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The Widow of Gaochang
Words: 3037 · Source Novel:: Silk Blood Shadow
The dust settles. The wives of the Pei family are sold into slavery, while Shi Pu's family has long since perished in a plague. The women related to the case gather by the well, whispering about those men who destroyed themselves for hate. They mention how Cao Lushan never smiles, how Li Shaojin often starts awake from nightmares, and how, whenever a dune wind rises at night, it seems to carry an accountant's faint, sorrowful sigh.
The Final Silk Ledger
Words: 3052 · Source Novel:: Silk Blood Shadow
The case is finally decided. Li Shaojin is declared innocent, cleared of the debt as ruled. The Pei family is exiled. Cao Lushan takes his brother's ashes and the debt note, preparing to return east. Before the judgment bench, all receive their earthly verdict. But the newly appointed record-keeper, silently looking on, feels the lingering ghost of the dead accountant still hovering in the details of the dossier. This silk debt case has become a bloody wager that no one dares to recall.
The General of the Protectorate
Words: 3069 · Source Novel:: Silk Blood Shadow
The Protector-General receives the suspicious documents and decides to hear the case in person. In the public court, Li Shaojin, having suffered greatly, displays the evidence of his torture. Cao Lushan kneels in tears, recounting his brother's tragic death. Behind Pei Lun stands a powerful background, but before the general's presence, that influence means nothing. The case finally welcomes its first glimpse of justice.
The Net Within the Net
Words: 3060 · Source Novel:: Silk Blood Shadow
Pei Lun finally realizes there is an unseen hand manipulating events. The witness who could have convicted Li Shaojin is killed, but evidence clearing him appears in the Protectorate's files instead. Furious, he orders his son confined, but Pei Yu, willful and untamed, secretly leaves the mansion to silence Cao Lushan once and for all. What he doesn't know is that the blades of the killers he's hired are already aimed at his own back.
The Prisoner's Testimony
Words: 3024 · Source Novel:: Silk Blood Shadow
Li Shaojin is confined to the county jail and subjected to severe torture. But his confession grows clearer: he recognizes the person who planted the evidence as a trusted aide of the Pei mansion. The county magistrate, Kong Zhen, senses something amiss but is pressured by his superiors. In the darkness of the cell, Li Shaojin hears a faint voice through the wall, telling him to grit his teeth and survive, that there will be a day when the case is overturned.