Chapter 142: Is She Pregnant?
The physician who entered greeted the Emperor and gave a lengthy congratulations and informed that the Noble Consort is PREGNANT. He also insinuated the fact that it is a miracle, since it is only been less than two months since the Noble Consort had entered the palace and most times you could detect pregnancy only later.
Rijun became skeptical of this doctor’ s intentions as he is leading the Emperor to believe that the Consort was already pregnant before entering the inner palace and in that case the entire family will be persecuted for cheating on the Ruler of the land. But his sister cannot be pregnant! He is lying.
Rijun knew in his heart that if there is a possibility that his sister might be pregnant, she won’t be in the inner palace even if it cost her everything. He didn’t believe her story of how she is in here to find Shengli either. There must be more to it. Even so, she’d endure her being called the Consort of another man but she’d never endure the possibility of her child with Shengli to be labelled as another one’s, either mistakenly or deliberately not when Shengli’s whereabouts are unknown. His sister may seem insouciant most times and she is, at certain things but when it comes to Shengli, she is as Conservative as they get. So Rijun was one hundred percentage sure that she is not pregnant and this is some conspiracy that need to be looked into.
Rijun looked at his father who usually grabs on these subtle clues that others lead for bringing down their family but sadly his father gets his emotions run wild when it comes to his daughter and he did not look rational now. To his relief, the Emperor seemed to have understood his bad intentions and sent off the physician commanding him to keep this matter secret for the ’safety of the Consort’ and treat her properly, allocate more funds for her and a separate cook for cooking nourishing food for the sake of the ’prince’. This is a typical move to keep this matter less priority for now.
AoTian hearing the news was flabbergasted. His daughter is pregnant with Shengli’s baby and is in the inner palace now. What kind of unfortunate incident is this when the father is missing? That day he saw both of them exiting her bed chambers together, he knew something was askew and he interrogated Xu mama who told him what she saw even though she wasn’t much sure. Now she is pregnant as he feared... What can he do now with this willful daughter of his? What’s going to be her future and the child’s? He was extremely troubled.
The Emperor on the other hand jumped in joy the moment the physician exited.
"Rijun! We are both going to become uncles!", he hugged him.
"Wait... Is it going to be a niece or nephew...? I’d prefer a nephew looking exactly like my brother! Huh! Who cares... I’m going to get my brother’s baby to play with ", he kept on rambling out of joy.
Rijun looked at him perplexed. Isn’t he just too happy for nothing? He pitied those who planned to trap her by making the Emperor doubt her chastity... Poor scums! The Emperor himself is shipping her with his brother!
" Your Majesty! Just make your own babies to play with ", he pushed the Emperor, who was still hugging him.