After Three Years of Slavery, the Entire Mansion Begged Me for Forgiveness novel · Chapter 8 of 24
Chapter 8: The War God Walks Out
Prince Wei stood in the doorway in a black robe, with one hand on the frame.
His hair hung loose to his waist, and his face was very pale.
He was so tall that he had to bend his head to see out of the door.
"Who struck my wife?" he said.
His voice was hoarse and low, and it carried to the end of the passage.
Nobody answered.
The Marquis's raised hand was still in the air, and it began, very slowly, to shake.
Wanning could not breathe.
She stared at the man beside her, and the man did not look at her.
He was looking at the Marquis.
"I asked a question," Chengxiao said. "Who put a hand on the Princess of Wei in the Prince of Wei's own house?"
"Highness," the Marquis whispered. "You... you are awake."
"It seems so."
"The palace said... three years..."
"The palace said a great many things."
The Imperial Guards at the end of the passage had gone still.
Then one of them, a grey-bearded man at the back, dropped to one knee.
"General," he said. His voice cracked. "General Gu."
Another knelt beside him, and another.
They were old men, some of them, and they wore the Crown Prince's yellow, but they had followed this man into the northern snow.
One by one they went down on the stone floor, until half the passage was bowed.
"Get up," Chengxiao said wearily. "You're embarrassing me."
Nobody got up.
He turned his dark eyes on the Marquis.
"Pei Zhonghe," he said. "You are in my house with a hundred armed men. You have broken my treasury door with an axe. You struck my wife in my corridor."
"Highness, I had a decree..."
"I heard it read in my own yard." He glanced at the yellow silk in the Marquis's fist. "It says my silver is held if I die. Do I look dead to you?"
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