The Ninth Princess put down her chopsticks and smiled bitterly. She mustered her courage and looked into Little Bruiser's eyes. "I don't like him, and I don't like marrying into the Xiongnu. On the first night of the wedding, he started to escape with me. His grandfather tried to cut off my finger to threaten the soldiers of the Great Zhou. He didn't do that. You all think that I should be grateful to him, but I can't. If he really wanted me to stay out of it, he shouldn't have brought me along from the beginning.
"I tried my best to pretend to be obedient, just like I had been obedient in the palace all these years. This way, he wouldn't have the heart to attack me. And he didn't really have the heart to do so. He just thought that it wasn't irreversible yet. If it came to that, he wouldn't hesitate to cut off my fingers."
