It took quite some time for Mo Qiang to calm the mer down. By the time Yi Yazhu quietened down, an hour had passed. Mo Qiang handed the mer another tissue and questioned, "Are you feeling alright now?"
Yi Yazhu sniffed and nodded. He was really embarrassed! Just because he was feeling unfair, he cried as if the world was coming to an end and only his family was left behind. He used the tissue to wipe his tears and said to Mo Qiang, "I don't know why I cried like that."
He never cried no matter what kind of situation he was in, no matter how much pain he was in; he had never shed a single tear. It seemed like after living with Mo Qiang, he had truly let himself go. He actually dared to cry like a baby in front of Mo Qiang.
"It must be the hormones." Mo Qiang didn't point out the obvious and Yi Yazhu hummed in response. He said to her, "Yes, it is your fault that you made me upset."
"Yes, Yes," Mo Qiang had long learnt that there was no point in fighting with a pregnant mer. They were even more prissy and eager to cry than a woman when they were carrying a child. Thus, she did not say a single word against Yi Yazhu. Instead, she looked at the mer and said to him, "Do you want some oranges?"
Yi Yazhu nodded and let Mo Qiang peel some oranges for him. It was only after he had eaten two of them that he parted his lips and asked, "Are you upset because I got pregnant?"
He knew that if he failed to get pregnant, then Mo Qiang could have dealt with this marriage of theirs. She might have to spend a night at the police station but it was still better than staying married to him. After all, he was a mer with a sensitive identity.
"I am not."
"You are," Yi Yazhu looked at Mo Qiang and shook his head in denial. "If you were happy, then you wouldn't have been so calm." he had seen many women who would jump and hoot when they found out that their husbands were pregnant at the hospital. Mo Qiang did neither of those things.
Mo Qiang was speechless when she heard his complaints. She really had no idea what to say when she got excited the first time she was scolded for scaring the child and her husband. This time she stayed calm; she was scolded for being too calm.
Really, sometimes she didn't know what to do!
She curled her lips upwards and explained, "It is not that I didn't feel excited; the last time when my husband was pregnant, I was told to handle such things calmly because it can scare the child. I never intended to hurt you."
"Are you sure?"
"I am sure," Mo Qiang replied with a nod.
Only then did Yi Yazhu smile and say to her, "I thought you were worried that I would give birth to a daughter and son before your husbands."
"There is no such thing," Mo Qiang replied with a slight curl of her lips. "I don't care about the gender of my children. Whether they are boys, girls, or mer if they are not skilled enough, then they will not get anything from me."
As someone who was kicked out of her house just because she was born as a girl, Mo Qiang would never do the same discrimination against her children. Whether they were born from her official husbands or her concubines, even if they were mers, they would be given equal status and opportunities. If they performed well, they would get an opportunity to share the wealth that she had accumulated.
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