(Part I: The Yu Estate Opens Its Doors)
Third Person POV
The Yu Estate did not merely host parties.
It curated them.
The sprawling ancestral compound—rarely opened to the public—glowed beneath sweeping lanterns and cascading silk banners of red and gold. Every stone in the courtyard had been scrubbed to mirror brightness; every branch of every manicured tree bowed with lush prosperity charms woven from real gold thread.
Music drifted softly through the air—classical strings, modernized with a subtle beat, the kind of fusion only the elite could commission for a single night.
Security was discreet, but unmistakably heavy.
Luxury cars lined the long driveway, each pausing under the grand archway where guests were announced by surname and lineage rather than full name—because that was how this world operated.
It wasn't a party.
It was a parade of power.
And tonight, everyone in that social stratum knew two things:
