Na'er carried Jiang Mingyuan onto the bed and did nothing at all. (Sanctioned yet again.)
In this timeline, Gu Yuena had not split off thirty percent of her essence. She was already the Complete Dragon now. She drew on just a tiny bit of her immense power to add a tiny bit to her stats.
The two "sisters" lay in bed, and Gu Yuena excitedly pulled a storybook out from beneath the pillow. It had been Na'er's favorite storybook when she was little.
Whenever Na'er could not sleep, Jiang Mingyuan would take it out and tell her stories, coaxing her to sleep.
The storybook was called Once Upon a Mountain.
Jiang Mingyuan had not expected Na'er to still enjoy these little stories when she was already so grown up. He took the storybook from her hands, opened it to the first page, and began telling the story in a gentle voice.
"Once upon a time, there was a mountain. On the mountain stood a temple. In the temple, an old monk was telling a young monk a story. What story was he telling? Once upon a time, there was a mountain..."
Before he had read for long, Jiang Mingyuan heard soft breathing beside his ear. Na'er had already fallen asleep.
Jiang Mingyuan closed the book and tucked it back beneath the pillow. He got out of bed and switched off the light. Shrek City's nightlife had only just begun, and countless dazzling lights shone beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows.
Jiang Mingyuan went to the window and drew the curtains shut.
The night passed without a word. (Sanctioned.)
The next morning, Na'er was awakened by the alarm. It was six in the morning, and the faint sunlight had yet to penetrate the thick curtains.
Na'er hurriedly turned off the alarm, afraid of