“What about the other woman?” Ah Duo asked softly, her voice as soft as a mild breeze. 

I calmed the churning, complicated emotions in my head and looked down. “... she’s dying to kill him…”

A long silence lingered in the air. Looking at the figure among the flowers, pain entangled with hurt in my heart.

Can I really kill him?

Can I…

really do it…

Even after he’d hurt my loved one, after he’d hurt my heart, my heart still continued to ache for him.

When I had first come into this world, I’d met him. He was the first person I’d believed in.

From the moment he’d put his shoes on my feet, when he’d helped me up and said that he would bring me back for healing, his name had already been imprinted in my heart,...