Chapter 311: Do You Know Why You Weren't Satisfied?
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 311: Do You Know Why You Weren't Satisfied?
"Did you not take my purity?!"
Neung So-hwa’s face flushed deep red as she raised her voice.
"............"
Sun-woo’s jaw dropped at her words.
Wait, what is she talking about?
Taken her purity?!
When on earth would he have done such a thing when he couldn't even guarantee his own survival?
Sun-woo felt a profound sense of injustice.
He might have harbored some lewd thoughts, but he had absolutely never acted on them. He had even slapped his own cheeks to drive those thoughts away.
So how could she utter such nonsense about him taking her purity?
"What are you talking about?!"
Sun-woo finally snapped out of his daze and shouted back at her.
"Are you feigning ignorance?!"
As Sun-woo raised his voice, Neung So-hwa raised hers as well, refusing to back down.
"Did you not get me pregnant?!"
"Pregnant? What pregnancy?!"
Sun-woo was utterly bewildered.
Pregnant?
What in the world was she saying? There was no way they could have done that in such a short time.
Besides, how could anyone know they were pregnant after just one day?
Pregnancy required premonitory symptoms—the cessation of the menstrual cycle, morning sickness, or a growing belly.
On what basis was she claiming to be carrying his child?
He couldn't understand it at all.
"How can you pretend not to know!"
Neung So-hwa shouted, looking genuinely angry.
She was furious. How could he be so shameless after taking everything from her?
"I’m not pretending! I really don't know! I never did anything that would get you pregnant!"
Sun-woo vented his frustration.
His only physical contact with her consisted of kneading her breast once, placing his hand over her Dantian, and kissing her to pass the Ice Essence.
So how could she have lost her purity and gotten pregnant?
Flash.
"Huh?"
Suddenly, a spark went off in Sun-woo’s head, and a previous conversation began to resurface.
[By the way, do you know how babies are made?]
[...Is it not by losing one's purity?]
[And how do you lose your purity?]
[Is it not through a kiss! When a man and a woman who love each other press their lips together, do they not lose their purity and become pregnant!]
[Neung So-hwa.]
[What is it?]
[When did you have sex education?]
[I learned it when I was ten.]
As the memory of the conversation fully returned, Sun-woo stood there with his mouth agape.
He finally realized why Neung So-hwa was talking like this.
She was perfect in every other way, but there was one thing she lacked.
A proper understanding of sex.
Because she was a prodigy, she had mastered various academic disciplines by the age of ten, but her sex education had been tailored for a ten-year-old.
After that, she had entered closed-door meditation, leaving her with no opportunity to gain further knowledge. Having lived her entire life as a virgin, she had zero practical experience.
As a result, despite being twenty-eight years old, her sexual knowledge remained at the level of a ten-year-old.
Sun-woo felt like his brain was short-circuiting.
He didn't even know where to begin to untangle this mess.
What was he supposed to say to someone who believed a kiss led to pregnancy?
"Did we not kiss! Did you not take my purity and even get me pregnant! How can you deny it so shamelessly!"
Neung So-hwa screamed at him, her face burning with heat.
She remembered the moment of the kiss vividly.
Even if it was an act to feed her the Ice Essence, she remembered his lips, his tongue, and even his saliva entering her without hesitation.
Every time the kiss continued, her heart fluttered, and her whole body felt ticklish.
And then, an indescribable, overwhelming pleasure had washed over her.
Though she had never been pregnant before, she was certain. She was certain she was carrying Sun-woo’s child.
How could he deny it was pregnancy after such an intense act?
Neung So-hwa felt her blood boiling.
"You can't get pregnant from a kiss!"
Sun-woo shouted back, feeling wronged.
He had his own grievances to air. How could a kiss lead to pregnancy? If that were possible, why would low birth rates be a social issue?
"If not a kiss, then how does one get pregnant!"
"Well... that's... I mean..."
At Neung So-hwa’s blunt question, Sun-woo began to stammer.
