He was glad he had made it through.
He was glad that he had finally reached Ye Qingxue.
Ye Qingxue's hand, which was pressed against his face, twitched. The faint warmth of his face seemed to penetrate her palm and reach her heart. Tears streamed down her face. "Why did you come back?"
She choked up. She didn't cry when she heard the news of his death, and she couldn't cry when she saw the tunnel collapse a second time. She was in excruciating pain during childbirth, and her eyes were very dry, but she still couldn't shed a tear.
But when I learned that he was still alive and saw him appear before me, tears welled up in my eyes.
Granny Xing and the others stood by watching them, and they couldn't help but shed tears.
Granny Xing whispered, "Your Highness, please advise the Crown Princess. She has just given birth and should not experience great joy or sorrow, as her body cannot withstand it."
“I promised you I would come back to be with you to welcome the baby’s birth. When the disaster happened, I thought about it and felt that I owed you a lot. I couldn’t make it up to you in the next life, so I had to make it up to you in this life. That’s why I came back,” Yun Zhuo said.
His few words fully expressed his struggle between life and death, which Ye Qingxue understood.
Yun Zhuo raised her hand to wipe away the tears on her face: "Let's listen to Granny and not cry. Let's see what the newborn baby looks like. Is he the child we've been waiting for?"
Granny Xing quickly brought the child to Ye Qingxue and Yun Zhuo.
The two midwives continued to clean up the mess below Ye Qingxue's body, and also did some wiping and washing.
They felt that His Highness the Crown Prince shouldn't have come into the house under these circumstances, but since things had already come to this, they were just glad to be alive, so they said nothing and worked silently and energetically.
Yun Zhuo and Ye Qingxue both looked at the child in Granny Xing's arms.
Ye Qingxue had only glanced at the child when Yun Zhuo came in, and she hadn't had a chance to examine him properly.
"Although this child was born a month early, he is not very thin or small. It's probably because his amniotic sac broke too early, so he wasn't soaked much and looks quite clean," said Granny Xing.
Yun Zhuo and Ye Qingxue exchanged a glance, and then simultaneously reached out, each taking one of the child's hands. The child's hands were small; two fingers were enough to support his entire palm.
Just as Granny Xing said, she was very clean and had very fair skin, but she wasn't fat; in fact, she looked quite thin.
Granny Xing said, "Most babies are thin when they are first born, but they become plump and healthy after two or three months of care."
Ye Qingxue's hand landed on the child's eyebrows, nose, and mouth. His little lips were red and very cute. He seemed to have been teased awake, and the little guy even opened his eyes for a moment.
However, a newborn baby's eyes are not fully developed, so when he opens his eyes, his vision is blurry. After yawning, he closed his eyes and continued to sleep.
Ye Qingxue and Yun Zhuo were stunned by his yawning.
Yun Zhuo blurted out, "I didn't expect such a young child to yawn."
This made everyone laugh. Granny Xing said, "Although the child is young, yawning is an instinct. There's no need to learn it; he naturally knows how."
Ye Qingxue smiled too. It was the first time she had ever seen such a tiny child yawn, and it was her own child. The feeling was so magical.
"He really looks like Xiaobao," Ye Qingxue said in a very soft voice. It turned out that the child she had searched for so desperately in the past really had to come out of her womb.
"So this is what a newborn baby looks like," Ye Qingxue murmured softly. Back then, the baby really hadn't lied to her; she truly was his mother.
But where did Xiao Bao come from back then?
Was Xiao Bao's arrival merely to help her survive the inevitable ten-day ordeal of certain death?
Did he, like Yun Zhuo, suffer a lot of hardship, get hurt a lot, and travel a long way before he came to her side?
Ye Qingxue took the child, held him close to her heart, and pressed her cheek against the baby's cheek.
“I’ve brought you back. From now on, I’m your mother. We’re really mother and son now, little Bao.”
I wonder if he remembers the time he came to her side in the form of a five-year-old?
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