Chapter 46: My Wife Likes Me and Wants to Date Me…
Jian Tang felt thoroughly unwell.
It wasn’t that he disliked babies; in the Book of Destiny, the giant monster and the cute wife had babies too. But the cute wife in the book was a human female, so carrying a baby was perfectly normal. His wife, however, was a human male!
How on earth was he supposed to explain to his wife that he had knocked him up?!
At this moment, Jian Tang strongly empathized with that monster poster on the forum. He was panicking big time. He also wanted to know what to do in this situation, ahhh! It was over, it was over, it was truly over!!!
Panic-stricken, Jian Tang paced around the apartment in circles. After forcing himself to calm down a bit, he hurried back to the monster forum and searched for information on “what to do after knocking up a human wife.”
The search results threw up a whole bunch of instructional posts on how to protect and nurture the fetus so that one’s human wife could successfully give birth to a healthy baby.
“…”
This is not what I need!!
…But he could take a look first.
Jian Tang was like a newlywed husband who had suddenly learned his wife was unexpectedly pregnant, caught completely off guard as a door to a new world swung open. Although he wasn’t necessarily going to become a father yet, he was already experiencing the anxiety and helplessness of a novice dad ahead of time.
The little monster nervously scrolled through the threads. As he kept reading… huh? It seemed he didn’t need to be too nervous after all.
In these pregnancy-care threads, quite a few comments expressed blessings and envy. Judging by the tone of these monsters, making a human wife pregnant with one’s baby wasn’t as simple as just having them ingest the seeds.
This sort of thing depended heavily on probability and luck.
In fact, it also depended on the monster’s strength—the more powerful the monster, the higher the probability of their seeds breaking through the reproductive barrier. For a low-tier F-rank little monster like Jian Tang, the probability of getting his partner pregnant wasn’t exactly zero, but it was basically incredibly, incredibly low.
Phew— thank goodness.
Jian Tang wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
For the first time, he realized that being weak had its advantages. His wife’s stomach was saved, and his secret of being a monster was also saved.
Everyone wins!
The phone beside his hand suddenly vibrated. Jian Tang picked it up and saw it was a message from his wife.
Wife: [Are you awake? I’m almost home.]
Jian Tang replied instantly.
[Awake! I even finished breakfast. Your cooking is as amazing as always, wife! It was delicious!]
Wife: [That’s good.]
Immediately following that was an emoji of a “little rabbit nodding its head,” which was exceptionally cute.
This was the first time Jian Tang had ever seen his wife send such a cute emoji. It was a massive contrast to his wife’s usual cool-guy style, and he couldn’t help but smile.
[So cute! Wife, are you in a great mood today?]
Wife: [Little rabbit nodding.jpg]
Jian Tang: [Hahaha, so adorable, so adorable! Send some more, wife, I love seeing them!]
The other side quickly sent a whole bunch—there was a little rabbit hugging, a little rabbit acting spoiled, a little rabbit throwing a finger heart, and a little rabbit blowing a kiss. The soft, fluffy little rabbit was completely adorable, irresistibly giving off a sort of illusion—that the person sending the emojis was also very cute.
This was probably the closest Jian Tang had ever been to a “cute wife.” He felt that today’s wife was exceptionally cute!
Hehehe, could it be that his hard work had borne fruit, and his terrifying wife was about to turn into a cute wife?
[The light turned green. I’ll drive now, see you in a bit.]
After his wife sent this voice note, no more messages came through.
Jian Tang happily sat up from the bed. He could hardly wait to see his completely adorable wife!
He set his phone aside and prepared to close the system panel hovering nearby.
At this moment, the screen was still stuck on a pregnancy science thread. Jian Tang’s gaze carelessly swept over it, and a paragraph suddenly caught his eye—
> [Some human wives will not display obvious pathological attachment behaviors during early pregnancy, but they generally exhibit anomalous actions. Specific behaviors vary from person to person. If you find your human wife engaging in special actions or undergoing a drastic shift in temperament, you must pay close attention!]
Jian Tang: “…”
Instantly, his smile vanished.
—
Feng Xun drove the car back into the downstairs garage. While locking up, he caught his own reflection through the window glass.
