Sealed in the Secret Realm with My Rival novel · Chapter 16 of 24
Chapter 16: The Price
"No," Lu Baichuan said.
He said it quietly, with his hand over Qin Heyan's on his chest.
"No what?"
"Don't put your core in me."
Qin's hand went still.
"You've been looking for a way out for twenty-three days."
"I know."
"It's the only way there is."
"I know that too."
Lu sat up on the kitchen table and pulled the cloth around his waist.
Outside the window, the sky had gone grey.
Fat drops began to fall on the pine slope, one at a time, and then many.
"I grew up in Ember Court," Lu said. "I know the old stories."
"Nobody ever said how to heal the Pearl. But they said what happens when a second core goes into an heir."
"What happens?"
"It stays."
Qin waited.
"Forever. Two cores in one body, joined at the heart."
"You'd feel every breath I take. A day's ride away from me, and you'd ache. A week, and you'd be on your knees."
"That is not death."
"It's a chain, Heyan."
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–6 of Sealed in the Secret Realm with My Rival are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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