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Chapter 55

Author: Miss Catty Lu
last update publish date: 2026-06-25 04:30:55

Wren’s pov

I woke up to my neck aching from falling asleep at a wrong angle, my laptop still glowing faintly beside me, three browser tabs frozen mid-search, and a half-written paragraph that made progressively less sense the longer I stared at it.

I checked the time. Six forty. I'd gotten maybe four hours, most of it slumped sideways with my face nearly on the keyboard.

My phone lit up on the nightstand.

Theo: Wake up sunshine

I smiled at that, despite everything, and typed back: barely alive
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