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That night.
Xie Yu was especially cheerful and made sure to reward Li Yuan thoroughly.
Later, wrapped around him like a lazy cat, she snuggled close under the covers. Her thoughts drifted once again to her sister in the capital.
She couldn’t help but wonder what that iron-blooded Empress Dowager was up to these days.
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“Urgent report for the Empress Dowager!”
A commander clad in black placed the sealed letter into the hands of a palace maid.
The maid slipped past layers of heavy, dark-gold screens and handed the message to the woman waiting behind them.
She took the letter and read it silently.
Every word on the page whispered the same thing, the barbarians were preparing to invade.
But where these barbarians had come from…few knew.
To the minds of most Central Plains nobles, Cloudpeak Province was no different from some backwater like Wildsouth province, undeveloped, uncultured, and unimportant. No rich farmlands, no famous martial artists.
Barbarians? What could a bunch of uncivilized tribes possibly do? Let them...
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