In the blink of an eye, the afternoon arrived.
The long street still saw few passersby, and there weren't many customers lingering in front of the shops that dared to open their doors. The calls of the vendors and shop assistants were even more listless, leaving the entire Daxing City in a state of helpless silence.
Until, the sound of footsteps broke this silence.
It was a squad of the Imperial Guard, filing orderly out from within the Daxing Palace, heading south along the long street.
The neat formation and heavy footsteps caught the street-goers' attention, and many households who had closed their doors and windows now cautiously opened them to peek below, uncertain about what might happen in the city. Once the squad passed, only words of speculation remained among the people.
All these sounds intertwined and reached a window on the second floor of an inn, where it was barely ajar.
