I arched my body, then raised
my hand and brought it down hard!
"Smack, smack, smack, smack, smack!"
A string of slaps landed on its back.
"Gurgle~ kak~ kak~ kak~! Awoo~~"
As I patted it, a retching sound suddenly came from the cub's mouth. Then the little
tiger coughed a few times and gave a babyish
howl, lifting its head and struggling.
A tiger cub's cough wasn't like a human's. It couldn't go "cough, cough," only "kak, kak."
I set it aside. As long as the little one recovered, that was enough.
Wiping the sweat from my forehead, I looked up and suddenly met Hu Shuo's gaze, which I really didn't want to see. Instinctively, I wanted to
avoid it, but right then... I suddenly
noticed how tenderly Hu Shuo was looking at me. If I'd been a girl from the start, my heart probably would have
skipped a beat.
This guy knew how to flirt, huh?
Everything I'd just done must have changed his opinion of my earlier behavior, right?
There was no time to dwell on it. Not seeing that look would have been a blessing; otherwise, I really would have shut down.
Turning back, I reached in again. The eighth cub was stuck right at the opening of the tigress's birth canal. Now I finally
understood why this tigress was having such a difficult
delivery.
One of this cub's legs was already out, but the other was still inside.
After all that, it was the one blocking the birth canal.
I reached in, intending to pull the little tiger out, but... it was clinging tightly to the uterine wall, and the birth
canal had it wedged so tightly that it couldn't
move at all.
This was trouble!
I looked up at the tigress. She seemed to sense