Chapter 36 Unaware of her pregnancy, the fright caused miscarriage.
The atmosphere inside the warm pavilion remained shrouded in fear and bloodshed, as everyone was still reeling from the shock. Su Luoxue nestled in Yuwen Che's arms, initially seeking only comfort, but the increasingly intense pain in her lower abdomen made it impossible for her to ignore. She endured the pain, her forehead beaded with cold sweat, and her lips drained of color.
Finally, she couldn't help but grab Yuwen Che's uninjured right hand, her voice weak and pained: "A-Che... I... my stomach hurts..."
Yuwen Che was immersed in a somber mood when he heard this, and his heart tightened. He immediately looked down at her and saw that her face was pale and covered in cold sweat. He panicked and tried to comfort her, "What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell? Were you frightened just now, or did you catch a cold?" He subconsciously pulled her cloak tighter and touched her forehead with the back of his hand.
The Su family members sitting nearby had never seen such a scene before and dared not utter a sound. At this moment, Su's mother noticed something was wrong with her daughter and hurriedly came over, anxiously asking, "Xue'er, what's wrong? You look so pale?"
Because they were seated at a higher position, with tables and cloaks providing cover, and because their attention was focused on Su Luoxue's face, Yuwen Che and Su's mother did not notice those below for a moment.
The women in the hall looked up in confusion, wondering: What's wrong with Consort Chen? Could she be terrified by Shen's tragic state and the curse she just witnessed?
Just then, a concubine's daughter from the Ministry of Revenue, who was sitting in the lower seats, inadvertently caught a glimpse of blood dripping from the hem of Su Luoxue's skirt, which was not fully covered by her fox fur cloak. One drop, two drops... dripped down continuously, spreading a small, glaring red stain on the clean floor!
The concubine's daughter was terrified. She instinctively covered her mouth with one hand and pointed tremblingly to Su Luoxue's feet with the other, crying out in alarm, "Ah...blood...blood! Your Highness...Your Highness is bleeding so much!"
The Minister of Revenue was startled by his daughter's sudden scream. He was about to scold her when he looked in the direction she was pointing and his expression changed drastically!
Her pointing and shout immediately drew everyone's attention! When everyone saw the expanding bloodstains under Su Luoxue's chair, most of the experienced ladies and older concubines instantly understood what was happening!
These symptoms... this amount of bleeding... this is definitely not a normal menstrual period! This is clearly... a sign of miscarriage!
Consort Chen is pregnant?! And amidst this series of shocks and shocks, it turns out...
"Xue'er!" Yuwen Che finally followed everyone's gaze and saw the bloodstains on the ground. The glaring red was like the sharpest blade, piercing his heart! The color drained from his face instantly, making him even paler than Su Luoxue! He stood up abruptly, but the movement was too hasty, aggravating the wound on his left arm. A sharp pain shot through him, but he was completely unaware of it!
Su Luoxue was in so much pain that she was almost collapsing. The massive blood loss was making her vision blur. She gripped Yuwen Che's hand tightly, her nails almost digging into his flesh. Her voice was weak and broken, filled with helplessness and pain: "Ache...it hurts so much...my stomach...it hurts so much...it really hurts so much..."
"Imperial physicians! Summon the imperial physicians! Bring all the imperial physicians to me! Now!!!" Yuwen Che roared like a wounded beast, his voice filled with unprecedented panic and despair. He no longer cared about imperial dignity, picked up the almost unconscious Su Luoxue and ran wildly towards Guanju Palace, leaving behind a hall full of horrified people and a shocking pool of blood on the ground.
The vicious curse of the Shen family—"I curse all your children to die young"—seemed to still echo in the air, carrying a chilling aura.
Inside the warm pavilion, several wives of high-ranking officials, seeing the rapidly expanding, glaring pool of blood on the chair and the dripping bloodstains on the floor, knew what was going on. She was pregnant but unaware. One wife couldn't help but gasp softly, her voice filled with regret and fear: "My God... so much blood... can she still keep the baby? She's clearly suffered a terrible shock, and it's affected the pregnancy! That curse of the Shen family..."
"Shut up! What nonsense are you spouting?!" Her husband, pale with fright, shouted angrily, glancing nervously around. "Don't forget where you are! Do you want to kill the whole family?! Don't you want to live?!"
The lady immediately fell silent, covering her mouth in fear, and dared not utter another word. But a shadow fell over everyone's hearts. Shen's vicious curse was still ringing in their ears, and now Consort Chen had actually started bleeding. This coincidence sent chills down their spines.
On the other side, Yuwen Che, carrying Su Luoxue who had fainted from the pain and whose lower garments were soaked in blood, rushed back to Guanju Palace like a madman. He carefully placed her on the soft bed, looking at her pale, sweat-drenched face, his heart aching as if it were being torn apart. He held her cold hand tightly, whispering in her ear again and again, his voice trembling and hoarse: "Xue'er, don't be afraid... I'm here, everything will be alright, everything will be alright..."
As men outside the palace, Su Jingxing and Su Wenyuan could not enter the inner palace and could only wait anxiously outside. Su's mother, disregarding everything else, hurriedly followed the emperor's entourage to Guanju Palace. Seeing her daughter's condition, she was heartbroken and burst into tears, but dared not disturb the imperial physicians' treatment.
The head of the Imperial Medical Academy and several renowned gynecologists were practically dragged and pulled by the Longxiang Guards. Breathless and barely catching their breath, they immediately rushed forward to check the pulse of the unconscious Su Luoxue.
After a thorough examination, the head physician and several imperial physicians exchanged a shocked and grave look. The head physician knelt down, his voice trembling as he reported, "Your Majesty... the Imperial Concubine... is indeed one month pregnant..."
This news should have been a source of great joy, but it is now overshadowed by a thick shadow.
The head of the hospital paused, his tone becoming even heavier, even tinged with disbelief: "Moreover... judging from the pulse, it is slippery and strong, as if there are two pulses beating... this, this is very likely... twins!"
Twins?!
Yuwen Che's heart skipped a beat, his gaze instinctively falling on Su Luoxue's still flat stomach. There... was actually carrying both of their children? Before the immense joy could even rise, the imperial physician's next words plunged him into an icy abyss.
“But…” the head of the hospital said, his voice filled with difficulty and fear, “Her Majesty has suffered a series of great shocks today, which has damaged her mind and spirit, causing the fetus to be greatly disturbed and her blood to flow in reverse. In addition… in addition, Her Majesty’s constitution is inherently cold, and her uterus is fragile… Now the bleeding is not stopping, and her pulse is erratic and weak… This… this is already a sign of miscarriage!”
The imperial physicians exchanged glances again, their eyes filled with despair and helplessness. The bleeding was so raging, the pulse so dangerous, and it was a twin pregnancy, which was inherently more difficult to maintain than a singleton pregnancy... How... how could they possibly save it?
Listening to the imperial physician's words, looking at Su Luoxue's weak breath on the bed, and then thinking of the two children who might be lost before they were even formed, a devastating rage and heart-wrenching pain instantly overwhelmed Yuwen Che! He had only just learned of their existence, was he really going to lose them like this? The curse of the Shen family... No! He absolutely would not allow it!
He abruptly turned his head, his bloodshot eyes fixed on the kneeling imperial physicians. He practically gritted his teeth, forcing out a chilling command, filled with unwavering resolve and overwhelming killing intent:
"Listen! The Imperial Concubine, and the child in her womb, I want them all! If anything happens to them..."
He paused, each word like a sharp blade tempered with ice:
"You... will all be buried with the unborn prince!"
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