Xie Qiqi frowned, just about to refuse, when Zhao Chen interjected, "Miss Xie, my father said that if I’m sent back by you, I’ll be given another forty lashes. I only just took forty last night; if I take forty more, wouldn't that just be the end of me?"
"Miss Xie, technically I’m your cousin, can you really bear to watch me die? I beg you, just let me stay. I can do anything!"
He cupped his hands in a salute toward Xie Qiqi, his face a mask of misery.
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