Chapter 134 Banquet - 6 Tang Bufan stood there, stunned, for a long time...
Tang Bufan stood there, stunned, unable to come to his senses for a long time. His mind seemed to have frozen, and then his heart began to race.
He knew that men in this era could have children, and after deciding to be with Lu Yi, he gradually accepted that he would become a "woman". However, he did not expect that the child would come so quickly.
"How could this be..." Tang Bufan sat on the bed, covering his mouth in disbelief. He showed no excitement, nor much joy, and his face even turned pale.
Seeing his expression, Anderson frowned slightly: "Didn't you use contraception?"
"We were very careful!" Tang Bufan was a little flustered, even though Lu Yi hadn't put anything inside him.
Just as Anderson was about to ask another question, the door to the room was suddenly pushed open, and Lu Yi hurriedly walked in.
"Teacher!" Lu Yi had obviously run back, and his expression relaxed when he saw Tang Bufan sitting on the bed.
"Weren't you in a meeting?" Anderson asked him curiously.
"Brother Kai told me that the teacher had woken up, so I left the meeting halfway through," Lu Yi explained. He met Tang Bufan's gaze and saw that Tang Bufan's expression was not quite right. He then realized that Dr. Jiang had already told Tang Bufan about the matter.
"...Could I speak with the teacher alone?" Lu Yi gestured for Anderson and Dr. Jiang to leave first.
"Of course." Dr. Jiang began packing his medicine kit.
Anderson walked slowly toward the door, glancing at Lu Yi with obvious displeasure as he passed by.
"Didn't I give you condoms?" Anderson questioned him.
"..." Lu Yi was a little embarrassed: "Too small, that's the size of humans in the past."
He and Tang Bufan even played with their fingers for a while.
Anderson paused for a moment, then clicked his tongue before stepping out.
After packing up his medical kit, Dr. Jiang left the room and closed the door for the two of them. The futuristic, curved room immediately became quiet.
Tang Bufan seemed to realize something at this moment and slowly covered his stomach with his hand. He calmed down a little, but his face was still not good.
Lu Yi remained silent for a moment, then walked over and sat down on the edge of the bed, reaching out to gently stroke Tang Bufan's slightly cold cheek.
"How far along am I?" Tang Bufan asked him softly, wanting to check the timeline.
“About half a month,” Lu Yi replied in a low voice. “I’ve been thinking about it, it’s probably from that night we stayed in the inner hall of Mount Tai about half a month ago…”
He paused, his golden-green beastly eyes fixed on Tang Bufan with a strange glint in them: "Teacher, do you remember lying on the bed with your buttocks sticking up afterward? That position... seems to help with conception..."
Tang Bufan froze, then remembered, and his face flushed red as he tried to explain himself: "My stomach hurt because of you... Besides, I'm a man, how would I know which positions help with conception... This... This is too strange."
He became increasingly incoherent as he spoke, so Lu Yi cupped his face in both hands and made him look at her: "Teacher, don't panic, I'm here."
Tang Bufan felt the warmth and gentle touch of Lu Yi's hand on his cold cheek and slowly steadied his breathing. He looked at Lu Yi, who was also wearing a formal military uniform today. His long, golden curly hair was tied back with a hairband, and he looked much more mature than before. But his face looked so young; he was clearly only eighteen years old.
I shouldn't panic; he's the older one.
Tang Bufan gazed at his lover and slowly took a few breaths.
Seeing that Tang Bufan's breathing gradually stabilized, Lu Yi lowered one hand and continued, "Dr. Jiang said that as long as no condom was used, there is a chance of pregnancy, and a small amount of my sperm will still get in during the process... I'm sorry."
Tang Bufan didn't blame him. He remembered that he was the one who took the initiative that night. He lowered his head, clutched his stomach, and thought for a moment before deciding to resolve the issue.
"I drank alcohol at the banquet and was also drugged afterwards." Tang Bufan frowned deeply, looking at Lu Yi with mixed feelings: "This child... can we still keep him?"
