After saying that, Kangxi carried Mingxiu to the bathroom. He was exhausted from all the crying and fussing late at night. He carried Mingxiu and gently fussed over her in the bathroom, then fussed over her again in the bedroom. After tidying up, he carried Mingxiu and lay down on the bed.

Looking at Mingxiu lying on the bed, sleeping soundly, nestled in his arms with her arms around his waist, he saw her sleeping very sweetly.

He gave a somewhat helpless smile.

He gently patted Mingxiu's back to help her sleep more soundly.

Looking at the scenery outside the window, I couldn't help but think of what happened in Chengqian Palace.

In Chengqian Palace, after Mingxiu left, Kangxi originally planned to just look at the child and then leave. Although the child was born to a woman he didn't like, the child was innocent, and Kangxi was still very happy to have another child.

But what happened next was something Kangxi could not have imagined.

After looking at the newborns, who all looked pretty much the same, Kangxi only glanced at them before preparing to leave.

Kangxi glanced at Consort Tong and saw her looking expectantly at the child in the wet nurse's arms. For a moment, his heart softened: "Cousin, from now on, this child will be in your care, and so will Uya's."

Well, after all, they are my mother's clan, so I should take care of them as much as I can.

Consort Tong's eyes lit up. Although she knew this was a certainty, she was still very happy to hear it from the Emperor's mouth, because it meant that the Emperor still cared about her and the Tong family.

"Yes, Your Majesty, rest assured, I will take good care of the prince and also take good care of Lady Uya," the Imperial Noble Consort said with a smile.

Kangxi nodded, and was about to say something when a piercing scream came from inside the room: "Your Majesty!"

Emperor Kangxi was taken aback. The Imperial Noble Consort Tong's previously warm expression instantly turned somewhat unpleasant. He wondered what this Lady Wuya was up to.

Kangxi quickly realized what was happening and saw Lady Uya walking out with the help of palace servants. Her face was deathly pale and her head was covered in sweat, making her look very pitiful.

When Consort Tong saw Wuya come out, she immediately shouted sternly, "What are you doing out here? Hurry up and go back inside! You dog servants, is this how you take care of your mistress? What if she catches a cold? Hurry up and help your mistress inside!"

No sooner had Consort Tong finished speaking than she saw the palace maid behind her give a signal to the servants beside her, and that person quickly went to help Wuya Shi inside.

But this was a moment that Uya had been waiting for for a long time, so how could she allow such a thing to happen? She knelt on the ground and refused to get up.

She kept looking at the Emperor, her eyes blurry with tears, looking pitiful. Under other circumstances, Kangxi might have softened, but at this moment, Uya's hair was stuck to her face, she was covered in sweat, her face was pale, and the sky was somewhat dark.

What was truly a pleasing sight caused Kangxi's heart to skip a beat, startling him.

Some of the men, their faces dark, spoke in deep voices: 'What are you kneeling there for? Hurry up and go inside. Do you want to become a laughingstock?'

Uya was slightly taken aback. This was not the scene she had imagined, but things had already come to this point, and there was no going back.

She could only grit her teeth and kowtow to Emperor Kangxi: "Your Majesty, I didn't mean it. The imperial physician who delivered my baby just now said that this pregnancy is too large and has harmed my body. I'm afraid this will be my only child. I hope Your Majesty will be so kind as to allow the child to grow up by my side, considering that I have contributed to the continuation of the royal family."

After saying that, Uya closed her eyes.

They missed the fleeting mockery in Consort Tong's eyes, and they also missed the gloom in Emperor Kangxi's eyes.

For a moment, Chengqian Palace fell silent. Even the palace servants dared not speak, for fear that the anger would be directed at them.

After a long silence, Kangxi's voice finally came from Chengqian Palace: "Oh, is it that concubines below the rank of Consort are not allowed to raise their own children? Did you only find out today, or are you trying to force me to promote you to the rank of Consort?"

Uya lowered her head even further and hurriedly protested, "Your Majesty, that's not what I meant. I just wanted to take care of my own child myself. Rank is unimportant. I beg Your Majesty."

Before Kangxi could speak, Consort Tong spoke up, saying, "Sister, you're mistaken. The child will be raised by me, and you'll be living in Chengqian Palace. You'll still be able to see the child every day. Do you think I would stop you?"

Upon hearing Consort Tong speak, Lady Wuya gritted her teeth with some resentment: "Your Highness has misunderstood me. I only thought that taking care of her myself would allow us to be closer."

"Is that so? What does Your Majesty think?" Consort Tong asked softly, then handed the choice to Emperor Kangxi.

Kangxi said with a dark expression, "No need. Let the Imperial Noble Consort raise her. You can visit her often, and the mother-son relationship won't become distant."

He decisively rejected Uya.

Consort Tong chuckled inwardly; she knew it would turn out this way.

However, Consort Tong knew this, but Lady Wuya truly did not.

Things have already come to this point. If the Emperor cannot change his mind today, who knows what kind of torment Consort Tong will cause her in the future.

"Your Majesty, I beg you, please let me raise the child myself. This childbirth was too big for me, and I don't know why no imperial physician diagnosed it beforehand. Otherwise, I would have been more careful, Your Majesty," Wuya said hoarsely as she knelt on the ground, enunciating each word clearly.

As expected, Consort Tong's expression changed after hearing what Wuya said, and she said, "Does Sister Wuya mean that I forbade the imperial physician from speaking? Your Majesty, I am innocent!"

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