Her Fiancé Dumped Her for Crippled Roots, So She Climbed the Mountain on Ash novel · Chapter 16 of 24
Chapter 16: The Pill
They put Zhuo Ming in the cell beside hers.
The wall between them was solid rock, but the bars of both doors faced the same passage.
If Lian sat on the floor in the corner, she could hear him breathing on the other side.
"Is she alive?" he asked, after the officers had gone.
"The testing elder carried her out," Lian said. "She was breathing."
"Her roots?"
Lian didn't answer.
He didn't make her.
Some time after midnight, a lamp came down the passage.
The Sect Master carried it herself.
She wore a plain gray-green robe and her white gloves, and she came alone.
She set the lamp on the floor outside Lian's door and stood looking in at her.
In her other hand she held a small jade box.
"Your sister is in the healers' hall," she said. "She'll live. She'll never draw qi again."
"Did you come down here to tell me that?"
"I came to sell you something."
Nie Hanyue opened the jade box.
On a bed of silk inside lay one round pill the color of a new leaf.
"The Root-Mending pill," she said. "Jade Spring has one. It closes cracked roots."
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