If Lu Xiu wanted women, there would be many. It certainly wouldn't come to this... Liang Wan fell silent for a moment before hesitantly stepping forward.
He stood tall and straight before the low bed, looking at her coldly.
"Weren't you going to prove your loyalty?"
Liang Wan felt as if her entire body had been coated in wax. She froze on the spot, unable to move, only able to raise her eyes to look at him as her mind buzzed.
Lu Xiu lowered his eyelashes, unhesitatingly severing their intersecting gazes. His voice was as cold as water. "Didn't you say both your body and mind were available?"
Liang Wan moved her lips but couldn't make a sound. The fear breeding from the bottom of her heart was like a thorny vine, growing wildly. It wrapped around her layer by layer, binding her body and choking her throat, its sharp thorns piercing her until she bled. Those memories of humiliation were the very thorns on that vine.
