"Wait, what the hell is this belly? I'm pregnant?"
Xie Tianxia was dumbfounded.
Nobody had told her that an old virgin could get pregnant just lying at home, without so much as a man beside her.
She hadn't even dreamed of the sun entering her, as the unofficial histories described. She had merely met Lianshan Xin in a dream, and then she was pregnant. "A-Xin's? But he didn't do anything to me."
"We didn't even hold hands, and I can get pregnant?"
"Even in the Primordial Era, things like this didn't happen, did they?"
Xie Tianxia was well-informed and widely experienced, but at this moment, she was still utterly bewildered.
"Can someone tell me what exactly happened?"
Xie Tianxia didn't know, but she instinctively tugged on her karmic connection to Lianshan Xin, choosing to meet him again in a dream.
The main reason she hadn't chosen Qi Shiyun, with whom she was closer, was that Qi Shiyun didn't know One Dream, Three Thousand Worlds.
Besides, when it came to pregnancy, surely asking a man was more reliable than asking a woman... right?
Even Xie Tianxia was beginning to doubt her own judgment.
When Lianshan Xin saw Xie Tianxia's bulging belly, he couldn't keep his composure either.
"Vein Master, whose child are you carrying?"
Xie Tianxia said, "...I'd like to know too."
"Do you have any close male confidants?" Lianshan Xin asked.
Xie Tianxia shook her head and answered honestly, "The men I'm closest to are either the brothers from the Nine Heavens or Emperor Yongchang, but we're purely comrades-in-arms."
That was what Lianshan Xin thought too.
Otherwise, given Emperor Yongchang's abilities, Xie Tianxia wouldn't still be an old maiden.
"Could this be Maitreya?"
Xie Tianxia was Xie Tianxia, after all. Once she had calmed down a little, she gradually guessed