Chapter 52: Thousand Inner Blades

He crossed the residence courtyard with the frost on his left side already loosening at the seams.

Lian and Wei had reached the residence before him after leaving the stands. The formal robe of Skyedge had been pinned between two cords stretched across the inner patio, its left side opened where the frost had bitten through the cloth. Wei was tugging at the shoulder seam with the small frown of a man who had decided privately that his stitching was going to be straighter than the housekeeping’s stitching.

Lian had stopped pinning the moment she registered his sandals on the gravel, and she was already on her feet by the time he came around the corner of the wall.

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