Ruan Yumu lay on the bed, straining repeatedly. She knew that if her child was a boy, it would be detrimental to everyone in the harem, and Qi Jingxuan would especially resent her.
The most important thing is to work hard and become strong enough to overcome this hurdle on your own.
Ruan Yu Mu was well aware that her child was a threat within the palace. Many probably wished for her death. When Chu Yue was still in the manor, she had promised an alliance, but now that Chu Yue was at the height of her power, she clearly wouldn't pay her any attention.
She breathed a sigh of relief when the midwife said the baby was in the correct position.
Ruan and Mu couldn't think any further; the pain kept coming.
"Miss, Miss, His Majesty..." Before Zi Ling could finish speaking, Qi Jingxuan rushed in.
"Your Majesty! No! The delivery room is a filthy place, please leave!" Upon seeing the Emperor enter, everyone stopped what they were doing and began to plead with him to leave.
"Shut up! I am the supreme ruler, and I want to see what's so filthy about this. Don't look at me, hurry up and deliver the baby." After the order was given, everyone worked even more diligently than before.
Qi Jingxuan stepped forward to take Ruan Yumu's hand, but she turned her face away.
The courtyard was bustling with people, all eagerly awaiting the safe delivery of Lady Ruan's child.
Upon hearing that the Emperor had rushed into the delivery room, the ladies of the palace could no longer remain seated. They began to realize the importance of Ruan Yumu, a person they had overlooked.
"Go ahead and cause trouble. Don't you understand yet? Only when we work together can we both live better lives. I... you... then I become the emperor, you... I... then you get pregnant and give birth, understand?" Qi Jingxuan said this in a tone that implied they both understood.
The gist is that I became you, Qi Jingxuan, and I used your body to conquer the world. You became me, Ruan Yumu, and we should also focus on getting pregnant and having children, trusting each other, so that we can go the distance.
Ruan Yumu felt disgusted, but she still pretended to be very scared and hid in Qi Jingxuan's arms for comfort, "Your Majesty, I am scared!"
Qi Jingxuan was instantly satisfied and quickly hugged her, saying, "That's right."
The midwife kept probing the cervix, and finally, after midnight, she said, "Your Majesty, you can push now!"
Ruan and Mu had waited for a very long time, and finally, they could begin the birthing process.
"Your Majesty, please drink some soup first and don't talk. This is medicine that the imperial physician just brewed. Drink it quickly so you can exert yourself." Zi Ling brought over the soup, but the Emperor snatched it away. Qi Jingxuan prepared to feed him himself.
It's my own body, after all; I can't afford to ruin it by having a baby.
Ruan and Mu had been struggling all day and couldn't muster any strength at all. The midwife had urged them to push several times, but they couldn't manage it.
"Your Majesty has seen the child's hair. It looks like a young master. Hurry, push harder!"
"What? Young master? Push harder. If it's a young master, I will abolish the abdication system and let our child inherit the throne."
As Ruan Yumu looked at Qi Jingxuan's face, a terrible thought suddenly occurred to her.
But at this moment she only felt exhausted, and after several attempts to push, the baby showed no signs of giving birth, only excruciating pain.
"Your Majesty, push harder! If you don't push, the baby will get stuck! What should we do? Your Majesty? Your Majesty?" the midwife cried out, but Ruan Yu Mu was no longer responding.
She actually fainted.
Everyone panicked instantly. "Imperial physician, administer acupuncture! Come quickly and think of a solution! What are you all standing there for?" Qi Jingxuan tried his best to remain calm and take charge of the situation.
Wang Pozi suddenly remembered that Li Pozi was skilled in cesarean section.
"Aren't you skilled in cesarean section? Now that you're in this situation, use it!"
Granny Li stammered and dared not speak.
"Hurry up!" Qi Jingxuan urged as he saw this.
Granny Li didn't reply, but suddenly knelt down on the ground.
"Your Majesty, this method is very harmful to the body. This is the Empress's first pregnancy. Forcibly pushing her abdomen is against nature and will inevitably cause a backlash. There is no guarantee that the Empress will never be able to have children again, Your Majesty!"
"What?" Qi Jingxuan hesitated upon seeing this. "Are there any other methods?"
"Your Majesty, please don't panic. The baby is in the correct position; you can even see the baby's hair. With just a little effort from the Empress, the baby will come out!"
Qi Jingxuan even felt intense pain in his own body. Having experienced so much, he had become irrational at this moment. Perhaps he wanted him to die, or perhaps he wanted him to live.
At this moment, he couldn't tell whether he wanted Ruan Yumu's body to live or Qi Jingxuan's soul to live.
A quarter of an hour passed with no progress. Even the experienced imperial physicians panicked. Several midwives in the delivery room called out loudly to the Empress, "Your Majesty, please push harder!"
"Your Highness, it's a young master! Wake up!"
"Girl, wake up! Don't you want Ziling anymore?"
"Cry, cry, cry! What are you crying for? Consort Ruan isn't dead yet! What bad luck!"
Seeing this situation, the midwife had no choice but to turn to the imperial physician and say, "You have to find a way to wake the Empress up! The baby is stuck, and if we wait another half an hour, both the baby and the child will die!"
The imperial physician looked tremblingly at the emperor, "I do have a plan, but..."
"Use it quickly!"
Upon hearing that the imperial physician still had a solution, Qi Jingxuan urged him to go up immediately before he could even finish speaking.
The imperial physician then inserted a thin, long silver needle directly into Ruan Yu Mu's finger. The intense pain did not bring her back to consciousness, so the physician quickly inserted a second silver needle.
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