The Immortal Emperor Returns novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: The Same Block
They sentenced Gu Boyan at dusk, in Meridian Square, on the same black dais.
The braziers were lit.
Thousands of people filled the Square to the rim.
The snow had stopped, and the sky above the capital was a clear and tender gold.
Nobody was quiet this time.
They shouted.
They shouted the names of the men and women who had died in the Chancellor's cellars, and the Chancellor's face was white as chalk.
He knelt at the block in a prisoner's gray shirt.
He was thin and old, with his goatee scraped off and his thumb ring gone.
Beside him knelt Han Yuanqing.
Han was weeping.
He had not stopped weeping since the army had stripped his armor in the camp.
The executioner stood behind them with a new blade, broad and curved, and did not look at either.
The Emperor sat on the dais in his yellow robe.
He was still gray, still thin, and he held himself upright by the arms of the throne.
At his right hand stood Chu in a plain black coat, with his arm in a sling.
At his left stood Shuang in her scarlet robe.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of The Immortal Emperor Returns are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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