At a Loss

"Xiao Yu, Li Ye, I was just about to come find you two these past few days! These are the pagers that just hit the market. I picked consecutive numbers for the two of you, so you'll be able to find each other wherever you go."

"Xiao Yu, listen—if you want to find Li Ye, page his number first. Once he gets it, he'll call you back."

"Oh, oh, thank you, Sister-in-law!"

After learning that Wen Leyu was carrying twins—a boy and a girl—Teacher Ke and Wen Qingsheng were both overjoyed, but Pan Xiaoying felt pressure the size of a mountain.

So after coming in, she did not dare bring up the babies at all. Instead, she took out the two pagers and explained to Li Ye and Wen Leyu how to use them.

But Li Ye and Wen Leyu had already used these things back when they were in Lighthouse. They only pretended to be country bumpkins for Pan Xiaoying's sake, humoring their sister-in-law.

Yet once they sat down at the dinner table, there was no escaping the subject of children. As the eldest son, married a year earlier, while your younger sister was already carrying twins—what exactly were you husband and wife trying to pull?

Left with no choice, Pan Xiaoying stiffly changed the subject and asked Li Ye with a smile, "Say, Li Ye, our little sister Xiao Yu is carrying two children for you. Everyone talks about equality between men and women now. How about letting one of the children take the Wen surname?"

"..."

Li Ye looked at Pan Xiaoying in surprise, his sharp powers of observation kicking into gear as he tried to see through what she meant.

Two biological siblings having different surnames sounded like gender equality, like a fine tale to be