"…"
Bang!
The frozen birds outside sprang to life, chirping frantically as if they'd only just remembered how.
The wind crept back through the Paulownia (Empress tree) branches, rattling their bare skeletons, though oddly, fresh lavender blossoms fluttered loose, as if spring had jumped the queue.
On the bed, Wenxi plopped face-first into the sheets, already asleep, body twitching faintly like a kitten that had been wrung dry. Wang Xiao's lips curved in silent amusement. Three days of torture in frozen time had reduced her to this. He, on the other hand, felt refreshed.
His gaze briefly on the open window, when...
Swoosh!
A figure slipped through, a little graceful, a little clumsy. Golden hair spilled around her shoulders, catching the morning light so perfectly it looked like the sun itself had been forged into strands.
Standing framed against the sky, she resembled a goddess.
