She Comes Into My Dreams Every Night - Chapter 55

Chapter 55: Lack of Energy

Even after lying down on the bed, Su Huaiwang couldn’t process what had happened.

They came down the mountain, Lin Jue thoughtfully drove her home (not letting her drive), cooked lunch for her, and while she ate, Lin Jue went to retrieve Little Grey and Little Yellow from Lei Yinyin…

What was Lin Jue thinking?

She turned her head and saw her fair palms, now spread flat on the bed, still radiating warm moisture; she had just taken a shower.

In the bathroom, she hadn’t dared to look in the mirror.

The strange sensation between her legs wasn’t too intense, perhaps because she was already familiar with the other person in her dreams, or because the preparation work had been thorough.

But the scattered marks on her body were shocking.

Only then did the events of last night become real.

So… she and Lin Jue had done it.

And not just once.

If the initial kiss could be excused as an impulsive moment, everything that followed was difficult to defend with the same reason.

After all, doing it so many times, and continuing to cling tightly to the other person even after her palms were wet, could hardly be explained away as just a temporary surge of lust.

Similarly, Lin Jue couldn’t use that excuse either.

But Lin Jue hadn’t said anything, hadn’t shown anything.

All the way home, she was exactly the same as before last night.

A wave of panic suddenly washed over Su Huaiwang.

So, what exactly was her relationship with Lin Jue now?

Friends? Lovers? Friends with benefits? A one-night stand?

Su Huaiwang covered her head, curling up on the bed.

She felt as if Lin Jue’s scent still lingered on her skin—that cool sandalwood, which made her shiver.

Disappointment gradually accumulated, dominating Su Huaiwang’s mind.

Perhaps Lin Jue hadn’t even considered developing a relationship with her. Maybe the atmosphere was just right, and she simply went with the flow.

After all, do sex and love have to be one and the same? Even if she and Lin Jue had sex, they could still maintain their old relationship. Was Lin Jue’s attitude telling her this was the case?

The more she thought, the colder her heart felt.

Su Huaiwang wasn’t a conservative person, but she was definitely not an open one either.

She wouldn’t have sex with someone she had no feelings for.

Her feelings for Lin Jue had been clear to her even before she asked her to watch the meteor shower.

A liking that she thought was vague, but was actually impossible to suppress.

For the first time in twenty-five years, she had summoned the courage to pursue a relationship, but now, that courage was shattered.

Is sex followed by love? She didn’t know, and she didn’t know what Lin Jue thought either, but judging by the current situation, she couldn’t be optimistic.

The initial excitement had long been suppressed. Her thoughts were a mess, and she had only slept for a short while last night. Lost in her thoughts, she eventually drifted off to sleep.

…

She was woken up by the doorbell.

Her head was still foggy. She grabbed a robe and went to open the door.

However, the moment she saw the person standing outside, her sleepiness immediately vanished.

“Good evening.”

Lin Jue smiled and greeted her, holding a bag in her hand:

“Still sleeping?”

Her neck felt like she had a crick, suddenly very stiff. Su Huaiwang nodded woodenly.

“Why don’t you sleep after dinner?” Lin Jue said, raising the bag in her hand. “I’ll make something simple. You can’t skip dinner.”

The disheveled woman silently looked at her for a long time, neither agreeing nor disagreeing, but simply stepped aside to let her in.

Lin Jue was very familiar with Su Huaiwang’s house. She expertly slipped into the kitchen, and soon, the sounds of pots and pans clanging began.

Su Huaiwang didn’t go back to her room. Instead, she found a spot on the sofa to curl up. Her head kept nodding, getting sleepy with the sounds from the kitchen.

The cat jumped onto her lap, burrowed a spot in her arms, and curled up too. Su Huaiwang glanced at it hazily, but quickly closed her eyes again. Master and pet fell asleep on the sofa together.

The sounds stopped at some unknown time. Su Huaiwang struggled to open her eyes but couldn’t succeed.

It seemed someone was lightly touching her, from her cheek and ear to her neck. The fingertips were very cool, raising goosebumps and making Su Huaiwang shrink back.

After a long effort, her eyes finally opened a crack, and a hazy human silhouette appeared in her vision.

Su Huaiwang reached out, hugged the person’s neck, her voice slightly hoarse: “What are you doing?”

The person unusually stopped, not answering. When she spoke again, it was in an excusing tone: “Checking if you’re cold…”

A lie.

If she was just checking if she was cold, she wouldn’t have needed to touch her that way.

“I wasn’t cold before.” Su Huaiwang, holding back her anger, retorted.

The other person seemed to be stunned into silence, shrinking her shoulders and neck, looking pitiful.

For a moment, Su Huaiwang suddenly wanted to spill everything: her feelings, her questions for the other person, even her complaints.

But she held back in the end.

It’s pointless.

You can never wake up someone who pretends to be asleep.

So the woman, showing the anger of being woken up, frowned and got off the sofa.

Lin Jue stood behind her like a child who had done wrong, not even daring to ask loudly: “Aren’t you… going to change your clothes?”

She looked at the faint red marks occasionally exposed on the side of Su Huaiwang’s neck as her clothing moved, filled with regret.

She knew she shouldn’t have touched her, but she was just too happy. Seeing those marks made her stop dead in her tracks, forgetting even the pretense of breathing.

“I’m at home, why should I change?” Su Huaiwang rarely spoke to her so coldly.

