CCWAD – Chapter 45

Chapter 45 Chapter 45: Red Candles and Warm Curtains Pass a Spring Night Epigraph: "She hung golden bells in the four corners of the sleeping chamber, saying that the chime would change each time I approached. That night, she blindfolded me and led me to identify them one by one: 'This is the steadiness when you review memorials, this is the joy when you see me...'" --- The first snow of the eighth year of the New Dynasty arrived exceptionally early. Not long after the start of winter, Bianliang, the…