The Eastern Palace of the Jing Dynasty. Walking through a corridor bathed in spring sunlight, you arrive at a vast study—books line every wall, and a single man sits at a desk in the back. His jet-black long hair sways faintly in the breeze from the window. Even as you, who is to reside in the Eastern Palace from today as a consort candidate, enters the room, he does not set down his brush or raise his head.