He felt a certain part of his body even more scorchingly hot. In his mind, images far from normal surfaced, and his heart followed with a thudding beat.
That afternoon, when Gu Lanshan awoke, Sheng Shi hadn't glanced her way even once. When she spoke to him, his expression was somewhat unnatural, and he refused to look her in the eye.
In the evening, he escorted Gu Lanshan back to the Gu Family, then returned to the Sheng Family. Lying in bed, he could smell the faint scent of a young girl on the sheets, which caused Sheng Shi to toss and turn, unable to fall asleep. When he finally dozed off, he dreamt...
A spring dream.
When he jolted awake, he found the traces of the spring dream had vanished.
It was three thirty in the morning, yet he felt no more desire to sleep. By the time the sky began to lighten, he had climbed out of bed and, for the first time since junior high, he joined his various cousins for a morning run.
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