She didn't want anything to happen to Qin Su and her daughter. Qin Su was, after all, her benefactor and also her... sister.

As expected, it was the abbot of Xishan Temple who arrived. Tao Rong had some guesses, but she was more surprised than anything else.

She clearly knew that the abbot of Xishan Temple usually didn't come down the mountain.

"Princess Consort Chen is having difficulty giving birth. Does the Abbot have any suggestions?" Tao Rong asked softly, hoping the Abbot could offer a solution.

But then I thought, he's just a monk, and he can't go into the delivery room, so what can I do?

"She'll be fine," the abbot replied to Tao Rong, asking as they walked, "How have you been lately, Benefactor Tao?"

Tao Rong nodded. "Everything is fine."

The host nodded, "You must do more good deeds to have good karma."

"That's only natural."

Tao Rong introduced herself as the host to Qin's father, and then stood with Cheng An.

They didn't go into the delivery room because they couldn't really help much; they could only wait outside.

"Amitabha." The abbot chanted the Buddha's name, and then he and the young novice monk beside him chanted scriptures that others could not understand.

The complex and ancient scriptures almost calmed the restlessness in the courtyard.

Tao Rong looked up at the sky, which had been clear and blue, but now it was covered with dark clouds. A moment later, a bolt of lightning struck, and everyone was terrified.

The lightning seemed to have almost struck the Marquis's residence.

Just as everyone was still shaken, the sound of a baby crying came from inside the house.

The worried crowd breathed a sigh of relief, and the belated female doctors and imperial physicians finally entered to examine Qin Su.

But the chanting of the scriptures was not yet finished. When the Empress Dowager finished tidying up and came out, she saw two monks with shiny bald heads standing in the courtyard. It looked like it was going to rain.

"What's wrong with you two? Shouldn't you find somewhere to take shelter from the rain?"

She never seemed to show any respect for the host.

Just then, the chanting ended, and the abbot and the novice monks walked to the corridor. He bowed to the Empress Dowager and said, "It's been a long time. How have you been, Your Majesty?"

The Empress Dowager waved her hand and rubbed her aching back. "Good, very good! I might even live to be a hundred years old."

The host couldn't help but smile and said, "Of course."

Inside the room, Qin Su looked at the group of people gathered around the bed. She licked her dry lips and said, "Two doctors are enough. Please ask the rest of you to go back."

The room wasn't well-ventilated just now, and it smells a bit bad. She felt a little embarrassed to have all these people here.

Uncle Liu was also among the imperial physicians, and he felt somewhat embarrassed to be with a group of them.

These are all leading figures in the medical field.

The hospital director and the female doctor stayed, while everyone else left.

When the Empress Dowager asked, they answered honestly, but they did not leave in case of any emergency inside.

Qin Su was just exhausted and in severe pain in her lower body, but she didn't have any other symptoms.

"Where's the baby?" She couldn't wait to see her little girl.

Lian Tao said from the side, "Madam took the little girl to wash up, she should be back soon."

Qin Su nodded weakly, her eyes welling up as she recalled what had just happened.

The Empress Dowager manually adjusted the baby's position, ensuring the child's safe delivery. No one would believe that the Empress Dowager herself would do something like this.

Qin's mother quickly brought the child over and said to Qin Su, "Susu, this is the child, she is very healthy."

Qin Su took the baby and looked at the wrinkled little girl who had just been born. She didn't feel disgusted at all; on the contrary, she felt a surge of emotions.

"Nannan~" She wanted to touch the child's face with her hand, but she was afraid of hurting her delicate skin, so she just hugged her tightly.

This is her little girl, the child she lost and then found again.

Qin Su couldn't describe how she felt; she just felt like crying.

"Oh dear, don't be overjoyed or sad just after giving birth," the Empress Dowager said to Qin Su as soon as she entered and saw the situation.

Qin Su could not contain her emotions. When she saw the Empress Dowager enter, she immediately said, "Please forgive me for not being able to perform the proper etiquette, but my gratitude to you is beyond words."

Although the Empress Dowager is not coming, she still intends to adjust the children's positions, but under such circumstances, it may be very difficult.

This does not mean that the Empress Dowager had no kindness towards her.

Qin's mother immediately knelt down before the Empress Dowager, saying, "This humble woman kowtows to thank the Empress Dowager for her kindness; this humble woman will never forget it in this lifetime."

The Empress Dowager helped her up and said to the two of them, "We're all family, why are you speaking like that? The child is also my... no, my granddaughter. I'll naturally do what I can to help. Besides, when I just came over, didn't Susu also plan to do it herself? Although that angle might be difficult, a mother's strength is boundless, and she might be able to manage."

Qin Su herself couldn't guarantee whether the child would be born safely without the Empress Dowager's help.

"In short, this is something I should do. Putting aside our royal family status, you and I are in-laws, and Susu is my daughter-in-law. It is my duty to do what I can."

"We've all been through it, we know how difficult childbirth is, as long as everyone is safe and sound."

"Enough of that, let me see my precious granddaughter." All the children born in the palace were boys; she longed for a granddaughter.

The Empress Dowager preferred daughters, but she herself was unable to conceive, and after having two sons, she refused to have any more. To ensure this, the late Emperor secretly drank an infertility potion without the knowledge of his ministers. Therefore, Yu Shuo's generation had few brothers and sisters.

Qin Su laughed and said, "It's all wrinkled and doesn't look good."

The Empress Dowager glared at her, "All newborns look like this, what's wrong with them? In my eyes, my granddaughter is a celestial being!"

Qin Su said this only because she was worried that the Empress Dowager wouldn't like it. Anyway, she thought Nannan was beautiful no matter what, and she was always her precious jewel.

Avoiding the two "mothers," Qin Su said to the hospital director, "I would like to trouble you to prescribe some medicine for me to recover quickly."

She had to go see Yu Shuo.

Now that Nannan has been born and Xue Huai'an is no longer in the capital, Nannan has many people protecting her, so she will be fine even if Xue Huai'an is not by her side.

The head of the hospital said, "The princess's health needs to be gradually restored; haste makes waste."

Qin Su didn't speak, but her eyes told him that she was determined.

The hospital director still prescribed the same medication, but in a relatively conservative way, so as not to harm Qin Su's body.

The baby was taken away to be breastfed, and Cheng An came in to check on Qin Su. "Are you alright? Giving birth is so tiring, I'm so glad I wasn't pregnant back then." She handed Qin Su a glass of water, then sat down and sighed.

“I love my daughter, so no matter how painful childbirth is, even if there are mountains of knives and seas of fire ahead, I will still move forward.” She understands that many women do not want to have children, after all, it is a life-threatening experience.

But Qin Su was different; she needed Nannan, and she wanted to get Nannan back.

"Oh, right, Consort Rong also came by, but she left without coming in to see you."

Qin Su understood why Tao Rong did this, so she simply nodded.

"You wouldn't believe it, but the abbot of Xishan Temple also came and chanted sutras in the courtyard for a long time."

Abbot of Xishan Temple?

Qin Su recalled the monks she had seen at Xishan Temple, and now it seemed they didn't have any ill intentions.