Usually, the only thing separating winter from autumn was a good snowfall.8

In the fifth month after Xu Qing arrived in the county capital, winter arrived along with the first blizzard. White snowflakes filled the sky, falling to cover all the buildings and streets, and even the hair of the pedestrians. It painted the world silver, and made it seem like everyone in the city had white hair.3

The snow fell fast and hard. Outside of the Corrections Division, all the sword pavilions were quickly covered in snow.2

In the middle of the snowstorm, Xu Qing emerged in his swordsage uniform and made his way to the Corrections Division. Today was his first shift in Unit C.2

A few days after he passed the test by quelling the riot in D-001, he was officially no longer a Unit D jailer. Instead he was a Unit C jailer. That said, he wasn’t planning to abandon his duties in D-132. He would still work part time as the guard of that cell block.5

The uniforms worn by the Unit C jailers were no different than those of the Unit D jailers. However, they had a black badge on the collar, shaped like a tree branch. If you likened the Corrections Division to a tree, then the Unit D jailers were the leaves, while those from Unit C were the branch...6