Clearly, her common sense regarding pregnancy was wrong. He needed to correct it.
But now that she was asking him directly, he had no idea how to answer.
Was it even appropriate to give a woman of this age a basic sex education lesson from scratch?
Sun-woo felt a headache coming on.
"See! You cannot even speak!"
As Sun-woo stammered, Neung So-hwa’s voice grew sharper with anger.
"You are clearly at a loss for words because you are in the wrong!"
"It's just that I don't know where to start!"
"Of course! Because you would have to prove my words are false!"
"I’m telling you, your sex education was wrong!"
"What about it was wrong!"
"You can't possibly get pregnant just from kissing!"
"I am a genius! I mastered various disciplines at the age of ten, and I am a prodigy among prodigies who reached the Profound Realm at twenty-eight! There is no way what I know is wrong!"
"Who did you learn sex education from anyway?!"
Sun-woo shouted in frustration.
Who on earth had taught her such incorrect information?
"From my Royal Mother!"
"There's no way that was a proper education!"
"Are you insulting the Royal Mother who gave birth to me?!"
Neung So-hwa’s face turned even redder as she spoke.
"That's not what I meant!" Sun-woo snapped back.
"Did you not just say the Royal Mother lied!"
"It was a white lie. A white lie!"
"What on earth is that!"
"A kind lie told to protect your childhood innocence."
"Impossible! My Royal Mother is a virtuous, beautiful, and truthful woman. She would never tell such a lie!"
"There's no way she'd give a proper sex education to a ten-year-old daughter!"
"My Royal Mother was not the type of person to discriminate based on age!"
"It's not discrimination, it's consideration!"
"Stop lying! You are clearly lying because you do not want to take responsibility for me!"
"What kind of ridiculous nonsense is that?!"
Sun-woo gasped in shock at her accusation.
"I have heard that before taking a woman's purity, men act as sweet as can be, as if they would pluck the stars and the moon from the sky! But once they have taken it, they treat her like a caught fish—with no interest and only annoyance! Are you just another man after all?!"
"No, where did you even learn that?!"
Sun-woo asked, stunned by her words.
"Seol-hyang taught me!"
"Stop hanging out with her!"
Sun-woo pressed his throbbing temples.
What on earth had that girl been teaching this innocent woman?
"That is not the issue! How can you take everything from me and then act as if you know nothing? Am I nothing more than a one-night stand to you?"
"It's not like that! We didn't even have a 'stand' in the first place!"
"Denying it until the very end! I am carrying your child!"
Neung So-hwa continued, stroking her smooth abdomen.
"Your child is right here, so how can you refuse to be a father!"
"I told you, you don't get pregnant from kissing!"
"Then how does one get pregnant!"
"Well... you see... the sperm... the egg... implantation... fertilization has to happen..."
"I have no idea what you are talking about!"
Neung So-hwa raised her voice in confusion.
"............"
Sun-woo fell into a silent dilemma.
He realized this would never end if they kept going like this.
Sigh.
Sun-woo let out a deep internal sigh.
He had wanted to protect her innocence until the end, but it seemed that was no longer possible.
Unless he gave her a proper sex education right here and now, this was going nowhere.
"Sohwa."
Sun-woo looked at Neung So-hwa with an incredibly serious expression.
"Speak."
Neung So-hwa replied with a pout, her anger still not fully dissipated.
"Do you really think I'm lying?"
"I do not know."
Neung So-hwa shook her head.
"All my life, I believed that a kiss between a man and a woman was the act for pregnancy. But you keep saying it is not, that it is wrong, and it has left me confused. I do not know what is right and what is wrong anymore."
Neung So-hwa spoke her honest feelings as she looked at Sun-woo.
She might have lacked sexual knowledge, but she wasn't a fool.
Since Sun-woo was denying it so vehemently, a seed of doubt had been planted. She wondered if what she had believed all this time was truly the truth.
