Click~
The door closed. Fan Qinghe lit a candle, set it on the table, then went over to sit by the bed. She placed a small pillow on her lap and held Xue Baijin's wrist, relying on the Bright Deity Diagram to carefully sense the almost imperceptible pulse of early pregnancy.
Hua Qingzhi sat on the other side and said sourly,
"Carrying on the family line is a wonderful thing. Why do you look so lost? If it were me... sigh, the parched die of drought while the flooded drown. That really is no joke. Try to take it in stride. What if you upset the baby..."
Xue Baijin sat upright between them, her thoughts a tangled mess. She could no longer maintain her composure, and her eyes were full of panic. Seeing Fan Qinghe acting like a female physician tending to her pregnancy, she thought for a moment and explained,
"There's nothing between Ye Jingtang and me. He was injured, and I only did that to help him heal and practice. Now... this is purely an accident..."
Nothing between them?
At those words, Fan Qinghe secretly shook her head. Xue Baijin and Ning'er really did deserve to be called a married couple. Their temperaments were much the same, each more stubbornly defiant than the other. She was already pregnant and still dared claim there was nothing between them.
But sensing that Xue Baijin was emotionally unsettled, Fan Qinghe did not contradict her. She merely soothed her gently.
"Whatever led to this, the pregnancy is a fact now. You can say there's nothing between you and Ye Jingtang, but surely you can't say the child has nothing to do with him either? This is something women all have to go through. Listen to me: relax, don't overthink it, and just