Banquet in the Palace (5)

The junior eunuch was suddenly in a fluster and he called out after the back of the silver haired man: "Lord Grand Adviser! Where are you going?"

"How can I disappoint the moon when it has put up such a lovely view? You just report to His Majesty that I will go to the banquet a little later." With those words, the silver haired man turned and left without looking back once.

A short while later, a retainer came out from within the banquet to relay the Emperor's decree, inviting the Grand Adviser to join him at the banquet. But in the end….. The Grand Adviser had already left.