Meanwhile, in Tianfu City, two thousand kilometers away.
Wang Xiyi slowly opened her eyes and gently rubbed her cheek against the pillow. Half asleep and half awake, she looked utterly unsatisfied, as though she were still savoring the alluring dream that had just ended so abruptly...
Suddenly, she sprang out of bed and threw back the tangled blankets.
"Damn it, I only changed these sheets yesterday..."
In another neighborhood several kilometers away, at the Yang residence.
Yang Lian jolted awake from her sleep. Her face was flushed, and her chest heaved violently with her rapid breathing...
It took over ten seconds for Yang Lian to calm down. She rubbed her still-burning cheeks and muttered softly, "Strange... Why did I dream about that guy..."
She got up and headed for the bathroom, only to find that the light inside was on and the faint sound of running water coming from within.
"Sis?" Yang Lian blurted out instinctively, but quickly realized that Yang Qi was not in Tianfu City at all. Other than herself, the only person in the house was Ye Xuan, who was temporarily staying here for certain reasons.
"Ye Xuan?" Yang Lian immediately corrected herself.
"Mm... It's me." Ye Xuan's voice came from the bathroom. For some reason, Yang Lian felt that there was something odd about her voice.
"Do you need the bathroom too?" Ye Xuan asked again.
"No, it's fine... I'm not in a hurry," Yang Lian said hurriedly.
Although the house had two bathrooms, Yang Qi spent most of her time working overtime at the Anomaly Research Institute. More than twenty days out of every month, she stayed overnight at the institute, so the other bathroom was rarely used. Over time, it had become a storage room piled full of delivery boxes and unused items.