Everyone at the scene was stunned for a long while, and Hao Ren simply failed to understand what Nangong May meant.
"Doudou thinks she was born from this pot," Nangong May said with a very serious expression. "That's right, this is the pot Lily used to boil eggs before. I don't know which part went wrong, but after the little one confirmed that you weren't her mother, she decided that this pot was her mother. Now she firmly believes that you discovered this pot, and then you and this pot invented her together..."
"What on earth does any of that even mean?!" Hao Ren shot two feet into the air, startling the Little Merman into a shudder. He hurried over and poked Doudou's belly to calm her down, then looked at Nangong May in a frenzy. "What exactly did you say to her?"
"I've already done everything I could," the Siren girl said, looking no less aggrieved than Hao Ren. "I'm telling you, this little one's head is a complete mess. Our communication basically stayed right at the edge of logic. You can't expect a creature that hatched only a day ago to understand too much. I was already amazed that she could understand what a father and a mother were."
Hao Ren was on the verge of tears. "But you can't let her mistake a pot for her biological mother... Especially when I'm her father. Her worldview is already this warped from childhood. Can it even be corrected when she grows up?"
Nangong May sighed and turned to Lily. "Open your dog eyes wide."
Lily obediently opened her eyes wide. "Is this what you mean?"
Nangong May turned back and spread her hands. "See? Things like worldviews can't be explained..."
Hao Ren: "..."
Lily spent a long while trying