Chapter 199: Expectation, Fulfilled
It couldn’t be blamed on Su Ran for thinking this way; when she first arrived in this world, she was 23 years old.
Up to now, she has lived on this continent for four years. Calculating by this continent’s one year equaling two years on Earth, it has now been eight years since she first arrived on this continent.
In other words, she should now be 31 years old!
Although perhaps because she has lived on this continent for so long, her body has been influenced by the environment of this continent, her body still appears very young.
Her skin is also very elastic, even very smooth, but no one knows how the inside of her body has truly changed.
Of course, Su Ran has actually suspected that her recent unstable emotions might mean she is pregnant.
But thinking that when she first noticed her emotions worsening recently, she still had menstruation, this possibility was immediately denied by her.
Even if her body is changing, it couldn’t be having menstruation while being pregnant at the same time, right?
Unable to figure it out, Su Ran stopped dwelling on this matter.
She wasn’t too worried about whether her body had other problems, because over these years, her physical condition has always been very good, even the number of times she had a fever or caught a cold could be counted on one hand.
Moreover, she pays extra attention to her physical health, and whenever she feels unwell, she always immediately puts down her work and forces herself to rest.
If even with such careful attention, she still got some incurable terminal illness, then it would probably really just be her bad fate, and there’s no way around it!
“Ran Ran, in a bad mood recently, woo?”
Hui picked her up and gently placed her to sit on the edge of the heated brick bed, lowering his head to look at her.
Su Ran looked up and met his gaze; looking at those light green eyes, she suddenly recalled the scene when Hui had just brought her back from the seaside mountain, and the two of them were alone together in the bird’s nest for the first time.
So much time has passed, but the gentleness in Hui’s eyes hasn’t changed, only those sincere emotions have become even more intense and heavy.
Heavy enough to make Su Ran start feeling faintly anxious.
She always thinks about her body on this continent, which doesn’t seem to have aged much with the passage of time,
in a few more years, when her age calculated by Earth years reaches 35, 36, or even 40, whether she can still have the ability to have a child with Hui.
Perhaps starting from watching Xiao Ju’s baby be born, watching Yao Yao’s baby start babbling, this anxiety has been buried deep in her heart.
“Hui, do you want a baby?”
Su Ran looked up at Hui, staring at him without blinking, but actually she herself wasn’t sure what answer she wanted!
“Baby?”
Hui was stunned by her question, then seemed to think of something, his eyebrows curving into a smile, green eyes rippling as he looked at Su Ran: “I do, woo~ Hui likes babies, likes Ran Ran and Hui’s baby the most, woo~”
As he spoke, he lowered his head to kiss Su Ran’s forehead, then squatted down, his big hand gently touching Su Ran’s belly, as if there was already a treasure inside, handling it with utmost care.
Seeing Hui’s actions, Su Ran’s nose stung.
Although she had always known Hui’s expectation for this matter, hearing it directly from Hui’s mouth made that sadness and sense of powerlessness multiply several times.
Because up to now, Su Ran is no longer certain whether she and Hui can cross racial boundaries and the lines between different worlds, breaking through the obstacles.
What Hui once said, the natural rules on the Beastman Continent where beastmen of different beast forms give birth to the next generation of little beastmen, whether they apply to her as an outsider.
“Then, if, later…”
Su Ran cupped Hui’s face, making him meet her gaze.
Pausing for a moment, she continued: “Hui, but if later on, we never have a baby, what then?”
“Woo?”
“Why?”
Hui twitched his ears, frowning, his green eyes looking at Su Ran, revealing a hint of tension.
“Because I’m different from Hui, I’m not a beastman, so maybe Hui and I will never have a little baby.”
As Su Ran spoke, she unconsciously let thick disappointment seep into her voice.
Hui squatted in front of her, looking up at her, his big tail behind him slightly raised, swaying in mid-air away from the ground.
This was a new habit he developed at Su Ran’s request:
When squatting on the ground, don’t let the tail sweep back and forth on the ground, or it would get dust on the tail and dirty the animal hide blanket on the heated brick bed.
After hearing Su Ran’s words, Hui was silent for two seconds, seemingly pondering the deeper meaning in her words.
Then, he raised his eyebrows, the confusion in his eyes even stronger; he tilted his head looking at Su Ran and said: “There won’t be no little baby forever, woo~”
His hand still resting on Su Ran’s belly: “The baby is already in the belly, woo~”
Then he frowned, his face showing a hint of unconvinced expression.
“But only one baby, not as good as Yao Yao and Qing Yu!”
Su Ran: “？!”
Hui’s words were like a bolt from the blue to Su Ran!
Realizing the meaning in Hui’s words, she almost jumped straight up from the heated brick bed!
“Hui, you mean, I’m pregnant… there’s a little baby in my belly?”
She asked Hui in shock!
And the shocked expression on her face and the surprised tone in her voice also deepened the doubt on Hui’s face: “Yes, woo~ little baby, woo~ half a month, woo~”
Half a month?
Already half a month?!
Su Ran still couldn’t quite process it, but her brain was automatically calculating the time.
Half a month was exactly during the time of her bad mood, right after that menstruation ended a few days ago…
Because before that, her mood had been bad for a while, so she had overlooked those few times…
“So…”
After the shock, Su Ran also turned puzzled: “So you knew I had a baby a long time ago?”
She asked Hui, and Hui nodded: “Yes, woo~ six… seven or eight days ago, smelled it, woo~”
Su Ran: “……Then why didn’t you tell me?”
However, unexpectedly, with this question, Hui’s expression became even stranger: “Woo? Ran Ran didn’t know about the baby? Can’t Ran Ran smell it?”
Su Ran: “…”
She could smell a ghost…
She finally understood why Hui had been extra caring and cautious toward her recently.
Before, although she appreciated it, she still found it a bit strange.
She always felt that Hui’s reaction of not letting her do anything when he saw her in a bad mood, and dragging her back when she did some work, was a bit over the top.
Now it seems it wasn’t Hui overreacting; it was that the two of them had a deviation in their thinking!
After all, Hui never imagined that the companion he picked up not only had such a poor sense of smell that she couldn’t detect the scents of other beastmen and animals.
He didn’t expect that even the special scent emitted from her body when pregnant, she herself couldn’t smell!
Thinking of this, Su Ran couldn’t help but burst out laughing with a “puchi”.
Laughing at Hui’s silliness, and also at her own carelessness.
But more than that, laughing that the expectation she and Hui had held all along had come true!
From now on, there should be silhouettes of their family in the woods and playing in the pool!
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There will be an extra chapter tomorrow~
