Chapter 233

There were no jailers patrolling. Some were eating, others were changing shifts; at this time, there was usually a fifteen-minute window where no one paid any attention to the prisoners. Perhaps due to orders from Qi Shihuai, the prisoners in this block were strictly guarded and forbidden from speaking to one another. A'zi had never been in prison before and did not know if this was the standard rule in other dungeons. She only knew that whenever she tried to speak to the other inmates, she would receive a warning—light cases resulted in verbal abuse or lashes, while severe cases led to torture. There were actually very few people in this section of the prison; it was likely reserved for special inmates. Counting them up, aside from herself, there was only Princess Yunxi and Pei Shangling. Xiao Yichen had been kept here as well in the past.