5 Preparation for her child! (1/2)
The empress was too tired and/or bored to be bothered with remembering the rest of Master Lan's words, and enjoyed the rest of the ride down the mountain in silence.
Looking down, she showed a gleeful smile. ”A child huh? That's not too bad.” Running her finger in a circle around her belly she said, ”You'll have to be obedient, ok?”
Her voice was low and sweet; full of love that she herself had never expected to feel.
”Your mommy never had her own mommy, so you'll have to forgive my mistakes ok? But don't worry, this mommy won't abandon you.” The more she thought about having a child, the giddier she got. She was sure she would make a great mother; after all, as long as she takes note of all the things she missed from life, and fulfilled those for her child, she would have done the job of a good mother.
For the rest of the ride, she whispered sweet nothings to the child she didn't even realize was actively listening to her.
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Slightly dejected, Shenlong thought to himself, 'that really sweet and touching, but you're mistaking your role…'
The girls outside her palanquin were listening to the Empresses words with giddy little smiles on their faces. 'Very soon there will be a little empress running around for use to dote on,' they thought to themselves. Never would they expect that this very child would grow to be the terror of all women!
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Back at the palace, the Empress was bundled up in coats and blankets while lying in her luxurious bed. Although she knows virtually nothing about pregnancy and childbirth, she knows enough to know that her baby was in an extremely vulnerable state. Even just the cold of the palace would be enough to harm her most beloved.
”Yu'er!” She shouted, causing a pair of feet to scurry towards her door.
”Yes, Empress?!”
”I've decided not to attend the tournament this year. I can't risk anything happening to my baby so I'll be staying here. Take three elders and an ancestor with you. Just tell them it's on my orders. Also tell them not the leak my pregnancy to anyone. Once those nasty old men find out, they'll probably band together to march on us and harm my baby.”
”Ah! Yes Empress!”
”Oh, and when you're there, buy as many books on babies and childbirth and like, as you can.”
”Yes!”
”Ok, you can go now. After you do as I've asked, take the day off.”
”Yes, my Empress, as you say!” With that, her little feet padded off.
Sitting in silence, the Empress once again began rubbing her stomach beneath the heavy covers. For several hours, she talked to her beloved as if it were the only thing in this world for her.
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Four weeks later: