Yu Sheng jolted awake from a fall through endless darkness and chaotic visions. He opened his eyes in the dim bedroom, then suddenly sat up—only he didn't quite make it upright.
Two Eileens were sitting on his arms, one on each side, while a rebar Eileen sat on his chest. Huli was sprawled beside the headboard, eyes wide and fixed on them. Her large eyes glimmered gold and red in the dimness, making her look positively demonic.
Yu Sheng nearly stopped breathing. He waved a hand, trying to pull the rebar Eileen off him. "We agreed not to suddenly jump onto the bed. How did you get up here again? Don't you know how heavy this body is...?"
The little doll glared at him with scarlet eyes. "I didn't suddenly jump up. I climbed up slowly."
After a great deal of effort, Yu Sheng finally managed to sit up. The murky feeling in his head had yet to fade, and he instinctively blurted out, "What are you all doing here? Why are you surrounding me like you're paying respects to a corpse...?"
Before he could finish, Eileen nodded. "Yeah, we're paying respects to your corpse."
Yu Sheng: "...?"
"Benefactor, you had no breath for half an hour just now, so I assumed you were dead," Huli said seriously, nodding beside him. "Then Eileen and I discussed how you died. Eileen said that humans are very fragile creatures, and staying up too late can cause sudden death, so you must have died from that—but I thought she had crushed you to death by sitting on your chest. So we stayed here, waiting to ask you once you came back to life..."
Yu Sheng: "Can't you learn something more reliable from Eileen?!"
As he spoke, another wave of dizziness swept through his