บท 304: Chapter 122 New Year_4

"So what?"

"We are just a common family, and so our lives are to be dismissed just like that? On what grounds?"

She gave a bitter laugh, her voice cold, "Only in the eyes of you nobles do people have ranks. In the eyes of Yama, there are only the living and the dead."

"To kill is to pay with one's life, a principle as old as heaven and earth."

Truly ignorant of the world's ways, Pei Yunmeng furrowed his eyebrows slightly, "Don't you want justice?"

"Justice?"

Lu Tong lifted her head.

Her eyes, distinct in black and white, shone with an astonishing lucidity beneath the dim lamplight, making her seem resolute and defiant. Just like when she was pushed down and injured, she wouldn't cry out in pain but immediately charged back into the fray; and now, shackled in this wretched state, she didn't show any sign of weakness.

She simply gazed coldly at the person in front of her.