Chapter 8 · free to read
One stick of incense between the markers. When a marker falls, the speaker stops, whether the sentence is finished or not.
Xue Ran. Seventeen. Ward of the Minister of Rites, and first of his year in every examination he had sat since he was eleven.
The office that held the original was the Hall of Records. The Hall of Records had burned. There was no countersignature to be had anywhere in the empire.
DISPUTATION OF THE ELEVENTH MONTH: CONCEDED BY THE SECOND SPEAKER. It was the first time in her life she had lost an argument in public, and she had lost it fairly.
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