The Great Jin Palace, today's Imperial Palace, no longer had the strict prohibitions of before. Although the Imperial Army still patrolled strictly, the significant arrays that symbolized the palace had, for some reason, been completely shut down at an unknown time.
And the once ten great magicians of the court either fled or returned to their families, silently agreeing that no one would approach this gloomy Imperial Palace.
Inside the once iconic Imperial Study, where the Emperor and his ministers had deliberated countless times, no official of the Nine Ministers' rank had visited for a year. Now, even the internal court officials in charge of ceremonies were nowhere to be found. The one constant was Eunuch Wang, who forever stood outside the Imperial Study.
Only he knew that the Emperor today... was in fact not ill at all. On the contrary, he was alarmingly vigorous and full of life!
