Married to the Emperor's Fiercest General, Who Is Terrified of Me novel · Chapter 18 of 24

Chapter 18: Seven Years of Evidence

Lieutenant Cui arrived at the Hanlin Guest Hall at dusk, out of breath, and stood in the doorway with his right boot held out in front of him.

"The Marshal says I'm not to tell you," he announced.

Wenxuan looked up from the desk.

"Then why are you standing in my door?"

"I'm not telling you. I'm taking off my boot."

He sat on the floor, pulled it off, shook it, and a folded sheet of coarse paper dropped out onto the boards.

Wenxuan read it standing up.

He read the first line, and the second, and then he sat down on the cot without noticing, and read the rest.

The handwriting was enormous and crooked, with a blot on the third line.

The word for north was correct.

Every time, it was correct.

Somewhere in the cell, with a guard's brush, the Butcher of Hanlu Pass had written the stroke the right way and had not put the extra one on.

Wenxuan read to the end.

He read the last line twice.

Then he stood up, walked to the washstand, and threw the whole basin of water at the wall.

"Annulled!" he said.

Cui flattened himself against the door.

"He wants me annulled! Freed! Like a servant in a will! He didn't ask me, he asked the Emperor, and now he has asked the Emperor to take it back, and he has still not asked me!"

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