Wang Xuan felt a weight lift from her heart.
That made it easier for her to say what came next.
"When I came back from the glass greenhouse last time..."
She looked at Master Xiao.
Now that she had started, all the nervousness and awkwardness she had felt just a moment ago seemed to vanish.
She held her breath unconsciously, waiting for an answer.
"Something happened to my body."
"What happened?"
Xiao Xiao didn't avoid the girl's gaze.
Instead, he calmly met her eyes.
"It's just..."
Wang Xuan rubbed her fingers over the umbrella handle.
Her gaze dipped for a moment.
But soon, Wang Xuan looked up again.
"I've started getting tired very easily."
"I can't seem to summon any energy."
"I can't wake up in the mornings."
"My friends have to work really hard to wake me."
"They're getting more and more worried that one day they won't be able to wake me up at all..."
Wang Xuan tugged at the corners of her mouth.
Though she had brushed the subject aside with a joke at the time, she had, in truth, been a little scared.
Because she hadn't seen the slightest sign that her condition was improving.
She hadn't seen any hope.
"I've seen a doctor, too."
Wang Xuan poured out everything about her condition over the past little while and what she had done about it.
"More than once."
"But the hospital couldn't find anything wrong."
"The doctor even wondered if my lack of energy was all in my head."
"I'm really troubled by it."
Wang Xuan raised a hand and rubbed her temple hard.
"My friends and I talked about my condition together."
"They wondered if something might be wrong with the glass greenhouse I visited last time."
"After all, it was