Chapter 190 Extra: Pei Yu (IX)
Pei Yu was really surprised that Yue Miao did not collapse and scream, nor did she cry and beg for mercy.
She just walked to her mother's side, knelt down like her mother, smiled and looked up at Pei Yu, her tone was relaxed, even with a bit of coquettishness: "Why is mother kneeling? Did she not entertain the prince well? I apologize on behalf of mother. The prince loves me the most. Please don't be angry with mother for my sake."
Pei Yu raised his eyes to look at her. His eyes, which should have been furious and gloomy, now flashed with a bit of inquiry and interest because of her abnormality.
"Don't you know why your mother is kneeling?"
His tone was slow and his meaning was very clear - it was because of her, a servant, who ran away without knowing her own limitations that his mother was humiliated.
Yue Miao grabbed her mother's trembling hand, squeezed it soothingly, then stood up and walked to Pei Yu.
Under Pei Yu's unfriendly gaze, she put her arms around his neck and sat in his arms, her eyes flowing with tenderness, and said coquettishly: "I ran away from home because I was angry. The prince said before that he would treat me well in the future and would not bully me again..."
Pei Yu said this casually when he was torturing her.
But why now?
Pei Yu was still furious until Yue Miao kissed his lips and begged in his ear, "Don't embarrass me in front of my mother. Please, my lord. I'll do anything for you."
Pei Yu sneered, and the hand on her waist suddenly tightened, and he also asked her softly: "Are you scared now?"
Yue Miao tried her best to please him and gently bit the tip of his ear twice.
Pei Yu's whole body tensed up suddenly, as if he was on fire.
"Please, Your Majesty, let me have a few words with my mother. I will leave it to Your Majesty to deal with me when I return..."
Under the soft words, Pei Yu's anger was finally overwhelmed by another kind of anger. He almost gritted his teeth and said, "Wait."
*
Yue Miao was not allowed to talk to her mother alone.
Pei Yu was afraid that she would run away again, so he sent a few servants to monitor her.
Yue Miao had a lot of things she couldn't say, but her mother smiled and seemed to comfort her: "Knowing that you are doing well, I feel relieved."
Yue Miao's throat suddenly felt like it was blocked by a stone, causing her pain.
She didn't believe that her mother really couldn't see any clues.
Yue Miao's mother sighed again and said, "It's better to be a rich man's concubine than a poor man's wife. You, don't think too much, and don't argue with the prince. Live a good life with the prince. If you give birth to a son in the future, you will be able to get through it. Do you understand?"
Yue Miao's tears rolled down her cheeks, and her heart ached unbearably. She knew that her mother would be under Pei Yu's control from now on, and she would never be able to escape in this life.
Mother knows too.
So mother can only advise her to live well now.
*
Yue Miao followed Pei Yu back to the palace.
She was ready to be humiliated until Pei Yu brought her to the dungeon where she was first imprisoned.
It would be a lie to say that she wasn't afraid, even though she had collapsed many times. But people who came from poor backgrounds and struggled to survive natural disasters all valued their lives very much.
She didn't know what punishment she was going to receive until she saw the guard who escorted her to Prince An's mansion that day being tied to a rack.
He was covered in blood and was half dead.
Yue Miao looked at Pei Yu in shock: "What mistake did he make?"
“He made no mistakes.”
Pei Yu smiled so hard that her scalp tingled: "This prince knows what you are thinking. You don't want to implicate anyone, so you escaped from Prince An's Mansion. You think this prince can't touch my brother no matter what. You are really smart."
Yue Miao felt cold all over. Seeing Pei Yu picking up a red-hot iron, she took a few steps back in shock.
"Don't be afraid, I'm not punishing you." Pei Yu kindly comforted him, and then pressed the branding iron on the guard on the rack.
A painful scream resounded throughout the dungeon. Yue Miao immediately squatted down, covering her ears tightly, and her eyes, wide open in fear, were filled with broken tears.
