The Girl Who Cultivated Calamities Chapter 26: The Witness Who Was Not There

The Chamber of Witnesses had never been so crowded at noon. Petitioners stood in the aisles, clerks carried stools from adjoining rooms, and officials wearing the Glass House's three-stroke seal occupied the seats closest to the front. Qin Ruo presided at a plain desk beneath a tall window. On the desk sat the third envelope, still enclosed in its transparent case. Lin Xue arrived with Jiang Yun…