Chapter 2 · free to read
The guests fled before midnight. But the doors of the Yun mansion do not open until dawn. So I stayed. I had agreed to a trial.
The incense did not save her. The dead do not fear their own altar.
One name given to spare herself. And a second name I had not asked for, falling free.
A confession does not earn mercy. It only decides how you are taken.
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