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The Dust of Huaishuo

Words: 1874 · Source Novel:: The Border's Feral Justice

Junior secretary Cui Min arrives at the frontier garrison of Huaishuo, where Princess Lanling's broken body lies in a mud-brick fort. The local commander, Liu Hui, is already a ghost. Cui Min discovers the killing was no domestic outburst but a calculated murder witnessed by nomadic herders who live by their own blood codes, indifferent to imperial writs.