Heart of Moonlight

Rumors in the capital said the Regent had eyes and ears everywhere, and harbored ambitions against the throne.

The current Regent had led troops against the enemy since the age of sixteen. After ten years of warfare and countless brushes with death, he was steeped in a murderous aura.

Eight feet tall, cold-faced and icy-eyed, he was also the late emperor’s full brother, with power that reached the heavens.

One day, the capital’s Imperial Guards began searching every household. The search went on for a whole month.

The common folk trembled with fear, convinced some great calamity was about to befall them.

Only later did they learn that the Regent, who was rumored to suffer from a secret ailment, was searching for someone.

Everyone marveled at how bold this person must be to have provoked such a fearsome figure.

They never imagined it was just a delicate young woman, as beautiful as a flower. Her tearful eyes could disarm anyone. A red mole between her brows might have looked alluring, but her Guanyin-like face lent her an ethereal purity. At the time, she was looking curiously at her own wanted poster, one hand on her pregnant belly, as guileless as a child.

Outside the room.

A man in white robes, with clear and handsome features, asked gently,

“Wanwanz, what is it? Were you speaking?”

Inside the room.

“Wanwanz, you’ve been so hard to find!”

In the dim boudoir, the weak and helpless woman braced herself against the door with both delicate hands. Behind her was the man’s broad chest. They were pressed tightly together, their burning body heat mingling with their hot breaths.

“My lord, I, I was wrong. Please let me go!”

Her tearful voice failed to soften him. His once angry, icy eyes lifted slightly, like a tiger robbed of its food, and through the thin door he glared at the other man outside.

The proper husband, married to her with full ceremony: weak and helpless

The swaggering interloper who stole his bride: “Mine. She’s all mine.”

Cold-faced Regent ✘ Delicate, sickly beauty