Mu Le got pregnant during the year she graduated from graduate school.
What a coincidence.
She discovered she was pregnant at the same time as she was busy with her graduation thesis.
… What an infuriating coincidence.
As graduation is approaching, Mu Le has a lot of things to do, but he is unwilling to stop any of them.
Naturally, he became much colder towards Gu Mingyuan.
This dragon originally planned to retire early and return to the university campus to live out his retirement years.
As a result, because Mu Le's learning momentum was so strong, he had to continue his studies.
In the past two years, the whole dragon has become more bookish, and his military aura has faded a lot, looking more like a cold and aloof professor.
Mu Le is busy with everything at school.
Only after I got home did I have time to scratch my head and write the first draft of the paper.
… In the end, I racked my brains but still couldn’t come up with anything satisfactory.
Gu Mingyuan sat beside her and waited for several seconds, but Mu Le didn't react.
He leaned over and looked down at her: "Do you need help?"
Mu Le waved his hand: "No, no, go and do your thing."
Gu Mingyuan: “…”
He sat back in silence, like a neglected young wife.
He had wanted to help since Mu Le was choosing the topic, but Mu Le was busy with a lot of things every day, and if Mu Le didn't take the initiative to show it to him, he wouldn't deliberately peek at anything.
By the time he got the news, Mu Le's topic had already been decided.
It had nothing to do with him from beginning to end.
… He even changed his work schedule specifically to help Mu Le write his paper.
The feeling of being unwanted was too torturous for Long. Gu Mingyuan sat next to Mu Le, holding her hand and squeezing it.
Mu Le was operating the computer with one hand, while Gu Mingyuan was playing with her other hand. She was already struggling with her thesis, and she became even more annoyed.
She patted Gu Mingyuan's hand and said angrily, "I don't care anymore."
Gu Mingyuan: “Hmm?”
Is this something that needs help
Mu Le turned around and lay directly on him: "Let's do something to relieve boredom!"
Gu Mingyuan: “…”
Humans and their bodies may not be so compatible, but after living together for so many years, they have become familiar enough with each other's bodies.
Sometimes you can tell what the other person is going to do tonight just by looking at their eyes - not to mention such almost explicit sentences.
Gu Mingyuan put his hand on her waist and said, "Are you not going to write the thesis anymore?"
"Write it tomorrow." Mu Le lowered her head to kiss his mouth, "I need to decompress first—"
Doing exercise can really relieve stress.
Even more so is joyful exercise that involves love.
I don’t know if it was a revengeful behavior because he was not needed on the paper... Gu Mingyuan provided complete and very dedicated help when Mu Le needed to relieve stress.
Finally, I unzipped his very large file on Mule's host.
…
In the past, there was a firewall every time a file was transferred.
However, this time the receiving party was too active and caught off guard, so the transmitting party lost control and neglected this point.
There is always a loophole.
The recipient felt a hint of regret while taking a shower afterwards.
The transmitter was adjusting the water flow, gently helping her clean up the traces left by the file transfer, and whispered to her, "What are you thinking about?"
The bathroom was filled with steam.
Mu Le was already very impatient when writing his thesis, and at this moment, leaning in Gu Mingyuan's arms, his mind was completely empty, not wanting to think about anything complicated.
She grabbed the USB drive that the other party had just transferred the file to, and slid it gently with her delicate fingers. Her voice was incredibly soft: "I want to decompress it again."
Then she was pressed against the glass door of the bathroom shower.
…
When she first started flirting with him, Mu Le was thinking naively that there was no difference between once and many times, and since she was already here, she might as well take the opportunity to have some fun.
It feels really smooth and happy when transferring files without adding a firewall.
When Mu Le got up the next day, he felt like his whole body was falling apart.
Only then did she realize that there was indeed a difference between doing it once and doing it many times.
She took a leave of absence and stayed at home without going out.
When Gu Mingyuan returned home at noon, he saw Mu Le, who had taken a rare nap, walking out of the room wearing his loose pajamas and stretching.
The dangling hem of her dress rose quite a bit as she moved, revealing her white, soft thighs - there were still fingerprints from his fingers left there not long ago.
Gu Mingyuan's throat moved.
Mu Le immediately put down his hands and looked at the other person warily: "If you come again, you will not be a human being!"
Gu Mingyuan's expression remained calm: "It wasn't like that in the first place."
Mu Le: “…”
Seeing Mu Le taking several steps back at the speed of light, Gu Mingyuan pursed his lips and walked over, kissed her on the side of her face, and didn't do anything else.
There is no need to bully an innocent human little girl just to prove that you are not human.
Gu Mingyuan brought back some delicious food. He placed the food on the dining table, tilted his head and said to Mu Le: "Eat something, and I'll help you after you finish..."
Gu Mingyuan paused for a moment, and his voice sank: "What are you doing?"
Mu Le took the laptop and carefully selected the items. Without even turning his head, he replied, "Buy something."
She chose very carefully and didn't even notice that Gu Mingyuan's tone was fierce.
Gu Mingyuan pressed his index finger on her laptop and turned off the screen with a click.
Mu Le was stunned for a moment and looked up at him.
