Chapter 27

She Talks in Her Sleep, I Record It

Yuan Yuan Baby?

Jiang Yuan felt as sweet as if she had eaten honey, but her little mouth was stubborn, pretending to be angry, “Lin Senmu, you’re so annoying, always tricking me. I’m not going to sleep on call with you anymore!”

Lin Senmu pleaded, “Don’t! We’re already on call, don’t hang up!”

“Hmph, sleep time!”

Jiang Yuan turned off the light and closed her eyes, but in reality, she was wide awake. The sound of Lin Senmu calling her ‘baby’ still echoed in her ears!

“Yuan Yuan, are you really asleep?”

Lin Senmu wasn’t sleepy either. Just having called her ‘Yuan Yuan Baby’ had him extremely excited, and he had to keep her talking for a while longer.

“I’m asleep.”

Jiang Yuan teased him.

“Then is it a pig answering me?”

Lin Senmu was speechless.

“You’re the pig!”

Jiang Yuan retorted without backing down.

“Ba…by.”

Lin Senmu tried his old trick again.

“Lin Senmu, do you dare to drop the pause in the middle!”

Jiang Yuan was annoyed. What was the point of pausing like that? If he wanted to say it, just say it. Didn’t he know she wanted to hear it again?

“Baby!”

Lin Senmu didn’t hesitate this time.

“Tch!”

Jiang Yuan pretended to sound indifferent, but then she remembered something and turned into a little jealous girl, “Lin Senmu, how many girls have you called ‘baby’?”

“All my firsts are with you!”

Although they hadn’t officially confirmed their relationship yet, the frequent chats between them were filled with ambiguity.

Lin Senmu really wanted to make another move and say, ‘Yuan Yuan, be my girlfriend,’ but he was worried it might be too rushed.

But for now, this was fine.

Take it slow.

He was committed to a long-term relationship and wasn’t in a hurry.

Lin Senmu believed that true love should start with a bouquet of flowers or a formal confession, not just naturally form through ambiguous chats.

He was looking forward to their next meeting.

“You’re getting better at deceiving girls, huh.”

Jiang Yuan was very satisfied with the answer she got. She placed her phone on the pillow, close to her ear, with a faint smile on her face, “Lin Senmu, I really need to sleep now, or else I’ll get scolded by my parents if I wake up late at noon!”

Lin Senmu suddenly suggested, “Why don’t you call me Sen Sen!”

“Shameless, I haven’t even agreed to you calling me Yuan Yuan!”

Jiang Yuan snorted lightly.

“I’ve already called you baby.”

Lin Senmu scoffed.

“You’re the most thick-skinned.”

Jiang Yuan opened her big eyes and rolled them in the dark.

“Come on, call me Sen Sen, I want to hear it!”

Lin Senmu pestered her.

“Alright, alright, I really can’t handle you.”

Jiang Yuan gave in to the annoying guy’s request, “Sen Sen, Sen Sen, I’ve called you, now it’s time to sleep!”

“Goodnight, Yuan Yuan!”

Lin Senmu chuckled happily.

“Goodnight, Sen…Sen!”

Jiang Yuan shyly called him again, then stopped responding and gradually drifted off to sleep.

“I can’t sleep!”

Lin Senmu was completely unable to sleep after hearing those soft calls of ‘Sen Sen.’ He tossed and turned in bed, wishing he could crawl through the phone screen.

If he could, he would appear by Jiang Yuan’s side in the next second.

“Read some novels, learn some dating techniques!”

Lin Senmu, wide awake, opened a novel app. Recently, his bookshelf was filled with romance novels, from which he had picked up a few tricks.

These little tricks were something he practiced on Jiang Yuan every day.

Lin Senmu’s favorite line was: “Let’s have five children, pure and innocent!”

When he first read this passage, he immediately imagined himself as the male protagonist.

Naturally, the female protagonist was envisioned as Jiang Yuan, and he imagined having five children with her!

“Lin Senmu~~”

“Don’t~”

“Stop it~”

What was that sound?

Lin Senmu was deeply engrossed in the novel when strange noises started echoing in the quiet room.

He focused and listened carefully, only to remember that he was still on a call with Jiang Yuan.

“Yuan Yuan?”

Lin Senmu thought she had woken up and called out to her.

“Lin Senmu, go away! You’re not allowed to come over!”

Jiang Yuan’s voice came through the phone’s microphone.

“Come over where?”

Lin Senmu was utterly confused.

“Lin Senmu, you big meanie~”

It was only then that Lin Senmu realized Jiang Yuan was talking in her sleep, just like that night on the train.

However, during their time together in the RV, Lin Senmu had fallen asleep early and hadn’t heard Jiang Yuan mumbling about him in her dreams.

“Pfft!”

Lin Senmu was about to burst into laughter when it suddenly dawned on him that the best thing to do right now was to record this!

Girl, prepare for social death tomorrow!

“Lin Senmu, when we were in the RV, don’t think I didn’t know you were secretly watching me from the bed on the roof!”

“Hehe, you didn’t know, did you? When we meet during the winter break, I’m going to be stubborn and not let you give me a foot massage!”

Listening to her sleep talk, Lin Senmu felt that Jiang Yuan dreaming about him was clear proof that she had feelings for him.

“She actually has me in her heart!”

For a moment, Lin Senmu’s heart was filled with sweetness.

He lost interest in the novel and switched his phone to the photo album.

Starting from the photos taken on the train, his eyes were fixed on the images of Jiang Yuan, while his mind was filled with memories of her.

“Lin Senmu, let’s stick together~”

Hearing this, Lin Senmu imagined Jiang Yuan asleep, probably hugging a pillow or cushion at home while saying “stick together.”

“Lin Senmu, have you really never been in a relationship before? You seem so experienced!”

“Never!”

Lin Senmu responded to her, even though she was unconscious.

On the other end of the phone, after saying that “stick together” line, Jiang Yuan’s sleep talk quieted down.

Lin Senmu waited for a long time but didn’t hear anything more. He really wanted to hear her voice again!

So he started calling out to the sleeping girl.

“Yuan Yuan~”

“Baby~”

“Yuan Yuan Baby~”

Lin Senmu gradually escalated the terms of endearment he used for her.

“What is it?”

Jiang Yuan wasn’t awake, but being called repeatedly, she gave a slight response in her dream.

“Nothing!”

“Kiss you, I’m going to sleep too!”

Lin Senmu whispered softly, feeling drowsy, and slowly closed his eyes.

The next day, Jiang Yuan woke up first and saw that the call was still connected.

The timer showed that she and Lin Senmu had been on the call for 8 hours.

“Click!”

She took a screenshot, a faint smile on her face, “Good morning, Sen Sen!”

After lounging in bed for a while, she got up to wash up and have breakfast.

While doing these things, she left messages for Lin Senmu, “I’m going to wash up now!”

“I’m having breakfast, Mom bought me soup dumplings this morning!”

“Lin Senmu, I’m about to practice the piano!”

Sitting at the piano, after playing a few keys, she thought the sound might disturb Lin Senmu’s sleep, so she turned off the phone’s microphone.

By noon, they had been on the call for 12 hours.

Jiang Yuan thought about what Lin Senmu had said last night—that all his firsts were with her. Her first time falling asleep on a call with a boy, and many other firsts, were also given to Lin Senmu.

“Wake up, you lazy pig!”

Jiang Yuan activated her wake-up mode through the microphone.

“Good morning, Yuan Yuan!”

Lin Senmu was roused by her sweet voice. He realized he was becoming a little too attached to her good mornings and good nights.

Deep down, he made a firm decision: he had to win Jiang Yuan over.