She gently patted his face twice and then rolled out of bed to check on her daughter in the next room.
Afterward, the spacious guest room fell into deep silence, as the night grew ever darker.
The whole hotel was infinitely quieter than during the day, with the staff beginning to discreetly change shifts.
The large Christmas tree outside the hotel was adorned with twinkling lights that continued to flicker in the hushed darkness.
The city seemed to gain an extra layer of fairy tale charm from the Christmas trees inside and outside the various stores.
Later on, Qin Mu held Huanhuan closer as they slept sounder, while the man in the other room suffered from a terrible headache in his sleep, clenching his forehead in pain.
Subconsciously, he reached for the other side of the bed, as if accustomed to searching for that body in the middle of the night.
But it wasn't there.
At that moment, he opened his eyes groggily, despite a splitting headache.