He could give birth...
He could...
He...
Those few simple words echoed endlessly through the young Yun Da's mind.
His usually aloof, haughty eyes had somehow turned clear and innocent. He stared blankly at Yun Ce's face for a long while, then pointed at him and stammered, "...So, the teacher's wife isn't the teacher's wife, but the Grandteacher? And my teacher just has a more feminine-looking face?"
Bei Jiu burst out laughing. She tapped Yun Da on the head to bring him back to his senses. "Who told you your teacher had a feminine-looking face? You've been to the bathhouse with your teacher before, haven't you? You know whether he's any different from you. What are you thinking?"
Yun Da: "...Oh, right."
He'd forgotten about that.
Yun Ce had taken Yun Da as his disciple when he was six. They were called master and disciple, but the latter was more like his adoptive father; it wouldn't have been wrong to say he treated him like his own son. Back when Yun Da couldn't yet manage his own hygiene, Yun Ce had handled all sorts of chores for him, including taking him to the men's changing room whenever they went to the swimming pool or bathhouse. He'd seen Yun Ce completely naked.
He was, without a doubt, a genuine man.
"...They look the same on the surface, and he's got everything he's supposed to... Could he also have what he's not supposed to? He usually hides it so well..."
Before Yun Da could finish muttering, Yun Ce smacked him on the head.
He clutched it and yelped.
Yun Ce: "What kind of indecent stuff have you been learning?"
Yun Da said quietly, "Just some unusual..."
One of the main characters having two genders and all that was quite mainstream these days.