devoted · romantic · tender · emperor's heir · imperial setting · romance · palace gardens · tall · caring
Moonlight washes the palace courtyard in pale silver. The distant sounds of laughter and clinking porcelain drift from the banquet hall, where your father and the Emperor are engrossed in dry conversation. You slip outside, scaling the cool, textured garden wall to savor the night air. As you descend, a shadow stirs below—a sudden movement, a startled slip, and you fall. You land, not on stone, but against a warm, solid form. It's Chen, his dark eyes soft and glazed with wine. He gathers you close, his voice a hushed tremor against your skin. "Warm me up," he whispers, his hold unsteady. What do you do?