"Awan..."
Huo Wuyou's gentle call startled Xue Zhiyi awake. She suddenly opened her eyes, her breathing fluctuating. She stared blankly at Huo Wuyou, whose eyes were red beside the bed. Her voice was hoarse, "Is the baby born yet?"
Huo Wuyou nodded, and gently stroked her cold cheek with his fingers: "The child is healthy. I heard from them that it's a girl."
Heaving a sigh of relief, Xue Zhiyi's wet face showed a smile of relief, and his eyes became wet unconsciously.
This child had been through so much with her, and it was great that she was born healthy... That was her amazing daughter.
Her voice was weak and she whispered softly, "Grandmother has chosen a name. She said it's Mingyu, a very good name for a boy or a girl."
"Okay, everything is fine..."
Just like every time he used to play tricks on Xue Zhiyi's head, his fingers landed on her hair, but this time, his movements were as gentle as a breeze: "As long as it's our child, anything is fine."
The child was asleep when he was washed and brought in. He had just been fed by the wet nurse. The still wrinkled child lay quietly beside Xue Zhiyi, sucking his lips.
When they met for the first time, the two of them stared at the child's little face.
"Why do I look more like myself?"
Huo Wuyou rubbed Xiao Mingyu's soft little face, but Xue Zhiyi slapped his hand away. So he withdrew his hand reluctantly, fearing that his fingers, which were roughened by swords and knives, would scratch this tender face.
Xue Zhiyi smiled and said, "It's good to look like you, it's good-looking."
Huo Wuyou smiled complacently: "But his mouth is more like yours, which is also good-looking. He will definitely be a sharp-tongued person in the future."
Little Mingyu was humming softly in her dream. Xue Zhiyi looked at her and felt her heart filled with infinite satisfaction. She had been like this before, coming into this world with the expectations of her parents, but unfortunately she was not lucky enough to enjoy it. Her Mingyu would carry all their expectations and live out her life regardless of wind and rain.
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In the next few days, Shen Qingtang and Huo Zhiyu both came to visit Xue Zhiyi and Mingyu. The empress dowager loved them very much and often asked Chai Yue to hold the child in front of her, saying that Mingyu looked very much like Princess Yongning when she was just born.
Sui Yunlang, the adoptive father, was overjoyed to come visit with gifts. When he learned it was a girl, he was even more delighted: "A daughter is better. At least she won't grow up to be as annoying as Huo Wuyou."
However, more than ten years later, facing the female devil Huo Mingyu who was a hundred times more naughty than Huo Wuyou, Sui Yunlang wanted to slap himself a few times for what he said today. But that was all in the future. As soon as he finished speaking, he was kicked by Huo Wuyou.
Shen Qingtang came quite frequently and had held Mingyu several times before the baby was one month old. She held Mingyu skillfully and never tired of whispering coaxing words to the child. By the bed, Jiang Xu looked at the child in her arms with a soft expression on his face.
Xue Zhiyi looked at it and suddenly felt that something was wrong. She found that Jiang Xu's gaze seemed to be looking at Mingyu, but it seemed... he was also looking at Shen Qingtang who was holding the child.
She shook her head...No, don't think about it.
But she couldn't help but feel an inexplicable suspicion in her heart. As if possessed by some unknown force, she said, "Brother?"
Jiang Xu did not respond to her, his eyes still on Mingyu, or Shen Qingtang.
He called out again, "Brother?"
Jiang Xu finally came to his senses and still had his usual serious face, but his ears had unconsciously turned red.
Xue Zhiyi pretended not to notice and said with a smile, "Brother, you haven't held Mingyu many times, right?"
Jiang Xu nodded stiffly and reached out to take Mingyu from Shen Qingtang.
However, Jiang Xu's movements became cautious, not the cautiousness when holding a child, but his hands avoided touching Shen Qingtang, making his movements weird and guilty.
Shen Qingtang's movements were also very unnatural. He lowered his eyes, as if deliberately avoiding Jiang Xu. Even his movements were evasive, but his cheeks were reddening a little bit...
Seeing that the two of them had made Mingyu cry out in pain, Xue Zhiyi said, "Give it to me first."
Shen Qingtang breathed a sigh of relief visibly, as if he had been pardoned, and stuffed the child into Xue Zhiyi's hands.
Xue Zhiyi said to Jiang Xu again: "Brother, extend your hand."
Therefore, although Jiang Xu's movements were still cautious, they seemed much more decisive and efficient.
Isn't this the kind of thing where everyone can hold a baby?
Looking at the two people in front of her, neither looking at each other nor speaking, just standing there like wooden stakes, both with red faces, Xue Zhiyi finally understood: she and Shen Qingtang were probably destined to be sister-in-law.
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After Chai Yue resumed her identity as Jiang Xian, Xue Zhiyi asked her if she had ever thought about her future path, such as leaving the palace, returning to the Jiang Mansion, and living an ordinary life.
Jiang Xian gently shook Mingyu's hand, paused, thought for a moment, then shook her head and said, "I'm already middle-aged, and I've established myself in the palace through years of hard work. Why should I start all over again outside the palace?"
She smiled gently, "Now that my loved ones are by my side and everything is going smoothly, I think this is great. What's more, when I first entered the palace, I thought that one day I would sit on the throne of Shang Gong. When the time comes, I can retire as Shang Gong, and it will not be in vain."
Xue Zhiyi smiled knowingly: That's right, everyone has their own future. Whatever you think is good is the best.
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A few days after Xue Zhiyi gave birth, she learned the truth about the Yueling Pass tragedy. Huo Wuyou also knew what had happened in Huajing during his absence. When he learned that Xue Zhiyi had quietly rebelled against the emperor, he was stunned for a moment and almost kowtowed to her... At first, he could not understand how Xue Zhiyi had persuaded the emperor. He did not expect that this method of persuasion was so powerful that it was impossible to refuse.
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