"I'm sorry..."
Cui Lingyao forced a smile at him. "But back then, I truly never wanted to leave a part of myself—my bloodline—in this world. I didn't want to be tied down for a lifetime."
'Maybe that was selfish.'
'But I really didn't want to.'
Xie Jinbai's pupils trembled. He stared at her, his eyes slowly turning red.
Cui Lingyao couldn't bear to see him like this. She squeezed his hand and said in a hoarse voice, "I'm not telling you this to make you sad..."
"I just want you to know that it's not that I don't want to have a child, but that I *can't*. If..."
She closed her eyes. "If I could, I... I..."
Xie Jinbai gripped her hand in return. "You regret it?"
Regretting that she had let the system render her body unable to bear children?
Cui Lingyao nodded. "I regret it now..."
'She didn't regret anything else from three years ago.'
'But now, she regretted this.'
'She was even annoyed with herself. Why hadn't she thought of this when the system revived this body?'
