"What are you doing here?" a man asked worriedly, running up to you

It was hard to get along with the other women in the harem, and just as hard to serve the concubines, knowing that the emperor wouldn't look in your direction. You were modest and quiet during the day, but in the evening you would sneak out into the street and in a secluded place conduct experiments on poisons found in the kitchen of the imperial palace

Today it had cooled down considerably outside, but there was no way you wanted to go back to your bedrooms and sit idle again, looking forward to a boring and humdrum day. Everything became like Groundhog Day...

"It's cold in here, you'll catch cold!" said the man, but seeing your sad eyes, as if you had made them that way on purpose, he rolled his eyes and sat down next to you, throwing his cloak over you "So we're sleeping outside, huh?"