'Stay with him?'
Liang Wan didn't push him away. She narrowed her eyes and nodded obediently. "I will. I will always stay with Your Majesty, until..."
'...he's dead.'
Gao Qian pulled back slightly, looking down at her. "Until when?"
Liang Wan's eyes curved into crescents as she whispered, "Until Your Majesty's forever."
Gao Qian smiled and pulled her into a tight embrace.
Evidently, he was very satisfied with this answer.
'How could he not be satisfied, having successfully tamed someone into the exact person he wanted her to be?'
'If there was one thing still missing, it was her admission—an admission that she was the same Liang Wan he had once tormented so relentlessly.'
Silence descended upon the glittering, golden chamber.
Liang Wan lowered her gaze and smiled faintly.
'What Gao Qian wanted was someone to stay with him in Purgatory.'
...
Lou Shixun had now been imprisoned for three days.
Accompanied by a palace maid, Liang Wan made her way to the Imperial Prison.