But it was useless. Pei Yu's words were like a cunning poisonous insect, drilling into her ears and biting slowly inside: "It's a pity that I am not a kind person like you. Will only those who let you go be punished? Yue Miao, next time you escape, I will choose someone around you to kill, no matter if they help you or not. Remember, every time you escape, you are stepping on the lives of innocent people."
Yue Miao finally couldn't control her emotions anymore, she covered her face and burst into tears.
......
When Yuexi saw Yuemiao again, she was already about to give birth.
She came over with her two children and looked at the furnishings in the house. They were exquisite, luxurious and perfect. It seemed that what the prince said about Prince Yu being extremely fond of his only concubine and even wanting to make her the princess was true.
Yuexi sat on the edge of the bed, looking at her once optimistic and open-minded colleague who now had a haggard face and dim eyes, like a wild flower with its roots broken off and forced into a golden vase. She couldn't help but frowned.
"What are you doing? You're living such a good life, but you're making yourself uncomfortable."
She really couldn't understand it. Their backgrounds and current situations were almost the same. If she had to say, she was in a worse situation.
Even though the prince loved her the most among all the concubines and had a son and two daughters with her, there was still the princess consort and other concubines there.
Yue Miao was so free. She didn't have a princess princess above her, and she didn't even have to worry about other concubines taking away her favor. Yet she was so depressed all day long that Prince Yu went to Prince An's mansion to find her and ask her to comfort her.
Yue Miao seemed not to have heard these words. She blinked and her eyes fell on the two children.
"How old are you?" she asked in a very soft voice.
Yuexi called her son and eldest daughter over: "Ayong and A Shuang, tell your aunt how old you are?"
The two children were very calm and confident. The boy looked at Yue Miao and answered obediently, "Aunt, I am eight years old."
The girl smiled and said, "A Shuang is five years old!"
Yue Miao smiled.
She stroked her bulging belly, lowered her eyes and said tenderly, "I hope it's a daughter."
Yuexi disagreed: "It's better to have a boy as the first child. It will help you gain a firm foothold. Then you don't have to worry about not having a boy next time you get pregnant."
Yue Miao shook her head: "I dare not give birth to a boy. I am afraid that if I am not by his side in the future, he will grow up to be as temperamental as the little prince and bully other people's daughters. It would be better if it was a girl. With Pei Yu as a father, she will not be bullied and suffer the same insults as me."
"What are you talking about! Why aren't you with it?"
Yuexi felt that this was unlucky, so she took her hand and patted the wooden bed rail beside her: "Don't worry too much when you are pregnant. When I was pregnant with Yong, I was always worried whether he was a boy. As a result, he is the weakest among the three children now!"
Yue Miao bent her lips and looked at her, as if she had lifted up some of her spirits: "You are right, I understand, I will give birth to it well."
Not long after Yuexi left, Pei Yu came in.
He walked to the bed and stared at Yue Miao's face.
Yue Miao looked up at him, her hands on her bulging belly, with a gentle smile between her eyebrows: "Prince, come here and touch our child."
Pei Yu froze.
He suspected that he had heard it wrongly: "What did you say?"
Yue Miao got pregnant with this child due to his abuse. When she first became pregnant, she kept crying and asking for an abortion. It was only after Pei Yu kidnapped her mother and threatened her that she gave up the idea.
But since then, she has been resisting his touch.
In the first few months, Pei Yu could still force her, but as the months went by, she might get a miscarriage if she wasn't careful, so Pei Yu didn't dare to force her anymore.
But she became more and more taciturn and depressed.
Only when Pei Yu stayed away from her and didn't visit her for a few days could she talk and laugh with the maid and show some vitality.
But now, she actually let him touch their child...
Pei Yu felt that something was wrong, but his heart could not bear such temptation. He sat down on the edge of the bed and put his hand on her belly.
The fetus moved slightly at this moment.
Pei Yu felt that everything was frozen at this moment.
He looked at Yue Miao in surprise, and even stuttered: "It, it moved!"
Yue Miao laughed with him: "It has been able to move for a long time, and it even kicked me before."
She slowed down her voice and asked Pei Yu gently, "Will the prince take good care of it?"
