"Ivy, Ivy..." Liam Willow called out again when he saw Ivy Shen wasn't responding.
"Is the snake about to have a baby?!" Ivy muttered in a daze, her mind completely blank, just repeating: The snake is about to give birth!
"Ivy Shen, Ivy Shen!" Seeing her mumbling to herself, Liam Willow couldn't help but raise his voice and call her name again.
"Huh? Who's calling me?" Ivy snapped back to reality when she heard someone calling her.
"Ivy, why are you spacing out? Hurry over here!" Seeing Ivy come to her senses, Liam Willow anxiously called out.
Seeing this, Ivy quickly responded with an "Oh!" and rushed over.
"Ah... it hurts, it hurts so much..." The woman clutched her stomach and screamed, sweat pouring down her forehead as the pain intensified.
"Hang in there, big sis!" Liam Willow was drenched in sweat too, though no one knew just how nervous and flustered he really was—he'd never experienced anything like this before.
All Ivy could do was take out her handkerchief and keep wiping the woman's sweat, while the woman kept screaming in pain. Both of them, having never seen a scene like this, were so tense that they broke out in a sweat themselves.
"Liam Willow..." Ivy said, still helping wipe sweat, unable to hold back her urge to ask something.
"Huh? What's wrong, Ivy?" Liam Willow, sweating, turned to look at Ivy's conflicted face.
Ivy swallowed nervously but forced herself to ask, "Liam Willow, have you ever seen someone give birth before?"
"Uh?"
"I mean, what exactly comes out? Um, I mean, is it a human with a snake tail, or just a human? Or is it... a snake?"
Liam Willow looked at her in surprise. "Ivy, you don't even know this?!"
"I've forgotten everything," Ivy blurted out. Actually, this was the thing she cared about most—if a human with a snake tail came out, fine, but if a bunch of little snakes came out, oh god, she'd definitely faint!
"Oh, it's fine, the snake naturally gives birth to..."
"Ah...!" The woman suddenly screamed loudly, cutting Liam Willow off.
"What were you saying?" Ivy, at this point, ignored the screaming woman—she just wanted to know what the snake actually gave birth to.
"Naturally..."
"I can't... I can't hold on any longer, I'm about to... I'm about to give birth!" The woman clutched Ivy's hand tightly, yanking Ivy's attention back to her.
"What? You're about to give birth? But... but the midwife isn't here yet!" Ivy said worriedly, clearly forgetting to ask what exactly the snake gives birth to.
"Wuwu, I can't... I can't hold on anymore..." The woman cried loudly, obviously in unbearable pain.
Seeing this, Liam Willow also panicked. "Ivy, what do we do?"
"I... I don't know! I've never delivered a baby either!" Ivy was clearly flustered.
Hearing this, Liam Willow took a deep breath and said, "Big sis, how about this—I'll help deliver the baby!"
"You know how?" Ivy asked skeptically—this was no joke.
"I mean, I don't have experience, but I've read about it in books. Let me try, otherwise we can't just sit and do nothing!"
"No way!" The woman bit her lip and refused firmly. "I'd rather die with my child than let another man touch me... Men and women shouldn't touch!" she said, sounding very old-fashioned.
"Then what are we supposed to do?" Liam Willow was frantic. After marriage, a woman treats her husband as her world, so of course she wouldn't want another man touching her. But if no one delivers the baby and something goes wrong...
"Liam Willow, take off your clothes!" Ivy suddenly shouted at him.
"Uh?"
"Why are you standing there? Hurry up and take them off! I'll deliver the baby!" Ivy said, full of determination.