"I want to escape! Captain Wu, please help me! I still have to go back and see my brother! You can't let my brother down!"
As she spoke, she began to cry, tears falling drop by drop.
Wu Bi closed his eyes rather than look at her. At the mention of his brother-in-arms far away in East Lin, who was caring for his elderly mother for him, his heart shuddered violently.
But his expression remained resolute. "I have wronged him, and I'll repay him in my next life! But for East Lin, we must die! Even if I let you go, our lord will hunt you to the ends of the earth. You cannot escape!"
Unless-unless she truly carried Xia Siheng's child.
With that thought in mind, Ruyun studied Wu Bi's resolute face and sturdy body.
An utterly absurd idea took shape in her mind.
As long as she became pregnant, how would their lord know whether the child was Xia Siheng's?
Once born, the child would be a divine descendant in East Lin, beneath one man and above ten thousand.
Would she still have to fear for her survival?
Even if their lord had a way to verify whether the divine descendant was genuine, he would have to wait until the child grew up.
While the child was growing up, she could make plans for herself, abscond with a vast fortune, and hide somewhere outside East Lin, living perfectly well.
At that thought, the tears suddenly stopped flowing from Ruyun's reddened eyes.
She stared steadily at Wu Bi and slowly said,
"Captain Wu, you're absolutely right. We cannot burden East Lin. So there is no need to wait for our lord's men to arrive. Let us take our own lives for our country!"
Wu Bi frowned at her, a