"I am the Emperor, how can I be pregnant?!"
Inside the Hall of Mental Cultivation, the atmosphere was eerie. The two imperial physicians looked at each other, their foreheads covered in cold sweat, but they remained silent.
"This...this..." Doctor Li was bolder, but after stammering for a long time, he still couldn't come up with a coherent explanation, making Xiao Yu's scalp tingle.
"I have recently caught a cold. Whether it is a relapse of my cold or something else, please speak frankly." The imperial physician stammered, unable to give a definite answer. Xiao Yu felt increasingly uneasy. He secretly pinched his carefully cultivated belly and frowned.
I've even gained weight in the last two months; it couldn't possibly be some kind of epidemic.
Wei Shuang stood beside Xiao Yu, his palms sweating with nervousness. He stared blankly at the two imperial physicians kneeling on the ground, making the already tense atmosphere in the room even more anxious.
Xiao Yu couldn't take it anymore; if it continued to burn him, he would start to have wild thoughts. So he gave Feng Shun a look and carefully led Wei Shuang outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation, asking Ji Lian to keep an eye on her.
"The Regent is not here. Speak, what kind of terrible illness do I suffer from that you find so difficult to talk about?" Xiao Yu straightened up and rubbed his chest, which was uncomfortable due to his emotional outburst.
Imperial Physician Li: "May I ask if Your Majesty has been feeling tired and sleepy lately, sometimes sleeping for six or seven hours a day?"
"Hmm... I feel like this every winter, I just can't muster any energy."
Every year when the weather turns cold, Xiao Yu wishes he could stay on the dragon bed and never get up.
Physician Zhang: "Does His Majesty experience nausea, dry heaving, or loss of appetite?"
Xiao Yu: "I haven't been able to eat anything since yesterday. I feel nauseous whenever I smell meat, and I also feel chills all over my body."
Thud—The pulse pillow in Physician Zhang's hand fell to the ground.
"My cold has flared up again?" The two imperial physicians hadn't shown such an expression in a long time, and Xiao Yu frowned.
Xiao Yu's health was damaged by the heavy snow when she was eight years old. She would fall ill if she caught a cold. At first, she would only feel nauseous and vomit. When the cold became too severe, she would feel pain even in her bones. When Xiao Yu was outside the palace, she would often writhe in pain and could not get through it without acupuncture and medicine.
Despite her seemingly delicate nature, Xiao Yu is actually quite tolerant of pain.
"Your Majesty's nature is yang, and your cold illness has improved after the differentiation, but... but..." Physician Zhang couldn't open his mouth and looked to Physician Li for help.
"I've diagnosed a pregnancy pulse!" Doctor Li, in a fit of despair, slammed his head heavily on the ground. Doctor Zhang, seeing this, also slammed his head on the ground.
“…What pulse?” Xiao Yu’s ear canal felt slightly numb. He raised his hand to rub his ear and stood there stunned on the bed.
"A...a positive pulse..." Physician Li replied softly, his voice weak with exhaustion, "Your Majesty, you are pregnant."
A pregnancy pulse...?
Is she pregnant?!
Who is pregnant? Me?
"I am the emperor, how could I be so easily... I've only just passed my first period of susceptibility, you must have misdiagnosed me..." Xiao Yu's lips were pale. He awkwardly clenched the blanket draped over his abdomen, reached out to the two imperial physicians who were kneeling on the ground and refused to get up, and sternly rebuked them, "Examine me again!"
Xiao Yu rarely spoke so harshly. Doctor Li silently picked up the pulse pillow that Doctor Zhang had dropped on the ground and placed it on the white wrist that Xiao Yu had extended.
The pulse remained strong and clear, like pearls rolling on a jade plate, confirming the presence of a happy pulse.
"Your Majesty, it's been almost two months." Imperial Physician Li dared not mention the words "pregnancy pulse" again, and instead subtly reminded Xiao Yu that the result was correct.
"How can I, the Son of Heaven, be pregnant?!" Xiao Yu suddenly stood up, but the movement pulled at his lower abdomen, causing him to grimace as he sat back down.
"Your Majesty, please be careful... Your health is of utmost importance!" Imperial Physician Li swallowed back the words that were about to come out.
