Chapter 4 · free to read
The Ministry of Rites has no authority over treasury clerks. The Ministry of Personnel does, and the Minister of Rites had dined there twice that month.
Ten circles. She filled the first one that night and did not sleep before she had filled the second.
Four hundred li. Twelve days on the winter road. He was gone before the drum tower sounded and the courtyard did not feel small until it was empty.
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