The suffocating air pressure in the courtyard dropped to a freezing, lethal temperature.
Lady Hu Mei stood haughtily on the elevated wooden walkway, her crimson silk robes rustling elegantly in the sharp breeze as she adjusted her heavy, gold-trimmed sleeves.
Below her, the noble maids she had brought into the estate were already trembling on the polished stone floor, their knees knocking together in pure terror under the sudden weight of the supreme kings' presence. Lin Wan, however, remained completely stoic.
Wrapped securely in her thick white fur mantle, her expression was entirely unreadable as she coolly calculated the annoying obstacle blocking the palace entrance.
"What are you all staring at like brainless sloths?" Hu Mei sneered, looking down her nose at the imperial vanguard before glaring directly at Lin Wan.
