Chapter 219: Rex's decision

You get one life. That's it. One shot. So why waste it living for someone else's approval? Why cling to rules written by people too afraid to live? Do what makes you feel alive. Even if it's wrong. Even if it's ugly. Because in the end, there's no prize for behaving. There's only what you did—and what you didn't dare to do.

Rex didn't respond. Even though there was a dark, tempting truth hidden in the man's words—something that tugged at the lonely corners of his soul—he held firm. After all, he had lived a whole previous life chasing approval, grinding through days without ever truly living, never even holding the hand of someone who loved him. It was a life wasted on survival, not experience.