Touch of Spirit

"Nan Zi, did you knock someone up?"

"I didn't."

"But you did."

"I didn't."

"If you didn't, why were you getting a paternity test?"

"I was testing for half-siblings with the same father, a kinship test!"

"Then your Old Man was the one fooling around."

"...Believe it or not, I'll really knock someone up for you!"

From evening through after dinner, Ronan endured a barrage from his friends and family on the Spirit Wave Network, with a family meeting about "taking a leave from school" thrown in as well. Before nine o'clock, he was already mentally exhausted. After returning to his room, all he wanted was to bury his head and sleep.

The fallout was still spreading rapidly. According to Bamboo Pole's estimate, by tomorrow morning, news like "Cage and Configuration theory advocate, Mental Side genius Professor Ronan, secretly undergoes paternity test, suspected of having an illegitimate child" would be plastered across every major Inner World forum, discussion group, gossip rag, and other platform, becoming one of the hottest topics in the Inner World.

Octopus, the culprit, was also dumbfounded. It was just his bad luck. When Ronan contacted him, he had been volunteering—and being exploited—in the branch's biological laboratory. He was so busy he was practically flying, and his brain had gone a little numb. At the time, Ronan's request had seemed so technically simple that any assistant could handle it, so he really did hand the matter over to an assistant...

Complete with an at-home sample collection service!

Thus, while the beautiful and adorable assistant—who was missing a screw and had lips that were somewhat too wide—was driving to Ronan's home, the news completely exploded.

In a sense, this was an extremely serious information leak.

Apparently, He Yueyin had dragged Octopus straight off the lab bench and thrown