[SAKURA]
"You're lying to me. If you don't want to be my Erasthai, I won't force you. It's just a title anyway. You won't have to bear the weight of the crown. I can drop the naming ceremony.
"I can abandon all that for you. If… If I say I don't want an Erasthai, will you stay with me?" Sakura pleaded, and Liu felt her heart breaking again. Or rather, whatever was left of her heart anyway. She hadn't thought this far.
Of course, Liu had expected Sakura wouldn't accept her reasons, but she hadn't expected it would be this raw. That she would see Sakura so vulnerable and broken because of her.
It just hit her the wrong way, and now she had to think of something else. Something that could be believable to the mad queen, even if now all her chances seemed to dwindle with every second.
Liu knew this was not going to end well.
If not for her and Sakura, then for their factions.
The moment she left, the truth would be out there, and there wasn't a thing she could do to control it.
