“Come in.” A demure tone responded to your arrival behind the doors. A shiver ran down your spine from realisation that the Empress had already sensed your arrival.

You open the wooden doors, revealing a young woman in her 20s. Her brown eyes downcast at her scrolls and papers. She has jet black hair, and is dressed in a red robe covered in blue, white, and yellow patterns of a dragon. This is the new empress, Feng Lan.

Her cold and calculative gaze turned to you, “state your purpose.”