The days that followed were unbearably dull for Qian Xunyi.
Either he played dragon rider in the secret chamber his elder brother Qian Xunji had built, or he dumped Spirit Hall's mountains of tedious administrative work entirely onto Bibi Dong's delicate shoulders.
Later, Jialing became pregnant, while Leng Yue successfully laid a dragon egg.
When Qian Xunyi saw that his child was neither a cute baby boy nor a cute baby girl, but an egg, his expression became complicated, though he also felt relieved.
What was complicated was that the path three generations of the Tang Family had walked had been completed by him in a single generation.
What relieved him was that he had not told Qian Daoliu about Leng Yue's pregnancy. Otherwise, that old stubborn man would probably have gone from delighted surprise to pure fright.
"My true form is the Ice Dragon King. Is it strange for a dragon to lay an egg?" Leng Yue, transformed into an Ice Dragon a hundred times smaller than normal and lying atop the egg to incubate it, looked at Qian Xunyi and spoke seriously.
"It isn't strange. I'm just thinking about how to explain this to the old man." Qian Xunyi rubbed his temples. "Whether it was born from an egg or a womb, it's still my child, Qian Xunyi's child."
"Then let Father know after our child is born," Leng Yue said.
Qian Xunyi nodded.
"Will our child be a Soul Beast or a human?" It was Leng Yue's first time bearing offspring with a human, so she had no experience either.
"It'll definitely be human. Even Lan Xuanyu was born human." Qian Xunyi was utterly certain.
"Who is Lan Xuanyu?" Leng Yue asked.
Qian Xunyi froze slightly. Right, Lan Xuanyu did not exist here.
"He's the descendant of