Maple Leaf Avenue, Lu Xiu's apartment.
Morning sunlight slanted into the bedroom, falling across the rumpled bedding.
"Mm—"
An arm stretched out from under the covers, its fair, lotus-root-smooth skin glowing warmly in the morning light.
Lu Xiu kept her eyes closed, hugged her pillow, and rolled over. After struggling for quite a while, she finally propped herself up on the bed and slowly sat up.
She was wearing a loose, plain set of pajamas. The soft cotton fabric clung gently to her body, wrinkled from sleep. Sunlight shone in from the side, passing through the thin layer of cloth and tinting it a hazy warmth, while graceful curves showed faintly through the backlight.
Lu Xiu knelt on the bed and took a long while to recover.
Only then did she climb out of bed and start washing up.
To be honest, the biggest problem with living alone was figuring out how to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
No one urged you on, no one nagged you. If you were hungry, you just grabbed whatever. If you were tired, you fell asleep the moment your head hit the pillow. No one cared if your days and nights got flipped upside down.
—That had been Lu Xiu's lifestyle in her previous life.
After coming here, her habits had actually improved, but ever since she became a constructor and started constructing her second instance, she would occasionally slip back into that old state. She would stay in the construction space for hours at a time, and when she came out, she could not tell day from night. Meals became hit-or-miss too.
So after finishing an instance, how to return to a normal routine again had become a problem.
Lu Xiu's solution was to stay up all night, then get up early the next