Both Sect Heads Wanted Out of the Marriage, So They Tried to Ruin the Town Together novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: The First No
At dawn the whole town stood on the landing, damp to the knees, with reeds in its hair.
The boats had been pulled out of the jam an hour before, and most of them were still dripping.
The Chair sat on her ferry crate by the gold-ringed post with her notebook open.
Steward Ma stood behind her with his ledger, and Ma's rescue skiff was tied to the stake where it belonged.
He had looked at it, and at the folded sail, and written something very small.
Luoyi stood at the front of the crowd with Zhuyuan beside her.
Her braid was a ruin, and there was a lantern burn of soot on his sleeve.
"Head Jiang," said the Chair. "Mistress Tang. A permanent Hearth and a ten-year term. Your answer."
Three hundred households went quiet enough to hear the river.
Luoyi felt Zhuyuan draw a breath.
She did not open her mouth.
She had answered for him all hundred days, and this one was not hers.
"Madam Chair," said Zhuyuan. "Thank you, with my whole heart."
"No."
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