The fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the hour of Xu.
The royal palace of Laifeng Kingdom, Qiongyu Palace, Ouyang Yuming's bedroom.
"Ugh~"
Ouyang Yuming held onto the head of the bed and suddenly began to vomit violently. The eunuch who served him in the hall hurriedly brought him a spittoon.
"Mingming, what's wrong with you?" Yu Lianhuan looked at Ouyang Yuming, who was retching after making love with her. His heroic brows were slightly wrinkled, and he looked as if he was thinking about something.
"What's wrong? What's wrong? It's all your fault!" Ouyang Yuming pushed the chest of the woman who was hugging him with a look of reproach on his face.
He had been suffering from morning sickness for over half a month now, and it was much more severe than when he was pregnant with Nalan Junxue. He had suffered a lot because of the baby in his belly...
More importantly, ever since the second night of the Lunar New Year when the Emperor vomited in his presence, he hadn't come to Qiongyu Palace again. Ouyang Yuming was terribly anxious, fearing that if he delayed any longer, his belly would grow larger and larger, becoming impossible to conceal. Was the only option left to him?
Ouyang Yuming didn't have much affection for the child in her belly. After all, he didn't really love Yu Lianhuan. He just wanted this woman's body to bring him happiness, and her identity as the leader of the Jade Maiden Sect of the Rakshasa Clan would make things easier for him.
For Ouyang Yuming, what truly mattered was whether this child could become a bargaining chip in his struggle for power and profit. Even if he had to abort the child, he had to maximize its use. Otherwise, wouldn't all the hardship he had endured these past few days have been in vain?
"What's wrong with me?" Yu Lianhuan touched Ouyang Yuming's slightly pale face and asked with concern.
"I'm already pregnant with your child, what's wrong?!" Ouyang Yuming pouted his lips and glared at the woman who was hugging him.
"You... are pregnant?" Yu Lianhuan seemed too surprised to sit up from the bed and looked at Ouyang Yuming in disbelief.
Although she had some guesses in her mind just now, but when she heard this man say that she was pregnant with her child, the shock in Yu Lianhuan's heart was no less than the huge waves on the sea.
Thinking back to her twenty years of romantic adventures, whether with innocent young men, married men in the harem, the husbands of high-ranking officials, the imperial concubines, or even the Emperor of Zhaoyang, Su Mutianjun, and his imperial preceptor, Ran Qiyue, she had always been so carefree as to "pass through the grass without getting a single leaf on her." She had never heard of any man getting pregnant by her. Who would have thought that now, in her middle age, she would suddenly have a child?
"Mingming, are you serious?" Yu Lianhuan tightly grabbed Ouyang Yuming's hand. Due to being too excited, Ouyang Yuming's fair and tender hand turned red from her pulling.
"What do you think? Don't you have eyes?" Ouyang Yuming shook off Yu Lianhuan's hand, glanced sideways again, and glared at her fiercely.
"Good Mingming, are you sure this child is mine? Could it be that tyrant Nalan Yunzhi, or Han Shuying's?"
Despite her joy, Yu Lianhuan still rationally asked the question in her mind. After all, although she had many lovers, Ouyang Yuming also had many mistresses.
"What nonsense are you talking about!" Ouyang Yuming shouted angrily, "In the past two months, I haven't had a good relationship with anyone except you."
After hearing this, Yu Lianhuan smiled.
"Okay, okay, what belongs to me is mine." She gently stroked Ouyang Yuming's belly, her eyes full of love.
"What's good about it?" Ouyang Yuming frowned slightly and said in annoyance, "The emperor hasn't visited me recently. In more than a month, my belly will get bigger and bigger. I'm afraid that I will be tortured to death along with the baby in my belly, ending up with two lives!" Ouyang Yuming slapped away Yu Lianhuan's hand on his belly, looking worried.
Yu Lianhuan felt a little more at ease after hearing this. It seemed that this man was indeed carrying her child. Otherwise, with his proud personality, everyone in the harem would have known long ago that he was pregnant with the emperor's offspring.
However, Ouyang Yuming's worries were not without reason. If the dog emperor knew that Ouyang Yuming had not only committed adultery with her but was also pregnant, there would be no chance for this man and the child in his belly to survive.
Thinking of this, Yu Lianhuan's heroic face suddenly became gloomy.
"Mingming, don't worry. For the sake of our flesh and blood and the future of our family of three, I will never let anything happen to you and your child. At worst... we can change the dynasty and replace this emperor!" Yu Lianhuan turned his head to look in the direction of Zichen Palace, and a sinister glimpse flashed in his sharp eyes.
"Change...change of dynasty?" Ouyang Yuming's voice trembled slightly.
Yu Lianhuan's proposal clearly went beyond the realm of power struggle for a man in the harem, Ouyang Yuming. At most, he would seek the position of Crown Princess for his daughter and the position of Empress for himself. But this woman told him she was plotting to usurp the throne. How could he not be terrified? After all, that was a grave crime, with the confiscation of property and the extermination of nine generations of his family.
"What? You can't bear to leave her..." Yu Lianhuan, who was hugging Ouyang Yuming's waist, narrowed her dangerous eyes and glanced at the man in her arms.
"No... no! Huanhuan, you... do you know what you are saying? That's... that's plotting to usurp the throne..."
Ouyang Yuming couldn't help but tremble slightly when he thought of An Zihao, imprisoned in the cold palace, crying and wailing every day. What this woman was about to do was far more serious than An Zihao's attempt to murder the Phoenix Queen and fall off a cliff.
"Look how scared you are. Did that woman really think she was that scary? This is just my final plan. If the identity of your unborn child is known, I may not necessarily put it into action." Yu Lianhuan snorted disdainfully. "Okay, it's settled."
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