"You have a secret you'd be willing to tell me? To protect your son's life?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
Xuan Ya quickly nodded.
Gu Qing Shan waved his hand dismissively and said: "For now, don't tell me that secret yet. I actually want to tell you about my decision before anything else"
He looked at her and sincerely said: "I won't kill your son, regardless of what the secret you're going to tell me is, and this won't change"
Xuan Ya froze, then realized what he implied.
-------if I told Gu Qing Shan the secret first, everything that he decides, later on, would feel like it was done because he obtained that secret.
But Gu Qing Shan had decided to make his decision first.
This way, it would no longer be us trading the secret for a life.
Me using the secret to trade for my son's life was a kind of transaction, but to be frank, it would be more akin to a type of threat or force of hand.
