Jin Zhi never expected Bai Wutong to agree so readily. He knelt down once more to perform the kowtow ceremony, touching his head to the ground three times in the nine-fold salute.
An hour later, a small group slipped quietly out of a side gate of the Imperial Palace. Jin Weige was led away like a marionette, dragged toward a waiting carriage. She did not care where she was going; to her, it was all the same—nothing but a slow march toward death.
The carriage swayed and bumped along for a long time before finally coming to a halt. A nanny hauled Jin Weige out. When she looked up and saw the familiar gate before her, she froze in place.
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