Thump, thump, thump...
No one knew how much time had passed. The window had brightened, and the sound of hammering wood came from afar, mingling with the cicadas of a summer morning:
"Cicada-cicada-"
Luo Ning slowly woke, her mind still utterly blank. She opened her eyes and looked toward the window, only to see dawn spilling across the paper panes, making the room much brighter.
How did I pass out? What did I do last night...
A trace of bewilderment appeared in Luo Ning's clear eyes. As she puzzled over it, voices came from outside:
"Brother Jingtang, how did your bed collapse?"
"I was lying around yesterday with nothing to do, practicing the Thousand-Catties Drop, and accidentally broke the bedboards..."
?!
Hearing little Yunli's voice, Luo Ning jolted fully awake and sprang upright, her eyes full of panic as she looked down...
Her blue-green dress was securely in place. She was sleeping in the large bed in the main room, and everything around her was in order, as though nothing had happened.
Hmm?
Was yesterday a dream?
Utterly bewildered, Luo Ning tried to get up. Only when she moved her legs did she discover something was wrong...
"Oh..."
So sore...
Luo Ning quickly covered her mouth, and countless images flooded into her mind.
I must have had water in my brain, running to the Pei Family's place to catch that little thief...
Letting the little thief goad me into a contest of self-control...
Knocking Yunli unconscious and taking the initiative to pin him down...
That little thief was so practiced...
Discovering the drug hadn't worn off, so I stayed...
Then everything went hazy, all dizzy fragments of memory. When I came to again, the bedboards had already broken...
Lying limp and breathless, watching the little thief dress me...
*Being