Xiao Moli held her frail body, unable to conceal his distress.
Without a wink of sleep, he opened his eyes in the morning to find An Ziqi's eyes swollen, with dark circles beneath.
She stared out the window quietly, not making a sound.
In the days that followed, Xiao Moli watched over her even more carefully.
An Ziqi had found out everything and took all the blame upon herself.
In their current situation, he feared she might do something foolish.
Yet An Ziqi was unusually quiet, not saying or doing anything.
She stayed silently in the room each day.
At night, she slept quietly, never again displaying symptoms of unconscious sleepwalking.
Yet the dark circles under her eyes grew more pronounced.
Xiao Moli knew it wasn't that she was no longer uncontrollable, but since that day, she hadn't slept a wink.
No matter how he coaxed her to close her eyes, it was to no avail.
Watching her quickly lose weight and her cheeks grow sharper, he had no solution.
