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Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death! —Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Roma Montagov smiled and stopped in front of the merchant they were after, extending his hand for the merchant to shake.
🤭
“Because even if you hate me, Roma Montagov, I still love you.”
WHY 😭😭
Roma Montagov kicks a chair. “God—” “—dammit,” Juliette Cai finishes with a whisper, far across the city.
They even finish each other sentences 🥰
(Roma literally wants her dead)
“You take that back.” Juliette set her weapons down. “There is no such thing as too sharp.”
💅
“First of all, you’re welcome,” he said. Roma could feel an immediate headache starting up at his temples.
(me too)
Once, he would have burned the damn city to the ground just to keep her unharmed. Of course it was hard for him to hurt her now. It went against every fiber of his being. Every cell, every nerve—they had grown into place with one mantra: protect her, protect her. Even after knowing she had become someone else, even after hearing all the terrible things she had done in New York… she was still Juliette. His Juliette.
Chloe Gong is just hellbent on hurting me huh
“These violent delights have violent ends,” Juliette whispered to herself. She tilted her head up to the clouds, to the light sea breeze blowing in from the Bund and stinging her nose with salt. “You have always known this.”
😭
“You need me,” Tyler said, to no one in particular, or perhaps to everyone. “You all need me.”
*don’t. We don’t need you 🫶
And what was love if all it did was kill?
Like twin statues reaching for each other, they both fell asleep at last.
“Come quickly,” he gasped. “Tyler Cai is launching an attack.”
THAT LITTLE BITCH.
“How mighty you are,” he whispered quietly. “I am grateful that our roles are not switched, for I would have dove headfirst into the Huangpu should I be left in this world without you.”
OTP😭😭😭😭😭
“You just don’t get it.” “What, Benedikt? What could I possibly not get—” “I loved him!”
“Jesus.” “It’s Kathleen, actually, but I appreciate the holiness,”
💅💅💅
“So, I heard an interesting rumor.”
This series described in six words.
“Because?” Kathleen prompted. And all in one breath, Rosalind said, “Because he’s associated with the White Flowers, okay?”
ROUND TWO BITCHES 🔥🔥🔥
Marshall scratched his head. “Don’t tell me you went and got a lover,” he grumbled. “I’ve only been dead for five months and you’re already buying women presents?” Then Benedikt brought out a lighter and started to burn the ribbon. Marshall’s eyes bugged. “Oh. Oh, never mind.”
“He’s just arrived. For Miss Rosalind.” “Rosalind?” Tyler exclaimed. “The hell did she do?” Oh merde. Juliette ran for the door, but even as she tore into the night, the maid’s answer followed her out. “She’s the White Flower spy.”
HOLD ON A MINUTE-
Perhaps it was simply the women. Perhaps they were just weak.
Fuck you sir 🥰
“Tyler Cai has taken Alisa.”
THAT. LITTLE. BITCH.
“I missed you, dorogaya,” he whispered against her ear. “I missed you so much.”
brb imma go cry in a corner ✌️
“I will fight this war to love you, Juliette Cai. I will fight this feud to have you, because it was this feud that gave you to me, twisted as it is, and now I will take you away from it.”
“I will stare fear in the face,” Juliette promised quietly. “I will dare to love you, Roma Montagov, and if the city cuts me down for it, then so be it.”
“Juliette,” he whispered. Both of their coats came off. Roma had the zip of her dress pulled in seconds too, and Juliette lifted her arms to accommodate. “My darling, darling Juliette.”
I’M DOWN BAD AND SO IS HE
dorogaya.”
I audibly squeal every time he says that
“Is Rosalind the blackmailer?”
CHLOE JUST BE DICING OUT THESE PLOT TWISTS LIKE CANDY
Come quickly. The safe house. We have Rosalind. —
She knows it’s him because he signed it with a heart 😭😭😭😭
“Those are all Dimitri Voronin’s men.”
FUCKING-
Воронин
Bro that’s crazy
“Because”—he signaled for the men behind him—“I heard that my son was alive and well, and I have come to fetch him back.” At once, the soldiers raised their firearms, pointed at one person in the room. “Hello, Bàba,” Marshall spat. “You have terrible timing.”
WHAT?? THE?? FUCK??
“Look,” Benedikt said faintly, hardly hearing his own words as they slipped out. “You got your resurrection too.”
“A rose is a rose, even by another name,” he whispered. “But we choose whether we will offer beauty to the world, or if we will use our thorns to sting.”
her little lighter,
Omg it’s a reference!
“I ruined us all for a love not true,” Rosalind whispered. “At the very least, I can still save you.”
Rosalind my baby you did nothing wrong 😭🫶
