Mid-July.
Just ten days after Chen Shu and the others returned, Zhang Suannai's once well-executed Sleep-Cycle Great Method collapsed.
This was how it happened—
On the first day Chen Shu and Qingqing came back, Zhang Suannai had planned to go to sleep at ten in the morning.
She had even sworn to herself that she had to fall asleep by ten. If she was still awake then, her master could be struck by lightning.
Reversing her sleep cycle was far, far harder than shifting it forward. Besides, her cultivation and recovery took less than twenty-one hours, which meant that, at the limit, she had to start more than three hours earlier each day. If she had gone to sleep after one yesterday, she had to sleep at ten today. Forcing herself to fall asleep more than three hours early was vastly harder than forcing herself to stay up three hours late.
Fortunately, High-Tier Cultivators did not need much sleep, and there were sleep-inducing spells and items.
Zhang Suannai was also a woman of immense willpower. To keep a certain someone from catching up, she forced herself to cultivate more than three hours earlier each day. She even switched off her phone and hid it in the storage room farthest from her bedroom, forcing herself to sleep.
She had kept this up for more than twenty days.
She thought she could go on indefinitely. Then, that day, she heard Chen Shu was making fragrant mushroom Chicken with Taro for lunch.
Fragrant mushroom Chicken with Taro?
Lunch at eleven thirty?
After some thought, Zhang Suannai decided—
If she went to bed only an hour and a half late today, she could still begin cultivating more than three hours earlier tomorrow. She would start as soon as she finished recovering anyway, then sleep