If you want a husband, you have to fight for it.

"What kind of bamboo are you planting? You can plant it anywhere else, but you have to plant it outside the window! It disturbs people's sleep! So many leaves have to rustle together, it's so noisy!"

"No wonder he has that kind of personality and temper. He's lucky he didn't turn into a zombie if he sleeps like this every day. His nerves will become weak sooner or later!"

"But, what's the difference between his temper and neurasthenia? He's like that all day long. His face is so sullen, maybe it's caused by neurasthenia."

"He's a bit arrogant, but at least he's handsome. It's just that he's too skinny, like a skinny monkey."

"Calling him a skinny monkey is giving him too much credit. I don't think he can even beat a monkey."

"You can't even beat a monkey, no wonder you're so thin. You're so thin, no wonder you have a bad temper..."

I don’t know how long it had been, but Xu Muyu heard someone whispering in a daze, and there were also "click" and "click" sounds.

These sounds seem to be right next to my ears, yet seem to be far away.

I must be dreaming, Xu Muyu thought.

He hasn't had a dream in a long time.

The last time I had this dream was ten days ago.

It was a very strange dream, and absurd.

If it's just a dream, don't bother with it...

bang bang-

"Xu Muyu!"

bang bang-

"Xu Muyu!"

bang bang-

"Xu Muyu, wake up!!" Wan Chuncao kept knocking on the window, trying to wake Xu Muyu up.

"It's already so late and you're still sleeping. Hurry up and get me a towel!"

"Ok?"

Suddenly, there was a loud knocking sound from the left. Xu Muyu turned his head to the left without any preparation and opened his eyes instinctively.

The moment my eyes opened, they closed again instinctively.

Too dazzling.

The sunlight outside the window is too dazzling.

Glare? Sunlight? Window?

Xu Muyu was stunned for a moment. He took his hand out from the quilt and covered his eyes with it, then slowly turned to the left again.

This time the sunlight was no longer glaring because someone was blocking it.

Xu Muyu saw a person in the light through his fingers, but it was too bright to see her face clearly. He could only vaguely see the person standing in the light, waving at him against the light, casting a shadow for him.

"Are you up? If you are, go get me a towel from that bag. I'm dying of heat!"

Seeing Xu Muyu wake up, Wan Chuncao instructed him rudely and said, "It's in the snakeskin bag beside the bed. You can see it if you turn over. The towel is at the bottom, together with my short-sleeved shirt. You can see it if you turn it over."

Xu Muyu did not move. He kept his hands covering his eyes, not letting them go down. He just stood there.

Wan Chuncao thought he was still asleep, so she stepped on the bamboo she had cut and stood outside the window. She knocked on the window even harder and said, "Is Xu Muyu awake? Is he awake?"

The knocking sound beside his ears became louder, loud enough to shatter the window. Xu Muyu moved his fingers. He no longer blocked his sight, nor did he look at the shadow outside the window. Instead, he turned his head to look around him.

The first ray of sunlight in the morning mercilessly illuminated the entire room, leaving every dark corner exposed to the sunlight.

Everything in the room was so real. Unlike the warm light of electric lamps, the direct light of the sun illuminated everything in the room in its original appearance.

Xu Muyu stared at the books that filled the entire room. He even saw a thin layer of dust on the books.

Even the small lamp on the bedside table looked old.

Xu Muyu turned his head and saw the small desk lamp beside the table, and also saw the Braille book on the table that was thrown under the bed yesterday.

The Braille book was placed neatly on the table, with a piece of wedding candy lying on it.

It goes without saying who put this there.

Xu Muyu finally shifted his gaze to the window.

The windows were covered tightly with bamboo, and the bamboo that had shielded them tightly was gone.

Instead, it was Wan Chuncao who was standing outside the window, sweating profusely, with his sleeves rolled up and a kitchen knife in his hand.

The collar of her short-sleeved shirt was already wet, and her forehead was covered in sweat. She raised her hand to wipe the sweat off her face, tucked her wet hair behind her ears, and pointed at Xu Muyu and shouted again: "Aren't you awake? Get up quickly and hand me a towel! I've been calling you for a long time, but you're sleeping so soundly. You can't even have hot slop!"

Xu Muyu looked at Wan Chuncao and obviously didn't understand what hot swill was, but someone else did.

Xu Muyu was still lying on the bed staring at Wan Chuncao when Liu Ma suddenly came out wearing a coat.

"What slop? Are you feeding the pigs?"

Aunt Liu was still asleep early in the morning. She had her hair tied up in a mess, looked sleepy, and trotted out in a pair of slippers.

It's only six o'clock now. What is Wan Chuncao doing that makes such a big noise?

Before she reached Wan Chuncao, she almost fainted.

The dense bamboos outside Xu Muyu's window had all been cut down by Wan Chuncao. The cut bamboos were scattered all over the ground.

The fallen bamboo leaves were scattered everywhere, forming a thick layer of bamboo leaves on the ground, almost forming a path.

The soil had already appeared under Xu Muyu's windowsill, with some bamboo roots still stuck in the soil.

Guan Chuncao had placed a few bamboos on the roots. She was standing on the bamboos and looking inside through Xu Muyu's window.

"W-what are you doing?"

Aunt Liu cried out in surprise. She pointed at the bamboos scattered on the ground and thought to herself: What if Yu Xiu knew about this?

Wan Chuncao glared at Xu Muyu who was still glaring at her in the room, then jumped down from Xu Muyu's window sill. She pretended to lift up her clothes to expose her belly to cool herself down. While lifting up her clothes, she said to Liu Ma, "I'm chopping bamboo!"

Aunt Liu was furious and anxious. She slapped her thigh and said, "Why did you cut down the bamboo? It was growing well and it didn't cause any trouble for you. Why did you cut it down?"

Wan Chuncao showed her belly to Liu Ma and said confidently: "Look at what you said, these bamboos can be used to make a pigpen to raise pigs!"