C22 I Want to Talk to You

Xia Dong's fingers tightened around the teacup as she spoke word by word, "Worse comes to worse, we'll die together."

The old mistress scoffed. "You think you can threaten me?"

"No," Xia Dong said earnestly. "I know I don't have the strength to negotiate with you, but please understand my feelings from a mother's point of view." There was no fixed number of men and women