The Goddess Who Sealed Him Is His Maid Now novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Heart
The thread did not go out.
It lay glowing in the snow, then broke into a thousand sparks of gold and rose into the air.
They drifted up past the torches and the faces of the soldiers, and the whole crowd leaned back to watch them.
Cangjue looked down at his chest.
The skin was whole.
There was no hole in it, no root, no scar where the thread had grown.
There was only a broad, scarred, ordinary chest, and under it two hearts.
Everyone could hear them.
The courtyard was so quiet that the beat carried across the stones, a deep slow drum and, tucked inside it, a lighter one.
"It's still there," he said.
"It's yours now," said Luan. "You keep it."
"I don't know how to keep a thing."
"You'll learn."
He put his hand over his heart, and then over hers, and then he did something she had not expected.
He began to laugh.
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