GNU Ch 133 Part 1 – Child (I)

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Cheng Yujin’s contraction began late at night. Once the night servants were alerted, the main hall immediately lit up again. Lian Qiao quickly ran out, not even bothered to tidy her clothes as she shouted, “Go and call the midwives! Also, run to the kitchen and tell them to boil water. The Crown Princess is about to give birth!”

This cry startled the whole Eastern Palace, then rippled layer by layer, awakening the entire inner palace. In an instant, the news spread to every corner of the palace.

The Crown Princess was about to give birth.

Cheng Yujin was in so much pain that she almost fainted. She opened her eyes suddenly in the middle of the night, startled awake by the contraction pain, and immediately noticed the wetness under her body. Knowing that it was the amniotic fluid, she immediately called out. Fortunately, Li Chengjing’s sleep was very light lately, and he woke up as soon as Cheng Yujin made a movement. Li Chengjing quickly alerted the servants and afterward, had Cheng Yujin moved to the specially-prepared delivery room. So many figures went in and out of Cheng Yujin’s vision, and the pain was so great that she couldn’t tell who was who.

The pain seemed to be endless. It was said that giving birth was not hard, because every woman had to go through the same experience. However, only those who had gone through it would know how painful giving birth was.

In the end, Cheng Yujin fell into a trance. She remembered that her contraction began in the middle of the night, but the sky outside was almost bright now, approaching dawn. All kinds of shouts went in and out of Cheng Yujin’s ears, some from the midwives and some from the palace servants.

Cheng Yujin remembered the time when she gave birth in her previous life. It was also difficult then. Now that she was carrying twins, the difficulties were doubled.

In a trance, she vaguely saw a hazy figure. She couldn’t see the person’s face clearly, but a mysterious voice in her mind told her that this was the child from her previous life.

In Cheng Yujin’s previous life, she fought hard to give birth to her and Huo Changyuan’s child, but she didn’t even have the chance to see the baby’s face before losing her life. Later, the child was brought up by Cheng Yumo. Because Huo Changyuan favored this second wife, she soon gave birth to a new di son. The eldest child, who lacked attention since childhood, was timid by nature and grew up into a useless nobody.

Huo Changyuan became increasingly disappointed with this eldest son of his and finally decided to take away the child’s status as the shizi. Soon afterward, the child got drunk late at night and fell into the lake, ending his short life.

Cheng Yujin heard the figure scream at her in a shrill voice, “How can you be so selfish! You climb the ranks when you meet the Crown Prince, becoming the Crown Princess and giving up the child from your previous life. Have you ever thought that your selfish decision would completely erase the child’s existence?!”