At his wife's prompting, Lu Yuan finally came to his senses. He moved closer to his child and picked it up.
Lu Yuan held his child up for his wife to see, grinning as he said:
"Honey, look! You did it! You laid an egg!"
After showing it off for a moment, Lu Yuan carefully cradled the egg in his arms, terrified that one slip of the hand would shatter it.
Lu Yuan couldn't bear to imagine how he'd face his wife if he broke it.
Su Liyan also found it unbelievable. 'How is this possible?'
'How could I have given birth to an egg? Just a few days ago, I could still feel it moving inside me.'
'And Lu Yuan said the baby's heartbeat was strong and healthy when he took my pulse.'
Exhausted, Su Liyan lay limp on the bed, unable to get up and see her child right away.
'This egg,' Su Liyan thought, 'don't tell me I have to incubate it too?'
Ten months of pregnancy, and now she had to incubate an egg for several more months.
That was something Su Liyan absolutely could not accept.
