I Was Sent as Tribute to the Prince I Shot novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: Answered
They were married in the Hall of Wounds, at noon, under a hundred years of royal wounds stitched in gold.
The glass case on the black altar stood open.
The broken arrow was gone.
In its place on red silk lay two small notched shafts, the one from the barge rail and the one from the standard pole.
Beside the case, the arrow Jiang had put through the Marshal's ring still stood in the lacquer where it had landed.
Lin had forbidden anyone to pull it out.
"Let the Hall remember who stood here," he had said.
The Hanging Yard had been used once more, on the seventh day, and then the Council had ordered it pulled down.
Nobody had gone to watch.
Forty elders sat along the walls in white, with their hands in their sleeves.
Wen Lanxi stood at the back with a tin of hawthorn.
Du Heng wept openly beside him and wiped his face on the ceremonial sleeve of a stranger.
In the gallery, in the third row, sat the widow with a boy at each side.
She had come in plain white, and she held her tablet on her knee.
Lin wore teal and gold.
His hair was bound up under the jade comb.
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