When it was confirmed that Lian Yue was pregnant, Song Zhiqing's reaction was not delight but fright. He wasn't short of sons; even if one of his sons was not quite normal, he still had two others, and two daughters as well. He did not lack children.
His dependence on and fondness for Lian Yue was because she was different from ordinary young girls, and the feeling she gave him was different too. Probably because he had no mother of his own since childhood, his feelings toward her carried a trace of what one might feel for a mother or an older sister.
If Song Ci were here, she would probably say, "That's an Oedipus complex."
Song Zhiqing didn't understand what an Oedipus complex was, but he was indeed somewhat dependent on Lian Yue, and that was all; he had never thought about having children with her.
