[KUANGXIN]
Liu had suspected it.
She had known something was going to go wrong; she just didn't know what it was.
And when she walked the hallways, hidden in plain sight, masked by the same dark magic that had managed to keep her alive in Doiwa, the Shenxia queen felt what shattered her into a thousand pieces.
She was born of royalty and power. She was brought up in spaces where people plotted elimination like it was their daily bread. She was bred in a palace where trust was always limited to the person in front of her.
Gods, Liu hated the fact that she had almost forgotten that in her obsession with Sakura. That had almost cost her the one person who mattered the most to her.
It wasn't easy.
It wasn't simple.
Yet as she walked along the hallways, Liu couldn't help but want to be a shield for her queen.