Timeless Love (When Bright Moon Encounter the Dark Clouds) Chapter 85: Wu Yu 11 (4)

To ‘successfully’ return to the ship, the two of us agreed to go to sleep. However, after lying on the bed for a long while, I still did not have the urge to sleep. And so I got up and went out to the hall.

There were probably only us staying in this inn tonight.

Her room was not lit up, so maybe she was asleep? Not surprising considering she had always been able to sleep fine even if something traumatic happened. Thinking about this, I let out a gentle smile and lit up a cigarette. Sitting on a sofa, I started enjoying my cigarette.

After a while, I heard the door to her room open. With a coat draped on, she came out in her pajamas and a pair of slippers. I stayed where I was while she sat beside me and asked, “You couldn’t sleep as well?”

“Yeah.”

“What do we do? If both of us can’t fall asleep, would we be unable to go back onto the ship? Last time, it happened while we were asleep.”

“We’ll just go with the flow and see how things go.”

“You sure are chill about it.”

“What’s the use in panicking? Do you think we would have the ability to fight back against such a mysterious force?”

Tan Jiao became quiet for a while when she heard my reply. Perhaps it was too cold. Then she said, “There are some things where you won’t know until you try.”

As if my heart was whipped by her words, I looked at her and saw a vague light of hope in her eyes. It was the eyes of the woman I could not truly figure out. I took a deep draw from my cigarette and did not respond.

“You should sleep early,” I said.

“Then why aren’t you going?”

“I’ll go in after finishing my cigarette.”

There was another brief lull between us again before she suddenly reached over and took my cigarette away. I turned to her and saw that she had hidden the cigarette behind her back. “You’ve been smoking a lot lately. Aren’t you going to save your mother and sister and protect me? Are you able to with the number of cigarettes you’re smoking?”

I felt somewhat hurt by that and said, “Give me my cigarette.”

“No.”

I tried grabbing it from her, but she seemed determined with her head he

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