Jun Huang was startled when strong arms suddenly wrapped around her. She turned around and met Nan Xun’s worried eyes. She felt a little embarrassed when she realized what he was worried about. She coughed. “I’m just here to cool off.”

“Then why are you standing here?” Nan Xun demanded.

She chuckled after a brief pause and pointed at the koi fish in the pond. “I saw how at ease they were swimming in the pond, and was wondering how it would feel to be one of them.”

He looked at her doubtfully. Under the moonlight, her cool eyes looked free of any impurities. She met his considering gaze headon.

He let out a sigh of relief. It seemed that she hadn’t intended to hurt herself.

He looked at where she had been staring at. The koi fish did seem carefree as they swimmed. “Even so, I don’t believe you’re someone who’d be happy confined to a little pond. You have a big heart that care about the world. You belong to a prosperous city, not a little pond.”

She chuckled. “If I were a koi fish, I wouldn’t care about...