C1718 The World of People

In the stillness of the early hours, the palace lay silent and eerie. Occasionally, a breeze would stir, causing the lanterns along the covered walkways to sway like ghostly apparitions.

The grand palace spanned hundreds of acres, housing three hundred buildings of various sizes. Among them, only two bore the name “Happiness.”

One was the Happiness Prolonging Hall, home to Chu Linyun