Chapter 5 (1/2)
My Wife Is A Princess
Chapter 5: White Sugar Popsicle
”What are you thinking of, feeling everything is very fresh?”
”Hm.”
”When did you come here?”
”This morning.”
”How did you come?”
”There was a battle, lost control during the battle.”
”Then how are you going back?”
”Save power, break through s.p.a.ce.”
”Is it very difficult?”
”So-so.”
There was much freshness and curiosities for Annan Xiu after coming to a strange world, but it was becoming increasingly harder for Li Luyou to suppress his desire to ask many questions after he’d accepted there was a princess from another world beside him.
Li Luyou’s questions flew nonstop and Annan Xiu barely tolerated them with great impatience, answering each of them with curt replies. It was like when relatives dropped by and came to send their greetings. Li Luyou decided enough was enough when he saw the little girl’s pretty eyebrows wrinkle up. He was clearly a mere aboriginal in her eyes, and she would naturally not have much interest in exchanging with him as an imperial princess whose world revolved around herself.
Annan Xiu said with a blank face when she saw Li Luyou’s embarra.s.sed expression, ”I will try my best to answer your doubts. After all, I will also have many questions to ask of you.”
”Ask then, I won’t hide anything I know.”
Annan Xiu opened her mouth but didn’t immediately ask her question. How could she be the same as Li Luyou and act as if she hadn’t seen the world, chattering endlessly with trivial senseless questions. The questions she had to ask had to fit with her status, and also reflect her profundity.
After thinking a while, Annan Xiu raised a very serious question involving the social, ecological and cultural facets of scientific learning. ”The people from this world aren’t plucked down from trees?”
”Nope.” Li Luyou couldn’t help laughing. He couldn’t imagine the scene of little children hanging on a tree like fruits while waiting for someone to pluck them down and take them back. ”A man and a woman combine together, then the woman becomes pregnant and will give birth to a child. Every one of us is born like that… Born from the belly of a woman.”
Annan Xiu lowered her head and looked at her own belly, involuntarily rubbing it. Then she looked at the women walking by in the street, her face full of disbelief. ”It’s truly a strange world, women replace the function of life trees… But then what use are men? Do you absolute need a man and a woman together to birth a child? Are males absolutely indispensable therein?”
”Of course, you need both a man and a woman. Only then can you complete the impregnation process. Afterwards the rest is left to the woman. That’s why mothers can often obtain more admiration in our world.” Li Luyou hoped her line of question would stop there. He had no way of explaining the specifics of procreation to a girl not yet of age.
Li Luyou felt some curiosity when he saw the expression in Annan Xiu’s eyes. Since everyone on the Heavenly Clouds Divine Realm were picked from trees, then according to Darwin’s theory of evolution, their reproductive ability would have degraded even if they had it to begin with. Or perhaps they never had those organs and functions from the very start.
Li Luyou felt uncomfortable and awkward just thinking about it. He couldn’t help asking, ”Are you all as.e.xual?”
”As.e.xual?” Annan Xiu looked at Li Luyou with a frown.
”That is you don’t have genders, no distinction between men and women… Fruits are all fruits, there’s no distinction of male or female.”