The Immortal Emperor Returns novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Last Bell
She was so light.
Chu knelt on the white marble with Shuang in his arms and could not feel her breath.
Her hand lay open on his knee.
The mole at the corner of her mouth was very dark against her skin.
The bell rolled out again, over the terraces, over the snow, over ten thousand silent heads.
That was the second stroke.
"Boss," Su Mian was saying. "Boss, get up. Boss, you can't walk, you're bleeding from the ears."
"Get the Emperor's litter."
"What?"
"Now."
The old sergeant was already running.
Ning Hongyi's litter came across the altar at a trot, carried by eight men, and the old Emperor was sitting up on it with his robe falling open and his thin face working.
"Put her on it," he said hoarsely. "Put my daughter on it. Where do you take her?"
"The Ancestral Hall."
"The lamp."
Chu looked at him.
"I am a foolish old man," said the Emperor. "I am not a stupid one. She has been going to that hall every morning for eleven days with the face of a dying woman. Go. Hurry."
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