To Irene of the House of Sario, everything in the capital of this nation called Chang Tang was so novel and delightful.
In the Western Lands, Paris was a big city; the entire city and nearby satellite towns had millions of people, yet everything felt so cramped and chaotic, with some neighborhoods even today maintaining lifestyles from the last century.
This is the more polite way of saying it; the less polite way would be that, walking down the road, if you're not careful, you'll run into trouble.
Indeed, this saying from Chang Tang is quite fitting.
When the little girl named Xiang Shu next to Lan En told Irene that Shangjing had over ten million people, she was shocked.
After spending half a day out with everyone, as she traveled along, she keenly noticed that there were so many children, middle-aged people, and elderly in the city, yet not a single young person in sight, which led her to discover the concept of the Three Passes and Four Seas.