Night: 23:45.
The communal ward of Mareta Psychiatric Hospital.
Soft light filled the ward. Rows of tidy beds stood quietly in the spacious, brightly lit room, each with a gentle bedside lamp illuminating the patient's bed.
"Abraham, how long are you going to stay here?"
Sitting on the white hospital bed, [Hope] propped her chin in both hands and gazed boredly at the patients entering their shared dream ahead of her, her fair, soft feet dangling and swinging.
Everyone here goes to sleep right on time. So boring~
"Stop sitting on my legs. Don't you have any idea how heavy you are?"
Lying in bed, Xia Xiu tugged at the blanket covering him. [Hope] had already pressed creases into the white fabric.
Slap, slap, slap-
As though he had stepped on a cat's tail, [Hope] immediately reached out with her right hand and slapped the blond young man repeatedly through the blanket. Her cheeks puffed up like balloons, and her emerald eyes glared at him indignantly. She looked thoroughly displeased.
"Don't you have any idea how heavy you are?" [Hope] shot back at Xia Xiu.
Faced with [Hope]'s cotton-soft palm strikes, Xia Xiu chose to tug up his blanket and ignore her. He lay straight in bed, the back of his head resting on his pillow, his eyes fixed on the ward's ceiling.
"Don't disturb me. I'm trying to see if I can enter the dream today."
Hearing the blond young man's reply, Ahabat's attention returned to the matter at hand. She lay down too, cupping her cheeks in her hands. Her deep-purple hair spilled beside his cheek and neck, and her emerald eyes stared unblinkingly at his incomparably handsome profile.
Xia Xiu turned his head and looked speechlessly into her wide-open eyes.
"What?"
"I'm curious~"
[Hope] watched the blond