There were too many ways to interpret these words. Qianye stood stunned on the spot, not knowing how to reply.

Ji Tianqing sat there in calm silence, looking at him. She neither spoke nor pushed for an answer, but she didn’t let go of him, either. Qianye tried to pull his hand back but to no avail. After some hesitation, he simply let his hand stay there to feel the movements of the new life within.

“This… when did it happen?”

“The Great Maelstrom, where else?”

“I mean when inside the Great Maelstrom?”

“Do you really need to ask? Do you not remember?”

“I really… wait, could it be…”

There weren’t a lot of gaps in Qianye’s memory within the Great Maelstrom, but clearly, this had happened during that blank space.

Qianye slowly withdrew his hand and scratched his head, his thoughts in a whirl. He suddenly noticed an abnormality—it felt as though something was spying on him just now but had already disappeared. He kept thinking back to the Great Maelstrom, but...