Later that night, she had a good night's sleep in her old room, and from tomorrow onward, she would be sleeping with him in his room.

Jackson sat by her bed and watched her as she slept. The silvery moonlight streamed through the curtain and illuminated his outline, making him look like a marble statue–majestically handsome, albeit stained with a tinge of melancholy, almost as if he was keeping a million things that were troubling his mind hidden under his brows.

It was a long time before his eyelashes trembled as his gaze fell on the back of her right hand. The look in his eyes was solemn, yet at the same time, filled with deep yearning.

He murmured, "Do you know how much I love you, Serenity?"

No matter how much he denied it, he still could not lie to himself about his true feelings for her. The truth was that he had always been… in love with her passionately.

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Serenity thought she would find it hard to fall asleep the first night she returned to the Valor Residence, but it tu