In a dream?
Huai Shi instantly understood. "You dragged me into this dream?"
"No, quite the opposite."
Tong Ji half-forcibly shoved him aside, squeezed into the chair, and put an arm around his shoulders with a sigh. "Your dream was calling to me, Huai Shi.
That's why I was able to come here."
She turned back to look at Huai Shi with an ambiguous smile. "Is it really so hard to admit that you missed me, Huai Shi?"
"I didn't! I'm not! Don't make things up!"
Huai Shi instinctively shook his head in denial. Just as he was about to say more, he heard a wistful voice beside him.
"Come to think of it, you seem to have become a little gloomy lately." Tong Ji sighed. "Even your dreams are such a miserable sight. Did something happen?
Back then, at least you occasionally had dreamy scenes of going to the beach with pretty girls. Ah, blazing summer days, laughter, waves and cold drinks, tide sound and volleyball... Thinking about it now, I really miss it."
"Uh..."
Huai Shi's body instinctively tensed.
He did not know whether it was because Tong Ji was too close, or because of what she had said.
Terrified and nervous!
"Hm? Don't be shy. I know absolu—tely nothing."
She drew out the strange syllables, her smile becoming more and more delighted. "Though there were a few too many people, the content was still rather wholesome. At most, it was only 16+? That's almost excessively innocent, isn't it? Hahaha, how adorable."
"So you knew everything after all!"
Huai Shi trembled with rage and cold, nearly bursting into tears.
"Wasn't I trying to leave you a little privacy?"
Tong Ji blinked innocently, her face utterly sincere, completely ignoring the tremendous trauma her contractor had suffered. "I haven't even