Chapter Seventy-Six
"Mom! Mom! I love you!"
The little character in the cartoon seemed to be glitching, repeating the same sentence over and over.
Ye Nanxun paused with his chopsticks in his bowl. He glanced at the television, then at the Mushroom Egg that had rolled to his hand and was swaying like a roly-poly, begging to be petted.
"Are you controlling the television?" Ye Nanxun asked.
The cartoon flickered, and the little cartoon baby inside happily said, "Yes! Mom! Mom, I love you!"
"That's amazing..." Ye Nanxun set down his chopsticks and stroked the Mushroom Egg's shell. Then he corrected it, "But I'm not Mom. You... you can call me Dad."
He had never dated, never kissed anyone, and never gotten married.
At nineteen, an unmarried omega had suddenly acquired a "child."
The Mushroom Egg had been accidentally born from the fusion of pheromones. Beneath its sturdy, smooth shell was a new life, not yet hatched but already possessing its own consciousness and thoughts.
Half the life inside this egg belonged to his pheromones.
In a sense, it counted as his child, didn't it?
The self-aware Mushroom Egg rolled over and rubbed against Ye Nanxun's little finger.
The television gave off a crackling signal noise. The cartoon child sat on the floor and happily clapped its hands. "Dad! I love Dad!"
The corners of Ye Nanxun's pursed lips lifted slightly. Unable to resist, he petted the Mushroom Egg again.
After hesitating for a moment, he asked, "Did you... call him Dad too?"
Once the Mushroom Egg hatched, it wouldn't pop out and call him and Yan Beiyou Dad, would it?
"Dad, like Dad... Dad smells nice..."
Whether the Mushroom Egg did not understand Ye Nanxun's words or was simply too young to express itself properly, it merely controlled the