In the darkness, the palace was cold and cheerless. The pool and the small garden were also very cold and cheerless, even though it was a summer night.
It wasn't just two people by the pool. There was also the Black Goat. It was in the thicket not too far away.
Chen Changsheng first saw the middle-aged woman and then saw the Black Goat. If it were another person, they definitely would have been given quite the fright, but he was not. He had already grown accustomed to seeing the Black Goat every time he emerged from the underground space below New North Bridge. As for the middle-aged woman, he also did not find it strange. The first time he came out of the pool, he had seen her.
Deep within the Forbidden Palace, as if afraid that alarming the people within the palace would cause big trouble, he said nothing. Clasping his hands, he bowed towards the middle-aged woman.