There are two babies!

The aroma of wine lingered behind him. Xiao Yu was already drowsy, and now that he was feeling sullen, he fell asleep even faster. He closed his eyes tightly, curled up to the left with his body relaxed, and placed his right hand unconsciously on his lower abdomen. Soon, even breathing could be heard from the dragon bed.

Xiao Yu walked into a misty mountain forest. Outside the dream, it was already winter, but in the dream, it was a warm spring day. Wildflowers were in full bloom, covering the mountains and fields. The air was slightly damp, as if a light rain had just fallen.

Xiao Yu wasn't used to such a humid atmosphere, so she rubbed her nose and sneezed.

The white mist containing water vapor suddenly dissipated, and the bright sun high overhead broke through the clouds, with golden rays streaming down from between the clouds, gilding Xiao Yu's dark dragon robe with a hazy, pale gold hue.

"Is this... a fairyland?" Xiao Yu muttered to himself as he continued forward, something seemed to be waiting for him deep in the mountains.

After walking for a short while, a towering tree came into view, its trunk as thick as half a palace, covered with gnarled green vines, which was quite frightening.

The towering tree grows straight upwards. Normally, such a huge ancient tree should be surrounded by darkness, with its swirling and intertwined branches blocking out all the sunlight in the area. However, the light under the tree is exactly the same as when Xiao Yu came. It is as if this giant tree is a towering tree that supports the sky, and its spreading branches are the sky of a fairyland.

Xiao Yu looked up curiously and indeed saw a patch of green sky.

The forest was extremely quiet, with only the sound of the wind and the occasional roar of a dragon echoing through the air.

Dragon's Roar?

Xiao Yu stopped in his tracks. He had stumbled upon the ancient tree in a daze. There was no path ahead. Xiao Yu breathed heavily and leaned against the giant tree.

The giant tree he was leaning against suddenly moved, and Xiao Yu held his breath and jumped up.

"Oh dear! I told you I should have greeted them first! Look at you!"

"I didn't mean to scare anyone!"

Two clear, melodious children's voices emanated from the tree trunk. Hearing the argument, Xiao Yu felt a strange sense of closeness. He tiptoed towards the wriggling vines and reached out his hand—

The gnarled branches on the tree spread out like a group of snakes, revealing a brownish-green wooden door in the middle of the tree. The wooden door moved at will, and the moment Xiao Yu discovered it, it slowly opened a crack.

Click—click click

The arguing inside the treehouse instantly subsided, replaced by the rustling sounds of crawling, slightly chaotic and hurried.

The things hidden inside seemed to have a deep connection to him, making Xiao Yu unable to resist pushing open the wooden door.

Inside the treehouse was an even more enchanting little world than outside. Glowing lanterns hung from the treetops, and a spiral wooden staircase led upwards, its railings adorned with colorful five-petaled flowers.

Xiao Yu walked toward the stairs with great interest when something suddenly darted out of the bushes behind her and tangled around her leg that she hadn't had time to move.

The texture of the scales was still distinct even through the fabric. Xiao Yu froze on the spot, his hair standing on end, and even the ends of his hair stood on end slightly from the intimidation of the snake scales.

"Father! It's not time yet! No... we mustn't go up there!"

It was the child's voice I had just heard.

Xiao Yu turned her head stiffly and saw a small, golden dragon tightly wrapping its tail around her ankle.

"So beautiful..." As soon as Xiao Yu made eye contact with Xiao Long, his heart softened instantly. He squatted down and reached out his hand to Xiao Long.

The little golden dragon's eyes lit up, and without hesitation, it abandoned its ankles and jumped into Xiao Yu's palm, boldly wrapping its body around Xiao Yu's five fingers.

“Brother, you’ve forgotten again. Father is the Emperor. We can’t call him Father. We have to call him Emperor!” Another small dragon, entirely black, timidly crawled out from behind the bushes.

