Lu Sangjiu fell silent for a moment, not giving a direct answer. She simply smiled self-deprecatingly. "I don't have the power to kill you."
Cangming already knew her answer, yet he pressed on, as if he wouldn't be satisfied without a definite reply.
"I'm not asking if you *can*. I'm asking if you *want* to."
"Gu Huang... do you want to kill me?"
'Cangming really was a tiresome man,' Lu Sangjiu thought.
'Does he really have to force me to say it out loud?'
Her emotions at that moment were a tangled mess. Memories of her past with Cangming flashed through her mind, followed by her helpless struggle during the Ascension Thunder Tribulation. The final image to sear itself into her memory was of that day he got drunk and admitted to killing her with his own hands.
These events churned in her mind, stirring a storm of emotions deep within her.
Finally, she looked into Cangming's eyes, unable to deceive herself as she answered, "Yes. I do."
