Morning sunlight streamed into the bedroom. Huang Zhetian opened his bleary eyes and looked at Asuka sleeping beside him.
Watching her little mouth rise and fall with each breath, he chuckled.
He pinched Asuka's nose between two fingers. She blinked, woke up at once, and slapped his hand.
"Coward! Idiot! I offered myself to you last night, and you still turned me down! I'm starting to wonder if you have some kind of... mmph!" Before Asuka could finish her angry complaint, Huang Zhetian silenced her with a forceful kiss.
Only after two minutes did Huang Zhetian release the flushed Asuka and explain, "We're still underage. Let's wait until we're married before doing that. In traditional Chinese thinking, that's something you save for your wedding night. All right, I'll go buy breakfast. You go wash up. Be good."
Asuka pouted, looking thoroughly unwilling. She clung to Huang Zhetian with her whole body and refused to let go, no matter how he coaxed her. Helpless, he resorted to another round of sweet talk and little fibs before she finally relented.
After getting up, dressing, and going outside, Huang Zhetian watched the people already hard at work earning their living.
It brought back the familiar feeling of setting off for school on his bicycle at six in the morning.
Unfortunately, all of that belonged to his previous life. Now he could only remember it, not experience it again.
He watched young children heading to school with their parents, along with secondary school students in uniform riding mountain bikes, laughing and chatting with their classmates along the way.
The little city was stirring to life. The breakfast shop owner quickly prepared rice noodle rolls and fried dough sticks. At the bun shop, the owner steamed batch after batch, then packed and tied each order