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Everything happened too suddenly So sudden, in fact, that she simply didn't kno to face it, so all she could do was hide herself like an ostrich and run froht slowly fell, she was able to sleep for a bit, but then she woke up again not too long after

She pulled the curtains so tight that there wasn't even a speck of light in the room She couldn't tell what tiht out

Like a soulless shell of a huled in bed withoutan inch

She could feel time pass in the darkness, but she wasn't sure just how much time passed All she kneas that since she checked into the hotel yesterday, she hadn't had a single drop of water She was starting to feel thirsty

When she sier, she finally crawled out of bed, clutching her stomach and walked into the bathroom She first drank half a bottle of the complimentary water from the hotel, then quickly freshened up and walked out of the rooht when she calanced at the clock in the hotel lobby It was eleven in the evening The date beside the clock reminded her that it had already been thirty-six hours since she checked into the hotel

There was a twenty-four hour fast-food restaurant near the hotel

After Ji Yi ordered so to fill her stomach, she was in no hurry to leave Instead, she watched the streets froht in the capital were just as lively as usual, yet the traffic wasn't as fast-flowing as usual

Caught in a daze for a moment, she then waved over the hotel attendant and paid her bill That hen she saw the silent phone in her bag

She purposefully didn't turn on her phone throughout her plane journey Yet, she still kept it turned off up till now out of fear She knew full well that avoiding reality wasn't going to fix anything, so in the end, she decided to face theain

Ji Yi grabbed her phone and hesitated for two minutes, but eventually she pressed the button to switch it on