Su Luxi (20)

Like a broken machine, she said, "I could only be your fiancee. Luke... Please make me... your fiancee... You'll agree, won't you?" She kept repeating these lines until her face warped into a heartbreaking one, begging and crying.

Did the nightmares and worries push her so hard these days?

She had no time to wonder as she waited for his response.

After a long while spent on watching her act, the man simply asked, "Have you lost your mind, crown princess?"

Rumina's eyes shook. The girl saw that the prophet's face turned emotionless, and his cold eyes were not staring at her, but at the few servants from both parties who suddenly slowly swayed in the air and fell down. The carpet which extended to the four corners of the room muffled the sounds, but even so, with the place being so quiet, even a mosquito's buzzing could be clearly heard, much less the soft but chain-like thudding sounds from people that crashed on the ground.