This New Year month is the most oppressive month in the history of the Capital City.
Each day, different officials and nobles have their homes raided, and those once high-ranking noble patrons and wealthy young ladies are dragged out of their homes like pigs and dogs.
No matter what, the Emperor considers it's still the New Year, and the names of the masterminds have been marked in red, waiting to be executed at the marketplace once the New Year ends.
The Crown Prince and the Second Prince have been deposed to commoner status, both banished to the Imperial Estate and put under house arrest, forced to earn their own living expenses from now on.
Their miserable fate is foreseeable, but it's fortunate enough that they are spared their lives, given the grave crimes of usurpation and murdering their sovereign father; if not for being the Emperor's own sons, their entire families would have been exterminated long ago.
