154 Heart to Heel Talk

"You can have him all you want." Lei Xinyi spoke drily, still looking at the ceiling, "Master used to say... I was the kind of woman who will never know what it means to be a woman. I told everyone not to believe but the fact was... I believed him."

Su Qianwei shook her head and bitterly smiled, "Both of us can't have him! It's just our destiny. To survive, struggle, and then... get slain."

Lei Xinyi sighed and relished the truth in her words. Their life was borrowed and time stolen, at the end of all this the Lei clan was the one commanding their lives. No escapes would help them then.

She drummed her foot leisurely on the rough wooden floor, "Sometimes I wonder why do I even bother to run when my sh*tty life always catches up to me."

The gloom and dejection weren't hidden in her bitter words.

Su Qainwei sat up and turned to her, "Because we aren't princess traded for treaties when Empires fall, we are warriors, we go down in wars... with honors."