Who had changed the most over the past year?
It was none other than Yuan, who was currently tying up her hair and wearing an apron as she washed Xu Kun's underwear.
Anyone unfamiliar with her might have mistaken her at first glance for some hired housemaid.
After a year of settling down, Yuan's former pride and tsundere nature seemed to have vanished completely. Due to her physical condition, she could not enter the Haotian Pagoda, and Xu Kun had also hollowed out her authority over the Phoenix Race legion. On the entire Monkey Race Battlefield, she was the only one living an ordinary life.
Her main daily duty was to take care of Xu Kun's meals and daily needs.
But no one had forced her to do these things, not Xu Kun or anyone else. Even setting aside her physical condition, the slight swell of her lower abdomen made it clear to everyone that although Yuan was not favored by Xu Kun, the child in her belly was undeniably his.
Being pregnant made Yuan an extremely special existence. No one respected her, but no one bullied her either.
Three meals a day, cooking with oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar—Yuan was living the quiet life she had once longed for most, and she seemed to enjoy it.
It was as though she had found the meaning of her existence!
More than a year had passed, yet neither Shen-bao's nor Yuan's fetus had fully matured.
Naturally, that was because the life created by the fusion of Xu Kun's bloodline with theirs was too powerful. No one could determine when the two of them would give birth.
But the symptoms of pregnancy had gradually become obvious.
Shen-bao was doing fairly well. Having successfully cultivated the Nine Revolutions Undying Dragon God Art,