Chapter 1458 - 426: I Am Your Daughter, I Come from the Future (6k)

However, before Zhou Qing finished speaking, Lu Yaoyao seemed to realize as well and gently loosened her hold.

Yet she quickly took a deep breath, as if to forever remember the scent of Shen Hanyi, before reluctantly letting go.

She lifted her tear-filled face, revealing a smile with tears sparkling in her eyes:

"So this is mother’s scent, so fragrant."

Shen Hanyi’s heart trembled, looking at the familiar young girl before her, overwhelmed with complex emotions.

She instinctively raised her hand, gently wiping away the tears from Lu Yaoyao’s face, her movements clumsy yet gentle.

"I..." Shen Hanyi opened her mouth but didn’t know what to say.

Her always cool eyes now carried a rare hint of helplessness.

Lu Yaoyao looked at Shen Hanyi, then at Zhou Qing, and suddenly burst into a smile: "I am really foolish. Sometimes thinking too much almost leads to misunderstandings and missing out."

"What exactly happened?" Zhou Qing couldn’t help but ask.

Lu Yaoyao suddenly caught hold of Shen Hanyi with one hand and Zhou Qing with the other, her eyes sparkling with happiness: "You know, at this moment I feel truly happy."

The three exchanged glances, and Shen Yunzhou was completely bewildered, unable to keep up.

Just then, the arm that Lu Yaoyao held onto Shen Hanyi became transparent and then directly vanished.

This scene shocked the three, all looking at Lu Yaoyao simultaneously.

However, Lu Yaoyao’s expression remained unchanged, just lowered her head to gaze at Shen Hanyi’s belly, hesitantly reaching out to touch but eventually pulling back.

The next moment, the vanished arm reappeared, as if everything earlier was just an illusion.

Seeing the stunned expressions of the three, Lu Yaoyao took a deep breath, deciding to reveal everything.

She finally understood why, back in the Taiqing Sect, her fingers would suddenly become transparent—that was because this timeline’s her... was pregnant.

Seems dad and mother had intimacy unknown to her.

Indeed, they hid it well from her.

"Let’s go inside and talk." Lu Yaoyao wiped her eye corners, taking the lead to push open the door to the room Zhou Qing had been staying in for the past month.

Three people exchanged a glance, full of confusion, followed her inside.

After sitting down, Lu Yaoyao’s eyes scanned their faces before finally settling onto Shen Hanyi, full of happiness.

She then looked at Zhou Qing, exhaling deeply.

"Dad—" Lu Yaoyao spoke to Zhou Qing.

Zhou Qing was instantly stunned, Shen Hanyi and Shen Yunzhou simultaneously turned to look at him.

"You..." Zhou Qing was about to speak but was stopped by Lu Yaoyao raising her hand.

"I know you have many doubts," Lu Yaoyao said earnestly, "Let me slowly explain."

She paused, her eyes once again sweeping across their faces, "Dad, actually I am from the future. My name is Lu Yaoyao, and I am your daughter."

These words were like a bolt of lightning, shocking the three into standing still.

Shen Yunzhou was the first to react, blurting out: "Future?"

Lu Yaoyao nodded, then pointed to Shen Hanyi’s abdomen, her eyes shimmering with tenderness: "What mother is carrying now, is me."

Shen Hanyi’s fingers unconsciously tightened, Zhou Qing’s face nervously twitched.

"Did your cultivation go awry recently?" Zhou Qing asked tentatively.

Lu Yaoyao shook her head: "I know it’s hard for you to believe. In fact, speaking out my deepest secret now, I don’t expect you to fully believe. But you saw—"

She lifted her arm, "After I am born on this timeline, the original me will disappear and return to my own timeline."

"Miss Lu, your story is also..." Shen Yunzhou began, only to be coldly cut off by Shen Hanyi: "Shut up!"

Shen Yunzhou instantly fell silent.

Zhou Qing looked at Lu Yaoyao’s intact arm, then at Shen Hanyi’s abdomen, his heart uncontrollably racing.

As a transmigrator, he had a special sensitivity to such temporal paradoxes.

And since the Taiqing Sect period, this girl always liked to cling to calling him "Dad," and occasionally the most genuine thoughts emerging from his heart also annotated that.

"Dad," Lu Yaoyao suddenly smiled, "Calling you brother for so many years, suddenly changing to calling dad is really a bit of an adjustment."

Zhou Qing’s expression grew more solemn, not responding.

"Remember when you were always curious how I knew about the Spirit Skull Mountain Array Master’s legacy? Or the secret of the black snow mountain mirror?"

Lu Yaoyao’s eyes gleamed slyly, "Actually, you told me all about it. Over the years, I never dared to reveal the truth, afraid to alter history, or that I might change nothing."

After speaking, without waiting for a reaction from the three, Lu Yaoyao raised both hands: "I, Lu Yaoyao, swear by the Heavenly Dao Oath that everything I am about to say is true."

"No!" Zhou Qing urgently stopped.

But a thunder echoed skyward, and Lu Yaoyao had completed the oath.

Then she carefully took out an album from her storage bag.

Opening the first page, there was a portrait of Immortal Xuan You labeled with "Big Mother" written beside it.

The second page had Xuanyuan Muqian’s portrait, marked "Second Mother."

And when she opened the third page—there stood Shen Hanyi’s portrait with "Third Mother" written clearly.

Zhou Qing and Shen Hanyi both held their breaths.

Zhou Qing had actually seen this album before, just never understood its significance.

At this moment, he was now eighty percent believing.

"You... have been searching for your mother?" Shen Hanyi said, looking at her own portrait, her voice somewhat trembling.

Lu Yaoyao nodded emphatically: "Yes, that’s why I only confessed today. Since I can remember, I haven’t seen my mother."