Lulling the Stars to Sleep

Refined scoundrel and business tycoon x cool, gentle bionic-robot engineer

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First, I want to apologize to everyone. I'm very sorry that my first story has to end like this. I've been incredibly busy lately, working until two in the morning every day, and recently my head and heart have been hurting, so I really can't keep updating. But I personally feel that stopping updates would be even more unfair to everyone, so I've tried to include all the plot points from the blurb in the main story. There were many foreshadowed details and characters I didn't get to develop. I'm sorry to my readers, and to my characters, too.

Next time, I'll make sure to build up a stock of chapters before I start publishing. Once again, I bow in thanks to everyone who has read this story. Thank you.

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As a child, Shen Zhixing was adored by everyone, doted on to the point of being spoiled, and needed the boy next door to coax her to sleep. The young man had a lazy, distinguished air about him, seeming utterly bored, yet he still patiently read her One Thousand and One Nights at her bedside. But the bedtime story only made it halfway through before everything changed. The star fell from the sky into the dust, and her big brother disappeared, too. Shen Zhixing had always slept soundly, but from then on, she couldn't sleep. Through one unbearable night after another, she wrote him letter after letter, but never received a reply.

By the time she had written the thousand-and-first letter, Shen Zhixing gave up. After crossing out and rewriting the words, all she left was: