Abstinence Admiral Don't Bite, the Softer Mermaid Top Thug

Chapter 73 Let me see the baby first

The dim light and shadow coming through the high window flickered, swaying back and forth on the two people who were so close to each other.

Foreign parliamentarians passed by the door one after another, but Lu Lianbai never turned back after he finished speaking.

Only the hot and heavy breath remained, falling on Jing Weiman's face, which was almost touching his strong chest.

Jing Weimian seemed to be controlled by his words. She was stunned for a moment. After a long while, she straightened up slightly and looked at him again. Her eyes became clearer. "Baby?"

Lu Lianbai lowered his eyes and spoke in a low and cold voice.

"Jing Xiaoyu is originally your child. If you want to take the baby away, I will not stop you, and I have no right to stop you."

The moment he finished speaking, Lu Lianbai took a deep breath, finally turned his head back, slightly tightened his jaw and raised it, trying his best to make himself look confident enough at the moment.

He looked at Jing Weimian slowly and calmly, trying to keep his voice steady as he added some explanation:

"But there's one thing. Jing Xiaoyu never knew there was another... biological father. All along, Jing Xiaoyu only recognized me as his father, and I don't think anyone else is more qualified than me to be Jing Xiaoyu's father."

"Jing Weiman, I'm not telling you this to snatch the baby's ownership from you. I just want to tell you that you gave the baby to me and asked me to take good care of him. Over the past year or so, I've listened to you and have been taking good care of Jing Xiaoyu. On this point, I believe I have done my best and have lived up to your trust."

"So, at least I am still Jing Xiaoyu's father. At least... I am still Jing Xiaoyu's nominal guardian, and I have the right to put forward some conditions to you—"

Lu Lianbai had no choice but to force himself to let go:

"You can take Jing Xiaoyu away, but I don't agree with Jing Xiaoyu meeting his biological father. He is not qualified and does not deserve to be Jing Xiaoyu's father."

When Lu Lianbai said these words, his attitude was resolute and steady, as if he was not only trying to convince Jing Weiman, but also trying to convince himself of the fact that he was Jing Xiaoyu's father.

After hearing his words, Jing Weiman was hesitant and confused at first, looking at Lu Lianbai's face thoughtfully, and then slowly turned his eyes, as if he had roughly figured something out.

Blinking his eyes, he calmly asked:

"Let me see the baby first."

Lu Lianbai said indifferently: "You have to promise me first."

Jing Weimian looked at him, his heart broken but trying to remain calm, and couldn't help but mutter, "...I'm afraid if I really agree, you won't be happy about it."

Lu Lianbai looked at her with a calm and cold gaze. Seeing this, Jing Weimian had to adjust her expression and pretend to think.

"So General Lu is saying that the condition for showing me the baby is that the baby will never be allowed to meet its biological father again?"

"Ah."

"That's it." Jing Weimian sighed regretfully, "Then when General Lu makes a video call to the capital planet later, you have to stay away and don't let the baby see you again."

"Of course I--" Lu Lianbai just opened his mouth to speak when his voice stopped abruptly. He seemed to be nailed by something, standing still.

In the dim and hazy light, his deep pupils were sharp and bright, staring at Jing Weimian without blinking.

After a long while, as if finally regaining some consciousness from his chaotic mind, his body tensed, his thin lips trembled slightly, and even his voice gradually became uneven: "What do you mean?"

Jing Weimian raised his eyes slightly, admiring the rare expression of disarray on the land general before him, and then kicked off his boots. His arch tensed, and his lower clothing fell off with a rustling sound, instantly transforming into a slender, pink-scaled fish tail.

As if to deliberately provoke him, it raised the tip of its tail fin and hooked it around Lu Lianbai's wrist, which was so taut that the veins were bulging. When he looked up, he found that Lu Lianbai subconsciously moved his cold jaw away, as if he didn't dare to peek or offend him in the slightest.

"Still pretending." Jing Weimian tugged at his tie, leaned close to his ear, and asked in a low voice, "Tell me, what bad things did you do with my scale core last night?"

Jing Weimian thought Lu Lianbai would make a few excuses, but when Lu Lianbai heard her words, his breathing became a little irregular, and he said in a deep voice, "I'm sorry, I held your scale-core mimic finger last night."

"Not intentional?"

After a second of silence, he admitted again: "It was intentional."

"Then why are you afraid to hold my hand now that I'm right in front of you, Admiral?"

As Jing Weimian spoke, the tip of her tail fin tightly wrapped around his hand, leading his hand to the part of her tail scales that gradually turned dark pink. "Did you find it?"

Lu Shang slid his Adam's apple hard and replied in a low, hoarse voice, "Yeah, very soft."

"...?"

Jing Weimian couldn't help but straighten his slightly tilted face and ordered him to look, "I mean, don't you notice that the scales here are different from those in other places?"

General Lu stared intently at the layers of soft, smooth pink scales beneath his palm, his eyes suppressing the burning heat in his eyes. His voice grew hoarse, "Every scale is beautiful."

Even his hands were just covering the soft and tender fish scales, and he didn't dare to move.

He was afraid that the rough texture of his palm would accidentally scratch Jing Weiman's beautiful pink fishtail.

At this moment, the bracelet communicator on his other hand rang at an inopportune time. Lu Lianbai suppressed his breathing and said to Jing Weimian, "Wait a moment," and pressed the answer button.

Without waiting for Minister Li on the other end of the line to speak, he took the initiative to speak, "Sorry, Minister Li, I have more important matters to attend to personally right now. Thank you for your hard work in keeping an eye on the second half of the meeting. I'll update you later."

After saying that, he hung up the phone neatly, bent his palms inward, and used his slender wrist joints to hold the pink tail fin. He stared at her with scorching eyes and continued the previous topic: "Jing Weimian, please continue."

Jing Weimian's lips twitched slightly for no apparent reason at General Lu's ease of switching, but seeing that he had a serious look on his face and looked very serious about studying, he had no choice but to grab his hand again and touch one of the scales that was obviously abnormal. "...Do you feel it? There's a missing memory scale here."

Lu Lianbai was stunned: "Memory scales?"

"Well, because Jing Cishen took away this memory scale, I forgot some things."

"But there are some traces of my existence that cannot be erased even if I lose my memory scales. For example, why did I know for sure that you were my spouse and partner the moment I saw you? Do you know why?"

Lu Lianbai suppressed the urge to hug her fish tail tightly, and heard Jing Weimian continue, "Do you know... under what circumstances would a mermaid be willing to give up her scale core? Only when a mermaid's body instinctively recognizes the other party's mate will they voluntarily hand over their scale core and... be willing to lay eggs and have cubs with their mate."

"The most important and fundamental point of becoming a spouse is that they must accompany me through the mermaid craze."

"In the more than a year since I lost my memory scales, I could see traces of my eggs laid through my lower fins, but I still couldn't remember, and I didn't know if my little fish babies were still alive. But now I know—"

Jing Weimian curled her lips slightly, "So General Lu, are you sure you want to return the baby to me and not allow the baby to meet his biological father from now on?"

(End of this chapter)