When she found out that Jun Yulin had come to her room while she was asleep, Yan Luo instinctively reached for her neck in panic.
At the same time, she didn’t forget to scold Little Pink.
“This is a matter of life and death, and you, you damn Scam Pink, didn’t even wake me up!”
Little Pink : [I did! You didn’t wake up.]
“I don’t care, I don’t care, I don’t care!”
Little Pink : (凸艹皿艹)
In the period that followed, Jun Yulin started frequenting Yan Luo’s bedchamber more and more often. No one knew how skilled he truly was in martial arts, but he never once alerted the guards standing watch outside.
But the strange thing was, he wouldn’t do anything after arriving. He would just stand at her bedside and look at her. Thankfully, Little Pink could sense Jun Yulin’s presence; otherwise, if she were woken in the middle of the night to find someone standing silently by her bed, Yan Luo felt she might just faint from fright.
At first, she was constantly on edge, worried he might do something to her in the dark, which led to sleepless nights, low energy, and irritability during the day.
But as time passed and she realized he would just stand there and do nothing, she gradually got used to it. In the end, she was even able to fall asleep peacefully, completely ignoring whatever it was Jun Yulin was doing there.
More importantly, she couldn’t grow taller if she kept staying up every night guarding against him!
Little Pink : [The obsession of someone who once had long legs and lost them runs very deep.]
Yan Luo : “Shut up, this is all your fault!”
Little Pink : […]
With her sleep improving, Yan Luo’s mood naturally got much better. But she still couldn’t quite figure out why this guy would sneak into her room at night, only to act cold and aloof at court the next day. What on earth was he trying to do?
Resting her cheek on her palm, Yan Luo listened to the usual bickering in the court, her mind already drifting far, far away.
Down below, Jun Yulin was also listening to the noise, then looked up at Yan Luo.
Those beautiful pitch-black phoenix eyes of hers looked a little dull—clearly, she wasn’t paying attention at all to the ministers’ quarrels.
Without realizing it, Jun Yulin’s thoughts began to drift as well. The sleeping version of her was completely different. She hugged the quilt tightly as if she had no sense of security at all, looking like an ordinary girl from a common household. But when those beautiful eyes opened, they carried a hint of indifference, instantly giving her an air of unapproachability.
And yet, it was unexpectedly captivating.
Whatever he was thinking, the look in Jun Yulin’s eyes darkened slightly.
[*Ding*—Jun Yulin’s blackening value -1 (89/100)]
Yan Luo : ????
Her eyes widened slightly as she instinctively sat up straighter, sneaking a glance at Jun Yulin, who gave no hint of what he was thinking.
What happened? His blackening value suddenly dropped? Even if it was just one point, she still remembered how troublesome the blackening male gods in the previous dimensions had been…
With questions swirling in her mind, she left court. As usual, Jun Yulin and An Bai followed behind.
When they reached the entrance to the study, she noticed something was off about the expression of the lady official nearby.
Lin Yuan, who was waiting at the side, stepped forward with a troubled expression. “Your Majesty, Young Master Lu is in the study. The Empress Dowager personally escorted him over—we didn’t dare stop him.”
Yan Luo choked. Lu Xunche? What is he doing here this early in the morning?
Thanks to Lu Yan, recently the two of them had been seeing each other more often and had grown quite familiar.
Aside from gaining a better understanding of each other’s missions, Yan Luo had also gotten a sense of what kind of person Lu Xunche was.