Chapter 57 – Forbidden Love (3) (2/2)

Every single detail proved to be extremely similar to those ancient Chinese prisons; furthermore, the atmosphere felt even more unsettling.

Lord Lu sent men to lock her up in the prison. When she got handed over to a skinny and decrepit man, she understood that these turn of events were definitely not good!

Her new jailer, about as tall as Ning Xuemo, had a tiny head. However, his face was filled with enough wrinkles to squish a fly between their folds, and from his triangular, drooping eyes, came a sharp blade-like gaze.

He wore a dark red tunic riddled with brown colored splotches that eerily resembled bloodstains. He sat in a wheelchair because of his seemingly disabled legs, while another jailer pushed him around.

He looked quite ugly. In addition, he possessed a sinister, dark and bloody aura which surrounding him, making most people shudder in fear.

Ning Xuemo was handed over by six bailiffs of the Ministry of Justice. The leader of the six went up to exchange a few words with that man in a wheelchair.

From their greetings, Ning Xuemo overheard that the man’s name was Tu Yidao, truly a name filled with killing intent[1].

The leader of the bailiffs also said something, that Ning Xuemo could not hear, to Tu Yidao, at which Tu Yidao slightly nodded his head before turning around to examine her.

Ning Xuemo felt an indescribable chill akin to a blade passing by, also similar to the feeling of being stared at by a vicious beast…

‘This is not good!’ Could it be that they were going to punish her without caring about whether or not she was innocent?

Are they going to cane her to death?[2]

Ning Xuemo slowly clenched her hands, causing the iron shackles on her wrists to clank noisily.

When the six bailiffs left, Tu Yidao once again stared at her for a while with a bloodthirsty look in his eyes before ordering people to drag her into the depths of the prison.

[1] Tu Yidao or ‘屠一刀’, literally means butcher knife.

[2] This is a particularly popular corporal punishment which consist of hitting you with stick or cane. The number of hits and what type of stick will be used for punishment depended on the crime. For more details, click here.