1404 Iron Empress 2 (1/2)

No one would have thought that the Empress who once had a thousand fingers pointed at her saying she was unclean would now turn out to become the Iron Empress who acted highly decisively whose orders were adhered to in a flash.

After the Poison Men invaded, she had been the fastest to decide to strengthen the defense of the borders, limit the country's spending and divert their military strength and money into the war. And she established a joint battle plan with the Qi and Buckwheat Kingdom, to control the situation.

Those people who had once cursed at Qu Ling Yue, had now all clamped their mouths up in silence.

Within the entire Fire Country now, no one dared to say a word of disparagement against Qu Ling Yue any longer.

A series of knocks upon the door interrupted the palace maid's train of thoughts and she went forward to open the door of the Imperial Study. A guard knelt outside with a highly excited expression on his face.

”Your Lady Majesty! His Majesty….. has returned to the palace!”

A crash sounded. Qu Ling Yue had dropped the ink slab upon the table with a trembling hand. She lifted her head in sudden confusion and in that pair of highly attractive eyes, they revealed a rare moment of the old nervousness and shock from her more naive and younger self.

”What did you say…..” Qu Ling Yue said, noticing that her voice was beginning to tremble.

”His Majesty is back in the palace and he is now waiting for you in the great hall.” The guard replied.

Qu Ling Yue stood up with a swoosh. That countenance that had grown to have always been calm and collected was at that moment showing a trace of nervousness and bashfulness that most young girls possessed.

”I…..”

Qu Ling Yue saw that she did not have time to change out of her clothes, and her dress was stained with black ink. She suddenly realized that after having pulled a few successive all nighters, her face was haggard looking and her hairdo was in quite a mess.