She's come clean; the fake heiress has a ton of aliases.

Chapter 158 So What If I Die
Half an hour later, Nan Yu, her hands trembling from the cold, painstakingly removed all the silver needles from the three lions.

As soon as she finished, she collapsed to the ground, curling herself up tightly to try and maintain her body temperature.

But it was no use. The temperature was dropping too quickly, and she felt as if she were in a giant ice cellar, her body beginning to lose the ability to perceive the outside world.

Her lips trembled, turning purple, as she looked at the three lions.

"You're all alright now, you can go."

As the lion king slowly regained consciousness, the rage in his eyes disappeared. He turned his head and stared blankly at Nan Yu.

As if it could sense the coldness of her body, it tentatively stretched out its fleshy claws and placed them on her arm.

Nan Yu felt a warmth, paused for a moment, and struggled to look up, only to meet the Lion King's obsidian-like black eyes.

She joked, "Are you turning on the heat for me?"

His voice was extremely weak.

As if understanding this, the Lion King placed his other paw on Nan Yu's hand, then stood up and rested his warm belly on her legs to warm her up.

When Nan Yu saw this, tears welled up in her eyes. She wanted to reach out and rub its big head, but she didn't even have the strength to lift a finger.

Finally, she weakly said, "Thank you..."

Before she could finish speaking, everything went black, and she completely lost consciousness.

The Lion King quickly turned his head to look at the other two lions and roared.

"Roar!"

The other two lions, who had been baring their teeth and guarding against Nan Yu, obediently retracted their frightening fangs under the gaze of the Lion King after hearing this.

Silently shaking off the rain, he then came to Nan Yu's side.

The three lions formed a circle, firmly surrounding her in the middle, sheltering her from the wind and rain.

They simultaneously exposed their warm, vulnerable bellies, pressing them against her body to keep her warm. In the deep darkness, the woman and the three lions huddled under the rock, rescuing each other.

Meanwhile, in the wooden cabin halfway up the mountain.

Ren Xingzhou stood in the middle of the wooden house, looking at Sheng Ruomei blocking the doorway, and couldn't help but say irritably, "Sheng Ruomei, I'm on my way to save your daughter, why are you stopping me?"

Sheng Ruomei stood firmly blocking the doorway, her eyes showing no affection for Nan Yu whatsoever.

"Ren Xingzhou, it's raining so hard outside. If you take the tranquilizer gun to save Nan Yu, what will happen to all of us if the lion comes here?"

"You can't possibly let the lions eat all of us here just for Nan Yu, can you?"

Ren Xingzhou pressed the tip of his tongue against the roof of his mouth, trying to suppress the anger in his heart.

“Those lions won’t come here. You all stay here quietly and nothing will happen to you. But if I don’t go to save Nanyu, she will surely die.”

He walked up to Sheng Ruomei and looked down at her.

"Get out of the way!"

When Sheng Ruomei met those fierce eyes, a hint of fear rose in her own.

But thinking of the purpose of her trip, she steeled herself and gritted her teeth, saying, "The fact that she didn't get on the car herself and even wanted to get off your motorcycle shows that she was prepared to sacrifice herself long ago."

"Besides, trading her life for ours is a sure-fire deal. If she's dead, she's dead. Why risk going out to save her?"

Ren Xingzhou was stunned into place upon hearing her matter-of-fact tone.

He found it hard to reconcile the ugly face of Sheng Ruomei now with the kind mother who had embraced Nanyu with tears in her eyes when she first arrived.

At that moment, he suddenly understood what Nan Yu had said earlier.

It turns out that the human eye really can deceive you!
(End of this chapter)