"Isn't it difficult for Lady Gan to conceive? Didn't you tell me that you've never heard of Lady Gan being pregnant? How come I... conceived so easily?" Xiao Yu pursed his lips helplessly, his eyes darting around in a panic. He suddenly let go of his hand, refusing to let the two imperial physicians touch him again, as if the child would shrink back on its own if the physicians didn't touch him.
"Perhaps it's due to your special constitution... You might have a connection with Kun." Physician Li continued to subtly remind him.
"Is it because of the brand Wei Shuang gave me? I remember you hesitated when you told me." Xiao Yu racked his brains to dig out evidence from the depths of his memory. He firmly believed in his status as a godfather, directly ignoring the imperial physician Li's explicit statement to Xiao Yu that he had differentiated into a female being. "The brand will make the godfather pregnant, right?"
Physician Zhang nodded with difficulty.
The branding does not cause the male to conceive a child, but rather it will lure the branded person into becoming a compatible partner. The male's brand will inevitably cause the branded person to differentiate into a female, while the female's brand will cause the branded person to differentiate into a male.
With the secret medicine as a guarantee, neither of the two imperial physicians had imagined that Xiao Yu would differentiate into a Kun (female) type.
The two imperial physicians were aware of the differentiation incident two months ago. Xiao Yu differentiated into a Kun, and the Regent was also pushed into it by them. As for whose child His Majesty is carrying... it goes without saying.
The two imperial physicians were unaware that Xiao Yu and Wei Shuang had only bitten each other's necks in that accident. They only saw Xiao Yu walk out of the inner palace with Wei Shuang's scent on her face, blushing as she said that she had marked an assassin.
For the next two months, the Hall of Mental Cultivation remained peaceful. Xiao Yu did not summon the imperial physicians again, nor did they receive any news of Xiao Yu regaining his memory. They only heard from the palace servants who came to collect medicine that the Regent had regained the Emperor's favor. The two imperial physicians even sighed at the Regent's clever methods while preparing the medicine in the pharmacy.
Xiao Yu's memory is confused, and he mistakenly believes that he is the adopted son. However, they all know that His Majesty is already a female and should be given a contraceptive potion as soon as possible! But Xiao Yu had been searching for a method to conceive a son for five years before that. The two imperial physicians were confused and could not tell whether Xiao Yu wanted to use it for himself or for Wei Shuang.
They assumed from the outset that Xiao Yu desperately wanted to have an heir with Wei Shuang.
Regardless of whether Your Majesty is a male ruler or a female ruler, given the Regent's physique and martial prowess, it is indeed difficult for Your Majesty to gain the upper hand... But Your Majesty is still Your Majesty! Even if you become a female ruler, you are still Your Majesty, the supreme emperor, who has been impregnated by your subject.
Imperial Physician Zhang dared not ask Xiao Yu if his memory had returned. He felt that he and Imperial Physician Li, those two scoundrels who had withheld information, were about to be buried with the newly discovered little prince...
Fortunately, the emperor's anger did not reach the poor imperial physician. After Xiao Yu learned of the child's existence, he refused to take his hand off the lower abdomen. He struggled and muttered to himself, "Could it be that I made a mistake in diagnosis?"
He quickly added, "...How could I have made a mistake? My stomach is starting to hurt."
Xiao Yu lowered her eyes, the intense emotional turmoil causing a dull ache in her lower abdomen. The wafting fragrance of her love drifted outside, prompting Wei Shuang to disregard the Emperor's will and barge in.
"How is Your Majesty's health? Is there something wrong with the child?" Wei Shuang grabbed the wrist of the kneeling Imperial Physician Li.
The three people inside the room were all stunned.
"I am not pregnant," Xiao Yu said coldly.
As far as he knew, Wei Shuang was not skilled in medicine, and he only discovered that he was pregnant after consulting the imperial physician. How did Wei Shuang find out?
Was Wei Shuangsheng born?
Xiao Yu's expression suddenly darkened.
"Your Majesty, now is not the time to be temperamental with me. Your health is of utmost importance." Wei Shuang had already guessed the outcome by looking at the two imperial physicians kneeling on the ground. The joy of becoming a father and the tension of being discovered by Xiao Yu were strangely intertwined.
