Chapter 68

Princess Liuxu was pregnant!

Hearing what Physician Ling said, the empress dowager immediately cheered up. She then told her attendants to send some jewelry, silk and satin, as well as various kinds of nutritious food, and antiabortifacient herbs to the princess’s residence.

Putting on a coy look, ‘Princess Liuxu’ was about to bow to the empress dowager to show ‘her’ thanks but was stopped by the latter. “Liuxu, as you’re pregnant, you don’t have to stand on ceremony.”

“… Your Grace, I appreciate your concern!” After hesitating for a while, Zixiu answered, his voice gruff and his face livid. “Yan Lingxiao, you’re such a quack! You idiot, how can a man get pregnant?!”

As if he had heard that Zixiu was cursing him secretly, Lingxiao suddenly sniffed loudly. Actually, it was after much deliberation that he had announced Zixiu’s pregnancy. When he put his fingers on Zixiu’s wrist, he felt two different kinds of pulsations, which only occurred when a woman was pregnant. If he hadn’t known that Zixiu was a man who could never conceive a baby, no matter how good his medical skill was, there was no way he could find out Zixiu’s pseudopregnancy. It seemed that someone poisoned Zixiu with some kind of toxic, which gave him the symptoms of pregnancy, and this person most likely had known that Zixiu was the princess in disguise. Though Lingxiao couldn’t figure out what that person’s purpose was, to get Zixiu out of the mansion asap, he decided to keep it a secret. He now was wondering what Prince Mu would react to this piece of shocking news.

After finishing his decoction, Nangong Du lay down again. However, before he could close his eyes, he suddenly heard the news of Zixiu’s pregnancy and bounced up in an instant. As he had just woken up, he stared at Zixiu in a daze, looking quite confused, but everyone could tell that his face grew even paler.

Out of a physician’s sense of duty, and also out of fear that the patient he had awakened with so much effort would fall back into a coma, Ling Xiao rushed to the bed in haste. After checking Prince Mu’s conditions, He said, in the way a physician usually instructed his patients, “Your Highness, relax! Nothing is more important than your health!”

Though Nangong Du didn’t look at him, he followed Lingxiao’s suggestion. Managing to calm himself down, he lay back to the bed.

“We’d better leave Prince Mu alone to have a good rest.” with that, the empress dowager rose to her feet and walked out with those people following behind her.

“Darling!”

When Zixiu was about to lift his right foot and step over the threshold, he suddenly heard Nangong Du’s faint voice ringing from behind. In a panic, he tripped over the threshold and almost fell to the floor. Fortunately, Tinglan, who was by his side, had quick reflexes and caught him in time. “Your Highness, watch out!”

The empress dowager had walked out of the room when Tinglan cried out. She turned around and immediately saw Zixiu’s discomfited appearance. “You kid, how could you be so reckless! Come on, go back to him!”

Hearing that, Zixiu felt like his panic had turned into an impulse to cry. “How come I’m always so hapless?”

However, even the emperor didn’t dare go against the empress dowager. Moreover, this old lady was doing this to create an opportunity for the new couple to be with each other alone. Therefore, Zixiu couldn’t find any excuse to turn her down and he could only answer obediently with his head lowered, “Got it!”

Lingxiao also wanted to get in. Needless to say, he could only wait outside.

As there was nobody else in the room except for the two of them, Zixiu didn’t have to act. It was his comeuppance that Nangong Du now in such a wretched state. As he was too feeble to be violent with Zixiu as he had been before, Zixiu was no longer afraid of him.

Looking down at him, Zixiu couldn’t help but secretly felicitate that he finally held his head high in front of this pervert. However, unlike Nangong Du and Xingyi, he wasn’t a shameless bully. But anyway, he wouldn’t bury the hatchet and met him with a smile. Therefore, he only stood by the bed and asked with a poker face, “Your Highness, what do you want?”

“What the hell is going on?” Nangong Du stared at him resentfully as if he was very annoyed at Zixiu’s indifference. However, he didn’t seem to be eligible to complain about Zixiu!

With his senior brothers as his backing, Zixiu was now much bolder. He stared back at Nangong Du while speaking aggressively, “What do you mean? I don’t know what you’re talking about!”

“You…” Choked by his words, Nangong Du found it difficult to breathe and his face flushed dark red in an instant.

Taken aback, Zixiu felt his heart skip a beat. He sat down on the edge of the bed in a panic and stroked Nangong Du’s back so that he could breathe easily. “Your Highness, don’t get mad at me. It’s all my fault! I shouldn’t have been so rude!” he apologized in a soft voice, trying to appease Nangong Du’s anger.

“Are you a woman? How come you get pregnant?” As he caught his breath, Nangong Du suddenly roared, as if he had completely been back to his former state!

Zixiu was startled again. It wasn’t because of Nangong Du’s arrogance, but because he had heard that there would be a sudden spurt of vitality before people died. “Gosh! Looks like this pervert can’t hold on much longer!”

“Your Highness, don’t believe that quack! You should know I… no, you should know your humble consort is a guy, right? How can a guy get pregnant? Don’t you think it’s too ridiculous? Haha…” At the thought that Nangong Du might die at any time because of what he said, Zixiu was almost incoherent with fear.

“Your Highness, your humble consort will never be pregnant! Even if something unexpected happened, he would find a way to get rid of the trouble. So you don’t have to bother for such a dummy message. Your Highness…” No matter how he hated this asshole, Zixiu didn’t want him to die at this moment, or he wouldn’t be able to explain himself and might be sent to the Ministry of Justice as a homicide suspect!

“What’s wrong with Prince Mu?” Hearing Zixiu’s pathetic cries, Physician Ling, who was waiting outside, immediately rushed in. However, to his surprise, the moment he got into the room, he saw that Nangong Du was holding Zixiu tight while the latter was rubbing his face against his chest in a coquettish manner!

“Pah!”

Lingxiao’s fan slipped out of his hand again!