Escape!

"Li Yin," Xi Huan smiled but her haggard face hardly conveyed her appreciation of the girl's warmth.

"Come, her highness is calling for you now," Li Yin murmured. Xi Huan nodded and got up totteringly. Li Yin quickly went to help her up. Together, they walked towards Ru Yu's alchemy room, a damp place lined with grotesque torture devices. Ru Yu was sitting in a chair clearly awaiting them. The two girls bowed.

"Well, Xi Huan," Ru Yu smiled sweetly as if this was just a normal rendezvous of two close friends, "you're here,"

"Yes your Highness," Xi Huan replied faintly. Li Yin led her to sit on the wooden stool opposite the princess. Ru Yu signalled to her maid and Li Yin nodded as she bowed and left. She soon returned with a box.

"I already got your funeral clothes," Ru Yu said with a disturbing smile, "check them out, aren't they pretty?"