If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them

"If I told you I loved you, would you believe me?" Sheng Ke tugged at the corners of his aching mouth. Looking at his hands and feet, shackled in chains, and feeling the weakness in his body, he still turned his gaze away. "Say something!" Lu Fengtang's trembling, urgent voice broke into a sob. "Keke, please answer me, okay?" Forced to look at him by a rough hand, Sheng Ke heard his own hoarse, unpleasant voice say, "...I believe you." Theme: There is no way out in this world