Ming Tao felt the air drain out of his lungs at the words directed at him. How did he even want to begin? He knew what he did was bound to be revealed when Mira awakened yet he did not prepare for it.

"It happened at the ceremony night." Ming Tao began.

"He brought Hye Yang back to the pride!" Mira blurted out. She hated that he was being so slow at explaining his actions when he was so confident before. When he was the reason all of this happened to her.

"WHAT?!" Jia Hao growled.

"I deluded her into thinking that I did when in fact I did not." Ming Tao gushed.

Mira turned to face him. She could not believe what she just heard. This man made her panic and run so much distance with aching legs over a lie?! She really tried not to hate him so much right now but he was making it hard not to.

"Then who was the woman who took my baby and was messing with me?" Mira spoke this time before Jia Hao could.

What? Took her baby? Their baby? What was going on? Jia Hao questioned in his mind. He waited for Ming Tao to say something.

A heavy sigh stretched out of Ming Tao’s lips. Suddenly, his mouth felt heavy with the words he was about to say. "A cheetah." He admitted.

"So what then? You made me nearly lose my mind all this time over a LIE?!" Mira barked.

"I am so sorry, Mira. Truly, I am." Ming Tao breathed.

Mira did not buy it. Even if he was indeed sorry, he was not the one who fell down such a height and lost the ability to walk due to it.

He was not the one who went through that pain that day she fell. He was not the one who bled and screamed for help. He was not the one who felt the life slipping out of her every second.

And even when he was there, he did not help. Not once. He did not have the right to feel guilty. The weight of her fall did not even phase him one bit. He was healthy and Mira hated it. "I do not think you are." Mira spat. "Go on. Narrate how you lured me into the hot spring and threatened to kill my child and made me climb all the way up there even when you know that I cannot shift." Mira’s voice broke. Narrating the story felt even worse. The tears she wiped away ran back down her face and she did not bother to wipe it off. "And how you told me to choose between you and my child when the hot spring was on the verge of collapsing otherwise you would let us all fall." Mira sniffed. She took a pause to catch her breath.

"I swear I did not think you would do that. Mira if I knew-"

"Knew what?! If you knew, would the outcome have been different?! You said it yourself that you wanted me to feel what I made others feel. Congratulations! You achieved that."

Ming Tao gulped. He did not know what to say. He looked for the words but nothing came to his mind. Nothing appropriate anyway. He knew Mira was a terrible person but the woman who put herself in danger to save the abductor of her baby and her baby at the cost of her own life did not seem like a terrible person. She seemed like the complete opposite of that and it ate him up.

"I’m sorry." Ming Tao whispered. "I really am. Please don’t hate me. I swear I am sorry." His voice broke.

Mira went quiet. Sorry would not make her walk again but she found no reason to make Ming Tao suffer more than he already portrayed. The old owner of this body was worse and he had every valid reason to not trust this Mira who was also in the body of the woman who caused him immense pain.

"Yeah, sure." She worded. For what it was worth, it was nice to know her sister was no where near her child. "It’s okay." Mira added. She turned her face to the side, away from Ming Tao. She did not want to see him.

"No. It was not." Jia Hao proclaimed.

The air in the room shifted and in the blink of an eye, someone swooped past Mira to the other side of the room. Her eyes widened. Such strength and force felt scary to witness in such a short moment.

At the other end of the room was Ming Tao caught in the forceful grip of Jia Hao strangled against the wall. Ming Tao did not fight it, he felt like he deserved this.

[ WARNING!

Lion King Jia Hao is about to rip Mighty Cheetah apart.

Mighty cheetah has no intention of fighting back to defend himself.

Do something about it, host!]

Heh? Me?? What should I do? Mira asked in her mind.

[New task: stop Lion King Jia Hao and Mighty cheetah Ming Tao from having a heated fight in five minutes!

Reward; + 100 system points.

Failure to do so results in death!]

A timer began to count down in front of Mira.

Mira’s face blanked. She could not even walk.

"Deceiving Mira about Hye Yang is one thing. But putting the mother of my child in danger as well as my heir is another, Ming Tao. You have crossed the line." Jia Hao growled. He lifted Ming Tao and threw him against the wall.

Ming Tao’s body landed so hard on it that Mira heard the sound of something crack. Jia Hao charged at Ming Tao again. He was out for blood and Ming Tao wanted his blood to be shed.

4:05:59

[Hurry up, host!]

"Jia Hao." Mira called. The lion did not listen. The two of them were going at it in the most gruesome way and Ming Tao was losing. On purpose. It seemed like he wanted to die.

"Hey, Jia Hao! Ming Tao! Cut it out."

The object that flew her way told her they were far from cutting it out.

Three minutes. Mira had three more minutes. Her mind raked. What could she do to stop two beast men from ripping each other apart in three minutes?

An idea popped in her mind. She reached for the fur cloth that Jia Hao used to wipe her and threw it at him. Jia Hao turned. Now Mira spread her legs wide and raised the leaves bra up to reveal her boobs.