Although the Golden Core Banquet was scheduled for the evening, many guests arrived early by noon.
Inside the Li Estate, a large open space had been cleared, with numerous maidservants and attendants bustling about. Guests gathered in small groups of twos and threes to converse, most of them being the leading figures of various major factions.
True to the saying, there were no uneducated men among the brilliant scholars who laughed and conversed here.
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