“…We need to do genetic testing,” Lu Yi said. “The rate of birth defects in beast-human fetuses is already high. Our genes, a mixture of human and beast, are too unstable, but compared to whether the fetus is healthy…”
Lu Yi looked at Tang Bufan seriously: "I'd like to know more, teacher, do you want this child?"
Tang Bufan fell into a brief silence, then his eyes hardened considerably: "I want it!"
Lu Yi's eyes brightened slightly. He had thought that Tang Bufan would hesitate for a long time, and he had also thought that Tang Bufan would ask him if he wanted it and then compromise for him, but he did not expect him to make such a decisive decision to stay.
Tang Bufan stared intently at the young orc in front of him and told him earnestly and with mixed feelings, "I have no family left, Lu Yi. Ever since my maternal grandparents passed away one after another, I have envied other people's families who can gather and reunite during various festivals... It is so lonely to spend the Spring Festival alone. I am so lonely that I will burst into tears when I hear the sound of firecrackers."
Tang Bufan had cried for several Spring Festivals. Although his teacher would kindly invite him to his home for New Year's Eve dinner, as an outsider, Tang Bufan would still feel awkward when facing his teacher's various relatives.
Especially when people ask, "Whose child is this?", he and his teacher have to carefully choose their words to explain.
Tang Bufan's eyes reddened slightly as he gave Lu Yi a gentle smile: "I want to start a family with you, Lu Yi."
Lu Yi was deeply moved. She tenderly stroked Tang Bufan's cheek and eyes with her fingers, and then gently responded to Tang Bufan with a smile: "Okay, let's have this child."
After making the decision, Tang Bufan calmed down. He slowly got out of bed to wash up, while Lu Yi opened the marriage registration webpage.
Today is the 21st. They should have completed their registration yesterday, but Yu Shi ruined it, and they missed the auspicious day of 520.
Lu Yi was a little angry. He really liked the number 520. It was the number that allowed him to unlock Tang Bufan's collar, but he missed his chance, and he didn't have the patience to wait another year.
Tang Bufan didn't care as much as he did. He was brushing his teeth in the bathroom, and strangely touching his stomach with his other hand, talking to Lu Yi through a wall.
"521 is also good, 521 also means I love you."
"Really?" Lu Yi's expression softened slightly. He then looked it up and found that 521 does indeed mean "I do" or "I love you" in Chinese culture, which made his face turn rosy.
So when Tang Bufan finished washing up, Lu Yi helped him change his clothes. Tang Bufan picked out a formal suit that matched Lu Yi's military uniform, and the two planned to take a wedding certificate photo.
"Shall we go outside to take the photos?" Lu Yi didn't want to hastily take their marriage certificate photos in this room. Although the room was very upscale and the view outside the floor-to-ceiling windows was expansive, showing the magnificent cityscape and city walls of Taicheng, Lu Yi wanted to go to a quieter place.
He didn't need any buildings, fountains, or flowers; he wanted mountains or the sea to surround him and Tang Bufan.
"Okay." Tang Bufan smiled and, of course, let him have his way. Lu Yi then took his hand and carefully and slowly led him outside.
Actually, Tang Bufan's health wasn't that bad, but pregnancy makes people unconsciously more cautious, including Tang Bufan himself. He even unconsciously reduced the range of motion when getting out of bed and changing clothes.
Although being pregnant as a man still left Tang Bufan with mixed feelings, after accepting it, he couldn't help but worry about the fetus's condition.
"When should we do the genetic testing?" Tang Bufan followed Lu Yi into the elevator. He didn't know where Lu Yi was taking him, but he didn't ask. He just followed along.
"Dr. Jiang said it should be ten weeks into the pregnancy." Lu Yi was also worried and couldn't help but sigh softly.
“That means we have to wait another two months…” Tang Bufan thought of Lu Yi’s older brother, Lu De, who he had heard had a genetic problem that caused his manic temperament. So he asked worriedly, “Is your brother’s illness… hereditary?”
