Wondrous Changes

The thick and endless snow silently descended. All was silent around the well. The trees of New North Bridge had shed all their leaves, the snow-bearing branches looking just like sentinels wielding spears. The Divine Empress, her hands held behind her, gazed in the direction of the distant Orthodox Academy. After a period of silence, she asked, "The Grand Examination is about to begin. What are your thoughts?"

"His Holiness the Pope complied with Empress's will and brought Princess Luoluo into the Education Palace, and has since displayed no other stance."

Mo Yu gazed at the Empress's profile and softly said, "In truth, my view is that the simplest method is to just kill Chen Changsheng, ridding ourselves of many troubles."