Chapter 688

He did not know how long he had been watching before he went to the bathroom to take a shower.

After coming out of the bathroom, Qiao Muting wiped his hair casually.

The phone screen remained lit.

Messages kept popping in.

He had set it to silent; apart from the constantly flashing screen, there was no sound at all.

He stood by the bed, opened the phone, and checked the WeChat messages that kept coming in.

The light from the screen fell upon his cold, stern face.

A few minutes later, he turned off the phone and tossed it aside.

He returned to the bed and pulled the woman who was already fast asleep into his arms.

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Tonight, there were two people who could not fall asleep.

Huo Jingyan and Jiang Nannan were each staying in a separate room.

This was the first time they were staying at home together, yet sleeping in two different beds.

The rooms were adjacent.

Separated by a single wall.

This wall seemed to be a wall within their hearts as well.

Huo Jingyan's brow furrowed heavily.

He likely fell asleep in the latter half of the night.

As for Jiang Nannan, she lay in bed, not looking at her phone or anything else, but she simply could not fall asleep.

Scenes flashed before her eyes one after another.

Some fragments made it hard for her to breathe, and it was truly difficult to calm down; even in the dead of night, she could not help but want to escape. But another voice was saying that she had to try to reconcile, and that Huo Jingyan was in just as much pain as she was.

She was struggling, and how could Huo Jingyan be any different?

After a battle within her heart, Jiang Nannan only fell asleep when it was almost dawn.

However, her sleep was not deep.

Hearing the sound of a door opening in the next room, Jiang Nannan suddenly woke up.

Then she ran straight out of the room.

She bumped right into Huo Jingyan, who had just closed the door softly.

When Huo Jingyan saw Jiang Nannan running out in a panic, he was stunned for a moment, then asked in a gentle voice, "Why not sleep a little longer?"

"I'm going to make breakfast." Jiang Nannan met Huo Jingyan's gaze and instinctively looked away; as her words fell, she was already walking downstairs.

Huo Jingyan watched Jiang Nannan's back, which had become much thinner, and his heart tightened.

He followed her down.

Jiang Nannan looked at the familiar kitchen and felt a moment of trance.

It was as if she had returned to not long ago, before anything had happened between her and Huo Jingyan; whenever Huo Jingyan was home, she would get up to make breakfast.

She had always felt that making breakfast for Huo Jingyan was truly a source of happiness.

She still remembered that sense of happiness vividly.

But...

When she opened the refrigerator and saw that many of the vegetables she had bought previously had gone bad, she realized that although many things were closely related to the past, they were already different...

The refrigerator was still the same refrigerator; Huo Jingyan must have never opened it after she left.

"I haven't eaten at home during this time, so I haven't touched the refrigerator. There should be some things inside that have gone bad; I'll go throw them away."

Huo Jingyan's gentle voice sounded from behind Jiang Nannan.

Jiang Nannan instantly snapped back to reality, her body slightly tense, "Okay, throw them all away. These vegetables and fruits have been sitting for a long time, and they are more or less spoiled; they can't be eaten. Let's have pasta for breakfast; there are semi-finished products at home, and it can be cooked very quickly."

"Let's make it together."

"No need!" Jiang Nannan's voice rose slightly.

It was almost an instinctive resistance.

She could do it herself.