Chapter 6 · free to read
The best disguise she owned was the truth turned sideways — a blind old woman selling herbs, and a girl to lead her. No guard looks twice at what he already pities.
Old Fu had waited outside with the letter's names. Inside, the girl became the woman's eyes, and the woman became the girl's nerve. Between them they made one whole thief.
She had forgotten she was known. In this town, everyone knew the governor's daughter by sight — and the sect's man in the yamen most of all.
One breath faster than his voice — that was all she had ever needed. But the corridor beyond had already heard the fall.
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