They murmured to each other, unable to stop, and a glance at the clock showed it was already three in the morning. Gu Shaojun quickly urged Xiao Man to go to sleep, feeling a pang of guilt. He couldn't bear to sleep himself and had deliberately kept her up with him. The little girl had been so exhausted from traveling for a day and a night that she had fallen asleep first yesterday. Tonight, however, she was full of energy and had stayed up with him. 'But she's still young and should keep a regular schedule,' he thought. 'I shouldn't let her stay up so late. It'd be bad if it became a habit.'
The two lay down in their separate small beds, said goodnight, and closed their eyes to sleep. Just then, Xiao Man remembered she hadn't told Gu Shaojun about forging the Magic Artifact. 'But if I bring it up now, we'll never get to sleep,' she thought. 'The conversation will just drag on and on. I'll just tell him tomorrow.'
