Second Elder could feel the suffocating pressure he had not felt for a long time.
That was the oppressive aura that only the overlord who had led them to expand their territory in the independent continent possessed. It was an aura that belonged solely to the Ji family.
He suddenly went quiet. "There's no other way?"
Qiao Nian glanced at him. "There is."
Second Elder subconsciously waited for her to continue.
As expected, the girl gestured with her chin at He Lin's knife on the table.
"One finger."
Silence.
"I want yours."
Second Elder's facial muscles tightened and trembled. There was anger and… timidity in his eyes that he had not experienced for a long time.
"What if I don't want to? You can't do anything about it."
He still wanted to struggle even on the verge of death.