"What's wrong?" She paused for two seconds, then immediately realized what was happening. She said angrily and amusedly, "You're so weird. Are you from Earth?"
Gu Mingyuan: “…?”
"No." Mu Le still didn't quite understand. "It's the interstellar age. Contraceptives are harmless to the body. Isn't that common sense?"
Gu Mingyuan's expression turned even worse: "So, the contraceptive pills on Earth are harmful to the human body, right?"
Mu Le: "Yes. But this is not..."
"Do you think," Gu Mingyuan stared at her, "that you can use the contraceptive pills used by orcs normally?"
Mu Le: “…”
She felt a little guilty and whispered, "Is it okay...?"
In fact, she didn't know either.
Because there are many kinds of contraceptive pills in the pharmacy, and different races use completely different pills.
She had just chosen for a long time because she was wondering whether she could take that medicine...
It’s fine to just take the usual cold medicine and anti-inflammatory medicine.
Everyone's defense mechanisms are not much different, and many medicines are also common across the entire planet.
But when it comes to fertility... different races even have different pregnancy periods.
It’s indeed not very good.
Mu Le sighed, stared at Gu Mingyuan, and said helplessly: "No matter what, it's less harmful than abortion, right?"
Gu Mingyuan's temples were throbbing: "... Do you still want to have an abortion?"
Mu Le: “…”
"Why are you so fierce?" Mu Le suddenly realized and started to get angry, "It's because of you—"
She stopped mid-sentence.
Because at this moment, she remembered how she raised her leg and hooked the other person's waist last night to prevent him from opening the firewall...
Mu Le fell silent.
Gu Mingyuan's attitude also softened.
He leaned over to Mu Le and kissed her soft cheek again, saying in a low voice: "It's my fault, baby..."
Mu Le: “…”
This old-fashioned dragon actually called her baby.
This is too unfair.
"I shouldn't be so mean to you." He kissed the corner of Mu Le's eye again, "I'm sorry."
Mu Le hit his chest: "Don't, don't call me like that..."
Sometimes, she says no, but she just likes it.
Gu Mingyuan kissed the corner of her mouth again, and cried against her lips: "Baby. I'm sorry."
Mu Le: I lost, miserably.
She lay in Gu Mingyuan's arms, mumbling: "I am still a beautiful female college student—"
Gu Mingyuan kissed her ear: "Yeah, I know."
He knew what Mu Le meant.
Perhaps influenced by the evil spirit, Mu Le swam freely in the ocean of learning. The more he swam, the more excited he became. Now he felt uncomfortable if he didn't swim for a day.
She had discussed this with Gu Mingyuan and frankly told him that she had no plans to start a family for the time being.
The two of them have a very good relationship, and their cohabitation life is going as smoothly as if they were an old couple who have lived together for many years.
But they have not yet become husband and wife in the legal sense.
It’s because Mu Le likes his current life and doesn’t want to get married so soon and worry about trivial matters of family and children all day long.
Gu Mingyuan lowered his head, resting his forehead against hers, and said softly, "I have another project on hand, and I will stop when I finish it. If you have a child, I will take care of it after it is born."
Mu Le looked at him in surprise: "You..."
"Sorry. I was so excited that I got it wrong." Gu Mingyuan laughed and asked her again seriously, "... Are you willing?"
His eyes were so sincere.
The tenderness in his eyes seemed to melt into the air and could be felt with every breath.
In fact, it was many years ago—before I met Mu Le.
Gu Mingyuan's workload far exceeds what many ordinary people do in their entire lives.
He always maintains his efficiency and strength, like an invincible sword.
So, when he thought his career had reached its peak in that regard.
He chose to retire at the right time and return to scientific research.
His plan at the time was to retire, do some research, and raise a human child...
Now it is possible, possibly about to happen.
It’s just that the position of the human child is a little different, from his pet to his child.
Mu Le couldn't help laughing when he thought of this.
She hugged Gu Mingyuan's sleeve and whispered, "You haven't proposed yet."
Gu Mingyuan hesitated for a second and asked slowly, "Proposing is...?"
Mu Le: “…”
I was careless.
I was so absorbed in research before that I rarely read about love stories. The bloody romance novels I read back then didn’t mention any marriage proposals, just two orcs going through the paperwork—
Oh, yes.
The two orcs got their certificates online.
You don’t even have to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau.
When it comes to marriage, orcs of different races have different attitudes and ways of dealing with it. Even in the interstellar age when society is highly developed, there are still many customs of one's own race.
Mu Le still didn't know what dragons' habits were.
…but she knew that dragons were solitary animals.
After living with Gu Mingyuan for several years, she had never heard anything about his parents or other relatives.
Mu Le found it difficult to explain human family life to him.
It just so happens that her serialized short comic strip about human life needs to be updated.
After that day, Mu Le's hand speed exploded. He finished a short comic strip that used to take a week to finish by drawing while working in just three days.
The theme of this comic is human wedding.
After Mu Le updated the comic, he was the first to forward it to Gu Mingyuan.
The author has something to say: There was a small accident and the baby hasn’t come out yet!
His parents are too clingy, so there is no place for him in this chapter for the time being.
Zizi: