Su Yuxin's eyes filled with terror. "You... you mean you want me to... to..."
"No! I can't! I can't!" Ever since she had personally killed her mother, she had suffered nightmares every night after coming to this estate.
Every night, she dreamed of her mother clutching her spurting neck, coming to demand her life and asking why she had killed her.
She didn't dare sleep all night, nor could she sleep. Only at noon, when the sun was at its highest, did she dare curl up beneath the sunlight in the courtyard and close her eyes for a while.
These days seemed to stretch on without end. If she killed someone again, how was she supposed to live afterward?
Su Yuxin clutched her head and shook it violently, growing more frightened the more she thought about it.
Su Qiao gently stroked her head and spoke unhurriedly. "Being burned alive is extremely painful. It's countless times more painful than having your heart twisted apart, and the process is agonizingly slow. If the fire is a little too small, it might burn for three days and three nights, and the person might not even die."
"Do you think it would be better for you to suffer this pain, or for someone else to suffer it? I've given you a chance to choose. You'd better seize it."
"I... I..." Su Yuxin was terrified, but she knew she had no choice.
She bit her lower lip hard, her lips trembling. "Do... do I really have to do this?"
Su Qiao smiled without showing her teeth, amusement in her eyes. "What do you think?"
Su Yuxin's face was deathly pale. She clenched her fists, yet a desire to live began to rise in her eyes.
In her Past Life, she had died young. After finally