"Mm~"
The faint morning light shone in through the window, falling on Xiao Yi Xian's eyes and waking her from her sleep.
She opened her eyes, hazily glanced at the ceiling, then slowly sat up.
She suddenly felt that something was off with her hand. Turning her head, she discovered someone lying beside her bed.
"Teacher??"
Seeing Wu Changqing lying beside her bed, Xiao Yi Xian froze.
Their hands were still clasped together.
"What happened?"
She only remembered watching the moon with Wu Changqing in the courtyard last night. Later, she had become too sleepy and accidentally fallen asleep against Wu Changqing's shoulder.
She did not remember anything after that.
"You're awake?"
Her movement as she got up also woke Wu Changqing.
"Ahh~"
He could not help but stand and stretch. Sleeping sprawled over a chair all night had exhausted him.
"Teacher, why... were you asleep in my room?"
"You don't remember? We were watching the moon outside together last night, and you accidentally fell asleep, so I carried you back."
"I was about to leave when you suddenly grabbed my hand and told me not to go, so I had no choice but to stay," Wu Changqing said.
"R-Really?" Xiao Yi Xian immediately blushed.
She really had had a nightmare last night. She had dreamed that everyone had abandoned her again, that all the people around her had left her.
She had been terrified and wanted to grasp something she could rely on in the darkness.
She vaguely remembered that, in her dream, she had indeed grabbed someone's hand—and it seemed to have been Wu Changqing's hand.
That hand had been warm, letting her feel warmth amidst the cold darkness.
Only then had she fallen asleep peacefully.
But Xiao Yi Xian had never expected that the hand she had