"You haven't had a good rest in a long time, have you?" Cheng Tian asked tentatively. "You were getting sleepy just now, weren't you?"
[Not that long,] Darkrai said mildly. [I haven't slept once since the last Great Calamity ended.]
"Oh my god!" Su Han exclaimed in shock. "That long?! How have you endured it?!"
[Little girl, sleep and emotions are actually the same thing. Once you abandon one, the existence of the other no longer matters.]
Darkrai said, [But enduring it for so long really is difficult. Whenever I occasionally doze off, something like what just happened occurs.]
"What if..."
Cheng Tian suddenly asked, "What if I said that, one day, I could let you sleep freely, without having to worry about harming your surroundings? Would you be willing to become my partner?"
[You?] Darkrai suddenly laughed. The laugh came so abruptly, filled with disdain.
[Take a guess. Why do you think I chose to stay here?]
[Over all these years, I've exhausted every possible way to treat my body, but they've all come to nothing. What makes you think you can treat my sleep problems?]
"I said what if. This is just an ideal scenario." Cheng Tian wasn't discouraged in the slightest. "If I really did let you fall asleep, would you agree to my request?"
Su Han keenly noticed a barely perceptible flicker of emotion in Darkrai's blue eyes.
[If you really can treat my sleep problems,] Darkrai said seriously, [I cannot become your partner.]
[But I will do everything in my power to keep you alive through this Great Calamity. I'll stake everything I have on it.]
The fact that Darkrai could make such a vow showed how extraordinary its resolve was.
It made sense. A life where one couldn't even sleep might be tolerable for