Imperial Palace, the Qionglin Banquet.
Twilight was already settling in over the evening hours. Rows of glowing yellow glazed palace lanterns hung beneath the flying dragon eaves of Taihe Hall, casting a warm and cozy glow across the vast hall.
Ever since the founding dynasty, the Qionglin Banquet had been an exclusive honor reserved for the newly minted imperial scholars. The top three scholars would enter the palace together to attend the banquet, personally bestowed with golden-flower jade crowns by the Emperor himself, a display of supreme glory.
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