A chapter break? It was cutting off the tail to survive, all right!
At cockcrow, during the fifth watch.
Sun Shaozong sat at the foot of the bed with a weary look on his face, letting Xiuju lift his feet and put on his socks and shoes one by one. Suddenly, a long leg shot out from beneath the blankets and viciously kicked him in the lower back!
With both feet hanging in the air, even someone of Sun Shaozong's bulk could not keep his balance. He lurched sideways and nearly tumbled off the bed.
He hurriedly braced himself against the bedframe and looked back, only to find that the snow-white ankle had already withdrawn beneath the covers.
Sun Shaozong grinned silently, just about to tease her with a few words, when the sound of stifled sobbing came from beneath the blanket.
His smile stiffened. He awkwardly rubbed his lower back, but the crying only grew louder.
Even Jia Yingchun, who had already fallen asleep, was startled awake. She drowsily propped herself up, looked at Sun Shaozong at the foot of the bed, then at Wang Xifeng wrapped tightly in the blankets. The confusion on her face gradually turned into helplessness.
Tsk.
Sun Shaozong smacked his lips and lay down on his side, wrapping both the blanket and the person inside it in his arms. Pressing his face against the blanket, he said muffledly, "If Sister-in-law truly can't bear to part with me, then I'll stay with you a little longer..."
"Get lost!"
That hoarse roar cut off Sun Shaozong's shameless words. Then a slender hand emerged from the bedding and pinched and twisted his lower belly.
Rather than stopping her, Sun Shaozong seized the chance to shove his stomach beneath the covers, pressing himself upward with utter shamelessness.
Thus,