His expression remained cold, his features sharp and intimidating. Even when his mood was completely peaceful, his external aura still made people feel he was stern and sinister, practically pasting an “I am not to be trifled with” label onto his forehead.
In the past, he hadn’t cared, but now… he had to change.
Otherwise, it would be highly difficult to win over his heart’s desire.
Forcing his expression to soften a fraction, Feng Xun rode the elevator upstairs and returned to Apartment 404.
When the lock clicked open, true to his expectations, he saw the youth flying over to greet him, proactive and enthusiastic.
“Wife, you’re back!”
Jian Tang forced a brilliant smile, but his eyes couldn’t resist darting toward his wife’s stomach.
Was he carrying or not?
Was there a baby or wasn’t there!
Jian Tang wasn’t sure, but he absolutely had to prepare for the worst-case scenario.
He solicitously helped his wife fetch his slippers, helped him hang up his coat, and even gave him a warm embrace—focusing entirely on placating his wife first.
That way, when the truth eventually came out and his wife was so violently enraged he wanted to tear him apart, he c-could at least beg for a lenient sentence, right?
Feng Xun discovered that the youth today was exceptionally warm and clingy. He wondered if it was because the two of them had done that kind of thing yesterday…
No wonder everyone said frequent intimacy helped maintain domestic harmony.
His mood turned a bit complex, and he reached out to ruffle the youth’s fluffy short hair.
“Is your body feeling any better?”
“All better, all better!” Jian Tang forced a hollow smile. “Your medicine is highly effective, wife. I’m completely recovered, and my butt doesn’t hurt at all anymore!”
But his heart ached.
His wife’s hand lingered on his head significantly longer than before, and his hand even slid down to gently stroke and rub the back of his neck. This kind of action had never occurred in the past; it was a blatant anomaly!
“Wife,” Jian Tang asked trepidatiously, “are you feeling under the weather anywhere today?”
Feng Xun forced himself to withdraw the hand that wanted to continue stroking the youth’s cheek. “Hmm? No.”
“Truly no?” Jian Tang probed with absolute caution. “You don’t feel any discomfort in your stomach, or a loss of appetite, or nausea, or an urge to throw up acid or anything?”
He had carefully researched that pregnancy-care thread, which listed plenty of anomalous scenarios human wives might face during early pregnancy.
Feng Xun froze. “Did you get food poisoning from the breakfast I made?”
He knew his cooking skills were highly mediocre, but had it reached the level of deploying poison?
“No, no, no! I just… I just saw your complexion looked a bit off, so I was just asking.”
Feng Xun: “…”
He had merely wanted to make his expression look more approachable, yet the user feedback was that his complexion looked off.
It looked like he needed to put the project of “learning facial expression management” onto his agenda.
“Wife, when you were outside, did you miss me a lot?” Jian Tang pivoted to probe from another angle.
“Did you want to hurry home, want to see me sooner, or hope that I could keep you company the entire time? Did you hope I wouldn’t leave your line of sight, and want to keep looking at me continuously?”
Feng Xun looked down at the youth before him.
The other party was visibly a bit tense, his eyes blinking non-stop, his clear gaze completely filled with his reflection, as if his answer was monumentally important to him.
Just like… just like a little wife lacking a sense of security, frantically pressing her husband on whether he truly loved her.
The fingers resting at his sides grew restless once more. Feng Xun paused for a short while, choosing to follow his heart’s desire.
“Mm.” He reached out his hand, gently caressing the youth’s cheek. The texture was even better than he had imagined, making him reluctant to withdraw his hand.
“I did,” the man’s voice was deep and mellow. “I was thinking of you the entire time.”
The anticipated scene of “the little wife weeping with joy and throwing herself excitedly into her husband’s embrace” did not occur.
The youth before him looked exactly like the sky has fallen!!!
Feng Xun: “?”
He shifted his hand to the other party’s forehead with a bit of hesitation. “Is your body feeling unwell again?”
Why did his face look so terribly pale.
Jian Tang drew in two deep breaths with absolute force, propping up his swaying body. “The air in the room is stuffy, I-I’m just a bit short of oxygen…”
“Then shall we go out for a stroll?” Feng Xun immediately brought up their date arrangement again. “Do you still want to visit the flower market today?”
