An Ge closed her eyes, forcing back the tears that surged beneath them.
Yes, indeed.
The man didn't even talk about liking her, so what leverage did she have to threaten him with?
If there's no love, or not enough liking, what do the lives of others have to do with oneself anyway?
This is human nature. Huo Shaoyan simply stated the essence of it bluntly; she had no reason to feel aggrieved.
Thinking this way, the intense ache in An Ge's heart seemed to disperse a lot.
She reopened her eyes, looked at the man still standing by her hospital bed, and said,
"Then let's put it another way, I swear to protect the lives of my two children to the death."
Huo Shaoyan stared at her silently and deeply for nearly half a minute before saying,
"The woman who broke into the cellar that night, besides you, was An Baoying…"
An Ge looked up at him and said, "So what?"