After dealing with all the pursuers, Xiao Jin transformed into his human form, bent down under the tree, picked up Shen Tang, and continued to walk forward with her.
Who knows how long they walked.
A long string of footprints trailed across the snow, spanning most of the forest, even the blizzard couldn’t catch up.
Xiao Jin arrived at a secluded hilltop, where the environment was quiet and undisturbed.
He laid Shen Tang down at the edge and transformed into his beast form again, digging a deep pit on the spot, large enough to accommodate two people.
He hesitated for a moment, let out a sorrowful, crying-like low growl, then turned his head, gently held the female with his mouth, and jumped into the pit.
The Black Panther lay at the bottom, serving as a cushion, allowing the female to rest on him.
He extended his tongue, carefully licking the female’s pale cheeks, cleaning off the filthy blood and fallen snow that had splattered on her body.
After completing all this, Xiao Jin closed his eyes, holding the female in his arms, motionless.
The snow fell steadily, quickly burying the undulations of the ground, making the two figures invisible.
...
In a daze, Shen Tang felt an indescribable stuffiness, but quickly, that stuffiness transformed into a bone-deep coldness, cold enough to kill!
In the torment of the two extremes of ice and fire, she slowly regained consciousness, her body too recovering its temperature and strength.
She barely opened a crack in her eyes, but saw only darkness, where was this? Underground? So cold...
Heaps of broken snow buried her, the air was thin, she was nearly unable to breathe, her body instinctually began to struggle.
In his drowsy consciousness, Xiao Jin felt the person in his arms move. At first, he thought it was his near-death hallucination, but as the movements increased, the familiar warmth pressed against his body, waking him with a start.
Xiao Jin’s nearly frozen body quickly regained strength, rising up to break through the snow and return to the surface.
"Hiss..."
Pulled by inertia, he rolled twice on the ground, hearing a faint cry of pain from beneath him.
Xiao Jin quickly propped himself up, his bent legs pressed on the person below him, looking down dumbstuck at the awakening Shen Tang.
His large hand trembled up to her cheek, thinking he was dreaming, "...Tangtang? You, you’re still alive?"
Finally breathing air, Shen Tang gasped, a thin red appearing on her cheeks. When her vision cleared, she also saw the living Xiao Jin, her eyes momentarily blank.
Xiao Jin’s condition was not good, his body covered in injuries, his handsome face gaunt and weary, his eyes bloodshot, even his voice hoarse as if his vocal cords were scraped by sand and stone.
Xiao Jin held Shen Tang’s hand, pressing it onto his chiseled handsome face, carefully feeling the warmth in her palm.
"Tangtang, it really is you, right? You didn’t scare me, you, you’re still alive, I’m not dreaming... all of this is real..." The man’s broad and slender hand pressed firmly yet tremblingly, completely losing his usual easy-going demeanor, hoarsely repeating her name as if to confirm her existence.
Shen Tang blankly looked at him for a few seconds, suddenly raising her hand to hook around his neck, sinking down, and pressing her lips to his.
Tears fell from her eyes.
Xiao Jin held his breath, then closed his eyes, held Shen Tang’s waist, sinking with her into the snow, in this moment of warmth.
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