“Of course! Why would I not be filial to my mother?” Shi Kun snapped in response.
The Great Zhou Dynasty embraced the value of filial piety. No matter how lofty a person’s standing was, they dared not to be pinned with the label of being unfilial.
“How can you claim that you’re filial without going through the hardship brought about by ten months of pregnancy and the pain of labor? You don’t know the suffering your mother has been through in order to have you!” Zu An sighed deeply.
“…” Chu Chuyan.
She had no idea why Zu An was saying such words at this moment, but again, he had always been an unpredictable person to her.
The other lackeys were dumbfounded too. Everything that had happened today was so ridiculous that it felt like a badly written novel. The young master and Zu An identified one another as their friends, then they fell out with one another, and now, they were suddenly talking about filial piety. What was wrong with this world?!
“…” Shi Kun.
He harrumphed coldly and said, “It’s out of consideration of our friendship that I patiently answered your ridiculous question. Now that I’ve fulfilled your curiosity, you can depart with peace of mind!”
“Since you view me as a friend, it’s only right for me to bequeath you with a gift. I’ll allow you to experience the joys and hardship of pregnancy so that you can better appreciate your own mother and become a more filial son!” A mysterious smile emerged on Zu An’s face.
“What nonsense is that?” Shi Kun and his lackeys stared at Zu An as if he was a fool. How could a man possibly get pregnant?
Only Qiao Xueying was alarmed at those words, and she shouted out loud, “Young master, be careful!”
“Be careful?” Shi Kun was perplexed. Victory was already in his grasp, and very soon, Chu Chuyan would be his. What was there to be careful about?
Ah? Why does my stomach suddenly feel bloated? Did I eat something bad? Argh, it’s getting fuller and fuller…
Shi Kun’s face scrunched a little. He thought that he was suffering from diarrhea. One must know that he valued his image as a refined gentleman greatly, so it would be extremely humiliating for him if he had to run to the toilet in the presence of so many people.
Hm? Why does it feel like my stomach is getting bigger and heavier?
He looked down at his own stomach, but there were clearly no changes at all.
It’s getting more and more swollen!
It was a weird disconnect between how he felt and what he saw, and it made him doubt his own senses. He turned to his lackeys and asked, “Is my stomach getting bigger?”
“Bigger? It isn’t.”
The lackeys shook their heads in confusion. At the same time, they began trading glances with one another.
“Isn’t there something very different with the young master today?”
“Yeah! He claimed that Zu An was his friend, and now, he’s asking if his stomach is getting bigger…”
“Say, it is possible for the young master to have gone mad from envy from seeing Zu An and young miss Chu getting so intimate with one another?”
“That’s very possible.”
…
Shi Kun couldn’t help but reach out to fondle his stomach, but no matter how he touched it, the bizarre sensations he was feeling just wouldn’t go away.
Soon, a mystifying pain assaulted him, causing his handsome face to scrunch together. It was an incredibly weird pain, coming from his nether region. He had never felt anything like this before. It felt like his soul was screaming from within.
He was, after all, a reputed prodigy, a young master from a prominent clan. He forced himself to swallow down the pain and stopped himself from screaming out loud. He couldn’t bring himself to shriek before his lackeys and the woman he loved.
Fortunately, the pain lasted for around ten seconds before finally fading off, as if it had never been there.
“What’s going on?” Shi Kun frowned. He realized that the wind blades he had been controlling were showing signs of dissipating, so he quickly focused his attention on them once more.
But around thirty seconds later, that familiar yet foreign pain assaulted him once more.
“Ah?”
The sudden assault of excruciating pain caused Shi Kun’s wind blades to nearly scatter on the spot. W-why is it coming again?! He tried his best to endure it, and once again, the pain vanished after a few seconds.
“Have I been cultivating too hard that my cultivation is going a little berserk?” Shi Kun felt that he should get Elder Shi Lezhi to take a close look at his current condition.
He quickly regathered his focus to control the wind blades once more, but he couldn’t shake off the worry that the excruciating pain would strike him once more.
Even though he was already mentally prepared for it, when the unbearable pain struck again around twenty seconds later, he still nearly caved in on the spot.
Shit! Stop it!
Worst of all, he realized that the interval between each assault of pain was growing shorter, and the pain was getting more and more intense.
“What’s he doing?” Chu Chuyan stared at the livid-faced Shi Kun in confusion.
She could sense that the wind blades in the surroundings were suddenly alternating between strong and weak. Right now, it even looked like they were going to dissipate. This lessened the pressure on her greatly.
“He might be reflecting on his evildoings now,” sneered Zu An.
That fellow would have never imagined that the pain he’s suffering is known as labor pain. Well, no man in this world would have that experience to share with him, and no woman would talk about this before a man in this fairly conservative era.
Given how desperate the situation was becoming, he had no choice but to use ‘Knock-You-Up Eyes’ here. Its effects were fairly splendid, but it was a pity that he only had one use of it left after this.
Zu An wanted to rush forward to get rid of Shi Kun once and for all, but seeing that Qiao Xueying and the others had already run over to cover him, he had no choice but to drop that thought. With his current strength, he couldn’t hope to overpower them.
Zu An pondered for a moment before taking out ‘Faith in Brother Spring’ and handing it over to Chu Chuyan. “Honey, drink this.”
“What’s that?” Wary about the bottle of suspicious liquid, Chu Chuyan was a little hesitant to drink what Zu An was offering her.
“This is recovery medicine. Don’t worry, it has no poison and side effects, and it’ll send you back to full health right away!”
Zu An was a little reluctant to bring it out and this was the only bottle he had left, so it was basically taking away his only bonus life left.
However, he knew that the crux of whether they could survive this ordeal lay with Chu Chuyan. He was clearly insufficient to deal with a fifth rank cultivator at the moment, not to mention that there was a bunch of fourth rank and third rank cultivators around too.
As long as Chu Chuyan could recover back to full power, she should be able to deal with the threat right before them. Besides, she was his wife too, so it was not like he was giving such a precious treasure away to an outsider.