In this world, Jinling's imperial palace was called the Forbidden Palace. It stood at the center of Jinling's central axis and was itself a city within the city, earning it the beautiful name of the Forbidden City.
It covered an enormous area, roughly more than seven hundred thousand square meters, with over one hundred thousand square meters of buildings. Within the imperial city's walls, which rose several feet higher than Jinling's outer walls, stood more than seventy palaces and over nine thousand rooms. From afar, they formed a dense, orderly vista that was both magnificent and imposing.
Aside from the emperor, his consorts, princes, princesses, and other important members of the imperial clan, the palace also housed countless palace maids, servant eunuchs, three hundred Dragon Guarding Commandants, nearly ten thousand inner-court guards, and elite Embroidered Uniform Guards responsible for maintaining the Forbidden Palace's security.
However, how large this place was and how many people lived here no longer mattered much to Lin Daiyu, Xueyan, and a certain bear, who had successfully infiltrated it and were now surveying the surroundings from the highest point of the Hall of Supreme Harmony's roof. The two young girls and the little white bear had helplessly discovered that entering had been easy, but finding the old emperor in this enormous palace was another matter entirely. They had no good way to do it.
"Hey!"
"Tibbers, hurry up and tell us what we're supposed to do now! This biggest and tallest palace seems to be merely where the emperor holds court. There's not a single person inside. Where are we supposed to go and catch the emperor?!"
"Look at the rotten idea you came up with!!"
At that moment, the full moon hung high in the sky, its pure silver light spilling down and making the