pay me with your body

He closes his eyes and sighs.

He has been an idiot. Why did he pick up a strange woman like this? Why didn't he consider the possibility that she might have been left to die on the island because she committed a heinous crime? She could be a murderess or an exiled woman. She could be a king killer.

"Speak." Lu Weixue can't take a risk. He has a younger brother. If this woman is going to bring him misfortune, then he will throw her in the sea right away. "Why were you there?"

She sits down on the bed and leans toward the wall. She doesn't meet his eyes. She has decided to ignore him to death.

Angry beyond words, he grabs her wrist tightly. "Did you commit a crime?"

She smiles at him mockingly. "Regretting it already?"