Several hours later, I heard the familiar sound of my phone's ringtone, waking me up. It was the result of an alarm I had set before falling asleep, intended to rouse me from my sleep exactly half an hour before the scheduled time to meet with Sylvoir. In other words, it was currently 7:30 PM at night.
"Mmn…" Feng Mian stirred beside me just as I was about to get off the bed, and wrapped her arms around my waist tighter than before despite still being sound asleep.
"Don't leave… Xuan Kai…" She murmured under her breath, but it was clear she wasn't awake. If I had to guess, I'd say she was in some kind of dream involving me leaving her behind… and that my real-life actions right now were having some sort of influence on that.
"Dumb girl…" I whispered in her ear and flicked her forehead gently. "If any man leaves a girl as good as you behind, they've got to be a big idiot."
