In greed where people had laid down,
The forsaken had granted someone who was forgiving,
In desperate measures,
When you are just trying to save yourself from anybody.
***
THE YEAR 1904, a century away from the present time.
Empress Zhang Lian was going to argue to go inside but she had been stopped by the voice of the Ministress of the Royal Training Command. She halted from her tracks as Dai Yu said, "Are you going to say the prince's condition to your husband, Your Majesty?"
All of the court ladies lined up in a perfect queue, with their heads bowed down, their legs behind their robes were trembling with fear. Only the Ministress and the Minister could do that. Empress Zhang Lian was feisty.
