Changxia kept nagging at me relentlessly until she talked herself to sleep, at which point I went to sleep on the sofa.
Sunlight poured in, casting the shapes of light between the trees outside through the window. For a fleeting second, I thought that if not for this baffling mission, if not for all this messy chaos, it would truly be a time of peace and quiet.
Mother Chang gave the door a perfunctory knock and walked in without waiting for Changxia and me to say yes. Seeing that Changxia and I were sleeping in separate beds, she paused in her tracks as she walked in.
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