Chapter 26: Water

I was still in the prime of youth, with hormones surging fiercely through me. As I took off her shoes and saw a fresh bruise on the pale top of her foot, I couldn’t help but feel a pang of tenderness. That bastard Liu Jiajun—he’d dared to lay a hand on her. Yet, thinking about it, perhaps there would come a day when I too would do something just to survive.

“It’s bruised. Let me massage it for you. Just sit for now; when it’s time to fight back, you can stand.”