"Lan Xiangqiao, you actually harmed my daughter!" Wu Xinyue went completely mad and stepped forward, slapping Madam Lan twice across the face.

The noble ladies watched this scene with bated breath. Who was Wu Xinyue? She was not some general's daughter who only knew how to wield knives and guns. She was a general who could lead troops into battle. With those two slaps, Lan Huairou was knocked to the ground, blood streaming from her mouth. She looked at Wu Xinyue in shock, her eyes filled with fear.

Wu Xinyue was furious. "If anyone ever insults my daughter in front of me again, I will no longer protect the Northern Wei Kingdom. Your life and death are none of my business. When did my Wu family's eldest daughter become your target? You people are like rats in the dark, gnawing on the people's food, yet you are so smug and think you are superior."

Everyone understood what this sentence meant. The Wu family had declined before, but they had Wu Hao protecting them. Wu Hao was a master of the Nascent Soul Realm, and the Northern Wei Kingdom had not produced many people above the Golden Core Realm to this day.

The Wu family hadn't shown any obvious signs of anger at first, but now Wu Xinyue was completely enraged.

After a moment's thought, Madam Lan burst into tears. "Madam Wu, you are being so aggressive! My daughter's life is hanging in the balance, and she is pregnant. If this continues, what will become of us?"

Madam Lan cried loudly, each cry a reminder to everyone present that Lan Huairou was carrying the Emperor's child.

Lan Huairou had only married the emperor as a concubine three days ago, and now this was the emperor's first child. The expressions of everyone present changed, especially those daughters of ministers who were waiting to enter the palace. They were furious. How could she get pregnant in just three days? Wasn't she unfaithful before? Although they were full of anger, they dared not vent it directly, after all, the dignity of the royal family could not be violated at will.

"Madam, please don't worry. I will do my best. First, take the Consort into the house and move the Princess to another room. I will come as soon as I have healed the Consort."

Imperial Physician Gui immediately gave instructions, but Wu Shiyao shook her head. "Imperial Physician, you may continue with your work. I am also a physician, and I will treat my sister. However, I must say that this Consort has probably been pregnant for two months. This is probably not an affair. Furthermore, this pot is not an ordinary pot. It is called the Nine-Bend Mandarin Duck Pot, which has two sides. Perhaps they intend to poison my sister and then replace the poisoned wine with normal wine. After all, the Nine-Bend Mandarin Duck Pot has two inner linings. If caught, they can use the maid to cover it up. What a clever trick! I admire her greatly. My sister is innocent by nature, and now she has been used in this way. This poison is the Heartbreak Tears, which can cause intestinal rot at best and death at worst. Yet they only gave her a second-grade pill. I wonder if it is because of the rumor that my sister is going to become the Empress."

This statement, seemingly intended as a deduction, instilled fear and trepidation in the noble ladies who were trying to marry into the imperial harem. They all looked at Lan Huairou, wishing that the child in her womb would be aborted as soon as possible.

When Nangong Wan woke up again, she found herself surrounded by darkness and in excruciating abdominal pain. Just as she was about to struggle to get up, Fu Zihan barged in with a middle-aged woman.

Seeing that Nangong Wan was in pain, he took out his toolbox. On the hospital bed, the woman was tossing and turning in pain. Fu Zihan left, and after a while, the middle-aged woman said gently, "Young lady, you are about to give birth. Don't get excited. Follow my guidance to give birth slowly."

Nangong Wan had no choice but to listen to her and tried her best to give birth, but she just couldn't get the baby out. There was no other way, so the doctor had to perform a cesarean section on her, and she finally managed to give birth to the full-term baby.

She was in excruciating pain and exhausted when she gave birth without any painkillers. However, the doctor took the opportunity to administer an injection when the cesarean section was almost complete. Nangong Wan fell asleep in her sleep. The doctor cleaned up the scene and bandaged her up before leaving the room.

Fu Zihan returned and, seeing Nangong Wan fast asleep, finally decided to unlock the chains on her hands and sit by the bedside waiting for her to wake up.

Upon opening her eyes, Nangong Wan saw that the room was completely dark, and a man was sitting in front of the bed. "Where is my child?"

Fu Zihan smiled. "From today onwards, you won't need to wear chains anymore, but your child has been moved to another place. If you disobey or don't cooperate with me, I will kill him, understand?"

These words brought Nangong Wan to her senses completely. Her child? At this moment, her maternal instincts erupted, and despite the pain, she attacked this shameless man directly. That was her child.

Nangong Wan wept uncontrollably, overwhelmed with grief, desperately wanting to know if there was any way to save her child.

But at this moment, the system could not be summoned no matter what she did. With red eyes, Nangong Wan threatened painfully, "If anything happens to my child, I will no longer provide any help to the organization. I will make you all eat mutated plants and wait to die."

Fu Zihan dodged her punches time and time again. The man looked at the woman on the verge of despair with amusement and suddenly found it very interesting. Since the ball was gone, the woman looked even more beautiful, but she still had some excess fat on her body. She was fragile, beautiful and strong, like a small flower growing from a crack in the ground by the roadside.

"Of course, as long as you cooperate obediently, I will not mistreat the child. Now, marry me. As long as you and I have a child with the same abilities as you, I will let you and your child go and allow you to live here like ordinary citizens."

Nangong Wan stared at the man in front of her in disbelief, as if she were looking at a madman. "You!" He clearly hated her so much, yet he wanted to marry her for the sake of power.

Nangong Wan felt something was off. How could Fu Zihan find her so accurately and take her to another era? Where did this power come from?

"good."

Nangong Wan compromised. She had to keep this man calm before she could find her son and rescue her child.

Before she could think any further, Fu Zihan seized the opportunity during her attack, pinning her firmly to the ground and cruelly saying, "Are you trying to attack me so soon? Do you want me to detonate that bomb prematurely and blow that child to smithereens?"

Nangong Wan stopped resisting, her tears falling onto the cold ground, as cold as her heart.

"I'm sorry, Fu Zihan, I was wrong." Nangong Wan suppressed the anger surging within her.

Fu Zihan grabbed her hair and lifted her up, saying, "If you're going to admit your mistake, you need to have a good attitude. Come on, learn from a dog how to please me."

Nangong Wan blinked her red eyes repeatedly, and finally, in a humiliating gesture, she grabbed the man's hand, raised it, and kissed it. "I'm sorry, Fu Zihan."

"How incredibly boring!" Fu Zihan shook off his hand and slapped Nangong Wan across the face.

"You just do whatever I tell you to do. You're really shameless."

The woman's fair face glowed with a rosy hue, and tears welled up in her fox-like eyes, giving her a unique and captivating charm.