"I'll adopt him," Xi Daiyu said without hesitation. She wasn't sure why but when she laid eyes on this child, she felt an instant connection to him. She knew that she had to protect and take care of him no matter what.
Hai Long laughed at her. "You're having a child out of wedlock!"
Xi Daiyu blushed furiously, but her stance on the matter remains unchanged. She said stubbornly, "So what? Since he doesn't have a mother, I'll be his mom."
Hai Long looked at her with pity in his eyes. "I told you you're silly – you just don't want to admit it to yourself."
"And I told you you're not allowed to call me silly," Xi Daiyu said with a glare.
Hai Long stepped forward and place a hand over her shoulder, tugging her into a hug. "I was gonna say that since we found this child together, we'll share the responsibility of caring for him. Yes, he needs a mother, but he also needs a father. We can get married and then later announce that we have a child. Having a child before marriage isn't uncommon these days. It's kinda like boarding the train before getting the tickets. Also, I believe that someday, this little guy will show us his special side."
Xi Daiyu was stunned into silence. She knew she was supposed to be moved by his words, but for some reason, every time she sees the guy, she just wanted to punch him.
"Hahahaha!"
The other people in the room busted out laughing. Hai Long has always had this certain charisma that could make the people around him trust him.
He turned around and said to his team, "If someday, in the future, this child shows any special traits, I will share the rewards of this discovery with everyone."
a team member shrugged and replied, "One less reward is not a big deal. I just thought that since you guys are going to adopt him, shouldn't he have a name?"
"Name?"
Xi Daiyu went blank, finally realizing that she was woefully unprepared to be someone's mother.
Xi Daiyu snapped back to her senses when she heard his suggestion. She turned to him with a frown and argued, "I was the one who decided to adopt him first so why can't we call him Hai Xi, huh? The child doesn't have to follow the father's surname."
"Wait! Boss, Xi Daiyu, don't you find this a little messy? Your names are both two syllables and if you simply joined both your names together, your family of three would all have similar names. It would be so hard to differentiate," A team member reasoned.
"Okay, how about I give him my surname and you give him his name?" Hai Long proposed.
Xi Daiyu's red lips curled in distaste. "Why can't it be the other way round?"
Hai Long smiled indulgently. "Because the surname 'Xi' sounds nicer, don't you think? Don't you remember telling me that the surname 'Xi' sounds pretty good when we first met?"
"We're about to land, please return to your seats, everyone," the pilot announced.
Three days later at the Ancient Spirit Beast Research Center.
"Everything is normal. Too normal. All the results are still the same. We added several data to analyze, including cell count, but they're all normal. From his genes, he is a human being but there was some unclear component about it that makes it too complicated for our equipment to analyze clearly. However, this sort of condition has only one out of a thousand chances of happening on humans – it doesn't mean anything," The Team members reported the latest findings to Hai Long.
"Looks like I'm going to be a father!" Hai Long put on a facade of a bitter smile.
They've been back for three days and so far, the child hasn't cried or made a fuss. Even though all the tests that they performed on him, he was quiet and smiling. This child definitely had an ineffable affinity with them seeing how quickly he became the darling of the entire research institute.
However, to keep the Inspection Committee from making their way over, Hai Long announced that the child would be his and Xi Daiyu's son. They wanted to make sure that they wouldn't be dragged into the fraud incidents that seemed to be trending right now.
After much discussion, they decided to name the child Hai Xuanhao. Xi Daiyu believes that this would give him an imposing appearance.
To give the child a legal federal status, Hai Long and Xi Daiyu got married a month later. After the news of the wedding had spread, they then announced that they had a child before their marriage.
They also made sure that Hai Xuanhao had his official birth certificate that stated Hai Long as his father and Xi Daiyu as his mother.
The only thing that Hai Long was looking forward to in this arrangement was the child turning six. Everyone at that age would have to go through the Spirit Awakening ceremony and Hai Long couldn't wait to see what type of spirit the child would awaken.
In a world like Soul Land and the planets that the Soul Federation occupied, other than those two Spirit Beast planets, every child at the age of six must awaken a spirit of their own.
Spirits were also a characteristic of the people of Douluo and each of them has a spirit of their own. Awakening a spirit was a pivotal point in the lives of the Douluo people.
It would definitely be interesting to see what spirit a child born with a Godly appearance can awaken!!