Chapter 39 · Are You Truly Allowed to Die

Each day felt like pushing her neck beneath the guillotine and waiting for the rope to snap.

Holding her breath all day long, watching the eyes of the palace people spread like shadows on all sides, she counted down to the promised day.

Every second, every minute was like a noose tightening around her throat, and the passing time was cruelly heavy.

And at last, the day of the uprising that would decide Isadel's fate arrived.

Lying in her bedchamber staring at the ceiling, Isadel's eyes were still as a frozen lake.

Yet her heart raced without pause.

Now all that remained of her part was finished.

The palace blueprints she had taken from the imperial secret archive, and the post deployments and imperial guard patrol routes she had thoroughly mapped out while coming and going from the emperor's palace.

All the information needed for the uprising had already been…