"What's wrong with the child? What's wrong with the child? What happened to His Majesty and the Prince's little prince???" Feng Shun, confused by what he heard through the crack in the door, rushed into the room without a second thought, slid down to Xiao Yu's bedside, grabbed Xiao Yu's arm, and began to wail, "Has something happened to the little prince? It's all my fault for not serving him properly, Your Majesty!"
"...???"
Xiao Yu suppressed her anger once again.
What's going on? Feng Shun found out too?
"If you don't let go now, something really will happen to me." Facing Feng Shun, who had raised him since childhood, Xiao Yu's expression softened slightly. He closed his eyes and asked, "And where did you get this information from?"
Feng Shun's overheated mind suddenly relaxed, and he stammered, "...This old servant does not know His Majesty's intention in keeping it from the young prince, but since you have already informed the Prime Minister, you should also tell this servant!"
There was even a hint of resentment in his tone.
"The teacher knows too?!" Xiao Yu gasped, clutching his lower abdomen, which hadn't yet shown any obvious changes, utterly bewildered.
"..." Wei Shuang guiltily averted her gaze, released the imperial physician from her hands, and changed the subject, asking, "How is His Majesty?"
"Does the Regent not know whether I am good or not?" Looking at Wei Shuang, Xiao Yu's emotions surged even more, and the anger that had kept him from eating for the past two days suddenly erupted.
If it weren't for Wei Shuang... his belly wouldn't have... wouldn't have...
It's all Wei Shuang's fault!
"Yes, yes, it's all my fault. I shouldn't have acted impulsively." A waft of ingratiating wine aroma wafted over, greatly easing Xiao Yu's abdominal discomfort. The incense of the Emperor was very soothing, but it couldn't calm the furious Xiao Yu.
"I'm already heavily pregnant and you still don't know where you went wrong!" Was it because you were impulsive? I've already differentiated, do you expect me to cling to a piece of wood and live like an ascetic?
Xiao Yu turned his gaze to the two imperial physicians who were kneeling and dared not rise, and asked, suppressing his emotions, "Is he alive?"
Before Physician Zhang could react and was about to ask another question, Physician Li quickly covered his colleague's mouth and spoke first: "The young prince is lively and healthy, excellent."
"Alright, all of you, step back."
Xiao Yu dismissed all the irrelevant people in the hall, glaring fiercely at Wei Shuang as if he wanted to devour her alive.
"Don't you have anything to say to me?" After learning that there was something in her belly, the nausea and discomfort became more and more obvious. The little one, who was only two months old, could not be seen or felt at all, but Xiao Yu felt as if there was something swimming around in her belly.
This little thing has a very strong presence!
"Your Majesty has been experiencing discomfort in your lower abdomen for the past two months. I noticed that Your Majesty's excessive sleepiness and nausea strongly suggest a pregnancy, which is just my guess," Wei Shuang tentatively explained, offering a pretext for withholding information.
"So all this time, he's been so obedient to me for the past two months because of him?" Xiao Yu's anger only intensified.
"No... Since I have already made a mistake and marked Your Majesty, I will naturally treat Your Majesty well. The dragon heir was only discovered recently." Wei Shuang hurriedly tried to make amends after answering the previous question incorrectly.
"Oh, you plotted to take my body, that's treasonous and doubly serious." Thinking about being slept with, Xiao Yu was even more annoyed. He hadn't been able to find a chance to sleep with me for the past two months because he wasn't feeling well, and then he received the devastating news of her pregnancy!
"Does Your Majesty wish to give birth?" Wei Shuang changed the subject, kneeling close to the dragon bed, holding Xiao Yu's hand, and continuously releasing comforting incense.
"I am the Son of Heaven, why should I have children!" Xiao Yu was very unhappy when he didn't get a reasonable explanation.
“Alright…” Wei Shuang tightened her grip on Xiao Yu’s hand and said in a hoarse voice, “Tonight, let me bid farewell to the young prince. Tomorrow, I will ask the imperial physician for a prescription that will not harm his health.”
This guy got me pregnant and still wants to get into my bed?
Xiao Yu coldly flung Wei Shuang's hand away, turned her head, and buried herself under the covers.
Let's sleep with the northwest wind tonight!
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Author's Note: [Chin resting on hand] Kaka
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