681 Broken hopes and dreams

A nauseous feeling arose in his throat and a silence as deep as the eerie depths of the sea floated in the air. It felt thin and unbreathable as if he was strenuously climbing a tall, majestic mountain but with no summit in sight. He didn't dare to meet her gaze, in which he knew that loathe, hatred and disgust for him would be manifested by now.

Shui stared down at her knees, but her attention was distant and far away as she processed the truth. It felt like a vicious web of deceit, betrayal and revenge that had swallowed down the Liu family in its net. 

In this life, the fates were different. Jun and Ai who were equally devastated in the past had found a new path for themselves. But it was only Jin whose freedom was still entangled in those strings, where every twist of that web seemed to bleed him from within.