Spain, Valdebebas Training Base.
Standing here again gives Chen Zhong a feeling of returning home in triumph. He has achieved the dream that all youth academy players yearn for, starting from the first building, the yellow locker room in U-5, and moving forward through 11 football fields and countless buildings, passing through the blue and white locker rooms of the Alfredo Di Stefano Stadium, and entering the pure white locker rooms of the "Divine Hall" Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.
In Real Madrid's youth academy, the color of the locker rooms is significant. The lower-level camps, for players under 13, use yellow locker rooms, while for those over 13 in the higher-level camps, the locker rooms are painted blue. On reaching Castilla, the locker rooms are blue and white, meaning you're just one step away from entering Bernabeu.
When Chen Zhong first learned about this, he immediately linked this layout to the Golden Twelve Palaces.
