Luo Ruying carried Luo Hongye to the front of the wooden house, her heart filled with a mixture of apprehension and complex emotions as she gently knocked on the door.
With a creak, the wooden door slowly opened.
"May I ask who this young lady is looking for?"
Ning Yechen stood at the door, smiling as he asked.
For some reason, looking at the woman before him, a familiar feeling welled up in his heart...
Gazing at the face from his memories, Luo Ruying gently pursed her red lips, her eyes lowered, unsure how to begin.
After hesitating for a moment, she tentatively opened her vermilion lips and asked:
"Do, do you not remember me...?"
Hmm?
Ning Yechen scrutinized the young girl again.
Raven hair, crimson eyes, a face like a flower, a moon's beauty!
Very familiar!
But he just couldn't remember who she was…
He had seen so many beautiful women that he couldn't recall who she was at the moment…
Moreover, he had been hidden here for a long time. No one should know about this!
"Young lady, you are… who?"
After racking his brain for a long time, Ning Yechen couldn't find anyone who matched the description. He could only awkwardly ask, comparing the possibilities in his mind.
Seeing that Ning Yechen really didn't recognize her, Luo Ruying couldn't help but reveal a look of annoyance and disappointment. She couldn't help but chide in a delicate voice:
"You! You heartless man!"
Not only had he taken her first time, but she had also gone through countless hardships to protect their child.
Now, after finally escaping from the Celestial Realm and specifically coming to find him, he didn't recognize her at all!
She knew that for mortals, a decade might be enough to forget many things.
But she still couldn't help but feel disappointed and angry at Ning Yechen's complete forgetfulness.
Ning Yechen was instantly dumbfounded by the scolding.
Honestly, since he'd transmigrated to this world and become the peerless Demon Sovereign of the Demon Realm hundreds of years ago, he hadn't even been in a relationship. How could he be a heartless man?
This was just too ridiculous!
Slander!
Outright slander!
"Miss, is there… perhaps some misunderstanding… between us?"
"Are you sure you haven't mistaken me for someone else...?"
Ning Yechen asked again.
He felt the woman before him had to be mistaken!
Luo Ruying sighed in disappointment when she saw that Ning Yechen seemed to genuinely not remember her. She picked up Luo Hongye in her arms, gave him a resentful look, and said:
"She's your daughter. You need to take responsibility for me and her…"
"(⊙_⊙) Ah…?"
Ning Yechen was shocked!
This news was simply too explosive!
He had suddenly, inexplicably, become a father?!
Ning Yechen lowered his head to look at Luo Hongye, who was as exquisite as a doll. She looked a little timid, yet kept sneaking glances at him.
The little girl was very pretty and cute. There was a sense of inexplicable closeness and familiarity, and he liked her very much at first sight.
He was stunned when he was suddenly told this was his child.
Besides that one night of accidental passion ten years ago, he hadn't touched another woman!
Hmm…?!
Thinking of this, Ning Yechen suddenly understood something and pointed at Luo Ruying, asking in surprise, "You… you are that Fairy from that night…?!"
Seeing that Ning Yechen had finally remembered, Luo Ruying nodded shyly.
Receiving confirmation, Ning Yechen's mouth widened in surprise.
No way…!
It really is her!
Luo Ruying's cultivation aura was significantly weaker than before, completely on a different level.
Her previously lustrous silver hair had also turned to black, which was why he couldn't recall her even after pondering for a long time.
He hadn't connected her at all with the woman from that night.
Ning Yechen truly couldn't understand.
After a night of intimacy, the Fairy from back then had come to ask him to take responsibility, a decade later, with a child?!
A Fairy from the Celestial Realm, with her cultivation, who might even be a Saintess from a certain Sacred Land or an Empress, had come to the mortal realm to find him…?
What made even less sense to him was that the higher the cultivation, the lower the probability of conceiving a Celestial Fetus, a common sense known to all.
Some Celestial Sovereigns, in order to conceive a Celestial Fetus, even had to diligently cultivate with multiple celestial partners every day for years before they could achieve any results!
How could he have hit the jackpot with just one try…!
Even if that was the case, as a cultivator, one could use their celestial power to prevent a Celestial Fetus from forming within their body whenever they wished.
He thought that after that night, Luo Ruying would definitely prevent herself from conceiving a Celestial Fetus.
After all, she was a Fairy from the Celestial Realm, and generally, couldn't easily bear a Celestial Fetus.
But the result was that she really did conceive a Celestial Fetus for several years and even gave birth to the child, raising her to adulthood!
"She… is she really my child…?"
Ning Yechen still found it hard to believe as he asked.
He was just asking for confirmation, but in his heart, he already had the answer.
However, Ning Yechen immediately regretted asking that question.
It didn't seem like the right thing to ask…
As expected, upon hearing Ning Yechen's words, Luo Ruying furrowed her brow, her expression turning incredibly displeased. She gritted her teeth and angrily shouted in a delicate voice,
"Hmph! If you don't want to take responsibility, I'll just leave with the child!"
"But don't you dare insult me and my child!"
With that, Luo Ruying turned and left without hesitation, a glimmer of tears flashing in her eyes.
Luo Hongye, perched on Luo Ruying's shoulder, kept her big eyes fixed on Ning Yechen, and sweetly asked in Luo Ruying's ear,
"Mommy, doesn't Daddy want us…?"
The moment she saw Ning Yechen, Luo Hongye inexplicably felt a sense of closeness.
She was usually quite shy, but she wasn't afraid of Ning Yechen at all, so she knew he must be the father she had been longing for.
Luo Hongye's words resonated deeply within Ning Yechen, stirring his heart!
He, the esteemed Demon Sovereign, was not the kind of man who would abandon his wife and child, lacking any sense of responsibility!
If he made a decision, he would stand by it!
Ning Yechen took a step forward, catching up to Luo Ruying and grabbing her arm.
"Wait! I didn't say I wouldn't take responsibility!"
"Hmph! Let go of me!"
"I don't need you to take responsibility!"
Luo Ruying was furious, and angrily tried to shake off Ning Yechen's hand.
Fearing she might hurt Ning Yechen, who was just a mortal, she held back her strength, using only a light touch.
However, even with her restraint, it should have been enough to easily break free from the grasp of a grown man. Yet, she couldn't shake off Ning Yechen's hand.
Before Luo Ruying could even be surprised, her throat suddenly felt sweet, and she covered her mouth, coughing violently!
"Cough, cough, cough...!"
A mass of fresh blood appeared in Luo Ruying's palm, and her delicate face became even paler!
"You're injured?!"
Ning Yechen grabbed Luo Ruying's wrist, his expression instantly turning icy.
"I, I'm fine... let go... me..."
Luo Ruying tried to break free, but she found that she had no strength left. She took a step forward, and her vision went black. Her body then collapsed into Ning Yechen's arms, and she fainted.
"Mommy, Mommy...!"
Luo Hongye cried out, tugging at Luo Ruying's arm.
Ning Yechen put one arm around Luo Ruying's waist, holding her tightly. With his other arm, he also embraced Luo Hongye.
He then spoke to her in a gentle and comforting tone:
"Don't worry."
"With your father here, your mother will be fine."