Yesterday, Jian Tang had unilaterally canceled their outing. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to go out with his wife, but rather that his butt was out of commission, making it impossible to walk.
Today his body had zero issues, but he had begun to worry about his wife’s body.
The flower market was far too distant; what if it exhausted his wife?
Right now, his wife was a certified pregnant man in his eyes.
The two of them discussed it briefly, finally deciding to just stroll around a nearby supermarket—the house happened to be out of ingredients, so they needed to restock.
Today was the weekend, so the supermarket was packed with people. Quite a few families had come to shop together, alongside young couples or newlywed pairs strolling through the aisles hand-in-hand, looking thoroughly sweet.
Feng Xun looked at a young couple ahead whose arms were wrapped completely around each other’s waists, then looked at Jian Tang. The youth’s attention wasn’t on him at all; he was staring intently at a pregnant woman with a massive, protruding belly nearby.
Jian Tang was secretly observing with rapt attention when he suddenly felt his hand being caught. The other party’s movement was gentle yet unyielding, prying his fingers apart to interlock their fingers together.
“Little Tang, stop looking,” Feng Xun squeezed the youth’s hand, teasing lightly. “No matter how long you look, you won’t have one.”
Jian Tang looked down at the hand his wife had actively taken initiative to hold: “…”
I don’t have one, but you highly likely already do, wife!
After that, the two of them strolled through the supermarket together, purchasing quite a few items. They had lunch directly inside the mall, spent the afternoon rotating through the home furnishings store next door, and settled dinner outside as well.
By the time they returned home, it was already past eight o’clock in the evening. Feng Xun was in excellent shape, and Jian Tang also wore a face full of joy—which was entirely faked.
“Wife, I’m heading in to shower first,” the youth said with a smile. “I’m a bit tired, so I’ll go straight to sleep after washing up.”
“Okay.”
Jian Tang took his fresh clothes, entered the bathroom, locked the door firmly, and his small face collapsed instantly.
It’s over, it’s over.
The situation is genuinely catastrophic.
They had been out for most of the day today, and aside from sitting down to eat, his wife’s hand hadn’t loosened once, sticking close to him through the entire duration.
Whenever he occasionally spaced out, his wife would lightly pinch his cheek, clearly reminding him to focus more attention on him.
Driving home in the evening, while waiting for a red light at an intersection, Jian Tang had carelessly turned his head, discovering that his wife was staring fixedly at him. That gaze… well, he couldn’t describe it, but at any rate, it was vastly different from the past.
His wife’s various displays today were completely anomalous, highly aligning with what the forum referred to as “pathological attachment behavior.”
Carrying a cub—this matter was an absolute eighty percent certainty!
Jian Tang finished his shower with a heavy heart, returned to his bedroom with a heavy heart, and collapsed flat onto his bed with a heavy heart.
His mind was a complete mess; he couldn’t fall asleep at all.
After lying like a corpse on the bed for a long while, Jian Tang woodenly called up the system panel, intending to go back to the monster forum to look at some more educational threads.
Once the blue panel popped up, a tiny red marker appeared in the top right corner, a notification indicating a message had been received from a contact on his list.
He had initially assumed Boss Octopus had issued another directive, but upon clicking it open, he discovered it was actually a message from Little Yu.
Little Yu: [Little Tang, is your tail any better?]
When Jian Tang and Little Yu parted ways yesterday, the two had added each other’s contact information, allowing them to exchange messages through the system interface.
After Little Yu returned to Weijiu Town, his family had been thoroughly shocked and horrified upon learning of his encounter. While rejoicing that their child had narrowly escaped death, they were also deeply grateful to Jian Tang for rescuing him.
The residents of Weijiu Town were all highly wealthy, and since their town’s location was a part of the Sea of Healing, they possessed rich curative resources of all kinds. Hearing that Jian Tang had shed his tail to save Little Yu, they wanted to send Jian Tang some healing ointments to help him sprout a new tail sooner.
Jian Tang: [My tail is completely healed! It grew back even better than before! \(^o^)/]
Because his wife had strictly instructed him not to speak of the ancestral secret recipe outside, Jian Tang didn’t mention he had used his wife’s medicine, merely claiming he had exchanged for a special medicinal oil from the system store, and it was entirely healed after a single night of use.
