Yue Ling's fingers twitched. Her breathing deepened. Eyelids fluttered, then cracked open, revealing eyes still glazed with sleep. She blinked a few times, trying to focus, her brow furrowing as the world came into view.
Her body felt heavy, her limbs stiff, and she was reluctant to move. She stretched slowly, wincing slightly as her muscles remembered the night.
Confusion lingered for a heartbeat as she thought.
Where am I?
But then memory caught up quietly and gently, and the fog lifted.
The moment she confirmed that Grandfather Ji was dying. The moment she confronted him, she found out that Lu Tian had known her all along.
She had asked to be left alone.
She thought she would drive around Imperial to clear her mind, but her legs brought her to her family home in City Z for some unknown reason.
She looked up at the view before her and felt like time had stopped.
