778 The Past 4yr

Translator: Nyoi_Bo_StudioEditor: Nyoi_Bo_Studio

Changle Palace [1] sounded like a palace for the Empress to have fun and enjoy herself. It had beautiful scenery, unique-looking pine and cypress trees, rockery and odd-looking stones... It was also complete with all kinds of luxurious enjoyments.
Apart from the fact that one could not enter and exit it freely, the palace simply had no faults.
Or rather, it should be said that after one walked inside, one shouldn't even expect to leave the place alive.
It was the place where the hostages from the nine families of the Dragon Bloodline were kept. The important members of the direct line of descent of the Deva families and the children of the heads of the Houses would be detained here, and so would the heirs when they inherited their positions as the heads of their respective Houses.
To phrase it nicely, they were accompanying the Empress day and night, listening to her teachings and improving their self-cultivation.
To put it bluntly, they were just hostages.
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