Phoenix's Requiem - Chapter 334: No Regrets

... a corner of her lip and seeping through the cracks in her fingers, a face as pale as snow, she looked like a ghost out for vengeance.

“How long do I have left?” she asked the shadow before her.

“About a month,” came its reply. Its voice was hoarse and pitched just too low for comfort, sounding neither like a man nor a woman.

“This is the price I have to pay?” Yi Qianying was regretful and bitter. “If I had known the second elder would let me out, I wouldn’t have made suc ...