That night Ning Fu once again behaves like a thief when he enters the Imperial Palace around midnight.
Tonight, the monarch isn't in any of the Imperial Gardens when he arrives.
He thinks that there is only one other place the emperor seems to frequent if he is not in the gardens and lo and behold!
Ning Fu finds the monarch sitting by the Koi fish pond and as usual, the other person seems to be lost in his thoughts.
He finds himself mesmerised by the monarch who seems bathed in the iridescent moonlight.
The other person has his head tilted upwards and eyes closed as if trying to breathe in the fresh air and the moonlight.
The dark eyelashes fan across those pale cheeks and it does something to his heart which seems to go haywire whenever he is in His Majesty's presence these days.
