"Your Majesty, the Empress, your servant has heard it."
The Empress's face was pale. She scrambled up and rushed out, her wide sleeves sweeping an expensive vase to the ground without her noticing.
"Boom!"
A flash of lightning lit up the western sky.
So long!
So bright!
As if it were right in front of one's eyes.
As one flash of lightning disappeared, it wasn't long before another appeared.
One after another.
Then came a series of loud claps of thunder, one after the other.
On such a clear day, who would believe this was normal?
The palace maids of Kunning Palace couldn't help but whisper among themselves:
"A celestial phenomenon, thunderclaps under a clear sky, who has committed such an atrocity against the heavens?"
"It must be because of grave sins that this is happening, this is divine retribution!"
