After Three Years of Slavery, the Entire Mansion Begged Me for Forgiveness novel · Chapter 13 of 24

Chapter 13: The File

Wanning read the file standing up, in her shift, with a robe thrown over it.

Chengxiao sat on the edge of the bed behind her and did not ask for a single page.

The papers were thick, and the Medical Office had stamped each one in red.

There was the charge against her father, and the list of the dead court lady's symptoms, and the Marquis's sworn statement.

She read that page twice, and she held it so tightly that the corner tore.

"The Marquis swore he saw my father pour the poison," she said.

"Pei Zhonghe swears to a great many things."

"He's sworn to this one in his own hand."

"Then we have it in his own hand."

She laid the page face up on the table, and she was glad that her fingers were steady.

The last sheet was the execution report.

It was short, and it was neat, and it said that the condemned Shen had been beheaded at dawn on the ninth day of the eleventh month, in the presence of two Medical Office clerks.

Nothing in it said where the body had gone.

At the very bottom, in the Crown Prince's flat, handsome hand, was the order that had sent him there.

She found his name on the page and put her thumb on it.

Behind her the bed creaked, and Chengxiao stood up carefully and came to stand at her shoulder.

He was still in his white robe, and his hair was loose.

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