Guanjiangkou
Yang Chan leaned against the cushioned couch, shaking her head and sighing over and over.
Whether they were immortal maidens above the Nine Heavens or ordinary women in the mortal streets, once they became pregnant, their wishes were much the same: to stay peacefully beside their beloved and bask in his tender care.
Unfortunately, her second brother kept far too close a watch on her.
Ever since learning about the children in her womb, Yang Jian had laid down an ironclad rule. For an unmarried woman to become pregnant in secret was already forbidden!
They absolutely could not compound one mistake with another, nor would he allow Chen Wei to act recklessly.
Naturally, Yang Chan refused to accept this. Whenever he scolded her, she argued right back to his face: if her second brother had not put every possible obstacle in their way, she and Qingquan would long since have filled Tongming Hall with wedding feasts, with all the gods and Buddhas in heaven as their witnesses. How else would things have dragged on until now, leaving their relationship without a proper name or standing?
But.
Then again, Yang Jian was her own brother, after all. She could neither beat him in a fight nor drive him away with insults, so she could only obediently do as he said.
"Oh, my children." Yang Chan gently stroked her slightly swollen belly, her voice tender. "Your uncle simply has that awful temper. He'd suffer anything to save face. Once you're born, you mustn't hold it against him."
As though they understood their mother's call,
something suddenly stirred in her belly, and two halos of light flickered.
Within them, she could faintly make out two spiritual pearls spinning merrily, seemingly responding to her words.
When she first discovered the two spiritual pearls,