Pei Yu seemed to have regained his youthful spirit. He nodded repeatedly and assured Yue Miao: "I will! I will never let our children suffer again after what I have suffered. I will value it more than my own life!"
Yue Miao bent her lips and lowered her eyes: "This way, I will feel relieved."
*
Ten months of pregnancy and one day of delivery.
Pei Yu wanted to stay with Yue Miao in the hall, but Yue Miao showed that resistant expression again, so he could only stand outside the delivery room, waiting anxiously.
There were no expected screams, only the midwife's instructions and the sound of the woman's suppressed efforts.
His heart ached even more.
Aren't you afraid of pain? Why don't you scream?
After an unknown amount of time, the door was finally pushed open from the inside, and the midwife came out holding the swaddling clothes, her face full of joy: "It's a little princess, congratulations, Your Majesty! It's a plump and fair little princess!"
Pei Yu's heart trembled, as if the softest part of his heart was touched.
He has a daughter...
He carefully took the swaddling clothes. Even though he knew Yue Miao was definitely fine, he still couldn't help but ask, "How is the princess?"
The midwife smiled and said, "Good, the princess has a good foundation. It is rare that she can give birth without suffering."
Pei Yu also felt happy.
He had never held such a soft thing. To be honest, his daughter was a little ugly, probably because she took after Yue Miao. She was not as white as he was when he was young.
But how did it grow into the softest part of his heart?
Pei Yu wanted to kiss her, put her in the golden eagle's crib, on the brocade mattress, and protect her day and night to prevent anything from hurting her in the slightest.
He would give her the most precious hairpins and the most gorgeous silks in the world, just to make her happy for a moment.
"Has the princess seen the child? Does she like it?"
Pei Yu's voice softened unnaturally, for fear of disturbing the baby in his arms.
The midwife hurriedly said, "I saw it, and she loved it very much! She even gave it a nickname, Little Guanyin."
Pei Yu gently rocked the baby and asked casually, "Why did you give him this nickname?"
The midwife smiled and said, "The princess said that she had a dream before giving birth. In the dream, she was sitting on a lotus platform in the clouds. She felt that this child had a connection with Buddhism. She gave this name in the hope that the little princess would be kind and compassionate to everything in the future."
Pei Yu felt like these words were scolding him.
But it doesn't matter.
"Go tell the princess that I will do good deeds and be a good person for her and Little Guanyin. Can I go in now?"
The midwife went to retell the story happily. Pei Yu held the child and weighed him. The little Guanyin pursed her lips and suddenly burst into tears.
"Don't cry, don't cry, Daddy was wrong, I won't tease you anymore..."
Before we could appease the little Guanyin, a few screams suddenly came from inside.
"Princess! Princess!"
Pei Yu's heart tightened and he immediately ignored everything else and rushed in holding his daughter.
On the bed, Yue Miao spat out a mouthful of blood, then leaned on the edge of the bed with blood still on the corner of her mouth.
Pei Yu's pupils suddenly shrank. After he stuffed the little Guanyin into the midwife's hands, he immediately rushed to the bedside, held her hand, and turned back to shout, "Where's the imperial physician? Call the imperial physician over!"
Because the delivery went so smoothly, there was no need to invite the imperial physician from the palace.
The midwife reacted and ran out to shout.
Yue Miao smiled softly, just like when she held his hand and touched the little Guanyin in her belly that day, and said gently: "It's useless, Pei Yu, I hid arsenic in my fingertips and took it after giving birth. I will definitely die..."
Pei Yu's heart trembled, he tightly grasped her hand, his voice trembling with pain: "You, you lied to me again, you want to leave me again, right? Did I ever tell you that if you try to escape again, I will kill everyone around you!"
"Your Highness, the little Guanyin is watching you."
Yue Miao used his last bit of strength to point his finger at the swaddling clothes in the midwife's hands.
Little Guanyin seemed to be able to feel the mother's life slipping away, and her cries became sharper and sharper.
Yue Miao looked at the blue sky outside the window. She didn't know whose kite it was, but its string finally broke and it was floating in the air, not knowing where to go.
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