Fake Daughter Is the Real Legend novel · Chapter 22 of 24

Chapter 22: Three Years

"Three years," Ruyun said.

The word dropped into the hall like a stone into a well.

Lingxue's head came up.

"Majesty, I ask for the sentence that was given to me," Ruyun said. "Three years of service at the Northern Camp at Ironwall, in the washhouse, as a convict servant."

A minister at the back made a noise of disbelief.

"She tried to kill the Grand Princess," he said.

"She tried to take a key," said Ruyun. "She is a thief and a liar, and she knew how to cry. Death is quick."

She turned her head and looked straight at Lingxue.

"I want you to find out what a bowl of rice costs."

Lingxue stared at her.

Then she began, quietly, to curse.

It was a stream of low, ugly words, from a gutter in a village, and it went on and on until the guards clapped a hand over her mouth.

The Emperor watched.

"You are certain, granddaughter?"

"I am."

"She will be fed. She will be beaten if the quartermaster there is cruel."

"The quartermaster there is dead to us," Ruyun said. "The commander is a fair man."

She did not look at Shen.

Beside her, he did not move.

"No one in his camp is owed anything," she said. "It will do."

The Emperor picked up the brush, and the ministers watched him write.

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