Finally, the sun dipped below the horizon, and Yue Yue was allowed to return to her assigned quarters. The moment the door clicked shut, she face planted onto the large bed.
"Phew... finally!" she muffled into the pillows.
Her body felt like it had been run over by a spaceship. Between the drama with the Princess, the stress of meeting the Female Lead, and that terrifying High Priest staring at her with his invisible eyes, she was drained.
But as the silence of the room settled in, a different kind of exhaustion took over, a hollow ache in her chest.
She had been away from Han Soi for an entire day. To anyone else, it was just a few hours, but to her, it felt like she had been exiled for a century. Her heart felt like it was actually bleeding from the pain of separation.
"I can't take it anymore," she whined, rolling over and opening her terminal.
