Lan Ruoyue remembered every moment she had spent sharing a room with Ruby.
She remembered holding the donkey and breaking open pomegranates to feed it every day.
A wave of nausea surged up from deep inside her.
She lowered her head and retched nonstop.
It was as though she wanted to vomit out everything in her stomach.
Liu Shuyue said, "So the Second Prince didn't infect you. You infected him. You spent your whole life putting yourself on a lofty pedestal, only to end up like this. That must hurt."
"I hope you're reborn as someone with a clearer head in your next life."
Five Flower: [She won't have a chance to be reborn. The formation here is real. Once the ritual is complete, she'll be reduced to ashes.]
Liu Shuyue sighed.
In fact, she had known the formation was real from the moment she entered.
It wasn't that evildoers weren't given a chance to turn over a new leaf.
It was that this evildoer didn't recognize her own wrongdoing. She had squandered two chances already. A third, a fourth... who knew whether she would harm even more people?
Having her body perish and her soul dissolve here was a good thing, too.
Liu Shuyue tapped the door knocker. The door opened, and she walked out of the room with both children in her arms.
Lan Ruoyue watched her retreating back.
An inexplicable panic seized her.
She was more frightened than when she had been locked up, more terrified than when she learned the Second Prince had humiliated her and taken advantage of her.
"Don't go! You're not allowed to leave! I said you're not allowed to leave! Didn't you hear me?"
"Liu Shuyue, deep down, you and I are the same kind of person! We're alike! How can you