Wishing for death and experiencing such brutal torture that life feels worse than death are two entirely different things.
Fear quickened her blood flow and fueled her will to live, to the point where she even lost the despair and fury that had once driven her to wish for death.
She wanted to live, to live wholly and completely, or… to die wholly and completely.
She said, "What can Li Sangruo give you?"
Tang Shaogong bent down to look at her, "What she can give, you cannot."
"But what I can give, she also cannot."
Tang Shaogong seemed to be intrigued, with a flicker of change in his pupils.
Yet, he seemed utterly unmoved as the mocking sneer on his face deepened even more than before.
"Truth be told, I have wondered what it would be like to be with a beauty like you…"