For a child who held so strongly to living, Qiqi often gets nightmares. She would always dream of past memories of her youth,...

For a child who held so strongly to living, Qiqi often gets nightmares.

She would always dream of past memories of her youth, memories that remind her of the darkness of her days before becoming a zombie. She would always dream of the friends she had and watched them grow old and pass away. 

Till this day she still visits them.

Qiqi has always been afraid of sleeping for that reason, she would always wake up crying then forgets what she was crying about. 

That’s why she started working for Baizhu, he is someone who saves people from dying, and she wants to do that exactly.

Death scares her, for it brings her nightmares she doesn’t want to experience again. 

That is why she tries her best to avoid sleep.

As she laid awake in her bed staring at the ceiling above her, she began letting her mind wonder to anything to prevent herself from sleeping.

“Why are you awake on this hour?” A voice spoke, startling the small child who got up and stared at her window.

There sitting on her windowsill is Xiao, the last guardian yaksha alive. She blinks in confusion, trying to remember if she saw him before. 

He signed, letting himself in and sitting on her bed, the young child felt peace by being in his presence. He looked at her and saw her eyes holding in so many emotions.

“You’re scared of sleeping right?” He asked, the young pharmacist nodded slowly and he sighed at the response. The yaksha tucked her back in her bed and patted her head slowly.

He softly cleared his throat and proceeded to hum a soft melody to her, his hand still softly patting Qiqi’s head, lulling her to sleep. He closed his eyes, putting his mind in peace as he set the child to sleep.

When he noticed her soft breaths, he knew that she fell asleep. He slowly got up and disappeared with the wind.

This night, Qiqi didn’t get any nighmares.