After they left, Shen Ruoxuan walked in from outside the pavilion and asked calmly, "What did you say to her that made her so happy?"
"I told her that I would tell her what had happened in the past two years after she gave birth?"
"What?"
Shen Ruoxuan's face turned ugly. She stared intently at Mu Ye. How could this man agree to such a thing? No wonder she was so happy.
Mu Ye was equally angry. He suddenly stood up and lashed out at Shen Ruoxuan.
"Let me tell you, actually, I should be the happiest person to have what happened to Ye Lingfeng, because I have always wanted to take care of Hailing. To this day, I don't have a single woman in my harem, because I have always wanted to marry her as the Empress of Shaoyi. But I don't agree with what you have done. You have deprived her of her rights. What she does is her business. If one day she remembers these things, and in her final moments she didn't even get to see the man she loved, she will hate you. At that time, you won't even be able to be friends anymore."
After finishing his sentence, Makino angrily turned and left.
Inside the pavilion, Shen Ruoxuan was stunned. Mu Ye's words had snapped him out of his daze. Yes, what right did these people have to deprive her of her right to know? If she had known that Ye Lingfeng was poisoned by the Ice Jade Cold Poison, she would probably have stayed by his side and stayed with him. Moreover, someone as strong as her would definitely have lived a good life. But now, what they were doing was causing her great pain.
Shen Ruoxuan stood silently in the pavilion, while the young boy behind him slowly spoke: "Young Master."
"Let's go back."
Shen Ruoxuan was listless. Although he had previously thought that what he did was for Hailin's good, now that Mu Ye had scolded him, he felt that he might have made a mistake.
He shouldn't have agreed to let Ye Lingfeng give Hai Ling the Forgetfulness Pill.
In the middle of the night, a cry rang out again in Medicine King Valley. Although everyone was used to it, they were still startled. These past few nights, they had almost been driven crazy by the soul-summoning cry. Every night at midnight, they were all mentally exhausted. Fortunately, they had gotten used to it. Mu Ye, on the other hand, was experiencing this for the first time. He was not only startled but also rushed over quickly.
"What happened? What happened?"
Inside the room, Shen Ruoxuan was also there, while Shi Mei and Shi Lan were by the bedside wiping Hai Ling's sweat.
After hearing what Muye said, one of the three spoke with a heavy heart: "She's having a dream. She has the same dream every night."
She dreamt of the same scenes every night, each night filled with excruciating pain, which is why she grew increasingly haggard and pale.
After Shen Ruoxuan finished speaking, the room fell silent. Hai Ling on the bed slowly spoke, "This time I dreamed of other things as well."
What did you dream about?
The people in the room looked at her at the same time, wondering what she was dreaming about again. Hailing took a deep breath: "It turns out that the princess of that tribe committed suicide after the shaman died. After her death, her father was blamed by everyone, so he was very angry and put a curse on her, cursing her to never get love, and even if she did get love, she would have to go through many hardships."
The room was deathly silent; no one spoke.
No one doubts that those were Hailin and Ye Lingfeng's past lives, and that their love was cursed, which is why they faced so many hardships.
After a long while, a long sigh echoed in the room: "Even knowing that I would have to go through so much hardship, I still hope to meet him again."
Shen Ruoxuan and Mu Ye's expressions changed, and Shi Mei and Shi Lan couldn't help but choke up: "Madam, please don't think about it anymore, you won't be able to bear it if you keep thinking about it."
Her body was already very weak, and she was about to give birth. If things continued like this, she would become extremely weak, and giving birth would be dangerous.
Inside the room, Shi Mei used a handkerchief to wipe Hai Ling's sweat, comforting her as she did so.
Mu Ye couldn't bear to watch any longer. Seeing the usually proud Hai Ling being tortured like this, he couldn't stand it. So he reached out and pulled Shen Ruoxuan away, rushing out and heading straight for the back mountain.
The two walked to the back of the mountain, then let go of each other's hands. Gazing at the silent night, it was a long time before they heard Mu Ye's deep voice.
