It's a rainy day outside today.

Summer rain is always cloudy for a moment, rainy for a moment, and sunny for a moment.

Suddenly, the general came running from the side hall.

He kicked the door hard, "Father, Mother, open the door!"

Hua Xia came over holding an oil-paper umbrella and coaxed:

"Young Master, the imperial kitchen has delivered some June yellow crabs. I will take you to play with them."

"Crabs? How many? Let me go and take a look."

Act like a little adult and follow me to the kitchen to play.

It was not until near noon that the rain stopped outside the hall and the eaves stopped dripping.

Then I heard someone calling for water in the hall.

Hot water had already been boiled in the small kitchen, and several palace servants took turns carrying buckets and adding water to the large mahogany bathtub in the flower hall.

Behind the four mahogany screens inlaid with shells and flowers, steam is rising and mist is everywhere.

Xuan Ling held Sheng Xiyan in his arms while she cleaned her wounds. He carefully checked the wounds and saw that some of them had fallen off and new pink skin had grown.

He stroked gently with his long fingers and looked down at the beauty resting on his chest.

"Yan Yan?"

"Um....."

Sheng Xiyan responded lazily, her long eyelashes were covered with moisture, and a few crystal clear water droplets trembled with it.

"How can you be so charming?"

"How come you have so much energy?"

"Because I love you, I want to be with you forever, inseparable..."

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The beads of sweat from his temples dripped onto the back of her creamy neck, her skin white with a glowing pink.

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Xuan Ling carried Sheng Xiyan to the inner hall and helped her put on a small shirt and skirt like an old father.

"Your Majesty...you don't need to wear it. I'll put it on when I wake up."

At this moment, Sheng Xiyan just wanted to fall asleep and felt helpless about being manipulated.

Xuan Ling tied a ribbon on her side and moved closer to her ear.

"You are so beautiful, I can't let anyone see you. If anyone sees you, I will have to work harder."

Sheng Xiyan reached out and grabbed his ear, and asked delicately, "How beautiful is it?"

He threaded his long, bony fingers into the soft, black hair and whispered softly:

"You are as beautiful as a pear blossom reflected in spring water.

And, every inch of me wants to melt into you.

I want to do everything with you.

I'm crazy about you."

He held her in his arms, and the two of them hugged each other tightly, not wanting to be separated for even a second.

Xuan Ling glanced at the sky outside the window.

After clapping their hands, the hall door creaked open.

Eunuch Fu came in with a bowl of brown medicine.

"emperor."

Xuan Ling's eyes dimmed a little, and he took the jade bowl solemnly. The medicine was still steaming.

The voice was low and helpless.

"Yanyan, drink it."

While holding Sheng Xiyan in his arms, he brought the medicine to her mouth.

Sheng Xiyan was dazed, her lips close to the jade bowl and she licked it lightly, and she could involuntarily smell the scent of medicine in her nose.

Smelled the ingredients of the medicine.

As if frozen, he suddenly opened his eyes wide and stared at Xuan Ling in shock.

Her peach-shaped eyes flashed with incredible cruelty.

There was an unfathomable coldness and depth in his cold, phoenix-like eyes.

"How can the emperor be so cold-blooded and heartless?"

Sheng Xiyan's voice was aggrieved and choked, and hot tears rolled out of her eyes.

"Yanyan, aren't you afraid of giving birth?"

Xuan Ling's eyebrows were tightly knitted, and the medicine bowl in his hand seemed to weigh a thousand pounds.

Sheng Xiyan sneered, "Your Majesty really puts himself in my shoes."

The tears fell like raindrops on her fragile cheeks.

"Yanyan, I told you that it doesn't matter if you don't have children. I can choose an outstanding prince for you to raise in the future."

Even if it means killing the mother and taking the child away, he is willing to do it for Sheng Xiyan.

"Wow...I don't want to drink!"

Sheng Xiyan knocked over the jade bowl, and the medicine spilled all over Xuan Ling.

She huddled down in bed.

"Your Majesty, there's no need to be so moving and grand. You just feel that I'm not worthy of bearing your child, right? Wuuuuu..."

Sheng Xiyan was crying loudly as she spoke. Jiang Jiang was playing outside and ran in when she heard the noise.

"Mother! Father, what happened to Mother?"

In the past, no matter how unhappy Sheng Xiyan was, she would never show it in front of Jiang Jiang. But now, she was so emotionally broken that she couldn't care about anything else.

We were so passionate last night,

He was clearly whispering the most touching love words in my ear just now.

Why is he so ruthless the next moment?

"Yanyan, listen to me. I don't have any other intentions. It's because of that dream..."

"I don't want to listen, I don't want to listen... woooooo..."

Sheng Xiyan covered her ears and cried. Jiang Jiang climbed onto the bed and hugged her. The mother and son hugged their heads and cried together.

Outside the palace, a palace maid came running in, and Eunuch Fu came in and reported:

"Your Majesty, the urgent report on the Yellow River flood has arrived, sent over eight hundred miles. Several officials are waiting in the Yangxin Palace."

Xuan Ling approached the bed and touched Sheng Xiyan's shoulder, but she dodged.

"Yanyan, have a good rest. I'll come to see you after I'm done with my work and we can have a good talk."

He strode out of Guanju Palace with big strides. He was the emperor, shouldering the people and the country. Everything else had to take second place when it came to state affairs.

Hua Xia closed the palace door from the inside and ran into the inner hall.

"Your Majesty, what's wrong? I saw Eunuch Fu bring in some medicine. Isn't it a tonic?"

Sheng Xiyan cried so hard that she became weak. She calmed down and wiped Jiang Jiang's tears.

"Baby, mother is fine, don't cry."

Jiang Jiang asked naively, "Really? Did Father offend Mother?"

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