Beep~, beep~
A gentle alarm rang on the bedside table. A ray of morning sunlight, carrying a mischievous liveliness, slipped through the gap in the curtains and roused the drowsy atmosphere in the bedroom.
A fair hand bearing a blood-red mark reached out from beneath the silk quilt. After a lazy groan, Xia sat up in bed. She picked up her phone and stared blankly at the time: 7:56 a.m. There were still four minutes until her scheduled time to get up and wash. I'll sleep for four minutes. I'll definitely get up in four minutes. Definitely~
Thinking this, Xia's entire world tilted backward, and she dropped comfortably onto the bed. She casually smacked the big-mouthed dog-shaped alarm clock, and after a brief silence, steady breathing filled the room.
Beep beep beep!!
The bedside alarm shrieked at the top of its voice, as if the beauty in bed still refusing to wake up would soon be punched awake. Xia opened her eyes, stretched lazily, yawned, and casually picked up her phone to check the time on the screen.
10:54!
"!"
Xia felt that this wasn't a warm slice-of-life story, but a horror movie.
Half an hour later, the cook, now washed and dressed in an off-white dress, walked briskly down the street. As a neutral Worker with an identity certified by Reincarnation Paradise, Xia possessed some unique privileges.
Xia of course knew where those privileges came from. She wasn't stupid. The problem was that she still found it impossible to imagine just how powerful Byakuya was. It wasn't that Xia lacked imagination; it was that a certain Law-Destroying was simply too absurdly powerful.
Moreover, Su Xiao had never made a habit of bragging to Xia, and knowing everything about the affairs and causality involved wasn't necessarily a blessing. Causality such