless downhill slope in the rearview mirror. He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, muttering to himself:

"Thank goodness, that was close! I almost died!"

"That was so impulsive! I shouldn't have provoked that tiger!"

He composed himself, looked up, and saw Wang Yu standing by the roadside, still baring his sharp teeth and glaring at him.

"Holy crap, here we go again!"

Ma Jingye's palms were sweating with fear. He gripped the steering wheel tightly, staring nervously at Wang Yuyu, barely daring to breathe, afraid that Wang Yuyu would rush out and slap him.

But Wang Yu glanced at his mangled car and then at his panicked expression, then suddenly grinned, turned around, wagged its tail, and slowly drove away.

"Hahaha~ Serves you right for honking and scaring me! Now look how badly your car is damaged!"

Wang Yuyu muttered smugly to herself, her steps light and quick, her earlier anger long since vanished.

A lesson was enough; he didn't want to actually hurt anyone, lest he be scolded by Tang Li again.

Only after Wang Yuyu disappeared did Ma Jingye breathe a long sigh of relief. His back was soaked with cold sweat. He muttered to himself, "Did that tiger just laugh?"

"Was he doing this on purpose? To scare me?"

Thinking of this, he immediately shook his head, "No, no, it can't be, I must have seen wrong. How could a tiger have such a brain!"

Only then did he notice his still-ringing phone. He quickly picked it up and, his voice trembling, reassured his anxious wife on the other end that he was safe.

"Honey, I'm fine, don't worry!"

"It was just a minor car collision, the tiger's gone. Don't come any closer, it's too dangerous..."

…………

One week later!

That morning, before the morning mist had completely dissipated, Wang Yu strolled leisurely to the area where his territory overlapped with that of his first wife, intending to visit his two cubs whom he hadn't seen in a long time and see how the little guys were growing.

This is the meeting place he and his first wife had agreed upon in advance. Usually at this time, the tigress would leave fresh scent marks on the nearby tree trunks to declare her territory and let everyone know where she was.

This time, however, Wang Yuyu circled around the marked trees, his nostrils flaring as he sniffed repeatedly, but he couldn't detect even a trace of the familiar, fresh scent that belonged to his first wife.

"What happened? My wife is missing?"

Wang Yu stood there, stunned, her amber eyes filled with disbelief.

Undeterred, he approached the tree trunk, pressing his nose against the rough bark, sniffing carefully. The remaining scent was long since dried up and stale, clearly not recent; there was absolutely no fresh sign.

He looked up abruptly, his gaze fixed on the heart of the tigress's territory, a sense of unease rising within him: "At this hour, the first wife shouldn't be out patrolling the territory. Could something have happened to her?"

Wang Yu stood there, her eyes shifting between light and shadow, a growing sense of panic creeping into her heart.

He feared that Tang Li's words might come true, and that poachers would become rampant after winter set in. If they couldn't catch him, they might very well target the cubs.

The thought of his two soft, cuddly cubs possibly meeting with misfortune made his fur stand on end.

"No, I have to go check on it right away!"

Wang Yu let out a low growl, abandoning his usual leisurely and carefree attitude, and swiftly rushed towards the core of the mother tiger's territory.

Along the way, he kept searching for scent marks left by his first wife, trying to find her location by following these traces.

Meanwhile, deep within the tigress's territory, beside a dense thicket, just as Wang Yuyu had feared, his first wife and two cubs were indeed in considerable trouble!

The younger brother unfortunately stepped into a snare set by poachers. The wire tightly bound his abdomen, trapping him in place and preventing him from leaving!

The older sister stayed by her younger brother's side, anxiously pacing back and forth, desperately gnawing at the hard wire with her still-childish teeth, trying to rescue her brother!

The tiger mother wasn't with the two cubs; she had gone hunting an hour ago!

The mother and her two children have been trapped here for about 55 hours.

For the past two days, the tiger mother has tried everything she could—digging, biting, pulling—but she still couldn't free her cubs from the noose. She could only stay by her cubs' side, anxious and worried.

The younger brother lay on the ground, the thin wire deeply embedded in the hair on his abdomen, making his waist thick at both ends and thin in the middle!

The taut wire looked as if it could snap his waist with just a little more force, making it a heartbreaking sight.

Fortunately, the little guy perfectly inherited Wang Yuyu's excellent genes, not only is he physically strong, but his intelligence also far exceeds that of ordinary tiger cubs.

He had personally witnessed Wang Yuyu deal with lasso traps and had memorized the methods Wang Yuyu had taught him. Once you stepped into such a trap, the more you struggled, the tighter the wire would tighten.

So, after realizing that it couldn't break free of the noose, the little guy endured the fear and pain, obediently lay on the spot, and stopped struggling wildly. This saved its life and the strength to eat.

If he had struggled desperately back then, the wire would have already tightened around his internal organs. Even with Tiger Mom's unwavering protection, he would have starved to death because he couldn't eat.