When 'God' Decides To Start Over-Chapter 797 - 317 Whose Child

Li Xiu had just returned to Courtyard No. 7 after leaving the Lightspeed III with the old man, when he saw Wan Chaocun sitting in the yard of Courtyard No. 7, holding a bottle and feeding a child.

"Spring Jie, whose child is this?" Li Xiu walked over and asked.

"Yours," Wan Chaocun replied with a smile.

"Don’t joke around, I don’t have such a small child," Li Xiu said, glancing at the child in Wan Chaocun’s arms.

The child was chubby and fair-skinned, with a cute face, sucking on the bottle while looking at Li Xiu with big, sparkling eyes.

Li Xiu immediately felt that the child looked familiar, like the one the Jade Demon King spat out the other day.

As expected, Wan Chaocun shoved the child into his arms and said, "That day, you had just entered the Jade Gate, and she stepped out right after. If she’s not yours, whose is she?"

With that, Wan Chaocun took two steps back, scrutinized Li Xiu and the child in his arms, and said, "Look at her nose, eyes, and mouth; she looks just like you. If you say she’s not yours, I don’t believe it."

"Especially with that innocent smile she has, who else’s could she be? Be honest, which family’s girl did you mess with to have such a child?" Wan Chaocun laughed as she spoke.

"Does she really?" Li Xiu lifted her up to his face, staring at her eye-to-eye for a while, then looked at Wan Chaocun and said with a smile, "Spring Jie, I think you’re mistaken. Many people look alike; it’s just a coincidence."

"Look, look, and you say she’s not yours." Wan Chaocun pointed at Li Xiu and the baby.

Li Xiu turned his head and saw that the child was looking at Wan Chaocun and smiling, a smile that seemed to have a warm and comforting power, making it impossible not to smile back no matter how upset one might be.

Just then, Afei happened to pass by, and Wan Chaocun pointed to the child and Li Xiu, asking Afei, "Little Afei, don’t they look exactly the same?"

"They came out of the same mold," Afei answered confidently.

She remembered Li Xiu’s frequently smiling expression vividly. When Li Xiu first went to the Sea Heaven Trial Ground, she noticed him at first sight because of that very smile.

"Do you think that little girl is his child?" Wan Chaocun asked again.

"Definitely," Afei confirmed again.

"Is it really that alike?" Li Xiu looked back and forth, still not seeing how the child resembled him.

"See for yourself." Wan Chaocun held a mirror in front of Li Xiu.

Li Xiu looked into the mirror, saw the child also looking into it, and the large and small reflections in the mirror did seem somewhat similar.

Li Xiu looked at the mirror again, then at the child, and the child’s actions almost mirrored his own.

Li Xiu looked at Wan Chaocun and Afei, laughing, "It’s just a coincidence, they just look alike."

But then the child also looked at Wan Chaocun, cooing and babbling with expressions and actions in perfect sync with Li Xiu’s.

Wan Chaocun and Afei looked at Li Xiu as if they were looking at a liar, clearly not believing that the child had nothing to do with him.

"Anyway, I’ve delivered the child to you, deal with it yourself." With that, Wan Chaocun turned and left, not wanting to hear any more of Li Xiu’s explanations.

"Spring Jie, when the child came out, did she have anything else with her?" Li Xiu quickly asked.

"No," Wan Chaocun said as she exited Courtyard No. 7.

Li Xiu examined the child closely but didn’t find anything unusual about her, just like any ordinary human child.

"How did this little one end up inside the Jade Demon King? And why did Jiang Linglan suddenly go all out to take down the Jade Demon King after hearing that she sent the child out the Jade Gate?" Li Xiu couldn’t figure out the logic. Without seeing anything special about the child, he said to Afei, "Afei, find someone to take care of her for now."

"Parents should take care of their own child," Afei said as she left.

"She’s really not mine," Li Xiu thought, depressed, wanting to explain, but Afei had already returned to her room and closed the door.

Li Xiu had no choice but to take the child back to his room. Fortunately, the child didn’t cry or fuss, seeming very well-behaved.

He placed her on the bed, and she just sat there hugging the bottle quietly. When Li Xiu looked at her, she would smile back at him.

"Stop giving me that look. I told you, we’re not related. At most, I’ll find you a good family to raise you. There’s no way I’m keeping you; I’m a single man after all. How would I find a wife if I had to care for you?" Li Xiu said, pointing at the child.

The child just smiled at him, whether she understood or not was a mystery.

"Why am I even talking to a child about this?" Seeing that she wasn’t crying or fussing, Li Xiu left her alone and took out the two pieces of jade Jiang Linglan had given him.

He set the rough stone aside and picked up the icestone jade, carefully examining the Demon Text on it.

Li Xiu had already studied the text on the other piece, the Spring Color Jade, meant for the president. It was a poem about romance.

He hadn’t had time to look at the Demon Text on this piece since he needed to return the other one to the president.