Gu Zi didn't even get a chance to speak before Chen Yu jumped in, grinning as he declared, "Secret recipe? Nonsense! I'm telling you, this baby's going to be a girl. Haven't you heard the old wives' tale? When a woman's carrying a boy, she gets uglier, but when it's a girl, she blossoms like a flower. Just look at her glow! I'm afraid you two will have to try for a second one after this."
He chuckled as he finished, though there was a trace of genuine sympathy on his face—mostly for his old friend Su Shen. The man was barely in his early thirties, had only just gotten married after years of bachelorhood, and was finally expecting his first child... only for it to be a daughter. A daughter! And knowing how head-over-heels Su Shen was for his wife, if she decided this was their one and only, then wouldn't that brilliant genetic stock of his go completely to waste? No heir, no one to carry on the family name. It was downright tragic.
