Yan Luoxi stayed in the study for hours. As the night deepened with no end in sight, she realized it was useless to remain there. She returned to the bedroom, washed up, and lay on the bed, yet sleep eluded her.
Outside, unknown insects chirped ceaselessly until late into the night, gradually quieting down. Yan Luoxi turned over and reached out to turn off the light, hiding the loneliness and worry in her eyes.
How is Li Yeqi really?
She believed he wouldn't be so easily outwitted by Xue Changkong, but what if... what if? When she returns from here, can she bear this "what if"?
In the deep stillness of night, all alone in a foreign land, burdened by such heavy thoughts, she tossed and turned for a long time, only falling asleep as dawn began to break.
Just after the lights in her room went out, a shadow disappeared beneath her window into the vast night.
