"The Second Prince's concubine is now pregnant again. If she gives birth to a boy, then..."

"After my sister married the Second Prince, she became a mother and had a son."

Yi Rou's face turned ashen, her expression grim. "You..."

With a slight upturn of her lips, Mingwei glanced indifferently at Fei Yanggu and Jue Luo Shi, and said in a deep voice, "Sister, do not do to others what you would not have them do to you."

"Sister, you are now the second wife betrothed to the Second Prince by the Emperor, and you will soon marry him. If the Second Prince knew that you had always had feelings for the Fourth Prince, I think..."

Hesitant to speak, Mingwei swallowed the words that were on the tip of her tongue.

Yi Rou's eyes were so dark they seemed to drip water, and she stared at Ming Wei without saying a word.

Xilin Jue Luo family

The head of the household, with a serious expression, looked down at the son of Princess Gulun Shengshu, Yulu Dai, who had already received the Emperor's decree of marriage and was about to marry him. He said in a deep voice, "The Imperial Noble Consort is pregnant, so your marriage to Princess Shengshu may be postponed."

“My son understands.”

The handsome young man, with his head slightly lowered, nodded gently.

From the moment he heard that the Imperial Noble Consort in the palace was pregnant again, he knew that his wedding with Princess Shengshu, originally scheduled for the sixth day of the sixth lunar month of the following year, might be postponed.

It's better to postpone it.

Although he had seen Princess Shengshu a few times from afar and knew that she was not a spoiled and domineering royal princess, he was not yet ready to marry her.

Palace

With a serious expression, Emperor Kangxi discussed with Xu Lejin the marriages of the princesses, the marriages of the princes to their wives, and...