Her Fiancé Dumped Her for Crippled Roots, So She Climbed the Mountain on Ash novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: The Stone Yard
The Stone Yard went so quiet that Lian could hear the mist hissing on the spirit pool.
Nie Hanyue held up her bare gray arms so the guest sects could see them properly.
"I had cracked roots at nineteen," she said, in her soft, reasonable voice. "I drank the ash at twenty."
"I climbed on it, every realm, to the seat I sit in now."
"Then I wrote the law that throws ash-drinkers down the well."
The murmur in the guest rows rose and fell.
"Ash kills most girls who drink it," she went on. "The rest fight over the mountain like dogs."
"Thirty-four girls in a well is a small price for a sect that stays in one family's hands."
"I'd pay it again."
Lian looked across the flagstones at the head carrier.
The old woman's face had gone as gray as the Sect Master's arms.
Guan Shuo was still standing at the edge of the yard with his sleeves rolled up.
"She held my head while I screamed," he said, loud enough for the north rows.
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