The common households in Yue Country usually have their New Year's Eve banquet late.
It signifies bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new.
Typically, they would eat until after midnight, indicating the departure of the old year and the arrival of the new one.
However, considering the advanced age of the Empress Dowager, the New Year's Eve banquet within the Imperial Palace naturally cannot last that late and occurs around the usual banquet time.
Even in past years, they ate early.
Becaused they needed to allow the Ministers to return home for a family reunion with their wives and children.
At this moment, it's not yet the hour of Hai (9 PM), and there's still time before the new year arrives.
On a normal day, Eryue would have already gone to sleep by this time, but he had a long nap during the day today and had fun at the banquet in the evening, so he unexpectedly had no desire to sleep.
