"Your Majesty felt it too? I have been uneasy all along. I fear this operation will not go smoothly. It seems it will stir up a terrifying storm beyond anything we can control or imagine..."
A sweet fragrance reached him as Li Yanyan came to stand beside Jian Shang. Following his gaze through the window toward the moon over this foreign land, she murmured with a sigh.
With a beauty close beside him-and a peerless beauty at that-Jian Shang's heart stirred. Yet he had no mind for romance beneath the moon among the flowers. He merely continued silently watching the foreign moon outside.
This was also the main reason there was actually little romantic affection between Jian Shang and Li Yanyan. Had it been Hua Qiandai or Yu Ji, he would have embraced her and quietly savored the romance of the moonlit night, rather than standing silently side by side like confidants despite being husband and wife in name.
Likewise, Jian Shang had yet to adapt to a ruler's romantic life. After all, he had risen to his present position in only four or five years; his disposition could not change so quickly. Otherwise, with his current status, it would have been perfectly normal to take any woman he liked into his arms, provided she did not object. He raced against every minute and second even in cultivation. Where would he find the time to slowly savor the course of romance, to linger among flowers beneath the moon and enjoy its tender enchantment?!
He had to admit that in moments of quiet reflection, he often regretted this. Yet he had no solution. Every gain came with a loss.
"Realms and beauties, heroes and fair maidens"-this had been an eternal rule. His present position meant Jian Shang could have almost anything