This is "confidence".
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In the western part of Yanjing City, at the Mansion of Duke Su, there was a tranquil silence at the moment.
Duke Su had an affinity for vibrant and diverse things, hence his Mansion was intricately complex, renovated with extreme sophistication and opulence. In front of the gate flowed the Anding River, alongside which stood countless splendid buildings, yet none of these high-rising and sweeping-eaved edifices could match the prominence of that vermilion mansion.
Today, there were no familiar opera tunes drifting from the Duke Residence, a silence that was oddly unsettling.