I Never Said I Wouldn't Take Responsibility!

Luo Ruying carried Luo Hongye to the front of the wooden cottage, her heart filled with uneasy, tangled emotions as she gently knocked on the door.

With a creak, the wooden door slowly opened.

"May I ask who this young lady is looking for?"

Ning Yechen stood in the doorway and asked with a smile.

For some reason, looking at the woman before him, he could not help feeling as though they had met before...

Gazing at the face from her memories, Luo Ruying lightly pressed her red lips together and lowered her eyes, unsure how to begin for a moment.

After hesitating for a while, she tentatively parted her lips and asked:

"Y-you... don't remember me...?"

Ning Yechen carefully examined the young woman once more.

Black hair, crimson eyes, a face as lovely as flowers and fair as the moon!

She looked very familiar!

Yet he simply could not remember who she was...

He had seen far too many beauties in the past, so much so that he could not recall her identity at all...

Besides, he had hidden away here for a long time. No one should have known about it!

"Miss, you are... who?"

After thinking for a long time and comparing every possibility in his mind without finding anyone who fit, Ning Yechen could only ask awkwardly.

Seeing that Ning Yechen truly had not recognized her, anger and disappointment rose on Luo Ruying's face, and she could not help but cry out indignantly:

"You! You heartless man!"

Not only had he taken her first time, but she had gone through untold hardships to keep this child.

Now that she had finally escaped from the Immortal Realm and come all this way to find him, he did not recognize her in the slightest!

She knew that, for mortals, ten years might be enough to forget many things.

But she still could not help feeling disappointed and angry that Ning Yechen had forgotten her so completely.

Ning Yechen was dumbfounded at once.

To be fair, ever since he had transmigrated into this world and become the peerless Demon Lord of the Demon Realm several hundred years ago, he had not even dated anyone. How had he become a heartless man?!

This was too outrageous!

Slander!

Naked, blatant slander!

"Miss, is there... some misunderstanding between us...?"

"Could you have mistaken me for someone else...?"

Ning Yechen asked again.

He felt that the woman before him had definitely mistaken him for someone else!

Seeing that Ning Yechen truly seemed unable to remember her, Luo Ruying sighed in disappointment. She lifted Luo Hongye in her arms, cast him a resentful glance, and said:

"She is your daughter. You have to take responsibility for both of us..."

"(⊙_⊙) Huh...?"

Ning Yechen was stunned!

This news was simply too explosive!

Had he somehow become a father out of nowhere?!

Ning Yechen lowered his head and looked at Luo Hongye, who was as exquisite as a little doll. She seemed somewhat shy, yet kept secretly peeking at him.

The little girl was very beautiful and adorable. She gave him an indescribable sense of closeness and familiarity, and he had liked her at first sight.

But being suddenly told that she was his child left him dazed for a moment.

Other than that accidental night of passion ten years ago, he had never touched another woman at all!

Hm...?!

Thinking of that, Ning Yechen suddenly understood something. Pointing at Luo Ruying, he asked in astonishment:

"Y-you're the fairy from that night...?!"

Seeing that Ning Yechen had finally remembered, Luo Ruying nodded shyly.

Receiving confirmation, Ning Yechen's mouth fell open even wider in shock.

No way...!

It really was her!

Luo Ruying's cultivation aura was far weaker than before, as though she were an entirely different person.

Her once radiant silver hair had also turned black, which was why he had spent so long without recalling her.

He had never connected her with the woman from that night.

Ning Yechen truly could not understand it.

After one night of passion, that fairy from back then had come to him ten years later with a child, demanding that he take responsibility?!

As a fairy of the Immortal Realm, with her cultivation, she might even have been the saintess of some holy land or a female emperor—yet she had come to the mortal realm to find him...?

What he found even harder to understand was that the deeper one's cultivation, the lower the chance of conceiving an immortal fetus. This was common knowledge throughout the world.

Some Immortal Venerables, just to conceive an immortal fetus, had even spent years tirelessly plowing the fields with several immortal companions every day before seeing any results!

So how had he hit the mark in one shot...?!

Even putting that aside, as a cultivator, as long as one was willing, one could use immortal power at any time to prevent an immortal fetus from forming within the body.

He had assumed that after that night, Luo Ruying would definitely prevent herself from becoming pregnant with an immortal fetus.

After all, she was a fairy of the Immortal Realm. Normally, she could not easily conceive an immortal fetus.

Yet she had truly carried the immortal fetus for years, given birth to the child, and raised her to this age!

"She... really is my child...?"

Ning Yechen still found it hard to believe as he asked.

He had only asked casually to confirm it, and he already knew the answer in his heart.

But the moment the question left his mouth, Ning Yechen regretted it.

It seemed that asking it like that was rather inappropriate...

Sure enough, as soon as Luo Ruying heard him, her brows drew tightly together. Her expression became incomparably ugly as she gritted her teeth and shouted:

"Hmph! If you don't want to take responsibility, I'll take my child and leave!"

"But do not insult me or my child!"

With that, Luo Ruying turned and left without hesitation, a glimmer of tears flashing through her eyes.

Luo Hongye lay over Luo Ruying's shoulder, her big eyes still fixed tightly on Ning Yechen. She asked sweetly beside Luo Ruying's ear:

"Mother, does Father not want us...?"

The moment she saw Ning Yechen, Luo Hongye had also felt an inexplicable sense of closeness toward him.

She had always been rather afraid of strangers, yet she was not afraid of Ning Yechen in the least. Thus, she knew he had to be the father she had longed for day and night.

Luo Hongye's words struck deeply into Ning Yechen's heart, stirring his emotions until his heart trembled!

He was the Demon Realm Supreme. He was absolutely not some scumbag who abandoned his wife and child, a man without responsibility!

If he could do it, then naturally he could bear the responsibility for it!

In a single stride, Ning Yechen caught up to Luo Ruying and grabbed her arm.

"Wait! I never said I wouldn't take responsibility!"

"Hmph! Let go of me!"

"I don't need you to take responsibility anymore!"

Anger burning in her heart, Luo Ruying angrily tried to shake off Ning Yechen's hand.

Afraid of hurting Ning Yechen, who was a mortal, she deliberately held back her strength and used only a very light amount of force.

Yet even with her strength restrained, it should have been enough to easily break free from the grasp of any strong adult man. Still, she could not shake off Ning Yechen's hand.

Before Luo Ruying could even be surprised, her throat suddenly tasted sweet, and she covered her mouth as she coughed violently several times!

"Cough, cough, cough...!"

A clump of blood appeared in Luo Ruying's palm, and her lovely face turned even paler!

"You're injured?!"

Ning Yechen gripped Luo Ruying's wrist, his expression instantly turning incomparably cold.

"I-I'm fine... let go... of me..."

Luo Ruying tried to break free, only to realize that she no longer had any strength left. She took one step forward, her vision went black, and she fell headfirst into Ning Yechen's arms, unconscious.

"Mother, Mother...!"

Luo Hongye cried as she tugged at Luo Ruying's arm.

Ning Yechen wrapped one arm around Luo Ruying's waist and held her tightly in his embrace, then gathered Luo Hongye into his arms with his other hand.

He comforted her gently and warmly:

"Don't worry."

"With Father here, nothing will happen to your mother."