Uh...
Shi Tiexin froze, taking a full two seconds to process what he had just heard.
He asked for confirmation, "You... you're married?"
Shi Yulei smiled. "My eldest is already in high school, my second is in middle school, and my third is in third grade. What do you think?"
Boom—Shi Tiexin felt as though a thunderbolt had split his skull.
First, stunned.
Then, even more stunned.
Then he heard Shi Yulei ask with great interest, "Your kid must be in high school too, right? How are their grades? Arts or sciences? Do they give you trouble? What tutoring classes are they taking?"
The instant Shi Tiexin heard that, he decisively shrank his neck and retreated into the Martial Heart Zen Lotus, shoving Shi Tie Zhu out. "I admit it, I can't do this. These topics lie entirely beyond the scope of my knowledge. Sigh, my life experience is still too shallow."
He had never expected Shi Yulei to be married.
Then again, she did look like the sort of person who would marry early and settle down.
She was already a married woman, with three children besides, and he was still trying to flirt with her?
Flirt, my ass!
Sister Mengmeng had blabbered nonsense to him without even asking whether Shi Yulei had someone. She had made him misjudge the situation, and now he only wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into!
Of course, there was no crack in the ground, but there was the Martial Heart Zen Lotus. So Shi Tiexin burrowed desperately into the Martial Heart Zen Lotus and kicked Shi Tie Zhu out.
It was his own face. He could lose it himself!
"No, don't do this, I don't know anything about that either!" Shi Tie Zhu helplessly took control of the