Song Shuhang froze involuntarily: (⊙?⊙)
His reaction was a textbook display of a guilty conscience-after all, a new life had just appeared in his belly, and Mom Song had brought the subject up out of nowhere, catching him completely off guard.
So, out of sheer reflex, Song Shuhang froze for a moment.
If he hadn't been fully aware of how bizarre his own pregnancy was, and known that his mother's imagination couldn't possibly stretch that far, he might almost have thought they shared a telepathic connection!
"Nothing of the sort. Mom, you're overthinking it," Song Shuhang said in a low voice once he recovered.
Soft Feather and Su Clan's Sixteen were both sitting in the living room. They were cultivators with exceptionally sharp hearing. Every word Mom Song whispered after pulling him aside reached their ears.
Mom Song sighed and looked at her son with a complicated expression... If you haven't gotten someone pregnant, why did you look so guilty just now?
Song Shuhang's moment of stunned silence had been far too obvious. Even without the Face-Reading Technique, Mom Song could tell something was off.
"Come on, stop hiding it. Was it that long-legged Soft Feather? Or Su Clan's Sixteen, whom you brought home this time?" Mom Song asked, lowering her voice again.
She and Dad Song were relatively conservative about such things. They didn't oppose their son dating, but they hoped he wouldn't get anyone pregnant before marriage. Ideally, he would follow their example, staying faithfully together all the way from dating to marriage.
But if... their son had already accidentally gotten someone pregnant, she could only hope they would find a solution acceptable to both of them and both sets of parents, rather than shirk responsibility. If the girl's parents flew into a rage, she hoped they could