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Once she gathered her thoughts, Nie Cenjin took a deep breath, picked up her phone again, exited her WeChat Moments, and checked her messages. She found that it was a message from Lu Shishu and started chatting with her.
Around eleven-thirty the next day, Nie Cenjin woke up groggily, still holding her phone. When she lit up the screen, there were several messages from Lu Shishu: "Nie Cenjin, where are you?" "Hey, did you fall asleep?" "We haven’t even finished talking yet!" "Nie Cenjin, can we still hang out happily?"
After reading the messages, Nie Cenjin sat up abruptly and quickly replied to her messages.
Last night, Lu Shishu said she couldn’t sleep, so she tried to chat with her, and they talked until after three. At that point, Nie Cenjin gradually felt sleepy, and she fell asleep holding her phone. When she woke up, it was already this late.
Nie Cenjin waited for quite a while but didn’t get a reply from Lu Shishu. She guessed that she probably wasn’t awake yet either. Remembering that Ms. Qin mentioned last night that they would be having a family gathering with Jiang Baizhou’s family today, she immediately started charging her phone, put on slippers, and went to wash up and change clothes.
The August weather in Nancheng was still scorching hot. Nie Cenjin wore a simple black T-shirt, paired with an asymmetrical A-line skirt, and a fashionable pair of yellow flip-flops as she headed to the villa next door.
When she reached the doorway, Nie Cenjin hesitated, pacing outside for about three to four minutes. The midday sun was unforgiving, forcing her to make up her mind. Unable to endure it any longer, she gritted her teeth and turned to press the doorbell.
Just as her finger was about a centimeter away from the doorbell, the door suddenly opened. A familiar handsome face, unseen for four days, suddenly appeared clearly in her view. Nie Cenjin was instantly stunned, her hand suspended in mid-air, forgetting to pull it back for a long time.
Jiang Baizhou looked at her, also slightly startled, but quickly regained his composure. His eyes twinkled with a hint of smile, but his face remained expressionless. One hand in his pants pocket, the other holding the door handle, his deep eyes gazed at her, and he casually spoke in a low-pitched voice, "Awake?"