Images blurred as voices echoed in her head as she struggle to grasp what was happening around her. Her pure and fair face which is soaked in blood, was covered with her tangled hair while her body hung limply by the grasp of the two men before her. Her head pounded and her heart ached with realization that shook her whole body.
Her calm eyes and tranquil composure that secures anyone around her beyond her average appearance were now filled with bloodshot and pain.
"You liar!" She screamed "I-I k-killed my only friend for y-you! I-I offered my family to serve you! And y-you're telling me that I just p-pushed t-them at death's door when I believed it would save them?!" She heaved.
Thinking about the days that she served and loved this man before her made her more and more aggrieved.
The masked man before her remained motionless. He did not speak nor did he spoke a word. He did not even looked at her but blindly behind her as if she was not there. It was a deafening and torturous silence that stretched and every passing second stabbed and mocked her.
Finally the man spoke with such penetrating coldness that caused her being to feel the chill from her back to her nape.
"You deserved it." He said.
Her tears flowed. She knew it. She felt it but every time she would think of it, she dismissed it to the back of her mind. This man - her master which she served with all her heart had never wanted her. What he desired is strength, what he obsessed is power.
And so, when the emperor had gifted him his daughter, by no second thoughts he tossed her away as trash and had broken his promise to marry her when he realized that the prophesy of her as a reincarnation of phoenix, was nothing but a sham, he turned his back on her.
She remembered how the Princess Xun Wei acted as a friend in front of her, making her believe that her only friend, Lan Qi betrayed her by attempting to poison her master, and how she killed her without mercy. She remembered Lan Qi's pleading eyes for her to believe her yet she was blinded by love to see what's right and wrong.
And in order to show her devotion to her master, she gave up being a miss and offered her whole household to serve him instead yet in the midst of chaos for the fight for throne, her entire family was accused of raising an army against the Emperor and was evicted to die. However she, as the main servant of her master have to watch as her family gets beheaded one by one when her master ordered it.
And now this...
All for power. All for love. All for greed.
She lost everything... and now her life.
As the man before her walk away and she was dragged by the men near the cliff, she looked up in the grayish cloudy skies and felt it was grieving with her.
She smiled bitterly. Tonight she swore by the heavens for revenge. Tonight, as her last breath as Ling Xuan.