6 Baby is born (1/2)

The day that the Empress and her close attendants had long waited for had finally arrived. The empress was in incredible pain, and was barely holding back from doing something rash that might harm her baby.

For whatever reason, she felt like she wanted to bean every woman in the room over the head, while roaring profanities at them.

She had been lying in bed for half a day, waiting for this beautiful life to magically pop out of her, but her servants and maids were running around flustered, deeply aggravating the empress. 'I'm the one suffering here! Why are you all acting like you're the ones in pain?!' she screamed inwardly as she grit her teeth.

She expected a bit more professionalism considering she ordered them to memorize the books pertaining to this part of pregnancy over two weeks ago.

”ALRIGHT!!!” the empress shouted while glaring at her hectic maids. ”Line up,” she ordered. After each maid fell in line, she began barking orders.

Quickly each made held a position and solid role in the childbirth.

Exhausted before even beginning, the empress stuck out her lower lip to blow her matted hair out of her face before falling back onto a pillow.

Whispering to herself, she said ”please darling, don't make this too hard on mommy…”

In this way, she and the maids waited for another hour before her contractions began repeating very quickly.

Following procedure, the maids began uniformly passing warm water and towels back and forth while helping to situate the empress.

Very quickly, the empress was unable to control her cultivation properly, and the whole empire heard the painful wails.

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The empress lied on her bed covered in sweat after finally managing to birth her beloved baby. After several gasps, her mind cleared. Very quickly, she went into panic mode.

'Wha-why isn't it crying? The book said it's supposed to cry,' she inwardly screamed while startled. She struggled to push herself up while being pushed back down by several maids.

Noticing the panic in her empress's eyes, Yu'er who was holding the bundled baby quickly said, ”Don't worry your majesty, he's already asleep. He's breathing just fine, so you can rest comfortably.”

”H-he?” the empress cried out as she stared at the bundle in Yu'er arms.

Seeing the empresses yearning, she quickly takes the bundle to the empress, only to have it pulled forcefully from her arms.

Rubbing her chest, yu'er smiled brightly. The rest of the girls watched eagerly.

Taking the sleeping baby into her arms, she held him tightly with a deep and tender look in her eyes.

As she loosened the bundle she looked upon his chubby yet handsome face. Quickly her eyes misted over, and she began sniffling lightly.

As if on cue, the boy opened his eyes to look brightly at his mother. Seeing his beautiful eyes she was stunned. While she was in this state, she simply watched as his little hand reached up and lightly gripped her nose, as a cute smite lit up his face.

The empress immediately lost composure, and began bawling as she hugged her son tight under her chin.