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Chapter 61 – The Courtyard Shadow

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last update Tanggal publikasi: 2025-08-25 06:19:36

The old market courtyard lay almost deserted at midnight, its emptiness unsettling in a place that once pulsed with life. Cracked stone stretched across the square, worn smooth in places by decades of footsteps, now brittle under the bite of winter air. Faded red lanterns, long past their prime, dangled from rusting iron hooks and swayed against the cold wind, their glow uneven and sickly. The light they shed cast fractured shadows that crawled across the walls like restless spirits, elongating
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