Chapter 365: It’s a girl!
When Xiyan was helped to the delivery bed, the abdominal cramps had already hit her like a raging storm.
She was already more than nine months pregnant, and the fetus was almost full-term. However, due to Manluo's labor, she did not sleep all night, and was overly tired and worried, so she gave birth half a month early.
The pain came at this moment, so intense that it felt like her internal organs were turning upside down.
“Hmm…”
She bit the handkerchief tightly, and the cold sweat on her forehead instantly soaked her hair.
Her round pregnant belly felt heavy. Every contraction felt like a blunt knife cutting her abdomen repeatedly. The pain made her tremble all over, and her knuckles dug deeply into the quilt beneath her, leaving several crescent-shaped white marks.
Nichang and Dieyu were so anxious that they cried, but they could only wipe her sweat and comfort her gently.
The midwives gathered around the bed, carefully observing the birth process:
"Princess, take a deep breath, and try harder... yes... that's it..."
Xiyan felt so much pain that her vision went dark, her ears were buzzing, and she felt like all the strength in her body had been drained.
She had not slept all night, and worrying about Manluo had exhausted her mind. At this moment, she felt that her eyelids were as heavy as a thousand pounds, but the severe pain in her stomach did not allow her to relax at all.
Outside the palace, her father's anxious and concerned questions and the impatient footsteps of her two brothers could be heard faintly through the palace door, lingering in her ears.
Xiyan knew that her relatives were all outside the hall, and the panic caused by the severe pain in her heart gradually dissipated, and she felt a lot more at ease in an instant.
She panted and slowed down, forcing herself to tell Nichang beside her:
"Nichang, you... go out and tell my father and brothers that everything is fine here, so they can rest assured."
After a pause, she continued, "Also, please…please do not disturb the Queen Mother. She just woke up and is not feeling well. She has been worried about Manluo for half the night and has just gone to bed. Don't let her worry about me anymore. Wait…wait until the baby is born safely, then go and tell her the good news."
Nichang obeys the order.
At this moment, she was seized by another wave of pain. She frowned and clutched the quilt tightly, not wanting to make too much noise and worry her father and others.
But it really hurts. This pulling pain seems to be endless.
The cramps in her abdomen were getting more and more violent, almost crushing her consciousness.
She was so painful that her whole body was limp and she didn't even have the strength to lift her hands.
She couldn't remember how many times she had drunk the labor-inducing soup and how many times she had drunk the ginseng soup. She could only see that from early morning to sunset, she had not eaten or drunk anything, and was only swept by severe pain.
She even felt that her life was slipping away bit by bit, and in a trance she even thought:
Will I die on the delivery bed and never see the light of this world again?
But as soon as this thought flashed through her mind, she clenched her teeth again.
She had just been reunited with her father, mother, and brothers, and had just enjoyed a few days of peace and warmth. How could she collapse like this?
If she were gone, her father would be heartbroken, her mother would not be able to bear the blow, and her two brothers would also be sad.
No, she must hold on.
At this moment, Xiao Nanyan's face appeared uncontrollably in front of her eyes——
Three months ago, that night in the underground palace, she met his gaze through her glass eyes. Although he couldn't see her, his eyes were full of urgency and madness. She had never seen Xiao Nanyan like that before.
Xiyan felt bitter in her heart, and a wave of inexplicable sadness surged up in her.
She had already forced herself to cut him out of her heart, so why did she think of him at this critical moment of life and death?
Could it be because of the child in the belly who is connected to him by blood?
"No……"
She shook her head weakly, her quilt soaked with cold sweat.
"I don't want to think about him..."
She wanted to completely forget that man and the suffocating past. She wanted to prove that she could break free from his shackles and start a new life.
She wanted to live a good life, bring the child into this world with her own hands, watch him grow up, and laugh and play with him.
This belief was like a glimmer of light that suddenly illuminated her consciousness that was on the verge of collapse.
She took a deep breath, and with the help of a contraction, she struggled downwards with all her might.
"Try harder! Princess, I can see the baby's head!" The midwife's voice was filled with excitement.
Xiyan was in so much pain that she almost fainted. Her throat was dry and tight, but she clenched her teeth and gathered her last bit of strength.
"Ah!" A scream of pain broke through her throat, accompanied by a burst of heart-wrenching pain. She felt a sudden emptiness under her body.
Immediately afterwards, a loud cry pierced the anxiety in the hall and flowed through her limbs like a warm current.
She collapsed on the couch exhausted, her bones seemed to be broken, but the moment she heard the crying, she weakly raised the corners of her mouth.
Tears mixed with sweat slid down her face, and she slowly closed her eyes with deep exhaustion.
The moment she lost consciousness, she heard the midwife's cry:
"It's born, it's a girl!"
Xiyan closed her eyes, breathed a sigh of relief, and finally could sleep peacefully.
At this moment, she only felt that the most painful suffering in the world was finally exchanged for the softest gift.
From now on, mothers must be strong.
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