Herald was still on one knee the whole time; he almost lost his grip of his body and fell from the sky.

He swallowed, regained his balance and went back on his knee.

Then, he plucked up his courage, and raised his eyes to catch a glimpse of the face of the king before.

Only one sight was enough for him to keep wiping his forehead, terrifying... it was terrifying!

That face was like a monstrous black wind, and those freezing eyes were like about to devouring!

It’s over!

The girl went too far this time, he wouldn’t be able to save her. Her throat was about to be slit in any second.

What a shame...what a shame..she is a good brave girl...

Just when Herald was in silent mourning for Aster, a black wind flashed before his eyes, and the next second the king disappeared! He turned to look at Aster on the carriage, she was gone too!

Herald sprang to his feet, hopped onto the carriage and checked again, she was really gone. He just fell to the seat, stricken.

"It’s over, the king must have taken her somewhere to finish her... poor girl..."

After Aster had finished her words, a black wind took her and she went in a coma. Before she realized what had happened, she found herself in the center of a magnificent hall. Pitch black bricks were like mirrors, the material of which one can not tell, air of coldness seeping out. Subconsciously she noticed her hideous look in the reflection, and also another one’s face.

Which frightened the hell out of her. She covered her chest and looked up, and that was when her chin was picked.

"Well, called me blind right?"

These amber eyes reflected cold faint light, seizing her like magic, and she could not avoid them. She just looked into these sharp eyes, trembling, and heard him say, "you are really filled with confidence..."

Aster just bombarded him from inside out. Though she left him two choices in the last word with such momentum, she didn’t even bother to think that he would love her or not. So the reason she was brought here was that he wanted to put an end to her.

So she went way beyond far, knowing that she was going to die. What the fuck else could she fear!

Aster raised her cocky head, and put on a hard face, "you are right! I AM confident! I’m even confident in my confidence!"

" Really?" he loosened the strength of his fingers holding her chin suddenly, and something flashed by in his amber eyes. Aster didn’t see it clearly, but she could imagine that he was up to no good.

"How many men have there been?"

What?!

How many..men?

Aster was puzzled, he was going to kill her? What kind of question was that?

But seriously, she had only one boyfriend, that first love in high school. After the car accident however, she cut herself out from the outside world for a long time, and so from her boyfriend. Then she walked out of the shadow and went to college, her study and career as an owner of an online toy design store since had fully occupied her and she didn’t really have a real relationship; after the graduation her career became her lover. So she’d been single for a long time, that was why she got lonely and wanted a pet.

But he was asking now, would she be looked down upon if she told the truth that there had been only one?

Then Aster thought it through and raised her head high, "So many! I told you. My pursuers are lining up from my office to my garage! I’ve lost count."

The moment she was done, he squinted his eyes, and she could saw his pupils contracted. Her heart lost a beat, and she continued, "so...what? I’m just popular! I change my boyfriends like I change my clothes! Salute to me!"

"Well... I didn’t expect you to be a such a slut...." he put more strength on his fingers, and it hurt so much as to make Aster gasp. And what was more, he stooped to get closer to her face at this moment, so her heart raced like hell, in the fear that he’d open his big wolf mouth and his fangs would go on her neck, that way she would be dead on the spot miserably.

He got closer and closer, Aster could feel his warm breath on her neck. She closed her eyes and held her breath, waiting desperately for death. It seemed finally he decided to lay his hand on her and wouldn’t keep her life anymore.

She was hopeless and worried about nothing more, except for the pain when he bit into her neck, she wasn’t that afraid of death now.

However...

Aster waited for a while, eyes closed, her heart like dead ashes, but the pain never came as expected. Instead, she felt his mouth went near her ear and whispered, "then I’ll leave your life for the moment and we’ll see, if you can please me and satisfy me. Now Aster, do you understand your mission?"

Huh?

What?!

Aster opened her eyes and with the power coming from nowhere, she slapped off his hand from her chin, "what.. what do you mean?"

"What do you mean by what do I mean? Huh?" he suddenly seized her whole face with that hand, the strength was going to crush her jaw. Then she heard him said grimly , "didn’t you just boasted that you’ve been with tons of men?"

In a twinkling, bang! Aster’s mind exploded empty.

After several hard blinks, she realized his real intention, her understanding in ‘how many men have there been’ was total different from his!!

Hell!

She’d never "been" with men!

Please...please him?

To the hell with please him!

In this short moment, Aster pulled together a magnificent power from inside her heart. From her chest to her mouth, she was going to vent this "fuck off" word onto him. But one word of him held it back to her chest.

"Either if you can’t do it or can’t do it well,I will ..." a sneer gave the rest words.

Aster’s tears were going to burst out. It’s a ray of hope before her eyes.

But this hope was too...abrupt, and caught her off guard!

By promising Herald to give his king a child, she had only meant for herself to get out from that monstrous place for that very moment with the help of Herald, then she would figure out some way to escape! She’d never thought of having sex with him for real! Even though she’d said it before him in person that she was going to love him, that was just for the purpose of winning time and letting him not kill her like that. She’d never had the idea of love him for real!

But...at present...

No.. lord in heaven! she was forced into a narrower corner!