The first person to discover it was naturally Qian Shengyan.
She was sitting beside Yinzhen, six months pregnant, wiping his hands and face as she chattered on and on: "...The snow in the garden is almost up to my calves. I've never seen so much snow before, back in the capital. I'll have to keep an eye on Hongli later, he's going to have too much fun..."
As she spoke, her hand, which was wiping her face, suddenly stopped. She blinked, stared at herself in disbelief for a moment, and then slapped herself: "Am I...am I dreaming?"
Yinzhen chuckled at her words and said weakly, "Yeah, dreaming."
"My lord! My lord, you're really awake! My lord!" Qian Shengyan burst into tears, but a smile still lingered on her lips. She hurriedly wiped her face and called out, "Su Peisheng, quick, go and fetch Physician Zhang, the prince has woken up!"
Upon hearing this, Su Peisheng scrambled in first, glanced at Yinzhen, and then burst into tears. After crying for a while, he remembered what he was supposed to do, and without saying a word, he ran out crying.
Yinzhen looked somewhat helpless. He struggled to raise his hand and touch Qian Shengyan's belly, asking with difficulty, "How many months pregnant?"
“It’s been six months, sir…” Qian Shengyan held his hand, tears welling up in her eyes once again.
She didn't know what to say. In just over two months, she had come to a clear understanding of the importance of the man before her. He didn't have to love her, but he had to live.
In this era, Yinzhen was her everything, and there was no way to change that.
She cried as she pulled his hand to touch her face, sobbing uncontrollably, "Master..."
Imperial Physician Zhang arrived quickly and was pleasantly surprised after examining Yinzhen's condition: "Very good, it's good that Your Highness has woken up. When I took your pulse, I felt that Your Highness was just weak. After taking some more tonics, you will be fine."
He asked Yinzhen about his feelings in detail and examined the wound on the back of his head. Finally, he concluded that the wound was fine and had little impact.
The entire Lion Park was filled with jubilation.
Hongli burst in like a cannonball, half-covered in snow. Upon seeing Yinzhen with his eyes open, he began to wail loudly, crying so hard that no one could console him. He only calmed down a little after his clothes were removed and he was put on the bed next to his father.
He tried to wrap his short arms around Yinzhen's neck, sobbing as he said, "Father, don't sleep anymore, Hongli wants Father to hug him."
Yinzhen gently embraced his round and soft little body, overwhelmed with mixed feelings.
After a busy and chaotic day, Qian Shengyan settled Hongli back in his room in the evening. Yinzhen was already half-sitting on a large armchair, flipping through the letters and articles that had accumulated over the past few days.
Qian Shengyan let her hair down, changed into her nightgown, climbed onto the inside of the bed, and leaned against him, still feeling a little unreal.
She stared at Yinzhen's face for a long time, making sure his eyes were open, then sighed and opened her mouth, but seeing that he was still reading the letter, she kept quiet.
"Why don't you say anything?" Yinzhen teased her with a smile. "You talk so much every day, can you hold it in today?"
"Master is busy, how could I disturb you?" Qian Shengyan muttered, then paused, somewhat embarrassed, and said, "Who told you that I talk too much? Actually, I don't talk much, just a few words now and then..."
Yinzhen chuckled, put down the letter in his hand, grasped her hand in return, and sighed, "I heard it myself."
Qian Shengyan didn't understand and stared at him blankly: "Master..."
"I heard everything you said, day and night, good and bad." Yinzhen carefully avoided her stomach and pulled Qian Shengyan into his arms.
He sighed deeply, "I could hear, but I couldn't wake up. All I could see was white. If you hadn't been talking to me, I..." He pursed his lips, his expression complicated, "I don't know where I would have gone..."
Qian Shengyan had heard of people who could hear voices around them while in a vegetative state, but she never imagined that Yinzhen was the same...
She couldn't help but tear up again, grabbed Yinzhen's hand and called out "Master," her eyes brimming with tears once more.
Yinzhen lowered his head and kissed the top of her head: "You did a great job, decisively sending Hongshi and those outsiders away so that I could recuperate in peace; you also took good care of Hongli, and when I woke up from my nap, he was speaking much more coherently; it's just that you yourself..." He pushed Qian Shengyan away a little and smiled, "Why is it that only your belly is big, and your face is thinner?"
Despite saying this, Yinzhen knew in his heart why Qian Shengyan was like this.
Others who are pregnant wish they could lie in bed and be pampered like royalty, but she, with a belly full of fat, still has to manage a huge garden. She doesn't even have a proper status, yet it's hard for her to suppress those restless thoughts.
But she didn't say anything. In her daily life, she only talked about the children and her own thoughts, what she had done and what effort she had put in. She didn't even ask for credit from him when he was unconscious.
Yinzhen felt a lump in his throat, as if it were stuffed with cotton, making his heart feel soft and warm. He hugged Qian Shengyan tighter, wanting to say something nice, but he couldn't speak. After a moment, he could only gently kiss the top of her head and say in a hoarse voice, "We can only spend the New Year here this year."
"I was afraid that I would gain weight during my pregnancy and not look good, so I deliberately lost weight," Qian Shengyan said with a smile. She touched Yinzhen's body again. This man always had a cold and aloof face, and after this illness, almost all the flesh on his face was gone. He looked so thin and frightening.
But Qian Shengyan wasn't afraid; as long as he was awake, that was better than anything else.
She slowly moved her body forward and kissed him, then lay on his shoulder and sighed, "To be frank, it has only in these two months that I have truly realized that you are our heaven and earth. If you continue to refuse to wake up, then I will have no choice but to take Hongli and this little one with me and go with you."
"What nonsense are you spouting!" Yinzhen slapped her angrily, then felt sorry for her.
She must have suffered a lot to say such disheartened words.
Of course, he can't afford to get into trouble. He has a wife and children, so he definitely has to live well and truly protect them.
His hand gently stroked her belly, feeling the warmth beneath it, and his heart softened even more: "Is this baby being good? Does it keep kicking you?"
Before he could finish speaking, his subordinate's stomach rumbled. Qian Shengyan exclaimed "Ouch!" and then looked up at him with a smile: "Saying hello to Master."
Yinzhen was also stunned. There had been no children in the mansion for several years. The youngest children, besides Hongli, were Gengshi's two children.
He disliked the Geng family and never visited them during his pregnancy, so he naturally never experienced this kind of fetal movement, but...
"He kicked so hard, this kid is naughty." Yinzhen straightened his face and adopted the posture of a strict father.
Qian Shengyan almost burst out laughing: "What does he know? Besides, what if it's a girl?"
She had always wanted a daughter.
The two talked until midnight, rambling on about this and that without any serious topics. It wasn't until Qian Shengyan woke up the next morning that she realized she had forgotten to tell Yinzhen two "important things".
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