The Girl Who Cultivated Calamities Chapter 27: The Room Beneath the Petitions

The Hall of Damaged Petitions smelled of wet rope. Its walls held shelves of swollen ledgers, and its floor sloped gently toward the river. Every window had been fitted with a brass rain shield. Water still found its way inside, as water usually did when the people who designed a building believed they had finished negotiating with it. Qin Ruo led the inspection herself. She brought two Chamber…