“You foolish child, if it hurts, why don’t you turn back? Did you think that if you keep slamming, keep smashing, the wall will fall down on its own? Why don’t you change your own course of direction?”
“I won’t turn back,” Xie Lian stated. (...)
“Must you anger me like this? Let me ask you again, will you change?”
Xie Lian coughed twice, spitting out a mouthful of blood. “I won’t.”