"Yu Tu, I'm hurting too."

Yu Tu looked flustered as he tugged pitifully at Lu Mi's sleeve.

"Little Black Panther, I'm sorry."

Lu Mi let out a mocking laugh. "Sorry? Yu Tu, you don't understand at all."

He seized Yu Tu's wrist and dragged him beneath the shower.

Lu Mi removed the showerhead and turned up the temperature.

It wasn't scalding.

But it was hotter than Yu Tu liked.

Hot water poured over Yu Tu's head, instantly soaking his white hair. The billowing steam made his whole body uncomfortable, even leaving his head slightly dizzy.

Yu Tu raised a hand to take the showerhead, but Lu Mi pushed it away.

"Yu Tu, endure it properly."

Perhaps Lu Mi's voice was cold to the extreme, because Yu Tu's mind instantly cleared.

He stood where he was, looking at Lu Mi through the mist, yet he could not make him out no matter how hard he tried.

"I was wrong. I know I deserve punishment."

Yu Tu stood still as his dark red eyes gradually steamed into a jewel-like crimson.

Lu Mi removed his leather gloves, parted the hot vapor, and reached out. His fingertips brushed intimately over Yu Tu's long lashes.

Yet his voice sounded as though it had been soaked in ice.

"Yu Tu, you don't understand at all.

"You can treat me however you want.

"You can take my life. You can throw me away like garbage. I can endure anything.

"If you just say that you love me... no.

"You don't even need to love me. I would still forgive you without limits.

"Yu Tu, you can wrong anyone.

"You can even burn the world down.

"But you cannot do this to yourself."

His fingers moved down, stroking the scars on Yu Tu's body.

His indifferent gaze and provocative movements brought Yu Tu