Striking an agreement (5)

Fan Cai's eyes widened when he was the humanized look his mother had on. She looked remorseful, an emotion that he assumed his mother was incapable of feeling and or showing, amongst a list of other emotions he believed were absent in her.

"Sister Xie Yuan, it's not that I wish to be difficult but there is no other option here. At least this way there might be a chance for you all," Fan Ha softly said, as she tried to muster a comforting smile toward her counterpart.

But due to the heaviness that hung in the air, and the gravity of what she was discussing, the smile wasn't the least but comforting and instead a bit of somberness and sorrow to the situation.

Her smile seemed more like a prelude to a bad ending. It was no different than that of a soldier heading off to battle that he or she knew they had no chance of surviving.

Xie Yuan's eyes trembled slightly, with her lips mirroring the actions of her eyes as they shook too.