Buzz— The sudden vibration startled Zhang Liwei awake from her sleep.
Drowsily, she reached out from under the quilt, grabbed her phone from the bedside table, felt for the power button, and pressed it hard to turn off the preset morning alarm.
The room, with its tightly drawn curtains, was pitch dark, save for a faint, pale beam of light piercing through a gap in the fabric. Zhang Liwei lay quietly in bed for a few minutes until her mind and body had fully adjusted to wakefulness. Then, unhurriedly, she turned over, got up, and threw on some clothes.
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