We Share One Heart Demon and One Bed novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: Pei's Offer
Pei Zhongyi had brought the whole mountain with him.
Twelve elders stood in white and gold on the slope above the Gate.
Two hundred disciples ranked behind them, sword hilts level.
Between the elders, two disciples carried a litter, and on the litter sat a vessel of green jade.
It was the size of a melon, carved all over with waves, with a lid shaped like a closed hand.
Luo and Jinghan walked out to meet them in yesterday's robes, with the gate warden's bell silent behind them.
Redcliff's disciples came up on their flank, Su Ning in front with a medicine chest and the champion beside her with both clubs.
Pei's eyes went to the marks on Jinghan's neck, and away.
"My poor boy," he said.
His voice was gentle, and it carried to the back row.
"Four hundred years of a girl's grief, and you have been feeding it with your own body. Tang Yu told us everything."
"Tang Yu told you what he heard through a wall, Master."
"Then correct him."
Jinghan looked at Tang Yu, standing at his shoulder with his chin up and his eyes streaming.
Tang Yu didn't flinch.
"It's true," Jinghan said. "I read it myself, and I will not give her to you in a jade box."
A mutter ran through the elders.
"Then you understand why I have come," said Pei. "I spent the night with the old records of my own sect."
He lifted a hand, and the disciples brought the litter forward.
"A vessel of Gate-stone, made to hold such a heart. I can draw her out of the two of you into this jade."
"You will be free. No more nights."
"No more dying," Pei said. "No more draining the valley. Cloudpeak will keep her safe, and release the water to Lantern Ford in measure."
Luo went still beside Jinghan.
"In measure," Luo said.
"As the Ford requires it."
"And who decides what it requires?"
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