"Why? Why are you torturing her like this? Doesn't it break your heart to see her like this? Is this what Ye Lingfeng wanted?"
Seeing Hailing suffer like this, his heart ached. He only wanted her to be happy and joyful, not to suffer. Even if he couldn't take care of her, he didn't want her to be in so much pain and sorrow.
“You are all so despicable, especially Ye Lingfeng. He was only poisoned by the Ice Jade Cold Poison, but he still had at least three months to live. Why didn’t he let Hailing stay by his side? They could have enjoyed those three months of happiness. He could have seen his son born. A person’s life and death are determined by fate, but happiness is something you have to make yourself happy. By doing this, he is causing himself pain and also causing Ling’er pain.”
Unable to bear it any longer, Mu Ye punched Shen Ruoxuan, but Shen Ruoxuan didn't move, letting him rage.
He knew they had made a mistake; both he and Ye Lingfeng had made a mistake. They wanted Hailing to be safe and happy, but this was precisely when she was most unhappy. The Forgetfulness Pill hadn't truly made her forget her feelings. Because of her strong will, there were always lingering thoughts in her mind. Although she couldn't remember them, she still had that feeling. Coupled with the dream she had every night, she was almost tortured to death.
Why is this happening?
Shen Ruoxuan murmured, then squatted down.
Makino originally wanted to hit him, but seeing how much pain he was in, he couldn't bring himself to do it and squatted down as well. Both of the grown men had tears in their eyes.
Just then, a series of footsteps sounded, and Shi Mei appeared, anxiously calling out, "Something's wrong! Master is missing! Master is missing!"
Upon hearing her words, Mu Ye and Shen Ruoxuan were shocked and quickly got up. One of them rushed over and grabbed Shi Mei, saying, "Wasn't she resting? How could she be missing?"
“After you left, the mistress said she wanted to take a bath. I went to prepare the bathwater. Shilan was serving her in the room, but then she said she wanted to eat something, so Shilan went out to prepare that too. When we came back, the mistress was gone.”
Before Shen Ruoxuan and Mu Ye could speak, they heard a painful cry from not far away. The three of them looked over and saw Hai Ling clutching her head and screaming, "Ah, my head hurts!"
It turned out that when Hai Ling saw Shen Ruoxuan and Mu Ye rush out, she knew they must have something to say. She intuitively felt that what they wanted to say was related to her, so she used a trick to lure Shi Mei and Shi Lan away, and then quietly came over with her big belly. Normally, with Mu Ye and Shen Ruoxuan's skills, they should have been able to find her, but the two of them were too angry and didn't pay attention to the surrounding movements at all. So Hai Ling overheard what they were saying.
When she heard Ye Lingfeng's name, her heart skipped a beat. Then, when Mu Ye said that Ye Lingfeng had been poisoned by the Ice Jade Cold Poison, a flood of memories rushed into her mind, and her head began to ache.
When Mu Ye, Shen Ruoxuan, and Shi Mei saw their master like this, they were shocked and rushed over, asking anxiously, "Master, what's wrong? What's wrong?"
Hai Ling was still clutching her head, because her mind was a jumble of memories—memories from her dream and memories of what she had lost—that were intertwined and causing her immense pain. Her head felt like it was being split open, and she could hardly bear it. Just then, her stomach started to hurt too.
"My stomach hurts so much! Quick, help me inside, I'm afraid I'm about to give birth!"
Because she was overstimulated, the baby was born about two weeks early.
Upon hearing this, Shen Ruoxuan and Shi Mei's expressions changed drastically. Mu Ye reached out and hugged her, rushing away while whispering softly in her ear, "Hailin, do you want to keep the child? This child is your child. You've gone through two lifetimes to have this child, so you must not give up. Now do this with me, take a deep breath, take a deep breath. As long as you behave, we will tell you everything after the child is born, and we will no longer hide anything from you."
"Makino, is this true?"
Hailin opened her eyes and breathed heavily. Muye nodded vigorously: "Yes, we will tell you. Now you should focus all your attention on giving birth, take good care of yourself, and protect this child."
"good."