Disclaimer: I don't own ½ prince I just love it.

Summary: Love is about timing and he let his chance slip by. He could have claimed her if he looked for the right moment, but he searched for it a little too late.

The sun was shining warmly, as it was embracing me softly; I leisurely opened my eyes and turned my body around. There, next to me was the love of my life, my sleeping beauty, my sun.

I stood up from the bed and walked away quietly into the kitchen. I started making a breakfast poured with all my love; I was sure than the food would make her smile, and I love that smile of hers more than anything.

I walked towards the bedroom once again carrying the food for my beloved, and saw her, that small figure curled like an angel between white sheets; her black hair that was usually tied into a ponytail was loose and spread widely over the mattress. I watched for a moment that wonderful being that made each day so amazingly perfect. Eight years of painful unrequited love made me cherish even more the girl that I had in front of me.

I sat slowly on the bed, by her side and felt like that mere sight took my breath away. I can't help but be amazed by this love I feel. After all this time it hadn't worn out, not even in the slightest. It was like it kept growing slowly, but steady, like being intoxicated by the scent of the most amazing perfume, being intoxicated so much that just being a second far from it would be unbearable.

I leaned towards my wife and gave her a gentle smooch on the forehead. She squirmed and a faint smile drew on those lovely lips, I called her name softly with a whisper and only then her beautiful big eyes started opening slowly, so slow that the time seemed to be stopping along with my heart.

When she sat and I looked at her tenderly, I felt like I could just drown in her smile. She brushed my hair with the tips of her small fingers, and greeted me with a good morning; and moving her hands slowly around my neck until its back, she began pulling my face close to hers. Our lips touched and we melted together. I found myself pushing her down softly as a pink took over her cheeks all the way to the tips of her ears. I leaned over her and kissed her once more, and then I leaned down on the bed and whispered an 'I love you' by her ear, softly, so vey softly. My body started burning and my pulse was out of control, then gathering all my courage I adventured further and nibbled her earlobes. She giggled, and that sound pierced trough my soul, I wanted to make her mine. But as a mermaid she disappeared and turned into foam. Only then I opened my eyes, and realized it was a dream. It was long over, I had lost her. I couldn't help but groan and cry silently, squeezing my heart as if trying to pull it out of my chest. Tears welled in my eyes and slide down in a never ending flow; every drop of those salty tears burned my skin like flames as I kept remembering the cruel dream that pushed me over verge on insanity. My world seemed to go dark once again as soon as it was over. I had lost her; my sun, my eternal love and my happiness.

AN: I have been reading too many stories about how Xiao Lan and Gui came to love each other. I love the couple, yet I also love Zuo gege and I feel that no one is empathizing with him anymore.