Chapter 5 · free to read
I had asked who lay in the sickbed upstairs. She answered with a smile, which is how she answered everything.
Luo did not stop me. He wanted me down there — I only did not yet know why.
I expected a corpse. I found a man who had been listening to my footsteps since the moment I entered the courtyard above.
The keeper had come to collect. And I began to understand the true shape of the trap.
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