Xiao Yu turned her head toward the direction of the sound and felt longing and envy from the equally beautiful little dragon. Xiao Yu walked toward the black dragon, squatted down in front of it, and carefully touched the little guy's horns with her left hand.

"Father...Father Emperor!" The black dragon's body instantly turned red. It covered its huge head with its tail and twisted itself into a pretzel on the ground in embarrassment.

"Father? Emperor?" Xiao Yu frowned, picked up the twisted dough sticks from the ground, placed the two little dragons in the same palm, and said gently, "I have no heirs yet, you have mistaken me for someone else."

"Yes, yes! Father, don't give up on us!" The golden dragon cried out anxiously, wrapping its arms around Xiao Yu's thumb even tighter, its head already winding its way up Xiao Yu's arm.

"I'm not your father, so how could I abandon you?" Xiao Yu looked at the two small dragons, one moving and one still, in his palm and chuckled.

"Father, we heard your conversation with Father Wei Shuang just now." The black dragon curled itself into a small ball, revealing only its bright golden eyes, which resembled Xiao Yu's. "Let us stay, please don't abort the baby..."

"Although I am the Son of Heaven, I am but a mortal. How can I..." The two small dragons in his palm turned into two golden lights and fell to the ground, transforming into two children. Xiao Yu suddenly fell silent.

Okay...it seems...

It seems to be similar to me and Wei Shuang...

"We are just mortals too." Two clear, childlike voices repeated words they couldn't yet understand, their golden eyes gazing pitifully at Xiao Yu. "Father, we're very good, please let us stay..."

One cold, one hot, they were like a pair of miniature Wei Shuang and miniature Xiao Yu.

"When did I say I wanted to abort the baby in my belly..." Xiao Yu suddenly realized, and he awkwardly touched his empty belly. When he looked at the two nervous little ones, his voice softened. He pinched the two children's cheeks and asked with a smile, "Would you like to come back to the palace with me?"

"want!"

"Father, it's a promise!"

As soon as he finished speaking, two golden beams simultaneously struck Xiao Yu's lower abdomen.

Xiao Yu woke up with a start, panting heavily and drenched in sweat.

Upon learning he was pregnant, Xiao Yu's right hand honestly protected his lower abdomen all night. He then moved his hand away from his abdomen with a tense expression, covering his pounding heart in his chest.

Before dawn, it was pitch black inside the dragon bed with the curtains drawn. Xiao Yu closed his eyes to calm himself down, but the two pitiful little faces from his dream kept appearing in his mind.

Two... he was pregnant with twins.

Xiao Yu put her hand back on her stomach in disbelief, and smiled self-deprecatingly.

He's really getting more and more regressive as he gets older, to the point that two tiny little ones, no bigger than beans, have appeared to him in his dreams.

She was just trying to scare Wei Shuang; how could she possibly abort the child? Although giving birth to the imperial heir herself wasn't part of the plan, since she was already here... Xiao Yu blinked.

Since they're here, he'll make the best of it; he won't let the two little ones become wild children with no one to care for them.

Xiao Yu touched her stomach again and smiled, "It's a deal."

A faint aroma of wine wafted through the room. In the quiet of the night, Xiao Yu didn't think much more and slept soundly again.

When he opened his eyes again, it was already bright outside. Xiao Yu didn't have to attend court, so he stretched and lay on the bed.

Xiao Yu could not clearly remember the scene in his dream in the middle of the night. He only vaguely remembered that there were two cute little ones who nestled in his arms and called out "Father Emperor" in soft voices.

"Father."

Xiao Yu couldn't help but repeat the voice left in his dream. He turned his head and met Wei Shuang's gaze, who had been exposed to the northwest wind all night by the dragon bed.

Xiao Yu immediately suppressed his smile, touched his slightly undulating belly, and sneered inwardly: Look, this is the real culprit who didn't want you.

My stomach twitched as if I sensed something.

"Your Majesty, I will assist you with washing and changing." Wei Shuang naturally took over the task from Feng Shun, while Xiao Yu, holding the quilt, watched the teacup in Wei Shuang's hand warily.

