The fifteenth of August.
In the deep pavilion, crows perched upon trees beneath the empty moon; autumn dew, heedless, seeped into the osmanthus blossoms.
The Mid-Autumn Festival was also called Moon Eve, the Moon Worship Festival, or the Reunion Festival. Since ancient times, there had been customs of sacrificing to the moon, admiring the moon, eating mooncakes, enjoying osmanthus, and drinking osmanthus wine. On this day, people prayed for harvests and Favorable Winds and Timely Rain, while wanderers far from home offered distant worship to their hometowns and missed their loved ones.
The table in True Dragon Hall was laden with offerings, incense smoke curling upward.
Bai Yujun smiled from the dragon throne. Everything had gone extremely smoothly. She had prepared for over two hundred years before finally waiting for this day. The Mid-Autumn Festival truly was a wonderful holiday.
Through the skylight, the full moon hung high overhead, while cries of slaughter shook Daming Palace.
Time turned back to dawn...
The Crown Prince's residence.
The Crown Prince's residence, once cold and deserted due to Consort Hu's exclusion and hatred, was still lit. Li Zhang, who had not slept all night, could not suppress the trembling that ran through his entire body. He was excited, frightened, and nervous all at once. More than a dozen influential figures in the room kept urging and pressing him.
"Your Highness! If we do not act now, it will be too late!"
"The Demoness is wreaking havoc in the palace. It is our duty to slay demons! How can we stand by and watch that Demoness ascend to the position of Empress? A hundred years from now, what face will we have to serve as Attendants in our ancestral halls?"
"The imperial princes are aiding tyranny and committing incestuous acts with that Demoness. It