Shi Potian had a long and lingering dream about his early life and about his Axiu.
In his dream, there was a beastly creature called "Know-Tiger." The most disgusting thing about this beast was how much it pretended to be something it was not. Clearly an animal, it put on a human facade just to terrify people.
This Know-Tiger beast—humans had never meant it any harm, yet it harbored malicious intentions toward mankind. It loved taking baths, splashing water all over itself. But no matter how much water it splashed, it remained a filthy creature, impossible to truly clean. This Know-Tiger had no idea it was merely a beast; every day it strutted around proudly draped in human skin, always imagining itself to be some kind of big shot. In reality, it wore a human face while behaving like a beast—half-man and half-ghost, a fox borrowing a tiger's majesty, a monkey dressed up in a mandarin's hat.
Chapter 136