In her third month living in Blue Silver Castle, Shui Hanyi began to feel that something was off.
Her stomach churned violently when she woke in the morning, and even two days of lotus leaf porridge had failed to settle it.
Sitting across the dining table, Louise watched her frown with a hand pressed to her temple. She set down her chopsticks, held her teacup, and studied her for a while before suddenly smiling. "Hanyi, these symptoms... could you be pregnant?"
Shui Hanyi froze. She looked down at her lower abdomen, then back up at Louise, opening her mouth without managing a word.
Xiao Li poked her head out of the kitchen, her cat ears tilting forward. "I'll go get our husband."
When Lan Tian arrived, Shui Hanyi was sitting by the window in a daze.
He walked over and crouched before her. Blue Silver God Power reached from his palm into her meridians, sensing them for a moment. That faint yet steady pulse of life could not have been clearer.
He withdrew his hand and looked up at her. Shui Hanyi was looking at him too, an indefinable emotion in her ice-blue eyes.
"You're pregnant," Lan Tian said.
Shui Hanyi's eyes curved into a smile before she lowered her lashes and gently pressed a hand to her lower abdomen, her fingertips trembling slightly.
She said nothing, simply sitting quietly for a while. Then she turned toward the medicine field outside the window, green in the morning light, and let out a long breath.
The sense of urgency that had weighed on her heart since her first day in Blue Sky City completely dispersed in that moment.
"Congratulations, Sister Hanyi!" Xiao Li leaned halfway through the doorway, her cat ears bobbing. "When I was pregnant with Lan Li'er, I threw