Sure enough, once QQ was opened that afternoon, efficiency dropped.
Just past the fifth watch, five in the morning.
Hearing the clock chime in the outer room, Xiuju reflexively threw back the covers. One hand fumbled for her underclothes by the bedside while her two long legs swept toward the floor.
Before long, her pair of twin-lotus feet had slipped into embroidered shoes, yet after feeling all around the bedside, she still could not find her underclothes.
Xiuju sat dumbly on the bed for quite a while before suddenly coming fully awake.
Sun Shaozong had come over in the middle of the night, and she too had shared the favors of that large bed. But afterward, she could hardly linger in her mistress's bed.
Too exhausted to care, she had simply returned naked to her small bed, so naturally her intimate garments had been left on the large bed.
She hurriedly rose in the darkness and approached the large bed to the north.
First, she took a firestarter from the small carved table at the bedside and carefully lit a candle. Sure enough, several garments hung in a disorderly mess from the crossbar of the Canopy Bed.
Xiuju leaned forward, sorted the clothing by type, picked out the pieces that belonged to her, and rustled them onto herself.
"What time is it?"
At that moment, Sun Shaozong's deep voice came from the curtained Canopy Bed.
Xiuju paused, then quickly leaned closer and softly replied, "It has only just passed the Yin Hour. Is Master getting up now, or...?"
Before she had finished speaking, a timid, delicate moan sounded out.
Xiuju's face burned. Sensibly, she hurriedly dressed herself, then went to the outer room to mix warm water for washing up.
Once everything had been put in order, she was wondering