Chu Ge rushed anxiously to the clinic, only to find a result that was both a relief and a surprise.
Because she really had only gotten her period.
Not only was she not sick, it did not even count as menstrual cramps. She simply had not experienced it in so long that its sudden return felt uncomfortable.
It was probably a little worse than what most people experienced, judging by how pale Qiu Wuji had gone.
A flood ten thousand years in the making?
Chu Ge nearly scratched his head raw. How did this make any sense?
Counting from the first time Qiu Wuji had crossed over, which had been in early June, to now, in mid-September, nearly three and a half months had passed without a single period. He had assumed she no longer had them, and she had even searched for the reason herself.
They had both mentally accepted that "this was an old lady of menopausal age"...
And now it had suddenly come, out of nowhere?
Surely it could not be because they had talked about having children today, and she had thought of something, focused on something, and then it had come?
She had thought of Aunt Flo, so Aunt Flo had come to visit? Was this "speak of the devil," or "I think, therefore I am"?
Wasn't that a little too mystical?
They stared at each other for quite a while before Chu Ge left Qiu Wuji at the clinic for some simple hot compresses and dashed off to the supermarket.
He had once imagined how embarrassing it would be to buy sanitary pads for her when she got her period. Surely he would be red-faced and stammering under the cashier's strange gaze... But now that the time had actually come, after they had kissed