"Are you joking?"
Xun Zhen furrowed his brows solemnly, the ridges of his brows rising slightly.
The ease that had been on his face moments ago was gone.
He had just learned an utterly absurd secret from several colleagues. Rather than believe it, he was more inclined to think that these ill-intentioned colleagues had joined forces to play a trick on him.
Among them, Kang Shi had the best relationship with him.
He shook his head. "Hanzhang, it's true."
Trying to make Xun Zhen see the sincerity in his eyes, he said, "Our lord is indeed, genuinely, a woman."
Xun Zhen kept his expression unchanged.
Kang Shi recalled how he had felt when he had suddenly learned the truth and could completely empathize with him. He consoled him, "Even so, it's not a big problem. Hasn't our lord done quite well? Her breadth of mind, bearing, methods, and schemes are all first-rate."
It was only her gender that had been unexpected.
What was there to be shocked about?
Looking on the bright side, once their lord grew to adulthood and understood worldly affairs, and had children of her own, they would not need to worry about the children's bloodline.
There was absolutely no chance of some muddled-bloodline drama.
The aftereffects of cultivating both the Literary Heart and Martial Gall?
That was even less of a problem.
Their lord's body was sturdier than several oxen, and her destiny was hard as iron. At the very least, that proved she was not short-lived.
There was no need to worry about her dying halfway through founding their enterprise.
Kang Shi's painstaking consolation was no match for a single cold snort from Qi Shan. Xun Zhen immediately turned his head and flung a pair of piercing looks at him.
Qi Shan remained calm and