Both Sect Heads Wanted Out of the Marriage, So They Tried to Ruin the Town Together novel · Chapter 7 of 24
Chapter 7: The Toll Chain
The ferry landing was empty at midnight.
The moon sat low and yellow over the Ninefold, and the water slid under it without a sound.
Luoyi crouched beside the great toll chain with the wrench in both hands.
The chain was as thick as her wrist.
It ran from an iron post on the north bank to a stone post on the south, a hand above the water.
Every boat in the valley paid to pass under it, and for a hundred years two sects had fought over who owned it.
She was going to loosen one bolt.
Nothing would fall and nobody would be hurt.
She had measured, and the chain would only sag by two fingers and look terrible.
A sagging toll chain, in front of the Concord, was exactly the sort of thing that ended a Hearth.
She set the wrench to the bolt and leaned.
It did not move.
She leaned harder, the wrench slipped, she barked her knuckles and said a word she had learned from ferrymen.
The bolt gave with a groan.
She froze.
The only answer was a frog.
She loosened the second bolt more carefully, then the third, and sat back on her heels.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–6 of Both Sect Heads Wanted Out of the Marriage, So They Tried to Ruin the Town Together are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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