There was still some distance from the entrance to Zhu Juntang's bedroom. Liu Chang'an was not used to gliding around on a self-balancing scooter like Zhu Juntang, so he walked over slowly with Zhong Qing.
"Is she pretending to be asleep on purpose?" Liu Chang'an asked.
He was not worried that something had happened to Zhu Juntang and that she was unable to wake from last night's dream.
Shangguan Dandan took endless delight in setting Liu Chang'an up, but she doted greatly on her "goddaughter" and "daughters-in-law."
Shangguan Dandan had two "goddaughters": one was Zhu Juntang, and the other was Zhou Dongdong.
Only Zhu Juntang called her godmother. Zhou Dongdong called her Sister Dandan instead. Whenever Shangguan Dandan wanted to cause trouble, she generally chose Zhu Juntang as her accomplice. When she was with Zhou Dongdong, on the other hand, they usually just wandered around idly, looking for chances to freeload food and drinks.
"Probably not. Whenever Third Mistress pretends to sleep, she just squeezes her eyes shut and rolls around on the bed. If you tickle her, she can't help sitting up and laughing."
Zhong Qing shook her head. "We tried tickling her, but we didn't dare use any other method to wake her. Her condition seems a bit like sleepwalking. They say you can't suddenly wake a sleepwalker, or something could go wrong."
"I'll take a look." Liu Chang'an nodded. He thought it was more likely that Zhu Juntang was treating last night's dream as a game. Whenever she encountered something this absurd, she would become especially excited and delighted, with no hurry at all to leave the dream... after all, waking up meant going to school.
What he wanted to know was this: in last night's dream, that woman had turned around and said something. The moment