How well Elliot was hiding his feelings and how good the boy was at hiding his fear—Anxia wanted to test it. Now she understood why her mother wanted to test her combat skills—the older woman wanted to test the child's capabilities she had not seen for a long time. In Anxia's case, the child she never knew she had given birth to.
If a father had no idea he had a child, people would understand that, especially if the mother-to-be hid her pregnancy and ran away. But Anxia... she was a woman and gave birth, but she never knew that she had given birth to a pair of twins... She knew how careless she could be to be fooled by the female doctor. Anxia and Ling Meng knew nothing about pregnancy and blindly believed the doctor.