Seeing Hongxing's reaction, the anger in Situ Jingyan's dark eyes slowly faded. Just as Situ Jingyan habitually put on a wicked smile, Shen Qianmo's cry of pain made his expression change.
"Ah." Shen Qianmo clutched her stomach tightly as a piercing pain shot through her abdomen, turning her face deathly pale and making her almost unsteady on her feet.
A flicker of panic crossed Situ Jingyan's eyes. He rushed forward and supported Shen Qianmo's unsteady body, asking anxiously, "Mo'er, what's wrong?"
"Jingyan. I. I'm fine... Ah." Shen Qianmo grasped Situ Jingyan's hand and instantly felt a warm force coming from his hand. Enduring the sharp pain in her abdomen, Shen Qianmo tried to force a pale smile, but the sudden pain in her abdomen still made her cry out.
"Imperial Physician!" Situ Jingyan scooped up Shen Qianmo in his arms, his dark eyes practically spitting fire. Upon seeing this, Haoyue immediately went to summon the Imperial Physician.
You know, their emperor is usually calm and composed, never showing any emotion. But whenever it comes to the empress, the emperor loses his composure, and his emotions fluctuate even more intensely than those of an ordinary person. This is probably what is meant by one thing subduing another.
"How is it?!" Situ Jingyan glanced coldly at the imperial physician, looked at Shen Qianmo on the bed whose face was pale from pain, and asked coldly.
When the imperial physician saw Situ Jingyan's gaze, his legs went weak, and he knelt down, timidly saying, "Your Majesty, Her Majesty the Empress is pregnant."
Is she pregnant?!
Shen Qianmo and Situ Jingyan exchanged a glance, a hint of surprise flashing in their eyes. Situ Jingyan's dark eyes suddenly lit up, and he asked urgently, "Are you sure?!"
"Your Majesty, Her Majesty the Empress is more than three months pregnant. I suspect that the arduous journey and exhaustion have caused the placenta to become unstable, leading to labor pains," the imperial physician said tremblingly upon hearing Situ Jingyan's question.
Upon hearing the imperial physician's words, a smile appeared on Situ Jingyan's face. She was pregnant. Mo'er was pregnant! His Mo'er was carrying his child! A surge of joy welled up within Situ Jingyan, washing away the fatigue and exhaustion of the past few days. His eyes, filled with deep affection, gazed at Shen Qianmo. When he saw her pale yet smiling face, a pang of tenderness shot through him. If it weren't for him, why would Shen Qianmo have to endure such a long and arduous journey?!
Calming his mind, Situ Jingyan glanced at the imperial physician and said coldly, "Write the prescription immediately. If the Empress's health suffers even the slightest harm, I will surely take your head!"
"Yes. Your humble servant will go immediately." The imperial physician wiped the sweat from his forehead, glanced at Situ Jingyan, and then ran out as if fleeing.
Seeing the imperial physician running out in a panic, Shen Qianmo couldn't help but smile. She raised her eyebrows and said to Situ Jingyan, "Look at you, you scared that imperial physician."
"I'm not bluffing. If anything happens to you, I will not let him off the hook!" Situ Jingyan walked up to Shen Qianmo, looked at her with doting eyes, and said with conviction.
"Then I'd better take care of myself. Otherwise, it could be fatal." Shen Qianmo winked playfully and smiled at Situ Jingyan.
Situ Jingyan gazed at Shen Qianmo with deep affection. A lively smile graced Shen Qianmo's exquisite face, her dark eyes shimmering with a captivating light. Yet, this delicate face, this radiant smile, only served to accentuate the pallor of her complexion. Situ Jingyan felt a pang of heartache at the sight.
He felt as if an invisible hand had gripped his heart, causing waves of sharp pain. Reaching out to stroke Shen Qianmo's cheek, Situ Jingyan's heart was filled with tenderness.
Shen Qianmo understood Situ Jingyan's thoughts from his eyes, and immediately smiled, reaching out to hold his hand, and said with a smile, "Jingyan, why do you look unhappy? Are you unhappy because you're going to be a father?"
As she spoke, she pouted in a coquettish manner, looking incredibly cute, like an innocent young girl.
Situ Jingyan's heart softened when he saw Shen Qianmo's feigned anger. This Mo'er understood his thoughts so well. She was pretending to be angry so that he wouldn't feel guilty.
But how could he not blame himself? If it weren't for him, Mo'er wouldn't have suffered so much. From now on, he would never let Mo'er suffer again.
Thinking this to himself, a wicked smile crept across his lips as he brushed aside Shen Qianmo's disheveled hair and said with a laugh, "How could that be? I'm overjoyed."
