Further conversation was interrupted when two women entered from a door near the front of the lecture hall. The first and most attention-catching was the shorter of the two, dressed in elaborate scholar's robes and gold-rimmed spectacles. She wore a sash that bore a single alchemy flame similar to Yu Tao's and a hint of mirth twinkled in her eyes as she laughed with the woman escorting her into the hall.
It was the other woman, however, that demanded Yu Jinqi's attention. She wore a stunning dress in midnight blue trimmed with golden beast fur that Yu Jinqi had only seen once before. Moreover, as the woman entered the hall, a small Golden Crow hopped off the shoulder of the Alchemist, and onto the shoulder of the woman in blue who took a seat in the front row that seemed to be reserved for her.
"Does Aesthete Wu… have a sister?" Yu Jinqi whispered as he looked at the enchanting woman with the Golden Crow on her shoulder.
