Gu Kaiyun pushed open the bedroom door.
The curtains in the room were drawn, and agarwood incense burned on the table. He walked to the window and pulled it open, only for a sliver of light to sneak in, prompting Xie Shang, who lay in bed, to raise his hand to shield his eyes.
"Don't open it; it's blinding," he said.
Gu Kaiyun let the curtain fall and glanced at the medicine bottles by the bed.
He couldn't keep prescribing medicine for him at this rate—it wasn't acceptable.
He went over and extinguished the lit agarwood in the burner. "What incense did you light?"
It must have been burning for a while, the scent of gardenias was strong.
Xie Shang's hand remained over his eyes; he hadn't slept. "Chinese honeycomb," he replied.
Gu Kaiyun had heard of Chinese honeycomb, no wonder he had been smelling the scent of gardenias on Xie Shang lately.
"You didn't sleep last night?"
Xie Shang did not respond.
