Qian Renxue's heart jolted, and she hurriedly pulled the curtains shut. Her chest rose and fell slightly.
Was that Su Yu? Isn't he asleep yet?
She returned to bed and pulled the covers over her head, but no matter what she did, she couldn't fall asleep.
The eye contact during the day, the light brush of their hands when they shook hands, the seemingly absentminded glances across the dinner table...
Scene after scene flashed through her mind, making her inexplicably irritated.
"I'm really losing it..."
She muttered under her breath and forced herself to close her eyes. "He's just a little bastard. Why should I care?"
Yet that inexplicable flutter in her heart was like a stone tossed into a lake, sending out ripples that refused to fade.
Just as she finally began to feel drowsy, she sensed that someone seemed to be standing beside her bed.
Qian Renxue had barely poked her head out from under the covers when she met Su Yu's smiling eyes. She was so startled that she nearly pulled the covers back over her head.
She steadied herself, remembered her current identity, and pretended to be calm as she cleared her throat. Then, in Xue Qinghe's gentle yet slightly distant tone, she said:
"Ahem, Young Friend Su Yu, why are you coming to my room in the middle of the night instead of sleeping?"
Su Yu leaned against the head of the bed. Moonlight streamed through the window behind him, casting a faint shadow across his face, but he couldn't conceal the smile at the corners of his lips.
"I couldn't sleep, so I came to see if the Crown Prince had gone to bed."
"After all, this is the first time the Crown Prince has stayed overnight at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.