The Goddess Who Sealed Him Is His Maid Now novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: The Line
Mei caught her in the laundry at dusk and put a bowl of hot noodles in her hands.
"Eat," she said. "Then I'll tell you something. Sit."
Luan sat on an upturned tub among the steaming sheets.
Mei sat across from her with her keys in her lap.
"I told you I hid in a barrel at Haojing," she said.
"You did."
"I didn't tell you how I got out."
She turned the keys over.
"The Marshal's soldiers left at dawn. I stayed in the barrel until dark. Then somebody lifted the lid, and I thought, that's it, they've come back."
"Who was it?"
"A tall man with burned hands and blood on his sleeves. He didn't say a word. He picked me up like a sack of radishes and put me in a cart with forty other children."
Luan put her chopsticks down.
"That was Haojing," said Mei. "Four hundred and fifty years ago."
"He never told me."
"He wouldn't."
Mei's gold tooth glinted once.
"I'm not telling you he's a good man, child. He burned a city and I've never once heard him say it was fair. I'm telling you what he did when no one was looking."
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