"Grandma told me I can go have lunch with you, but I can't stay overnight, and I have to call her every night..."
An Nuannuan sat on the sofa in the milk tea shop, leaning against Xu Musen with a cup of milk tea in her arms.
Both of them were wearing matching down jackets, looking like a large and a small snowman.
"Hmm, grandma is just looking out for you, she doesn't want her precious granddaughter to be at a disadvantage."
Xu Musen said with a smile.
An Nuannuan took a gulp of milk tea and looked up at Xu Musen with her large, round eyes.
"Why would it be a disadvantage? I like you, and not being able to be together every day would be the real disadvantage."
Xu Musen looked into her pure, innocent eyes, "Of course she's worried we might do something inappropriate."
"Like kisses, hugs and playing piggyback?"
"No, the kind that can make babies."
Xu Musen said with a laugh.
Nuannuan's cheeks turned pink, she squirmed a bit, and then looked at Xu Musen with serious earnestness, "Then do you, do you want to have children with me?"
Xu Musen had not expected An Nuannuan to seriously bring up the topic.
Children, of course, Xu Musen wanted them. He felt that one of the biggest reasons he ended up considering a divorce with Yao Mingyue in his previous life was because they never had a child.
Children are the crystallization of love and the greatest stabilizer of a family.
After ten or twenty years of marriage, most couples lose that so-called romantic love, only staying together because of the familial love forged by having children.
If he had had a child in his previous life, maybe he would have chosen to spend the rest of his life with her.
Subconsciously, Xu Musen did yearn to have a child.
But looking at An Nuannuan, he usually couldn't help but see her as a naive young girl.
And they were indeed too young right now.
Maybe when they're 21 or 22, juniors or seniors in college, it really could be something to consider.
Xu Musen said with a smile, pinching her cheek.
"Do you know what having a baby represents?"
"Of course, I know, it's... a very happy and blissful thing, just like how my mom used to love me and Nannan the most."
An Nuannuan's eyes held a longing, having lost her mother when she was young, she always had some expectations for motherly love.
Although, she might not truly understand all that being a good mother entails at the moment.
Xu Musen found her even more adorable, and playfully tapped her lips as she sipped her milk tea.
"You haven't even weaned yourself yet; it's too early for you to nurse a child."
"I can do it! My grandma had my dad when she was even younger than I am; I can nurse too..."
An Nuannuan said, her cheeks flushing with a swift brush of red, and Xu Musen burst out laughing.
He was certainly not worried about Nuannuan nursing a child in the future.
"Xu Musen, you're teasing me..."
"You're going to have my child; if I don't tease you, who else should I tease?"
An Nuannuan puffed her cheeks, looking like an aggrieved little pufferfish.
Xu Musen happily pinched her face, the air puffing out of her cheeks amusingly.
"Xu Musen, you, you really want to... do that with me?"
An Nuannuan suddenly asked again, her voice as faint as a mosquito's.
Xu Musen didn't hide anything, he nodded, "Of course, liking someone naturally means liking everything about her."
Xu Musen always dismissed the idea of Platonic love: if it's not feasible, it's not; what's all this about pure emotions?
Lovers should love everything about each other, and indeed some things are indeed a more profound way of expressing love.
It's also encoded in the genes, especially during adolescence when hormones are particularly rampant.
Xu Musen didn't consider himself a saint.
But seeing An Nuannuan's slightly dazed look, he still smiled, "You don't think I'm someone whose mind is filled with only such thoughts, do you?"
Nuannuan blinked, giving him a definite answer.
Xu Musen was full of question marks, wasn't this different from the answer he had expected?
An Nuannuan, seeing his deflated look, lifted the corners of her mouth in a cute smile.
"But I read a scientific magazine that said if a boy has such thoughts, it actually indicates that his hormones and body development are good, which is why he acts so... eager."
It was the first time Xu Musen had heard this theory, suddenly feeling that the guilt from his adolescent urges was alleviated.
It's not that his mind was full of sordid thoughts, but because he was healthy and robust!
Xu Musen was somewhat amused; was she insulting or complimenting him?
"Actually, grandma is just worried that if we break up in the future, or if we accidentally have a child, it would ultimately be bad for you now."
"I would never fight with you to break up, and you mustn't either... Xu Musen, you wouldn't break up with me, right?"
Nuannuan said, yet still couldn't help confirming once more.
"Of course," Xu Musen held her in his arms, gently rubbing her cheek, "I never will."
"Then there's nothing to worry about, right?"
An Nuannuan hummed lightly, even though a man's promise is essentially no more than pie in the sky, An Nuannuan loved it.
Xu Musen looked at An Nuannuan, surprised; why does it seem... she's even more eager about moving in together than he was?
He grabbed An Nuannuan's cheeks and pulled them apart, "Tell me, Nuannuan, how come I feel you're even more impatient than I am? Admit it, you've been craving my body!"