"After I rinse my mouth, will I start bleeding uncontrollably?" Xiao Yu mocked sarcastically.

"What?" Wei Shuang frowned in confusion.

"It's nothing." There was no trace of medicine in the teacup, so Xiao Yu was slightly relieved and was helped by Wei Shuang to change into new clothes.

As soon as she stepped out of the inner room, an enticing aroma of jujube cake wafted towards her, and Xiao Yu's stomach rumbled twice, causing her to swallow hard.

It's sour, I want to eat it.

Alongside the jujube cake was a bowl of hot milk. Xiao Yu was surprisingly hungry, but she was still bothered by Wei Shuang's words yesterday that she "wanted the recipe".

Could there be a large amount of abortion pills secretly added to the jujube cake and milk?

That would be murdering the imperial heir!

Despite the tremors in his stomach, Xiao Yu stared coldly at Wei Shuang. He pointed to the pastries laid out on the table and commanded, "You taste them for me first, eat this half."

Wei Shuang sighed, stepped forward and pried off the corner Xiao Yu was pointing to, then covered her cheeks from the sourness.

"It's very sour," Wei Shuang commented with a bitter face.

Seeing Wei Shuang's discomfiture, Xiao Yu sat down in a good mood and ate the sour jujube cake with milk.

"Should we serve the imperial kitchen's medicinal cuisine at noon?" Wei Shuang asked cautiously, her gaze falling on Xiao Yu's stomach.

Xiao Yu gracefully wiped the last bit of saliva from the corner of her mouth: "Pass it on."

Wei Shuang's furrowed brows relaxed slightly.

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Xiao Yu waited anxiously for a whole day, clutching her stomach, not daring to entrust her meals to Wei Shuang. As night fell again, Xiao Yu still hadn't received the prescription Wei Shuang had promised.

Xiao Yu leaned back in the rocking chair, his golden eyes appearing slightly deep in the candlelight. He stared intently at Wei Shuang, who was working at her desk, and coughed heavily with dissatisfaction.

Wei Shuang immediately put down her pen and looked at Xiao Yu with concern: "Would you like to put it in my arms? The fragrance will be stronger there."

"Where's your prescription?" The rocking chair swayed back and forth, making Wei Shuang's breathing heavy.

"Does Your Majesty really... refuse to keep him?" Wei Shuang lowered his eyes. He had not mentioned the prescription at all today, betting on Xiao Yu's feelings for him and Xiao Yu's soft heart, but it seems that he has failed.

Indeed, the emperor is of noble status, and it is already magnanimous of Xiao Yu to tolerate his offense, yet he is ungrateful and takes advantage of the situation, wanting Xiao Yu to bear his offspring.

He discovered Xiao Yu's pregnancy last month, but he delayed telling her, hoping that by the time the baby was more advanced, it would be too late for Xiao Yu to find out.

Wei Shuang had no idea that pregnancy could be so painful; Xiao Yu was already vomiting until her face turned pale after only two months.

Since that's the case, then we shouldn't have this child...

"Didn't you insist on giving me a bowl of abortion medicine?" Xiao Yu straightened up, gently placing her hands on her abdomen. Her beautiful face, in the candlelight, held a half-smile. "When did I ever say I wouldn't keep him?"

Wei Shuang jumped up and took three steps to Xiao Yu. He knelt down in front of Xiao Yu and tightly grasped Xiao Yu's slightly cool hands with his burning palms: "Really?"

Xiao Yu felt extremely uncomfortable under Wei Shuang's gaze. He withdrew his hand and turned his head away, stating his condition: "I can keep him, but after the child is born, Wei Shuang must also give me a child."

As fellow subjects of the same ruler, if I can conceive, then Wei Shuang certainly can too.

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Author's Note: [Dog head with rose in hand] Your Majesty, you still refuse to give up this impossible obsession...

Face reality, Your Majesty! You can't win this battle!