"Hey, what's wrong? You look like you didn't sleep well last night."
The years had settled into gentle elegance, yet she still retained the lively, clever smile of her youth.
November's sea of flowers had withered after blooming at its most brilliant, swaying in the early winter afternoon sunlight as it awaited its next blossoming.
"Ha..."
Sitting beside the tea table on the open-air balcony, it was unbelievably as warm as indoors. Listening to Shui Linlang's slightly teasing words,
Fang Ran, sporting dark circles under his eyes, could not help giving a helpless bitter smile. Then, with a headache, he supported his forehead and sighed:
"I'd only just gotten to enjoy the relief of recovering from my injuries when I was dragged into some inexplicable scene. It took quite a while to defeat an inexplicably troublesome enemy and deal with all the other targets."
"After leaving the scene, I found that only a dozen or so minutes had passed. Then I went to train my abilities as usual, and after sleeping for less than half an hour, I woke up from a dream and didn't dare close my eyes again..."
After a night much longer than usual, Fang Ran had slept for only a little over an hour. His face was full of weary exhaustion.
Of course, compared to unleashing his abilities to his heart's content and wiping out the Numbered Monster Sea, followed by five hours of intense practice digesting the battle,
it was still the morning dream that had left him physically and mentally exhausted.
"Hehehe, it sounds like it was quite a good night."
Seeing the complex, indescribable look on his face, Shui Linlang gave a delighted laugh, dignified and serene.
Forcing down the flashbacks from that dream, Fang Ran had not even been able to properly