The Righteous Sect's Discarded Fiancée novel · Chapter 18 of 24

Chapter 18: Her Own Name

Mu-hyeon's hand went to his sword.

Ye-rin moved in against Yeon-hwa's back.

Yeon-hwa didn't draw.

She lifted her empty hands and turned in a slow circle, so that every blade in the courtyard could see them.

"Yes," she said.

The nearest swords stopped moving.

"Yes. I'm the Heavenly Demon of the Red Moon. He's telling you the truth."

Nobody knew what to do with that.

You could see it go through the crowd.

They had come ready for a demon who lied.

"My family's sword is the Red Moon's founding art," Yeon-hwa said. "A Seol took it off a dead Heavenly Demon at the Black Ford."

A few of the oldest heads in the crowd came up sharply.

One old man in the front row put his hand over his mouth.

He had been at the Black Ford.

She could see it in his face.

"It came to the Azure Cloud as my dowry." She turned to the dais. "The Sect Master has practised its last page for ten years."

The roar that went up was so loud the banners shook.

Jin Gwang-hu laughed.

It was a warm, sad, grandfatherly laugh, and it carried.

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