Hearing her complaint, Baba quickly chimed in, "[Little cutie, it's not that the pills were expired, it's just that it's your first time with twins, and your body isn't used to it, so the medicine isn't as effective. It's like how some people aren't sensitive to anesthetics.]"

Chu Yuan rolled her eyes and asked silently, "So, according to you, if I eat a few more, can I do that?"

"Well... I don't know either. Let me go ask the system next door!"

Chu Yuan cursed inwardly, her body trembling slightly from the pain.

The midwife lifted the blanket covering her lower body and loudly instructed her, "Your Highness, push when it hurts, push!"

There was still no news from the system, and Chu Yuan dared not take any medicine without consulting a doctor, so she could only do as the midwife told her to do.

She had been through this before, so although it hurt, she wasn't completely unable to cooperate.

Seeing this, the Empress Dowager stepped forward with reddened eyes and tightly grasped Chu Yuan's hand, "Child, you have suffered! Keep going! I wish you and your child a safe journey in advance, and I will have the Emperor bestow upon you the title of Imperial Concubine!"

In fact, the imperial edict for the promotion had already been prepared, and the emperor even excitedly went to her Yongshou Palace to ask if she wanted a different title.

The Empress Dowager thought "Ying" was a good word, like a pearl, lustrous and full, a symbol of good fortune.

Chu Yuan tilted her head and smiled at the Empress Dowager, but she was too busy overcoming her labor pains to do so, and that smile looked worse than a cry.

But the Empress Dowager's eyes welled up with tears. She felt that Consort Ying in front of her was the most resilient woman in the world, and she admired her immensely.

Finally, Chu Yuan cried out in pain, because it hurt so much!

My body felt as if it had been forcibly torn apart.

Then, he couldn't help but shout again.

The Empress Dowager couldn't bear to leave, and kept holding her hand, saying, "Child, if it hurts, shout it out, scream it out, and when you feel better, push as the midwife told you!"

Chu Yuan took a few deep breaths and felt something slowly sliding down inside her body.

Her pelvis was widening, and the pain was so intense that she wanted to faint immediately.

But she knew she couldn't. If she died, she could just settle accounts with the system, but the child in her womb would be too pitiful.

So she forced herself to take a deep breath and bit her lip hard, not wanting to waste her precious energy by shouting.

Each time a contraction came, she would strain hard, like someone with constipation trying to squeeze out a stool.

Come out...come out quickly!

Sweat poured down her delicate face like rain, her dry hair seemed to be instantly soaked, and her face turned red from holding her breath.

At this moment, Chu Yuan was quite glad that the emperor couldn't come in.

She didn't want the person she liked to see her in such a ferocious state.

After several attempts, her body finally relaxed slightly, and she heard the midwife's joyful voice, "It's out! One's out! Quick, take her over!"

The midwife didn't even have time to check whether it was a boy or a girl. Knowing that Chu Yuan was carrying twins, she immediately opened her arms to prepare to deliver the second baby.

Chu Yuan was already numb with pain and had exhausted a lot of strength, but she was still gritting her teeth and persevering.

After all, only she knew that she wasn't carrying one child, but two!

What should I do if I suddenly regret having triplets?

With each effort, the midwife's voice seemed to fade into the distance, the Empress Dowager's palms seemed to grow colder, and her vision gradually blurred. Then, Chu Yuan heard the midwife's joyful voice again, "It's out! It's a little prince!"

But this joy did not last long; it soon turned into terror.

"Oh no! Her Majesty is suddenly bleeding a lot. Could this be... postpartum hemorrhage?"

Chu Yuan opened her mouth, but it sounded so weak, her voice as faint as a mosquito's buzz.

No one could hear what she said.

The Empress Dowager looked panicked and shook Chu Yuan's hand, "Consort Ying, Consort Ying, wake up, what do you want to say?"

Chu Yuan looked at the Empress Dowager with difficulty, and when she opened her mouth, someone forced a piece of ginseng down her throat.

After a moment, she regained some strength and said to the Empress Dowager, "Mother, there's another one, there's another one in my belly..."

The Empress Dowager was already crying. She nodded and said, "I know, I know. Don't worry about this for now. Take a good rest, and then we'll try again, okay? It's not that I'm reluctant to give up the child, but the die is cast. Let's try again. Only by giving birth to the last child can you live, do you understand, Consort Ying?"

The Empress Dowager herself had given birth to more than one child, but at this moment, she felt such pain, a pain that made it impossible for her to breathe.

Triplets are indeed not so easy to have; the greater the joy, the greater the hardship.

Consort Ying was a remarkable mother.

Her earnest and loving eyes were fixed on Chu Yuan with anxiety, fearing that she might not be able to hold on and close her eyes, which would be a terrible thing.

The Empress Dowager pushed Granny Qiu out to direct the midwives. Granny Qiu had helped her deliver her baby years ago, and it was also a difficult birth, so she could be of help.

Granny Qiu immediately went outside to call the imperial physician, and then gave Chu Yuan a bowl of ginseng soup.

Several of the most experienced old women looked at Chu Yuan's lower body and then touched her stomach; their expressions were not good.

"Your Majesty is having a difficult childbirth. The last baby is quite large and is stuck inside."

"The bleeding isn't too much right now, but if they can't reproduce, both the mother and the child could be in mortal danger."

"Honorable physicians, could you perhaps use acupuncture to increase the intensity of uterine contractions and help the baby be delivered smoothly?"

Kang Xingzhi didn't dare to look at Chu Yuan's lower body at all. His brows were tightly furrowed, and his wrists trembled. "It's worth a try!"

Lu Min was stunned, realizing for the first time that even adults are just as vulnerable.

Then, recalling how difficult Lin's childbirth had been, a wave of indescribable bitterness washed over him.

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