The Bride Who Read the Contract novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: The Council
The council hall was full by nine in the morning.
The seven heads of the Seven Shrines sat on a low dais at the far end in their white and coloured robes.
The eldest sat in the middle.
She was a tiny old woman with a face like a walnut, head of the oldest shrine after the Hinase.
She had come in leaning on two grandsons.
Beside the dais sat the Prince Regent's chamberlain in a black frock coat, with a secretary to write everything down.
The rest of the hall was packed to the walls.
Clan families.
Shrine priests.
Reporters with their notebooks on their knees.
The gallery above was full of ordinary people from the capital who had queued since dawn.
Genzo stood before the dais in his white robes.
Kinue sat behind him in purple, in the front row, with her fan.
Fumika sat on the other side of the hall with Kaede.
Her mother's chest was at her feet.
In her sleeve was a folded paper with two cut ends of red silk inside it, and her mother's sewing scissors.
The side door opened and the Night Watch brought Ibuki in.
He walked in chains between four officers.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of The Bride Who Read the Contract are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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