Her Fiancé Dumped Her for Crippled Roots, So She Climbed the Mountain on Ash novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: The Terraces
On the first day of winter, the plum trees on the north ridge were bare, and there were thirty-four new graves under them.
Each one had a smooth river stone at its head.
Nobody had names to cut into them, so the carriers had left them plain.
Zhuo Ming knelt at the grave nearest the Pavilion gate and pushed the peach-wood hairpin into the earth beside the stone.
He set it crooked.
Then he sat back on his heels and left it that way.
He wore black again.
The Hall had given him the Discipline Hall, and his first order had been to open every fever ledger it kept to anyone who asked.
Lian stood beside him with her hands in her sleeves.
The gray at her wrists was nearly black now, and it lay quiet.
It still burned every waking hour, and she still felt every grain of it.
"She'd have liked you," Zhuo Ming said. "She'd have told you your hair was a disgrace."
Lian's hair was tied up with the same strip of gray cloth as always, and half of it had come down.
He stood, turned her by the shoulders and retied it for her, badly.
She let him.
At noon the Stone Yard was full for the carriers' Root Stone day.
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