When Xia Qingran woke up, the sky outside her window was already growing light.
She blinked, sensation and awareness slowly returning to her body.
"I survived again..." she murmured softly.
Of course she remembered what had happened last night, and she remembered it perfectly!
Her Ice Spirit Body had gone out of control... this wasn't the first time.
She had experienced that sensation many times before, as though her entire body had plunged into the Nine Serenities Ice Cavern, every inch of skin and every cell frozen solid.
Xia Qingran shifted and felt something restraining her.
To be precise, someone was holding her.
And naturally, that someone was Zhou Fan.
Looking at the handsome face before her, Xia Qingran recalled last night, when she had suppressed her Ice Spirit Body and fallen into a state of utter weakness.
Someone had given her warmth, drawing her out of that icy cavern little by little.
That someone was Zhou Fan.
Zhou Fan was still fast asleep, his arms wrapped tightly around her waist and his face pressed squarely against her chest.
Xia Qingran watched him, tenderness entering her eyes.
She remembered how he had insisted on staying by her side last night, refusing to leave no matter what.
She didn't know whether to call him foolish or what else to say.
With a soft sigh, she lifted his hands off her waist.
Then she moved his face away from her chest and laid him down beside her.
Finally, Xia Qingran got out of bed.
Zhou Fan had been sleeping soundly, feeling something soft and sweet-smelling against him the whole time.
But that soft, sweet-smelling sensation suddenly disappeared.
Only then did he wake from his dreams.
He opened his eyes to a somewhat familiar room.
Zhou Fan abruptly sat up and looked