While I'm at the martial arts academy, my wife is cultivating while I enjoy life.

The two left the cafeteria hand in hand, under the watchful eyes of everyone.

Yang Ding was naturally smug, not caring whether you were a kept man or a kept man, as long as you were delicious.

Ye Rou no longer cared about the strange looks; the child seemed to be the anchor in her heart.

For the first time, she truly considered Yang Ding as her man.

Since he's her own man, he's the closest to her, so why should she care what others say?

Even the names they previously refused to use came out of their mouths.

"Honey, do you prefer a boy or a girl?"

"Either is fine, that's not what I care about."

"What is it? You can think of a name slowly. The surname Yang is easy to choose."

"I'm not concerned about the name."

Ye Rou stopped in her tracks. "What is it?"

"We haven't even been intimate many times yet, and you experts get pregnant so quickly! Is it okay to do 'that' while pregnant?"

Ye Rou's beautiful face immediately turned red, and she slapped Yang Ding hard.

Why do you think about that all the time?

"Isn't it because you're pretty, have a great figure, and smell good? We'll have to ask the doctor about that later."

"You can ask me if you want, I'm not asking."

Ye Rou could have asked the senior female students at the martial arts academy who had given birth, but she was too embarrassed to.

We agreed that our intimacy was for the purpose of getting pregnant.

Why would someone who's already pregnant still want to be intimate?

I won't ask, I won't ask even if you kill me.

The newlyweds' manual didn't give a clear answer to this, only saying that it would depend on the pregnancy test results. Yang Ding was also worried that being too vigorous would affect the fetus.

Yang Ding escorted Ye Rou to the entrance of the martial arts academy, where martial arts teachers and students passing by all turned to look at them.

The gatekeeper quickly stopped him, saying, "Instructor Ye, your husband is not an Awakened One and cannot enter the Martial Arts Academy."

"My wife is pregnant, can't I even take her to the office?"

Yang Ding shouted loudly, as if afraid that others wouldn't hear him.

He wanted the head of discipline and everyone at the martial arts academy to know that his name was Yang Ding, the "Ding" meaning "standing tall and upright," not Yang Wei.

Ye Rou glared at him fiercely, "Why are you showing off everywhere? What if you're not pregnant? Wouldn't that be incredibly embarrassing?"

"It's better if you don't get pregnant. Let's do it a few more times. We need to let everyone know that you're my wife."

"rogue."

The gatekeeper was quite surprised and glanced at Yang Ding with envy.

Although he was of mediocre talent, he was a martial arts awakener and his cultivation had already broken through to the first-grade upper realm, but he could only work as a gatekeeper.

This mere pig farmer was surprisingly paired with a school beauty instructor by the system, and within days he even had a child.

"Really? Congratulations, Instructor Ye. Your husband needs the school leadership's signature to get in."

Ye Rou pushed Yang Ding away, "Never mind, you can come in next month. Go back to class now."

When Yang Ding returned to the classroom, his classmates immediately told him that Ye Rou had just come over.

Xiang Bin was also there, looking at Yang Ding with great curiosity.

"Is it about registering for the monthly exam?"

"My wife already took care of the registration."

"What is it?"

Yang Ding now completely disregards this guy and has become much more arrogant.

"Counselor, classmates, my wife, Ye Rou, the close combat instructor at the martial arts academy, a fifth-grade mid-level martial artist, a young genius, and a pure and beautiful eighteen-year-old girl, is pregnant."

He patted his chest. "My bad, please excuse my poor performance."

The students were stunned, then forced smiles and said, "Congratulations!"

Then everyone went about their own business.

Xiang Bin's face turned ashen, and his daughter-in-law remained completely unresponsive.

Although children are sent to Imperial Maternity and Childcare Centers for care these days, guardianship still rests with the biological parents, as reproduction is very important for the growth of the family.

The more children are born, the more awakened individuals are likely to emerge.

Xiang Bin had three wives who gave birth to ten children, but only one talented martial arts awakener, Xiang Tianyou, emerged from among them.

Even if other children use their connections to arrange jobs, they still can't get any good ones.

"Get to work!"

Yang Ding pulled him aside, saying, "Instructor Xiang, you haven't congratulated me yet."

Xiang Bin was somewhat surprised that this kid dared to touch him.

If it weren't for Ye Rou, Yang Ding's hand would have been broken.

Now he can only shake off Yang Ding.

"I didn't expect you could actually handle Instructor Ye. Don't just celebrate, the monthly exam is the real deal. Close combat is very dangerous. If my son accidentally hurts you, your beautiful wife will belong to someone else."

"Thank you for your concern, Instructor. I'm going to practice now."

"Go, go."

Xiang Bin thought Yang Ding was trying to curry favor with him.

He never imagined that Yang Ding had planned this all along to create the illusion that the two had a good relationship.

Yang Ding was a meticulous person; if he was going to assassinate someone, he had to make sure it was done flawlessly.

Luo Guihua glared fiercely at Hu Feng, who was kneeling at the entrance of the pigsty.

"Your brother got his wife pregnant in just a few days, and you're not even fulfilling your responsibilities."

"I'll do it with you once my back is better."

"You get beaten up by the counselor every day because of that bastard brother of yours, what's the point of all this? If your back gets crippled, I'll find someone else to fix it. Don't waste my youth."

These days, having an extramarital affair isn't illegal. As long as you can get a child, you can easily become the legal wife.

Hu Feng remained silent. After taking the Peiyuan Pill, his back injury eased somewhat, and he felt extremely grateful to Yang Ding.

Although he didn't say it, he was the only one who was genuinely happy for his good brother.

Yang Ding was the only ordinary student who broke through class segregation.

Xiang Bin had been secretly monitoring Yang Ding to find out his progress in cultivation. Seeing him practicing boxing today, he asked curiously, "Aren't you practicing the Nine Forms of Sword?"

"The first step in the martial arts academy qualification exam is to have a punching power of 500 jin (250 catties). I'll practice that first."

"How strong are you in the punching box right now? Have you ever tested it?"

"Almost there, about 400 jin (200 kg)."

"You're already far beyond the average person; keep practicing."

Xiang Bin sneered. His son's punches were already worth over a thousand pounds, more than enough to deal with Yang Ding.

Actually, he misunderstood. Yang Ding wasn't pursuing advancement, but rather control.

The problem he needs to consider now is how to conceal his punching power of 1600 jin or even 3200 jin after advancing to the second rank, and pretend to exert all his strength to deliver a punch of 500 jin during the test.

Ye Rou, a star student at Jiangling University, became the talk of the town in the afternoon with news of her pregnancy.

All the male students in the martial arts academy, from freshmen to seniors, were so jealous of Yang Ding that their fists turned purple.

Many sons of noble families in Jiangling City were fond of Ye Rou, but unexpectedly, the empire's marriage system malfunctioned.

Even after the malfunction, they didn't break off the engagement; they just went along with it, and nobody knew why.

Xiang Tianyou glanced at his ugly wife and burst out laughing in anger.

"What is Instructor Ye thinking? Doesn't she have any picky eating habits?"

"That kid is really arrogant. He was shouting and yelling in the guardhouse this afternoon."

"Don't worry, he doesn't have much time left. I'll beat him so badly during the monthly exam that his parents won't recognize him. What good is a good wife?"

"Aren't you afraid that Instructor Ye will retaliate against you?"

"A public test, a public fight, what can she do to me? My aunt is the discipline director."