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She draped herself in her clothes, leaning against the window, watching outside for a long time, not noticing when the sky had already brightened.
"Your Majesty, it is time for morning assembly." Yingsu reminded the Empress softly only when it was nearly time.
Blinking her dry eyes, Feng Xuxu sighed almost inaudibly, turned around, started her morning washing, changed into the Phoenix Robes, and was carried by eight men in her palanquin to Jinluan Hall for the morning assembly.
At the Marshal Camp on the Western Frontier.
Dugu Chen, his eyes bloodshot, was explaining the map before him while the vice generals seated below him listened intently to the Emperor's deployment of troops. After a short while, urgent sounds of military drums began to echo from the outside.
"Have you all remembered what I've told you?" Dugu Chen, hearing the rapid and consecutive beats of the drums, looked up at the vice generals.
