Ming Lengchen held her tightly, gently stroking her hair, softly kissing her fair forehead, and affectionately touching her delicate nose, his love overwhelming.
“By the way, Chen, will giving birth be very painful? If it’s painful, I don’t want to give birth. I heard from friends before that having a BABY is extremely painful!” Mei Siyu said seriously, looking at Ming Lengchen with hopeful eyes.
“Yuer, what are you talking about? What does being despicable have to do with a child?” Ming Lengchen asked, confused. His Yuer was speaking incomprehensibly again.
“Oh, not giving birth to something despicable, but giving birth to a baby,” she explained patiently, embarrassed by her slip of the tongue.
“Oh, about that, I don’t know. If you want to know, you can ask the Empress Dowager. Only she knows,” Ming Lengchen said, stroking her cheek indulgently.
She would never dare ask the Empress Dowager such a question – that would be asking for trouble! She didn’t want to walk into a trap. If only Yun Xi were here – as an obstetrics doctor, she would definitely explain everything clearly. But now she wasn’t by her side, making her feel quite lost.
The next day, in the Phoenix Pavilion!
“What? She’s pregnant?” Summer Wan’er asked, somewhat surprised.
“Yes, madam. This servant is certain,” Chun Xiu answered firmly, wondering if what she was doing was right. Remembering how Mei Fei had saved her mistress from the brink of death without holding grudges, and looking at what she was doing now, she felt conflicted. Should she stop all this?
“Have you done what I asked you to do?” Wan’er inquired.
“It’s done. This is the letter the master gave you,” Chun Xiu pulled out an envelope from her bosom and respectfully handed it to Summer Wan’er.
Wan’er, your adoptive father knows you are working hard, but for the greater cause, you must endure more! If necessary, you can kill to silence others, but you must never let anyone know about your martial arts skills, and even more so, you must not expose the secret that you are not the real Xia Wan’er. This would ruin everything, remember!! Adoptive Father.
Xia Wan’er slowly tore up the letter and burned it in the candlelight, knowing that this item could not be kept, or it would bring disaster.
