He stepped close, cupping my face. His eyes were clearer than the lake water. “I can give you anything in the world. Why do you keep hurting my heart?”
“Let him go,” I said mechanically, word by word.
“How will you beg me?” His voice was as cold as ice. “Offer yourself? Threaten me by sharing life and death with him? Lan Jiao Long, you overesti…
“What woman can’t I get? Must I be like a pitiful stray dog begging for your tenderness?!”
“…” I bit my lip, watching him repeatedly wound me with words.
“Why aren’t you speaking? I don’t want your method… What conditions can you exchange with me? How else can you beg me…”
Before he finished, I coldly pulled away his hands from my face, slowly dropping down, my knees falling to the cold ground. The night wind disheveled my hair, strands covering my face, obscuring my now deathly pale complexion.
I inhaled sharply, my voice trembling, “Please let him go.”
Looking up, I clearly saw his fingers bend, tightly clenched. Memories suddenly returned to the last day in the night mountain prison when I stepped on him to trigger a mechanism, brazenly saying I never treated him as a prince… But at this moment, I laid down all my dignity, kneeling before this noble prince.
“For him, you’ll do anything?” Each word was cold enough to freeze.
“My backbone is actually just this,” I said softly.
“What does this mean?” He squatted down, grabbing the back of my head and forcing me close to his face, his icy breath blowing uncomfortably against my skin.
“What the Prince says is what it is.” I no longer had the strength to argue with him.
“From now on, I’ll be just like the Prince in your eyes, hmm?”
Seeing me silent, he increased the pressure on my head and gave a strange cold laugh, “I told you not to test my limits.”
My eyes turned cold as he turned to his attendant and slowly said, “Shoot.”
The attendant waved to the soldiers around the water pavilion, and everyone immediately drew their bows, shooting fire-tipped arrows toward the lakeside pavilion… In an instant, countless arrows like fire snakes fell on the pavilion and bridge, splashing flames everywhere.
screamed with all my might, standing up but immediately restrained by two attendants.
