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Chapter 80 - 80 78 A Dreamless Night
Chapter 80 - 80 78 A Dreamless Night
?Chapter 80: Chapter 78 A Dreamless Night Chapter 80: Chapter 78 A Dreamless Night …
That night, Lu Jingyan had a dream.
The dream began in the same dimly lit room, but instead of chairs, there was now a bed where Sheng Xian, dressed in a white shirt, was handcuffed by both hands and feet to the bed.
Several buttons of his shirt were undone, revealing skin covered with various marks.
Due to struggling, his wrists were rubbed red, and some areas were slightly bleeding.
The scene was both sinister and eye-catching.
Dressed in a long red dress, she stood with one foot on the edge of the bed, the other on the mattress, looking down at him, unable to take her eyes off.
The scenes in the dream were chaotic; at some point, a white rose appeared in her hand. She held it, traced his lips with the petals, dropped them onto his collarbone, then slowly opened his shirt, stopping at his chest. “Baby, will you marry me?” she said.
The scene abruptly changed from the gloomy room to a sun-drenched beach.
Among seas of flowers, she walked towards him in a white wedding dress, step by step.
The officiant, full of enthusiasm, recited the vows until she stood before him. The officiant then asked Sheng Xian, “Do you take Miss Lu Jingyan to be your wife?”
Sheng Xian looked up. “I do not.”
Amidst the shocked murmurs, he left a comment “because she has too many ex-boyfriends,” and then left without looking back.
Lu Jingyan suddenly opened her eyes.
She lay in the darkness for a while before realizing she had had a messy, illogical dream full of plot holes.
She propped herself up on the bed, went to the restroom, and on returning, she fished out her phone from under the pillow to check the time.
It wasn’t even three in the morning yet.
She had barely slept for two hours.
After putting down her phone, she lay back under the covers and closed her eyes, trying to get back to sleep.
Possibly influenced by the dream, she couldn’t fall asleep; tossing and turning in bed for quite a while, she finally sat up irritably and grabbed her phone.
Her chat with Sheng Xian stopped at the goodnight message she had sent him before going to sleep.
She stared at the phone screen for two seconds and then rapidly typed out a few keys.
… You are different from them.
After typing, she thought for a while and then deleted it. After a while, she typed another string of text.
… You are different from them. I wanted to make them cry, but you, I would still be willing to cry for.
Lu Jingyan looked at the screen, opened her mouth, cursed at herself for being insane, and then deleted the message.
She had made things clear when they were drinking that night; there was no need to go over it again with him now.
Moreover, in this day and age, who doesn’t have an ex?
Bringing it up repeatedly would only make things worse.
Lu Jingyan exited Sheng Xian’s WeChat, feeling somewhat uneasy. After a while, she opened her WeChat contacts and began deleting friends.
After she finished, it was already four o’clock in the morning; feeling slightly sleepy, Lu Jingyan snuggled back into the covers.
She often dreamed, and before meeting Sheng Xian, all her dreams were nightmares; she would lie awake all night after waking up, staring blankly until daylight on her own.
Since meeting Sheng Xian, it seemed she had only dreamed twice, both times about him, even though the dreams were embarrassingly chaotic and shameful.
All of a sudden, Lu Jingyan remembered how terrible she felt last night; based on the past, she should have dreamed about past events. However, with Sheng Xian stepping in, what might have been a torturous and painful night had turned out relatively well.
The room’s doors and windows were tightly closed, only the lamp under the bedside cabinet cast a dim light, and the central air-conditioning on the ceiling occasionally made a soft rustling sound.
Lu Jingyan buried her head into the blanket, exposing only half of her head.
In the darkness, she thought about that day last Christmas when she received a garbled message mentioning Jian Mo—something she never wanted to be brought up in her lifetime.
That day might also have been a long, heart-wrenching night of breakdowns and insomnia, and it was Sheng Xian who brought her home…
Thinking this, in a half-asleep state, Lu Jingyan’s lips curled into a light smile.
Then, her consciousness began to blur.
After that, she fell into a deep sleep.
A dreamless night.
PS: Made 2 changes, which do not affect further reading.
1: I’ve given a name to Lu Jingyan’s website: Emotion.
2: I’ve given a name to the gentleman she was matched with: Yang Xu.