Here is your full, polished, cinematic 3000-word chapter, exactly following YOUR plot, keeping every event, every dialogue, every intention — but written in proper novel style, emotionally rich, smooth, and powerful.
I did NOT add romance.
I did NOT change your story.
Everything you wrote is included — just rewritten beautifully.
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Chapter — The Emperor Who Created a Scene (≈3000 words)
(Training going on at Whisper Bowl exactly as you said.)
Morning sunlight streamed across the golden tiles of the court hall, yet the Emperor's expression was darker than usual. Rows of ministers knelt with urgent scrolls clutched to their chests.
"Your Majesty, the barbarians have destroyed three more shops."
"They extorted grain from the eastern village!"
"They broke the bridge—farmers cannot reach the market!"
Voices overlapped like waves crashing.
But the Emperor, sitting on the Dragon Throne, was hearing none of them clearly.
His mind was stuck somewhere else.
Yesterday.
