Lin Daiyu Pays a Midnight Visit
While Jia Zheng was being taken away by order of the celestial officials and eunuchs of the Heavenly Palace, throwing the entire Jia Residence into turmoil as everyone ran about in fear, desperately trying to find out what was happening, far away in Yangzhou, it was already the dead of night. The journey was long, and the time zones were different.
At that moment, Annie was temporarily staying in a room in the west wing of Lin Manor's guest courtyard.
It was the dead of night, and all was silent.
The seven days of mourning were over. Everyone in the residence was utterly exhausted, and most had long since gone to bed. Tomorrow, they still had to escort the coffin to Suzhou. The white mourning banners hanging along the corridors had not yet been taken down, so they fluttered faintly in the night breeze, sometimes rustling softly. A few plain white lanterns bearing the large character "Condolences" still glowed dimly outside the corridors, casting their light over the mourning cloth that covered the courtyard and making the vast residence seem even more desolate and eerie.
Even though it was late and almost no one was moving about outside, the room of one troublesome little immortal who was always up late and slept in was still brightly lit.
Clearly, Annie hadn't gone to bed yet, and she wasn't going to sleep this early.
Anyone who knew her knew that she always had a late-night snack before bed.
Wasn't that right?
At that moment, she sat cross-legged on the bed by the window, holding her teddy bear, Tibbers, in her arms. Every so often, her jade-green eyes gazed out at the dark night, as if lost in thought. Meanwhile, her little hand kept reaching for the