For Qiu Wuji, whose current mindset was that she could let loose on an alternate account, getting pregnant before marriage was not much of a leap now that she was already willing to do that with him before marriage.
Put plainly, in her mind, their current relationship was hardly different from being married. Getting a marriage certificate, on the other hand, was something she had little conception of or attachment to.
Modern men and women might often do that simply out of desire, but for Qiu Wuji, its greatest significance had always been having children...
She was willing, and even looked forward to it somewhat.
But willingness aside, when it came to actually having one now, neither of them could help hesitating.
There was just too much going on...
"Do you..." Qiu Wuji's cheeks were flushed as she asked softly, with a little hesitation, "want a child?"
"Mom's been pushing me... Of course, that's not the fundamental reason." Chu Ge said honestly, "Mostly, I think you like children quite a bit yourself. Every time you see a child, you smile like a kindly old grandmother."
Qiu Wuji's gaze fell on the little girl selling flowers nearby. Looking at the girl's smiling little face, she could not help smiling herself. Then, realizing this reaction was very wrong, she gave a huff and put on a stern face again.
It really was very wrong.
As the Cloudreach Sect's "principal," she often saw very young disciples admitted to the sect, and there were also cultivation partners within the sect raising second-generation cultivators. She had never been so quick to smile fondly at children before. She did not even know when it had started...
Xuanji had the most experience with this. In the past, whenever she saw the Sect Leader, the woman wore a