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The Scent of Bitter Almonds

Words: 3127 · Source Novel:: Inheritance of Ashes

The formidable patriarch Song Jin collapses after celebrating the birth of a grandson. His physicians detect gu poison. Suspicion immediately falls on Song Yun, the gentle youngest son whose mother was once spared from execution in the old desertion case. His wife is publicly tortured into a false confession and executed, while Song Yun is beaten and cast out. As he crawls into exile, his world shatters, leaving only a hollow shell and the faint, bitter aroma of almonds clinging to his clothes.