Gu Ran was very agitated.
But strangely, just like Liu Zijun at her parents' funeral, feeling sad yet somehow liberated, he felt joy amidst his agitation.
A child.
Even if they couldn't acknowledge each other, it was still his child.
Gu Ran didn't understand why, at twenty, he should be too young to like children.
He analyzed, "It must be the genes acting up."
Despite humans being the most sentient beings with miraculous cognitive abilities, they are, after all, natives of Earth, like all creatures, harboring an instinctive drive to reproduce deep inside.
Now, his genes had propagated.
Moreover, as Liang Qing's child, this child would inevitably pass on the genes.
So, did he feel joy and an inexplicable sense of freedom on an instinctive level?
Another possibility, from a professional standpoint, was psychological equilibrium.