Part 2
Reading the last two words made it very easy to think crooked thoughts.
Liu Xichao hooked his arm around Tang Yue and whispered, “Is the Captain incapable?”
Tang Yue: “Of course not!”
He replied quickly. Scenes of Jiang Shulu’s reactions over the past few days floated through his mind. There didn’t seem to be any major issues.
It was just that he wouldn’t let Tang Yue be on top, and every time he wouldn’t give him a quick release, eventually making Tang Yue feel alive and dead at the same time, nearly fainting.
He was just a bit bad.
There was absolutely no problem in that department.
Even an alien with a robust constitution would have a sore waist the next day, yet couldn’t voice a complaint since Tang Yue was the one who bragged about it.
He thought: The Captain is just following my rhythm.
Oh, at first he followed my rhythm, but later he went completely off the rails.
Liu Xichao: “Stop. Save those thoughts for when you get home. I’m asking you a question.”
Tang Yue looked at the hashtag; there was no evidence.
It was just a passerby posting on Weibo saying they accompanied their husband to the hospital and bumped into Jiang Shulu going to the 32nd floor—which turned out to be the Andrology department.
Marketing accounts took screenshots and added tags. Below, a flock of fans were cursing the marketing accounts for having no conscience.
Even the original poster was interrogated by netizens watching the drama, asking which hospital it was.
A search revealed it was a private hospital with exorbitantly expensive services. The original poster was a wealthy woman too.
Tang Yue thought of the materials Jiang Shulu had stayed up all night reading before the final stop of the variety show.
His determination not to want more children was very firm. But as a person from Planet 9787, Tang Yue knew Earth’s technology was just okay.
Even back when Tang Yue was seventeen in the landfill on Planet 9787, he hadn’t known much about male pregnancy on this planet, but he had seen some online propaganda.
How to use contraception, how to increase pregnancy rates, etc.
He had scrolled past it, but after transmigrating, he recalled that even the contraceptive pills he secretly bought back then couldn’t stop the child. This time, he really wanted another one, but Jiang Shulu still disagreed.
They hadn’t brought up the topic since, and their intimacy continued as usual.
He just hadn’t expected Jiang Shulu to be so resolute.
Tang Yue thought: So what.
Liu Xichao saw Tang Yue stay silent for a long time and asked cautiously, “Jiang Shulu didn’t go for that, did he?”
A bunch of people online were mean-spiritedly guessing Jiang Shulu was impotent, but having spent so many days on the variety show, how could Liu Xichao not see the truth?
Combined with Tang Mian’s existence, he figured it out.
Tang Yue sighed. “Probably.”
Liu Xichao got a little angry. “Couldn’t he discuss this with you?”
He glanced at Tang Mian, who was sitting aside playing a parkour game, and lowered his voice. “Xiao Yue, you don’t actually want a second child, do you?”
Tang Yue nodded.
Liu Xichao’s scalp tingled. Combined with the explosive Sheng Cangyun trending topic today, he started suspecting this was Jiang Shulu paving the way.
All to rationalize the existence of Tang Yue and Tang Mian.
Tang Yue also noticed the trending topic that exploded today. Jiang Shulu had told him about Sheng Cangyun in advance, so he wasn’t surprised. He just browsed the netizens’ comments in the tag.
— Truly eye-opening! Men having children, more more more! In the future, having children will be a man’s job!
— Sheng Cangyun actually!! Which man got my male god!! I’m going to cry. How can this be? I thought he was secretly married to a woman overseas.
— That child is so beautiful. The other father must be good-looking too. I’ve run through every man who has a good relationship with Sheng Cangyun in my head.
— But isn’t Sheng Cangyun raising the child alone? Which scumbag! I’m going to spray him to death!
— You guys are accepting this so fast. I’m getting goosebumps.
— Maybe because recent news and online info have been pushing this quickly. Once you accept the setting…
— Wait!! Don’t you feel these comments are deja vu? If there are sisters who watched the Away group variety show.
— Don’t tell me Tang Yue gave birth to his child himself too!
