The Scribe Who Read the Clouds
Chapter 9 · free to read
Court Censor Bai Rong. Sent to find out why a weather office kept standing next to corpses.
The overseer lied for four hours with a straight back. It was the bravest thing Wen had ever watched a frightened man do.
She lied better than Gao. That was the part Wen could not put down afterwards.
Twelve years of dust on every shelf. On one board, no dust at all.
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