When the morning light filtered through the lattice window, Pei Huaiyu instinctively reached out. His fingertips brushed against a faint, lingering warmth on the bedding, but the familiar, soft body was no longer there.
The faint fragrance that usually lingered around his nose gradually dissipated, leaving only a few strands of dark hair scattered across the pillow, trembling gently in the breeze as if still whispering of the tenderness they had shared the previous night.
Before parting, Ruan Jiaojiao had told him not to look for her; when the time came, she would return on her own.
Chapter 164