What the heck, who drew this?" Li Xue shouted.

The door opened quickly after, it was her maidservant :"Miss what happened?" she panted.

"Who painted me?" Xue demanded an answer.

"What painting are you talking about Miss? There is no painting of you," the maids brows drew together.

Li Xue was taken a back at her response. How can this be, it's clearly me in the picture. If not me, then who is she, she wondered. It was weird already the fact that the maidservant didn't even think that the woman in the picture looked like Li Xue.

Xue thought that maybe there was a protection spell around it, so it wouldn't allow others to see the real woman that was drawn.

"I see. Then what can you tell me about this lady in the painting?" she interrogated. Li Xue would not rest easy, if she didn't find any information about the painting.

"I don't know much my Lady, but she was in high position in the past like a sort of Adviser and General. Everyone admired and worshiped her, but suddenly one day, she disappeared without any trace," she answered as her eyes narrowed.  Okay this maid definitely has a problem with her eyes and brows, Xue laughed at her facial expressions. But she was intrigued by the story she heard, it felt as if she knew that someone in the picture.

Li Xue's eyes bored at the painting:"Alright, take your leave now and go rest, but remember to prepare me something to eat, after a few hours."

Xue took the paint in her hands and flipped it over, to check if there is any hidden letter behind, or any trace that could lead her to answers. There was nothing except a flowery symbol that grabbed her attention, it was familiar symbol that without a doubt she had seen it before.

Then realization hit her, the same symbol was a mark was located besides her heart. Li Xue started to take off layers of robes, which exposed her upper body, her new breasts were smaller in size,  but they were perky, and in between of them was the mark residing.

She started to touch the flower and waited for something to happen, like a hidden trigger which would transfer her back into her world, but sadly nothing happened as she wished.

Being in the library, Xue decided to go through the books that would explain the symbol she got, it's value, then to find also some information about her doppelgänger in the painting, and gain intel about the country she is residing in.

About the mark, she found nothing but instead Li Xue found few informations about the Emperor who was the main character of the book she read before getting the mission by the God of Writing, that cold blooded scoundrel who hurt her cinnamon bun bun and the reason why all this has happened to her.

His name was Chen Yi Xing, it has been three years, since he descended the throne. He was prominent because of his possessive behavior along with his wicked schemes, and famous of his cold personality. He did not do anything for his country besides kill the good ministers, officials that told him he has to improve for the wellness of the country.

What he held was a power melded by his grandfather and father, who have won countless of wars to capture and turn them into one big country, a country called Abelia.

The country of Chen Yi Xing was the richest country, meanwhile Li Xue's country was named Himeria, which had cultural assets and it was rich based on its history. The other countries were not as powerful as Himeria and Abelia, but they were trying to do their best even though they had their good for nothing Emperors who only loved money, wine and lust.

The countries altogether suffered poverty so Abelia and Himeria helped them after they kind of stabilized their countries poverty,  by finding jobs for the poor people and mainly the unemployed, but only if they had learned some skill in their life.

Li Xue's country was the one to come up with a plan like this but the Emperor of Abelia got jealous because of the rumors, so they followed too, but by saying they were the first ones with the plan but Himeria's spies leaked it.

About her portrait, the picture drawn, Li Xue found nothing, but reading through the pages an idea popped in her mind, let's put the painting on my breasts, she thought. Then she started reciting: „A mark for a mark, blood for blood, abs for surprise and handsome guys for my eyes."

The moment she put the pictures mark and hers near, they started glowing in bright green light, but at that moment Li Xue was interrupted by some loud crash outside the library that shook the earth as if a tree just dropped down.

She hurriedly covered herself up,"Who is there?" Xue  asked, but since she was impatient, after asking the question she went outside to search the object or the stranger causing all this noise, only to find an enormous White Tiger, laying on the dirty ground with bloody wounds and cuts.

Li Xue could not believe her eyes what she was looking at, but seeing him suffer with so much injuries her heart shrunk, it hurt her so much. She was an animal lover, in her free time after collage lectures Xue would always volunteer to help pets at the shelters, help some of her neighbors by taking care of their when they go for holidays or have trouble. Li Xue's life was based on animals, rescuing them. Without knowing, her legs moved on their own, coming near the Tiger.

When it sensed the presence of a human, the Tiger got up and started growling at Li Xue, he was standing tall, ready to attack her. Xue was paralyzed with fear, tears began rolling down her cheeks like dark rainy clouds, she was shivering so much that her legs gave up, Li Xue kneeled and started to beg the Tiger:"No please don't eat me, I just wanted to help you."

Luck was on her side, the Tiger was so weak that he fell down; couldn't even move an inch from his weakened state.

When Li Xue noticed that, she regained her strength along with awareness, she sprinted to the library and locked herself in the room. But she could not rest easy even if the Tiger roared at her, something in her heart told her to go and save him, to take him inside and treat his wounds.

"Alright, alright, intuition I will listen to you. Just don't make me regret this." Li Xue gave a deep sigh, her hands and legs were still trembling.

After she recovered and was ready to go, she kicked the door open, singing out loud the children's song about head, shoulders, knees and toes, with a hope that it will ease up her fear.

She took small steps, trying to make them as quiet as possible as she drew nearer to the majestic Tiger lying down. He kept his eyes open but gave no reaction to her, he just kept breathing fast.

Eyes hold a world within, Li Xue murmured. She realized it was true when she saw devastation and pain in his eyes. That automatically made Xue stretch her hand towards him, a habit of her whenever she saw her lovable pets in pain.

The moment she laid her hand upon his fur to give him a pat, a flower symbol appeared on the Tiger and both of them started glowing. Li Xue's eyes widened with amazement, she realized that he was the hidden key to the picture mystery, but unfortunately, the Tiger closed his eyes.

My gosh is he dead, oh no, shit, wait what should I do... Xue kept asking questions after questions, in the end she concluded that she should hide him in the library behind the book shelves to save him from whoever is hunting him and cure his injuries by not attracting attention.

Since the library was the only building, enclosed near the mountain, it was far from other rooms that id perhaps one of the reasons why it was never visited, because of the fear from the beasts hidden in the wood, a danger always lurking.

The way to the library didn't have much steps, she was lucky not to hurt him or drain her energy by dragging him inside. Moving the full grown Tiger was such a hard job, Li Xue was soaked with sweat and panting, her muscles burning from the effort. She kept taking pauses here and there but in the end she managed to get him inside.

The only thing that was left for Li Xue now, was to clean the blood and take a good care of him. She washed the blood of the floor with a mop and the stains outside by digging her hands into the earth to hide the blood.

After that, she head back inside to start cleaning his wounds, then she tore her inner robes and made him special lace for his wounds. When she finished the job, she couldn't keep her eyes open to guard him, she was so tired that she fell asleep on the Tiger.

Hours passed by and the White Tiger moved, which caused Xue to jump on her feet and grab the closest weapon she had near, in this case, it was book, which she held tightly, ready to throw at him, at any time.

"Human don't tell me that you think you can defeat me with only a book" the Tiger said mockingly.

The book dropped of Li Xue's hands,"Wait, you can talk?" Her eyes were so wide open and so her mouth, that the flies partied, ate a dinner and left.

"Wait, you can hear me?" The Tiger said, surprised, at what's going on.

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