“No, it’s a genetic mutation.” Lu Yi held Tang Bufan’s hand and said, “When my mother was pregnant with my brother, she argued with my father and refused to cooperate with prenatal checkups. When she was pregnant with me, she was probably scared and that’s when she finally agreed to the tests…”
Lu Yi paused after speaking, then lowered her eyes slightly: "When my brother was little, he would cry and hit me at the same time, saying that I was lucky."
Tang Bufan paused for a moment, watching the numbers on the elevator screen descend floor by floor, before asking with concern, "Was the beating serious?"
“It’s not serious. I’ll dodge and then pretend to be hit by him to make him feel better,” Lu Yi recalled. “If he hit me too hard, the servants would force him to be injected with sedatives. I don’t like him being injected with those drugs, and it makes me very sad to see him being dragged away.”
"..." Tang Bufan listened with a slight frown, finding it hard to imagine Lu Yi's upbringing.
Seeing Tang Bufan's serious expression, Lu Yi realized he had said too much and quickly comforted him, "But Anderson is here. He will keep me company, and he knows that I am actually 'playing' with my brother."
The thought of Anderson in Lu Yi's childhood eased Tang Bufan's mood a bit. He had heard that Anderson used to be charming and gentle, although he had now become a completely irresponsible person.
The elevator dinged as it arrived at the target floor. Lu Yi led Tang Bufan forward, and Tang Bufan, looking at his tall and broad back, suddenly spoke to him:
“Lu Yi, if there are any problems with the child, I will abort it.”
He knew that many Westerners believed that children were a gift from God, and would insist on giving birth even if prenatal checkups revealed problems, but Tang Bufan would not do that. He knew that would be a kind of torture for the child.
Lu Yi paused, his eyes darkening slightly, and turned back to apologize to Tang Bufan again: "I'm sorry."
He believed from the bottom of his heart that it was his mistake to make Tang Bufan have an abortion; he shouldn't have pushed Tang Bufan onto the bed without a condom.
But Tang Bufan didn't like him apologizing, so he pulled his hand out of his and slapped Lu Yi on the back.
Lu Yi, feeling wronged after being slapped, clung to Tang Bufan, even though his back didn't hurt.
The two arrived at a huge hangar, where dozens of small aircraft, fighter jets, and various armored vehicles were fixed, clearly indicating ample preparation for combat.
The Western Federation's mission in sending aircraft here this time was not simply to transport supplies to the Eastern Federation, but also to search for the Rebooters.
Tang Bufan remembered that Lu Yi had left the meeting midway through, so he asked worriedly, "Is it okay if you don't go back to the meeting?"
"It's alright, Bren and Sirius are still there, they'll report back to me later." Lu Yi wasn't too concerned, mainly because the humans in the East District underground city were still there, and the Rebooters wouldn't launch an attack to avoid accidentally harming humans.
But once the humans leave, they'll probably take action again. Thinking of this, Lu Yi felt a little more serious.
“I plan to send Teacher to the Western Federation, my home.” Lu Yi turned to look at Tang Bufan, who was slowly following him, his golden-green eyes filled with seriousness: “It’s too dangerous here now.”
Their western region is currently relatively peaceful, with only a small number of mutated poisonous people appearing on the border.
Tang Bufan was slightly taken aback. Looking at Lu Yi's solemn expression, he remained silent for a moment before sighing softly, "Let's take our wedding photos first, and we'll talk about the rest later."
He knew he was pregnant, but he didn't want to leave given the current situation. He also knew that Lu Yi would definitely come back after seeing him off, and they would be separated. He didn't want to wait anxiously for Lu Yi to return safely while heavily pregnant... Tang Bufan felt very uneasy about both the fact that his belly would gradually grow bigger and the fact that he would have to separate from Lu Yi.
Seeing that Tang Bufan's mood had become very low, Lu Yi stroked his head and leaned down to give him a comforting kiss.
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