— Please combine this with #JiangShulu AndrologyClinic# and read them together. This is too much of a hammer (proof). Why would Jiang Shulu go to Andrology if he’s fine? Is it impotence or a vasectomy?
For a moment, the internet was as lively as the year Sheng Cangyun was nominated for Best Actor at sixteen, and as chaotic as when Away disbanded.
Many marketing accounts fanned the flames, and netizens listed recent news about male pregnancy, advocating that urging men to give birth would be faster, and so on.
The Number One Paparazzi’s reposts and comments skyrocketed. Some celebrities even forgot to switch accounts before reposting with a “Holy sh*t.”
On the real-time trending list, many people complained that this star was too high-profile. The whole nation was eating the melon (following the gossip). Coming home at noon, they found their parents weren’t even cooking, just watching the news.
Please, that’s Sheng Cangyun!
Liu Xichao felt suffocated just looking at it. He leaned against Tang Yue and said somewhat despairingly, “I understand how those fans feel when their house collapses (their idol has a scandal).”
Tang Yue: “Is your favorite actor Teacher Sheng?”
Liu Xichao: “I understand why your fans were crying and screaming now.”
Tang Yue: “But the child is something we wanted ourselves. No one forced me. I chose it, so I won’t regret it.”
While the two leaned together, Tang Mian quietly took a photo and sent it to Jiang Shulu.
【Tang Mian: Baba, Xiao Yue seems a little angry.】
Jiang Shulu had just come out of the hospital. He got into the car, and his brother-in-law Jiang Xiujun asked, “When is the surgery?”
He pointed at the phone. “You were photographed.”
Jiang Shulu: “I had someone take it.”
Jiang Xiujun: “There seems to be someone following you too.”
Jiang Shulu wasn’t surprised at all. He put the paper report into a folder and clicked open Tang Mian’s message.
【Jiang Shulu: I will apologize to him.】
【Tang Mian: Is it because Baba wants another child?】
The little kid understood everything, yet maintained an appropriate distance from his parents. Anyone who knew them felt this child had an incredible sense of propriety.
He wasn’t the type of little adult who spoke with perfect cadence; Tang Mian hovered in a moderate range.
Fifty percent childishness, fifty percent sensibility. It always made Tang Yue unsure how to express his love, so he just kissed and hugged him every day to let the child feel he was deeply loved.
Tang Yue indeed achieved caring for Tang Mian perfectly.
A fifteen-day travel variety show was enough for the audience to see his status in the family and the family’s attitude from the child’s state.
The parent-child relationship between Tang Yue and Tang Mian lacked the authority of a worldly father-son dynamic; sometimes it was even reversed.
Closer than friends. Many people left comments on threads saying they envied that atmosphere.
Most people’s upbringing severely lacked such direct love. Parents were stingy with saying “I love you,” and children didn’t know how to express it either.
Eating a meal together counted as company, yet saying a few heartfelt words felt shameful.
After extreme reserve and introversion, certain flaws of growing up followed like a shadow, impossible to completely untie.
If Tang Yue needed to apologize, he apologized. If he liked something, he said it. If rejected by Tang Mian, he would ask why.
The father and son both liked to get to the bottom of things; in reality, there were no secrets.
Even though Jiang Shulu never asked Tang Mian if he knew where Tang Yue came from, he understood when he occasionally heard the two whispering in a language he couldn’t understand.
Tang Mian knew everything.
【Jiang Shulu: Yes.】
【Tang Mian: I want to be a big brother too (wink emoji)】
【Jiang Shulu: It will be very hard work.】
【Tang Mian: Do you not have money to raise it? I can make money too.】
This made Jiang Shulu laugh out loud. Having visited the place Tang Yue and Tang Mian lived before, Jiang Shulu could see that Tang Yue hadn’t raised the child in poverty.
Tang Mian’s spiritual world was extremely rich. Those conditions gave him a wild growth that other children couldn’t get from winter and summer camps, shaping him into the quirky spirit he was now.
Jiang Xiujun followed the navigation to Chengkong Media. Liang Yi sent a message asking what he was doing.
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