Lin Jue grew even more annoyed, closing her mouth and not daring to speak again.

Su Huaiwang looked at her obvious avoidance and felt a surge of anger.

The two of them ate a meal, each lost in their own thoughts.

After dinner, Lin Jue eagerly hoped Su Huaiwang would ask her to stay, but Su Huaiwang didn’t even mention it. She saw her out directly, not even letting her do the dishes.

The wraith lowered her head in front of the closed door, reviewing everything she might have done wrong.

The annoying Celestial Master appeared beside her again, mocking her with a voice that loved drama:

“Oh, got kicked out again?”

Lin Jue turned her head, facing that irritating face.

But this time, she wasn’t in the mood to argue with anyone.

She raised an eyebrow and scoffed lightly: “Heh.”

Lei Yinyin: ? What does that mean?

The Celestial Master hesitated: “…Did you finally lose your mind?”

Lin Jue’s smile turned cold. Remembering that she didn’t need to explain herself to this person, she ignored her, turned around, and left.

Only Lei Yinyin was left scratching her head, wondering what had happened.

Su Huaiwang, behind the curtains, witnessed the entire exchange.

Her face was cold, colder than the arrogance Lin Jue showed toward Lei Yinyin.

Her eyes, in the corner away from the light, appeared particularly dark, solemnly looking out the window, lost in thought.

She saw Lin Jue’s intimate attitude, her soft laughter, and their brief conversation—she hadn’t seen Lin Jue’s explanation.

Lin Jue’s explanation seemed pale and weak at this moment.

If the two truly disliked each other, how could they keep coming and going like this every day?

Su Huaiwang lightly bit her lower lip and let go of the curtain.

The doorbell rang right as she gave up on peering out.

Su Huaiwang unlocked her phone. Lei Yinyin had sent her a message.

Lei Yinyin was at the door. Su Huaiwang wasn’t in a hurry to open it. Instead, she relaxed her eyes and replied to the message, then went back to her room to change clothes.

Half an hour later, Lei Yinyin was sitting on Su Huaiwang’s sofa, smiling brightly and playing with the dogs.

She looked up and noticed the absent-minded expression of the woman across from her.

“What’s wrong? Didn’t have fun on your trip?”

“Not exactly.” Su Huaiwang paused.

Fun wasn’t the right word, but it was certainly enjoyable.

Lei Yinyin raised an eyebrow, sounding quite smug for some reason: “No need to make excuses for her. She’s just the boring type…” The last word, “person,” wouldn’t come out.

It was just a casual comment, but it unexpectedly caught the other person’s attention: “You know her very well?”

The woman’s eyebrows furrowed slightly more.

“I guess so.” Lei Yinyin didn’t really want to answer that question and dodged it vaguely.

Su Huaiwang narrowed her eyes and leaned forward, getting closer to Lei Yinyin: “Then what kind of person is she in your eyes?”

“That’s a bit hard to say…” After all, in her eyes, Lin Jue wasn’t even truly human. Lei Yinyin was about to make something up, but her eyes inadvertently caught something she shouldn’t have seen.

She abruptly stood up, her sharp eyes wide open.

Su Huaiwang was confused and looked up to ask what was wrong, inadvertently exposing the red mark near her collarbone even more clearly.

“Th-that… that… that is…” Lei Yinyin’s finger trembled as she pointed.

Su Huaiwang realized something was wrong. She looked down. A flash of panic was quickly replaced by calmness: “A mosquito bite.”

“W-w-well, that mosquito must have been quite large…”

Su Huaiwang’s gaze wavered, and she cleared her throat to hide her embarrassment: “Let’s go back to the previous topic, shall we?”

Lei Yinyin, who had been extremely agitated, suddenly calmed down after that sentence, for some unknown reason.

She took a deep breath. Her already righteous face became even more solemn: “You just asked what kind of person I think Lin Jue is, right?”

She emphasized the word “person,” which sounded a bit strange to Su Huaiwang.

Bringing up this topic seemed to require a lot of mental preparation from Lei Yinyin. She took a few more deep breaths, hesitated with her hands, and finally reached out and placed them firmly on Su Huaiwang’s shoulders.

Those starry eyes looked at her gravely. Su Huaiwang momentarily felt like a wayward girl caught by the police.

“I don’t know what she told you, or what kind of… type you think she is, but she is very dangerous, and you shouldn’t be involved with her.”

“Dangerous?” Su Huaiwang repeated the word, suddenly finding it a little amusing.

Her free hand lightly pulled down her collar a bit, conveniently revealing half of the red mark. She smiled: “In that sense?”

Lei Yinyin gasped, gripping her shoulders tighter: “In every sense, she is dangerous!

“She is not a good partner, not an object of love! And certainly not a person… worth spending your life with!

“She fundamentally doesn’t understand what love is, and she is incapable of love. She can’t give you what you need. You are only temporarily blinded by her. Soon you will realize…”

“Realize what?” The usually cold woman interrupted her incessant rambling: “Realize what you two are hiding from me? Or realize that I shouldn’t meddle in a world I can’t be a part of?”

“Why do you say that—” Lei Yinyin looked astonished.

“There’s no ‘why,’ I just said what came to mind.” Su Huaiwang brushed her hands away and stood up: “Perhaps I’m too tired and lack the energy to host you. If there are no other issues, I’d like to continue sleeping.”

Lei Yinyin was speechless, lowering her head, her hands tightly clasped, her mind clearly racing with thoughts.