The Poison Cultivator Married the Crippled Heir novel · Chapter 16 of 24

Chapter 16: Not Free

She did not say a word to him.

She snapped the jade tablet in her fist.

A crack rolled out across the terraces, loud enough to carry to every terrace.

The man in brown lunged for her arm, and she stamped on his foot and tore the needle out of his hand.

Boots pounded down the corridor.

Disciples poured through the door, a dozen, then thirty, still holding their practice swords.

Behind them rolled Yuhang, with his hair loose and his face.

Elder Hou had not moved from his chair.

He had put the smile back on.

"A misunderstanding," he said. "I was taking a statement."

Wanqing held the needle high where every disciple could see the blue sheen on its tip.

"Smell it," she said. "Anyone who has ever stood near the heir's sickbed knows this smell.

"The Executor keeps it in his examination room, and his man put it in my arm."

A young disciple at the front leaned in, sniffed, and went white.

"It's the same," he whispered. "It's the Marsh poison."

"It was taken from her pack," said Hou smoothly.

"The sect should know the heir's wife is the pupil of the man who made this thing."

The room stirred.

"I will not wait for the Autumn Gathering to protect this sect from her.

"I move the Gathering to the sixth day from today.

"The heir climbs the Nine Hundred Steps then, or his seat passes to my son."

Yuhang looked at him for a long, flat moment.

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