“Mom... could you show me how to right improve my Basic Horizontal Sword Stroke?”
On the sunlit backyard lawn of the [Gu Family Flying Courtyard Star-Cruiser], Empress Luo Qingxue froze for half a second when she heard polite thirteen-year-old Ye Xiao’s shy question.
All morning long, the feared Ice-Sword Empress of the Nine Heavens had been struggling heroically with mortal housework: she had accidentally frozen five breakfast eggs into crystal popsicles, sliced open a pocket dimension. Meanwhile, Sewing a button, and knitted five lopsided sweaters with extra sleeves. Even though her husband and five children had praised every single attempt to the skies and plastered five shiny gold [WORLD’S #1 BEST MOM]
star stickers across her forehead, deep down she had still felt like a clumsy beginner in the domestic arts.
And now—her scholarly eldest adopted son Ye Xiao was standing in front of her in the lopsided blue sweater she had just knitted for him, holding out his [Homework-First Bamboo Ruler Sword] and asking her for a pointer on Swordsmanship!
Swordsmanship!
That was the one subject in the entire universe where Empress Luo Qingxue had stood at the absolute, unchallenged pinnacle since she was eighteen years old!
Instantly, Luo Qingxue’s clear silver-blue phoenix eyes lit up like two rising suns, and a radiant, confident smile bloomed across her snowy cheeks.
