Things like arriving at the library at a precise time, a plan for one hundred pages of deep reading, and what level of progress she needed to reach in a new foreign language...
She was always busy; she'd never experienced a night like this, one that felt like a complete waste of time.
The Jiang Ning of the past would have certainly looked down on her current self. She used to treat time as if it were her life, terrified of shamefully wasting days that would never return.
But now, all she wanted was for this tranquility to last a little longer, and then a little longer still.
'It would be best if it never ended...'
She could zone out without a care in the world, her heart filled with immense anticipation as she waited for Chen Yuan to come out of the bathroom.
When he did, Jiang Ning could look at him and casually say, "All done?"
Life was often made up of these utterly ordinary bits of dialogue.
However, Jiang Ning didn't get to see Chen Yuan emerge. All she got was a shout.
