Ah Shun stood at the doorway and, together with Butcher Zhang, lit a torch to peer inside. The prison was eerily dark; all the torches had been extinguished, and visibility was poor. Afraid that Jiang Li might not see the steps on the ground and stumble, Ah Shun was about to remind her to be careful when he saw that Jiang Li didn't even take the torch and walked down on her own.
Ah Shun: "..."
As a child, Xue Huaiyuan forbade him and Xue Zhao from entering the prison. But every time, Xue Zhao would take him along sneakily; the jailer knew they were the children of Xue Huaiyuan, and understanding that kids are playful and wouldn't do any harm, he'd turn a blind eye. Jiang Li was not unfamiliar with the prison. Among those imprisoned, there were indeed those who had committed heinous crimes out of sheer wickedness, while others were driven by desperate circumstances to break the law. But they had one thing in common: they were all branded with sin.
