My love game is too abstract

"Do you... do you even know what pregnancy is?" Yarrow said to her, wiping tea stains from the corner of his mouth, feeling speechless.

"It's when a girl and a boy are together, and then they have a little baby," Ji Xiaofei said, patting her belly, showing off her knowledge.

"So, I've been with Yarrow for so long, it wouldn't be strange if I got pregnant, right?"

Yarrow looked at her, his lips twitching a couple of times.

Kids really are at an age where they say whatever comes to mind.

"I'm really pregnant! If you don't believe me, Yarrow, touch it. You can even feel it moving."

As she spoke, Ji Xiaofei grabbed Yarrow's hand and placed it on her little belly.

"Yes, yes, you're pregnant, you're pregnant."

Yarrow helplessly pinched her little belly.

It was soft and squishy, even though he was touching the area where her stomach was.

Hearing Yarrow's acknowledgment, a happy smile appeared on Ji Xiaofei's face.

"So, I, Xiaoji, am a pregnant woman now!" She patted her flat chest, raised her chin.

"Yarrow has to treat me like a treasure and hold me in the palm of his hand. He has to satisfy whatever I want to eat or whatever I want to do!"

Yarrow couldn't help but find it funny. He finally understood that she was pretending to be pregnant for this reason. As expected, children's thoughts are so simple.

"Okay, okay," he chuckled, pulling Xiaoji into his arms and pinching her chubby cheeks.

"So then, what does Xiaoji want to eat?"

"Hmm..."

Ji Xiaofei tilted her head and thought for a moment:

"I want to eat strawberry daifuku from the Rainbow Dessert Shop."

"You just had that two days ago."

"I'm pregnant now, so you have to listen to me," Ji Xiaofei said, raising her chin.

"Alright, alright," Yarrow said helplessly.

It was just a child's whim. He would humor her, and once she got what she wanted, the novelty would wear off.

"There's still some time before dinner. I'll take you to eat it now," Yarrow said, patting her cheek, then whispering:

"Don't tell Serena later, okay?"

"Yay!" Xiaoji cheered.

Dinner time.

Serena placed the last dish on the dining table, took off her apron, and was about to sit down when she noticed someone was missing from the table.

"Has Zexia not come out yet?" she asked.

"Not yet. She's even taken a leave of absence from school during this time. It seems like she'll be busy for quite a while," Yarrow said, shrugging.

"She hasn't been eating much either. Sometimes I see her come out in the middle of the night to grab a piece of bread and take a few bites."

"Is that so?" Serena said. "Then I'll bring the food to her room later. No matter how important her work is, someone needs to take care of her."

At this moment, her gaze fell on Ji Xiaofei, and her eyebrows furrowed again.

"Xiaoji, how many times have I told you not to pick the vegetables out of your food?"

Ji Xiaofei shrank back a little as she picked the carrots out of her bowl, then straightened up and said, raising her head:

"It's okay, because I, Xiaoji, am pregnant, so I don't have to eat vegetables."

"I told you..." Serena was about to scold her when she suddenly sensed something was wrong.

"You... what did you just say?"

"I, Xiaoji, am pregnant," Ji Xiaofei said proudly, hands on her hips.

The dining table immediately fell silent.

Everyone's gaze slowly shifted from Ji Xiaofei to Yarrow.

Yarrow was silent for a few seconds, then swallowed the half-eaten pickled cucumber strip in his mouth, picked up a handkerchief, wiped his mouth, sighed, and looked at everyone:

"You guys... wouldn't believe what a child says when she's just messing around, right?"

Serena's expression darkened slightly. She said to Ji Xiaofei, "Xiaoji, come here."

Ji Xiaofei put down her spoon and ran to Serena.

Serena reached out and touched below her abdomen, using a small detection spell. After a moment, her expression softened, and she breathed a sigh of relief, saying to Ji Xiaofei:

"You can't say things like that carelessly, especially girls."

"Did you really have to check?" Yarrow said, holding his forehead in resignation.

But Serena's expression didn't improve. She patted Xiaoji's head and asked softly, "Xiaoji, tell me, why do you think you're pregnant?"

"Because when a girl and a boy are together, they have a little baby. I have Yarrow, so I'm pregnant," Ji Xiaofei said matter-of-factly.

Peach Fox patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief, chuckling twice: "Ha, we thought... ha, haha..."

"Xiaoji really scared me to death," Lulu said, relieved, and finally brought the bowl of boiled peas that she had been holding halfway to her mouth.

"...I already gave her snacks, and she's still not satisfied. I knew I should have just given her a good scolding," Yarrow thought, covering his face.

"Um... so... so now that I'm pregnant, can I not eat vegetables?" Ji Xiaofei looked at Serena, tentatively asking.

"That's what they say in the videos. After you're pregnant, you have to be treated like a treasure and held in your hands..."

Serena had a general idea of why Ji Xiaofei said that.

She sighed helplessly and said earnestly, "Xiaoji, you're not pregnant right now..."

"But Yarrow said I was pregnant," Xiaoji said.

Serena's sharp gaze immediately glared over.

"I was just humoring her..." Yarrow quickly explained.

"The way you said it, a boy and a girl being together won't cause pregnancy," Serena patiently explained to Ji Xiaofei.

"Then what do you have to do to get pregnant?"

"This..."

"Ha, Xiaoji, have you forgotten? We said before that you need two people who really like each other, and then a stork will bring a little baby," Peach Fox quickly said.

"Oh..." Ji Xiaofei finally remembered.

Serena took Ji Xiaofei's hand and said earnestly:

"Xiaoji, pregnancy is a very important thing. You can't just casually say it, especially girls, understand?"

"But I can still lay eggs," she said.

Serena was speechless and held her forehead: "That's just your racial characteristic, it's not the same... So you can't just say things like that casually in the future, understand?"

Ji Xiaofei nodded in agreement.

But she seemed a little disappointed. If that was the case, wouldn't her plan to pretend to be pregnant so she could eat and play whatever she wanted be ruined?

She pouted in distress.

After dinner, Yarrow and Serena were in the study as usual, finishing their homework for the day.

As she was writing, Serena sighed heavily.

"What's wrong again?" Yarrow looked at her. "Is today's homework not to your liking?"

Serena frowned and glanced at him, her face worried:

"This child, Ji Xiaofei, is imitating and learning all sorts of messy things. I'm really worried that one day she'll learn something bad..."

"You're overthinking it, right? Isn't it just a whim? Aren't all children like that?" Yarrow said nonchalantly.

"A whim? What if she has a whim to imitate the people in the videos taking hallucinogens?!" Serena said sharply.

"Uh... I think... isn't that situation a bit too extreme?" Yarrow said, twitching his lips.

"You have to take precautions in everything! Some children turn bad because their parents don't discipline them, thinking that this doesn't matter and that doesn't matter," Serena said seriously.

"I used to think it was okay to let her be, but now it seems like I have to discipline her properly!"

"It's as if she's already turned bad..." Yarrow sighed.

Serena glared at him: "Yarrow! Xiaoji became human because of you, and you have to be responsible for her growth!"

"Yes..."

Faced with Serena's insistence, Yarrow had no choice but to comply.