Jian Tang: [How are you doing right now? Is your body feeling better? 0.0]
Little Yu: [I’m much better, but if I want to restore my original body size, I need to recuperate for a bit longer. My family was scared out of their wits, forbidding me from stepping out the door until my body is completely recovered.]
The two small monsters had shared a life-and-death ordeal, already considering each other highly trusted friends. Jian Tang was feeling far too distressed, so he poured out his worries to Little Yu.
Little Yu was also highly shocked at first, but after pressing for fine details, he felt the situation wasn’t entirely that grim.
Little Yu: [Based on how it sounds, your wife is just engaging in perfectly ordinary lover behavior, isn’t he?]
Jian Tang: [Eh? I-Is that how it is?]
Little Yu: [Yeah. When you aren’t face-to-face, he misses you continuously. When you go out on a date, he wants to hold your hand, wants your gaze to remain fixed on him, and even wants to gaze at you affectionately non-stop, never able to get enough of looking at you. This is a manifestation of liking you, you know. Everyone in love is exactly like this. Your wife wants to date you.]
Jian Tang was completely dazed.
He painstakingly processed it for a moment, trying hard to untangle this logical relationship.
Jian Tang: [So, my wife just likes me and wants to date me, and it isn’t an anomalous action caused by pregnancy?]
Little Yu: [I think so.]
Little Yu: [If he sneaked around shadowing you like a stalker, or displayed an exploding level of possessiveness—getting so enraged he wanted to kill someone upon seeing you walk together with others; or if he stole your clothes to sniff them in a thoroughly perverted manner like the forum described… if he engaged in those behaviors, I think it would count as a pathological attachment caused by pregnancy.]
Jian Tang thought about it, feeling that what Little Yu said was backed by reason.
Little Yu was different from himself; the other party had actually dated a human before. Naturally, he could distinguish which actions belonged to a lover and which belonged to a pathological attachment. He could finally rest easy.
But…
Jian Tang: [But he’s already my wife. His status settled into place in one single step, resting at the absolute pinnacle of the relationship chain. Why does he still want to date me? Isn’t that redundant?]
On this point, Little Yu couldn’t provide an answer either.
Although he had dated a human, he hadn’t successfully gotten the other party to evolve into a wife, so how could he possibly know what a human wife thought?
The two small monsters continued to gossip and discuss for a long while, until Little Yu’s family stepped inside to urge him to hurry to sleep, bringing an end to this conversation.
Closing the system panel, Jian Tang rolled several times across the bed, his mood significantly improved.
Although he didn’t quite understand why his wife wanted to regress to a dating stage, as long as he wasn’t pregnant, everything was fine.
Just as he had said—he was a mere F-rank little monster, so how could he possibly be powerful enough to score a hit on the very first try!
Jian Tang hopped off the bed happily, intending to go to the kitchen to grab a glass of water before heading to sleep.
Tonight, he could secure an excellent night of rest!
—
Feng Xun shared another phone call with He Mengxing in the evening. They discussed official business entirely, and by the time the call ended, it was already past eleven o’clock.
He left his bedroom, intending to wash up and go to sleep.
The apartment’s washroom and bathroom were integrated into a single space. When Feng Xun walked up to the sink, he discovered Jian Tang’s clothes draped over the adjacent rack.
The boy had likely forgotten to take them away after his shower.
He picked them up, finding a small white ice-silk tank top. It was hard to tell if it was dirty clothing that needed to be tossed into the hamper, or a fresh item brought along by accident.
Feng Xun inspected it but couldn’t discern a difference, so he lifted it to his nose to take a sniff.
There was no scent of sweat from being worn, nor the distinctive scent of laundry detergent—there was only a faint, refreshing fragrance of fresh grass.
It was Little Tang’s exclusive body scent.
His fingers tightened a fraction, and Feng Xun couldn’t resist taking another sniff.
Suddenly, his peripheral vision caught a shifting shadow. He whipped his head around instantly—
Outside the doorway, Jian Tang was staring at him, his face filled with absolute, utter shock.
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