"First, no concubines; second, no prying into my whereabouts; third..." She looked toward the sky-high flames outside the hall. "Before the hour of the Rat tonight, I want the West Courtyard of Marquis Yongning's Estate burned to the ground."
Madam Feng’s hand-fan clattered to the floor. Buried beneath the West Courtyard was the very furnace used to poison the former Madam.
Xiao Yu laughed out loud. With the tip of an arrow, he hooked and displayed the bloody arrowhead worn around his neck—the same Beidi black-iron arrowhead that had pierced his heart three years ago.
Chapter 18