Chapter 24: You Must Help Me...

Beside the freshly turned earth lay scattered, charred bamboo leaves, their veins coated in dark red crystals that looked as if blood and pine resin had been melted together.

As the crowd’s gazes traveled upward, a stifled gasp shattered the deathly silence of the bamboo grove.

Embedded deep into a thick tree trunk was half a palm print. While the five fingers were clearly human in shape, the lines of the palm were branded with scorched marks.

When Su Yao heard that the Ministry of Justice had discovered something unusual in the bamboo grove of the cold palace, her vision went black, and her legs gave way.