Taking the phone from the bedside table, Shi Yan was stunned when he saw the caller ID and noticed the time.

Early in the morning, two fifty-three.

"Hello."

After answering the phone, Shi Yan's voice was still a little hoarse with sleepiness. He stood up and rubbed his forehead, trying to clear his mind. He heard the other end of the phone say, "Let me sleep."

"..." Shi Yan paused, "Now?"

"Now."

After the girl finished her second sentence, Shi Yan was sure that he had not heard it wrongly. He did hear the faint sound of crying.

"good."

Shi Yan did not ask any further questions out of curiosity. He lifted the quilt, got out of bed, put on his shoes, and groped his way to the desk under the dim light of his mobile phone. He turned on the desk lamp. The desk was clean and tidy. Before going to bed, he put all the exercise books back into his schoolbag.

Shi Yan had no intention of opening his schoolbag.

Since it was essentially all reading, and reading exercises was not that convenient, he thought, why not just find something suitable for reading.

Shi Yan looked around the bookshelf and his gaze stopped on a book called "Insect Life".

He raised his hand, took out the book, sat down, and opened the cover.

Shi Yan didn't say anything the whole time, and the girl on the other end of the phone mistook this period of silence as him changing his mind and not wanting to coax her to sleep anymore.

"What are you doing?"

She questioned in a cold voice and a tone that could be described as unreasonable, like a hedgehog on alert, naturally extending every spike full of negative emotion when she loses her temper.

"What does it mean to be silent for so long?"

"I'm looking for a book." Shi Yan explained.

The boy sat at the desk, not showing any surprise because he was interrupted in the middle of his sleep and the culprit woke him up specifically to ask him to put her to sleep.

He quietly endured her anger.

The desk lamp shone on one side of his cold face, making his facial features appear more upright. He was wearing a white cotton T-shirt, and the whole person looked exceptionally soft and clean, dispelling the always cold and distant feeling during the day.

Perhaps because he had just woken up, his voice sounded low and gentle.

"I've finished reading the reading questions in the exercise book, and the rest are science questions, which may sound boring."

In a word, all the hedgehog's spikes were subdued.

"...Oh." The girl's voice was dry at first, and then she urged him in a familiar tone, "Then you, hurry up."

This is an old residential area. Most of the people living here are retired elderly people who have always followed a regular schedule.

At this time, except for the street lights in the distance, it was pitch black outside and completely silent.

Only one light was on in the window on the fourth floor of a residential building, and from the window, a young man's pleasant voice sounded in a low voice.

“…”

When the time pointed to 3:48 in the morning, there was silence on the other end of the voice call.

Shi Yan thought Sheng Yuan had fallen asleep, so he stopped and reached out to take the phone on the table.

"No hanging."

The girl suddenly spoke, and her tone was fierce: "Shi Yan, if you dare to hang up, you're done."

"..." After a slight pause, Shi Yan pursed his lips and asked, "Do you want to read more?"

Almost an hour had passed, and Sheng Yuan was certain that the nightmare had temporarily made the hypnotic ineffective. She would not fall asleep even if she continued to recite for another hour, so there was no need to recite any more.

but--

Sheng Yuan sat at the head of the bed with her knees hugged. The early morning moon was hanging high outside the floor-to-ceiling window. It was very quiet beside her ears, with only the occasional rustling sound of branches and leaves of plants in the garden being blown by the wind. The cold moonlight poured in through the glass, falling on her small figure and also slightly illuminating the surroundings.

This is a luxurious living room. Its layout and furnishings are all elegant. It looks elegant during the day, but at night, all the darkness will emerge and surround Sheng Yuan alone.

Oh, no, there's this.

Xiaoman is an adult female gray wolf. When Sheng Yuan picked it up more than two years ago, it was just a newborn, dying cub. But in the blink of an eye, it has grown up, and when it stands up, its body is much stronger than that of a strong man.

Countless times, Sheng Yuan collapsed and woke up from the nightmare of being fifteen years old, and she could always see it staying by her side, wrapping its furry body around her, then licking the palm of her hand with its tongue, and comforting her gently over and over again.

Sheng Yuan stroked Xiaoman's head.

With the other hand holding the phone that was on a voice call, Shi Yan replied: "No need to read."

Then, the next sentence, "But you are not allowed to hang up the phone either."

Shi Yan didn't say anything, which was considered as his agreement.

Sheng Yuan was dissatisfied: "Why don't you answer me?"

Shi Yan: “What?”

Sheng Yuan: "Answer me and don't hang up."

After two seconds of silence, Shi Yan said, "No need to hang up."

Sheng Yuan was satisfied.

The gray wolf nestled in the girl's legs noticed that his owner's mood had improved, so he raised his head, looked at her, rubbed her palm affectionately, and then lay down at ease.

No one spoke anymore. The two people on both ends of the phone just stayed like that, and silence spread.

Shi Yan gets up at five o'clock every day. He looked at the time and it was almost four o'clock. He simply didn't plan to sleep any more. In the end, he opened his schoolbag and took out the exercise book to do it.

The sky gradually turned gray and bright.

There was the sound of the door handle being pushed down behind Shi Yan. The bedroom door opened slightly, and a beautiful white long-haired cat walked in lazily with its four paws.

Shi Yan always closes the door when he sleeps, but the cat has the skill to open the door.

At first, Shi Yan tried to lock the door, but the result was that the cat would start scratching the door when it found it couldn't open it, until it woke up Shi Yan and then opened the door for it. Later, Shi Yan stopped locking the door. The cat soon lost interest in it and rarely entered Shi Yan's bedroom at night, only occasionally.

Now it happens occasionally.

The cat jumped onto Shi Yan's desk and looked up at him. Its yellow-blue eyes seemed to be curious about why Shi Yan got up so early today.

Shi Yan was writing questions and ignored it.

Normally, it would walk around for a while and then go out because it felt bored, but today was strange. It looked at the phone with the lit screen on the table, but couldn't understand it, so it simply lay down and took a nap next to Shi Yan's hand.

At five o'clock, daylight gradually appeared.

"I'm hanging up."

Sheng Yuan suddenly spoke, but the phone was not hung up as she said.

Shi Yan stopped writing, thought for a moment, and answered her: "Yeah."

The cat that was originally sleeping next to me opened its eyes, turned its head, and stared at the phone blankly. It stood up and circled around the phone in a hurry. It just meowed once and the call was hung up.

At that time, on Sheng Yuan's side, the strong gray wolf's ears stood up sharply in a second.

When Sheng Yuan came out of the bathroom, Xiaoman was still holding her cell phone in his mouth, fiddling with it with his front paws, as if he was trying to find something inside.

"Okay, you can give it back to me now." Sheng Yuan squatted down, rescued the drool-covered phone from the wolf's mouth, rubbed its aggrieved head, and said, "I have to go to school."

Xiaoman followed the girl downstairs closely.

There was dead silence in the living room.

All the servants who were working stopped what they were doing, lowered their heads, and dared not utter a word, as silent as a cicada.

Sheng Yuan seemed not to have noticed the scene. She took two sandwiches packed in paper bags, picked up her schoolbag, and walked lightly towards the black luxury car with its door open, leaving the gorgeous but cold and empty house.

Xiaoman was squatting on the steps. When he saw Sheng Yuan waving at him, he raised his front paws.

Thanks to Yu Xing, Nian Jiayan, Anle, Blue and White Wind Bell, Gu Ruxi, Love, be, sueyes, Lan, Yanyan Kanke, Chi Qingluo, Shang, Xihe, Lemon, Star, Hanliangchu, Yunlei Candy and other babies for their monthly tickets~