The next morning, young master mu wakes up feeling much better. He tells us that the lady zhao picked up on the tiger's vicious nature and wanted to give the cub to the young master as a pet . The cub is still young, and the palace servants have trimmed its claws so that it will not harm the master. The young master wonders if he should kill the cub since he can't be sure that it'll survive long enough to be a tiger. He's sorry, but it's better if the cub dies with its mother rather than live a life of luxury. The prince asks if the lady who saved the cub was kind, and she tells him that she was instructed to do so by the lady's majesty if the prince didn't like the cub. He asks if she's really okay and she says that she is. He wants to know what the difference is between a cat and a tiger, and he wonders why the prince is talking in riddles. He says that growing fond of a thing is the best way to get happiness, but love is different, and true love is a different thing. If you genuinely love a cat, you can embrace it, but you can do it without compromising the true nature of the cat. You can pamper the cat to your heart content, but if you rear the tiger cub, you're only because it cannot fight back. It's just "a superficial love masking