154 Heart to Heel Talk (1/2)

”You can have him all you want.” Lei Xinyi spoke drily, still looking at the ceiling, ”Master used to say... I was the kind of woman who will never know what it means to be a woman. I told everyone not to believe but the fact was... I believed him.”

Su Qianwei shook her head and bitterly smiled, ”Both of us can't have him! It's just our destiny. To survive, struggle, and then... get slain.”

Lei Xinyi sighed and relished the truth in her words. Their life was borrowed and time stolen, at the end of all this the Lei clan was the one commanding their lives. No escapes would help them then.

She drummed her foot leisurely on the rough wooden floor, ”Sometimes I wonder why do I even bother to run when my sh*tty life always catches up to me.”

The gloom and dejection weren't hidden in her bitter words.

Su Qainwei sat up and turned to her, ”Because we aren't princess traded for treaties when Empires fall, we are warriors, we go down in wars... with honors.”

LeiXinyi winced at the brick-hard reality in her words, she wanted to smirk or retort but that was the fact, they were in fact warriors who get slain in the murky ground and buried in no named lands... die with honor.

But what do you do of honors 6 feet under the ground?

At least princesses lived, survived in luxuries, indulgences, and leisure, and then climbed with grace to the steps of the rival Empire, and ruled as Queen, live with honor.

But Lei Xinyi didn't say all that. There was no gain but extending a vain discussion.

”You know that I don't want to kill you.” After a prolonged silence Su Qianwei said in a serious tone.

Lei Xinyi let out a humorless laugh, ”Sure, bullets don't kill people at all.”

”I really didn't.”

Lei Xinyi shook her head and laughed in mirth, ”You don't have to stay in denial. Sometimes I wish to rip your heart too.”

Su Qianwei pursed her lips then nodded solemnly, ”Okay, I do wish you were rotting in a cast somewhere.”

They both looked at each other assessing the truth in their words then burst out laughing.

That was right and they weren't kidding when they said that. The world was better off without them and they were better off without the world.

They both stretched their limbs to relieve the aches they had acquired from their fierce combat. They hissed and moaned in pain.

Now that the adrenaline had washed away, the damages were evident just like throbbings and stinging aches.

Lei Xinyi had surely received more bruises as she was out of training for months now and Su Qianwei wasn't really lenient with her blows.

”Are you leaving for good?” Su Qianwei asked after a while of stretching and inspecting her injuries.

”That's the plan.” Lei Xinyi hissed again in pain, ”I am tired of running. I want to run for the last time. I want a new life... an easy life. Just help me to the port, undercover.”

Su Qainwei sighed at her statement. It wasn't going to be the last time she will escape, just like it wasn't the first time.