In the Great Yan Kingdom, Luoshui City Outside the Changsun residence, powerful royal guards carried a sedan chair to welcome Changsun Wan to the palace. Behind them were hundreds of imperial guards in full armor, and at the front, a eunuch was reading the imperial edict. The Changsun family head, Changsun Wuji, Changsun Kong, and others, along with their wives and concubines, knelt to listen to the imperial decree. The gist of the decree was that Changsun Wan was to enter the palace today to pay her respects to Empress Dowager Zhang, who wished to meet her future daughter-in-law, a customary practice in the palace. When Changsun Wan stepped onto the eight-bearer sedan chair with its peacock-shaped roof, she vaguely realized that from this moment on, she belonged to the royal family. M

