When Ling Tianya heard a sound outside the door, she immediately sat up on the bed and ran over to the door, barefooted. Her hands reached for the doorknob but no matter how much she turned it, it wouldn't move.
She remembered that the door was locked. She stood beside it and pressed her ear on the door. She could just about hear some movement on the other side of the door.
However, besides the sound of her breathing and her heartbeat, she could hear nothing else.
"Who's outside?" Ling Tianya tried asking. "Is it Zhang Ke?"
No one answered. However, Ling Tianya knew that the person was still there.
The two of them stood still, one inside the door, one outside the door. They were deadlocked.
After a long time, faint footsteps sounded from outside the door. The footsteps went further and further away until they could no longer be heard.
