Gao Chen PoV
Pacing around the hall in front of the bedroom, I gnawed anxiously on my lip as I listened to the screams coming from the normally quiet Li Yichen, the raw agony and pain inside her voice not of the variety that tickled my fancy.
I loved inflicting pain, but even I drew a line on what was 'good' or not in that regard, and on who; hearing a woman screaming in such agony was something that very few could truly be indifferent too, even with age.
I doubt that the Matriarch was indifferent to the screams of her wife when she gave birth as well, but I couldn't be sure...
Either way, listening to the sounds coming from the bedroom made me rather... jittery, just like they had the first time I heard them a year and a half to two years ago...
It wasn't easy being out here, but everyone respected Doctor's too much to go against their word, so when Tan Yunxian asked for solitude as she worked, I gave her the space needed.