"After the baby is born, you can't just love the baby and not me, okay?" Shen Qianmo reached out her small hand and poked Situ Jingyan's chest, saying this as if she was worried and coquettish.
"No, it won't happen." Situ Jingyan gently held Shen Qianmo's small hand, his dark eyes filled with deep affection, as if they could not be opened.
Shen Qianmo smiled with relief.
Little did she know that Situ Jingyan not only didn't love his child, he didn't love her at all. In Situ Jingyan's eyes, there was only Shen Qianmo. The child?! Anyone who dared to compete with him for Shen Qianmo, whether she was his biological child or not, he would ignore her completely.
The Imperial Palace of Linwei.
"Brother, will you still fight against Tianmo in the future?" Qinglian blinked her clear eyes and looked at Yan Xiuling, her clear eyes filled with a faint expectation.
Yan Xiuling raised his eyes, looking at the expectation in Qinglian's eyes. His eyebrows twitched slightly, and a hint of emotion flashed in his light-colored eyes. His lips were slightly pursed.
Looking at Qinglian, seeing her preoccupied expression, Yan Xiuling's eyes deepened with even more intent. What's wrong with Qinglian?! Why does she seem unwilling to let Linwei attack Tianmo? But wasn't Qinglian always very supportive of his conquest of the world before? Why does she seem troubled after her trip to Tianmo?
A faint smile played at the corners of her lips as she casually asked, "What does Qinglian think?"
Qinglian's eyes flickered slightly. Should she speak her mind? She vaguely didn't want Tianmo and Linwei to fight again, but wasn't unifying the world her brother's lifelong wish? Could she ask her brother to give up? And would her brother give up for her sake?
"Brother, do we really have to attack Tianmo?" Qinglian asked tentatively. Although she tried her best to hide her thoughts, how could the shrewd Yan Xiuling not understand Qinglian's intentions?
Yan Xiuling's light-colored eyes flickered slightly with emotion. She pursed her lips and continued to ask, "Why doesn't Qinglian want Linwei and Tianmo to go to war? What happened in Tianmo this time?"
Upon hearing Yan Xiuling's words, Qinglian's eyes flashed with a hint of panic and shyness. What happened? It seemed like nothing was wrong. The reason she didn't want Tianmo and Linwei to go to war was because she didn't want to become enemies with Haoyue. Although that guy was always going against her, she just didn't want to see any hostility in his eyes, as if even the slightest bit of hostility would pierce her heart.
"Nothing really happened. The mission could have been completed much earlier, but Haoyue kept stopping us!" Qinglian pouted childishly, looking like she really disliked Haoyue.
Yan Xiuling looked at Qinglian and saw that she seemed to dislike Haoyue. However, when Haoyue was mentioned, he could clearly see the look in Qinglian's eyes. It was obvious that Qinglian had fallen for Haoyue.
Is it because he's fallen for Haoyue that he no longer wants Linwei and Tianmo to remain enemies?! Is this the so-called power of love? When will he encounter such a feeling that can change him so subtly?!
Watching the relationship between Situ Jingyan and Shen Qianmo, and Qinglian's hazy feelings for Haoyue, he suddenly felt a longing for this word that he had always despised. When would he be able to experience the feeling of falling in love with someone?
"Let me think about it some more." Yan Xiuling smiled. Situ Jingyan had already given up on conquering the world, so perhaps he shouldn't be so persistent.
"Really?" Qinglian's eyes suddenly brightened. If that's the case, she can go to Tianmo to play and make fun of that damned Haoyue.
Yan Xiuling saw the light in Qinglian's eyes, and a hint of doting affection appeared in his own. Qinglian was his sister, and his only family; how could he not love her?
"I heard Shen Qianmo is pregnant?" Yan Xiuling asked, raising an eyebrow.
The Xiu family's ability to gather information is unparalleled. Even events within the Tianmo Imperial Palace couldn't escape Yan Xiuling's notice. The news of Shen Qianmo's pregnancy had only been circulating for a day, yet Yan Xiuling, far away in the Linwei Imperial Palace, already knew everything.
Qinglian blinked her eyes. Her subordinates had reported it correctly. She was quite curious about what kind of mischievous child Situ Jingyan and Shen Qianmo would have, so she smiled and said, "That's right."
"As Situ Jingyan's close friend, not attacking Tianmo is my gift to him. Qinglian, go to Tianmo and tell Situ Jingyan that Tianmo and Linwei have been friendly for generations and will never invade each other." Yan Xiuling slowly smiled, as if she had made a decision, and said slowly.
"Really?!" Qinglian blinked, her eyes filled with disbelief and joy. Tianmo and Linwei would be friendly nations from now on, and there would be no more war. Moreover, if she went to Tianmo, she could see Haoyue again.
Half a year has passed in the blink of an eye.