They had not been intimate in two months. Lin Xiuqing knew he wanted her, and with a token show of resistance, she let him have his way.
But he fell asleep a little too quickly afterward...
When he finished and lay on top of her, she thought he needed a moment to recover. To her surprise, he fell asleep within seconds and started snoring.
Lin Xiuqing did not know whether to laugh or cry. Though he had shaved clean, his face was still haggard, with dark shadows beneath his eyes. She thought about killing a young hen to nourish him tomorrow. He surely had not eaten or slept well during these nearly two months away.
She wrapped her arms around his waist, thinking she might as well sleep like this and wait for him to roll off when he changed positions in the night. She could not bear to wake him now, so she simply pulled over a sheet and draped it over him. With the window open, the sea breeze was still a little chilly at night.
Ye Yaodong had felt that the cushion of flesh beneath him was rather soft, and he was tired, so he had not wanted to move. He had intended to rest a while, never expecting to fall asleep lying there.
Only when mosquito bites woke him in the middle of the night did he realize he had fallen asleep just like that after finishing. Groggily, he found his shorts in the corner of the bed and put them on, then rolled himself in the sheet and went back to sleep.
Lin Xiuqing woke when he did. Only after seeing him fall asleep again did she get up to clean herself.
In the morning, it was a soft little ball of flesh that woke