"The blistering midsummer period has arrived. Do you have any plans to beat the heat, Xiao Ying?"
Within the three southern provinces under the jurisdiction of the Ling Army, inside Great West City, one of the provincial capitals of the south.
Inside a large square courtyard on the outskirts of the provincial capital, numerous maids in white skirts accompanied Xiao Ying while she changed into a Western school girl's uniform of a white shirt and black skirt. She walked with an effeminate boy slowly, strolling through the little flower garden in the courtyard.
The weather was scorchingly hot, forcing the people in the garden to constantly spray themselves with water mist from the sprinkles to cool down slightly.
Xiao Ying suppressed the pain from the wound on her back and pretended to casually observe the flower pots in the corner of the courtyard instead.