Confusion had set in. She simply didn't know what to believe.
"In a way, you're not entirely wrong. A kiss can be a part of the act for pregnancy."
"Then what is wrong about it?"
Neung So-hwa asked, puzzled.
"Too many steps were skipped."
"I do not understand. It is too difficult."
"I'll explain it to you one by one. Listen carefully."
Sun-woo spoke in a gentle tone, looking directly at her.
"First of all, how did you feel when we kissed?"
"Wh-why are you asking such a thing! It is embarrassing! It is shameful!"
At Sun-woo’s blunt question, Neung So-hwa turned red with embarrassment.
"Tell me. That's the only way I can explain it properly."
Sun-woo looked at her with eyes that were nothing but serious.
"Well... I mean..."
Meeting his gaze, Neung So-hwa stammered as she finally opened her mouth.
"At first... the sensation of soft lips was unfamiliar. And for some reason, that softness made me feel shy."
"And then?"
"And... then... when your tongue entered, I was very surprised... I had realized that you, whom I thought dead, were alive, so how could I not be surprised? I was shocked over and over again."
Neung So-hwa’s face turned as red as a ripe apple as she spoke haltingly.
"But why didn't you try to pull your lips away?"
"......It felt too good.... When your tongue first passed my lips and entered my mouth, the feeling of it wrapping around my interior was so wonderful... I couldn't even think of pulling away."
"It felt that good?"
Sun-woo asked with a slightly mischievous expression.
"It was a joy I have never felt in my life.... My whole body felt tingly as if paralyzed, and my eyes began to grow hazy...... It was the first time... I had ever felt something so pleasant."
Neung So-hwa’s eyes began to tremble slightly as she recalled the situation.
Her excitement was clearly rising again.
"Your whole body felt paralyzed?"
"....Yes.... It was as if I were paralyzed, tingling and aching here and there."
"Wasn't there one place in particular that felt especially tingly?"
".............."
At Sun-woo’s question, Neung So-hwa clamped her mouth shut.
There was indeed a place that had felt particularly tingly, but she was too embarrassed to say it.
"Sohwa. You have to tell me the truth so I can explain it properly. You don't want to leave things feeling unsettled like this, do you?"
Sun-woo coaxed her in a soft voice.
"My... that... my... lower parts..."
Perhaps his persuasion worked.
Neung So-hwa, whose face was already like a ripe persimmon, turned even redder as she spoke slowly.
"Where in your lower parts?"
Sun-woo pressed her even more relentlessly.
"Down... there... the place... where I... urinate."
Neung So-hwa squeezed her eyes shut in shame.
"And how did your lower parts feel?"
".....They felt tingly."
"So, did you dislike that feeling?"
"I did not dislike it..... It was just strange."
Neung So-hwa spoke cautiously, recalling the sensation.
"How was it strange?"
Sun-woo asked again.
"Well... I didn't dislike it, but... it felt like... something... was left unsatisfied."
Neung So-hwa spoke her feelings honestly.
The tingling sensation in her lower parts hadn't been unpleasant. In fact, it was closer to being good.
However, she hadn't felt a sense of relief.
It was a strange mix of pleasure and dissatisfaction.
"Sohwa."
"..........Why are you calling me?"
"Do you know why you weren't satisfied?"
"I do not."
Neung So-hwa shook her head at his question.
"It's because things were skipped."
"Skipped?"
Neung So-hwa tilted her head.
"I mean that some of the steps in the process of getting pregnant were omitted."
"Is... is that so?"
"Yes. That's why it felt strangely good but left you feeling unsatisfied."
Sun-woo nodded, speaking with a voice full of conviction.
"I... I suppose your words make sense. Since we had already started the process of getting pregnant through the kiss, I was left unsatisfied because it was cut off in the middle!"
Neung So-hwa spoke as if she finally understood.
"Then, what must be done for me to be satisfied?"
Neung So-hwa asked Sun-woo, her voice filled with curiosity.