Chapter 321 - Pipe Down (2/2)

Lei Xing calmly responded, ”We are...” They were considered to be on ”friendly” terms.

Princess Nalan nodded and then they sat in silence again. Lei Xing inwardly sighed and looked at the clear blue sky...It was such a nice day, too bad it had to go hell.

Lei Xing knew she was supposed to be having an inquisition of some sort right now to figure out how this all happened, but then was there really a point to that now? It would not change anything and scolding the already clearly panicked girl did not seem appealing.

After all, she was not her mother or anything like that. But still, there were some things she had to inquire about, it was required of her. So she took a deep breath and finally began the inquisition, ”Is he the reason you wanted to stay back?”

”En...” Princess Nalan simply responded. Lei Xing nodded, feeling somewhat irritated with the confirmation. Of course, he was the reason. How had she not noticed anything between them during those times?

Lei Xing sighed and then asked, ”Are you really pregnant?”

”En...I - ” Princess Nalan paused and then shook her head, ”...A doctor checked so...I am?” Princess Nalan finished, somewhat confused and then groaned as she buried her head in her hands.

Lei Xing awkwardly stretched out her hand and then pat her back and awkwardly said, ”Are you...crying?”

”No...” Princess Nalan mumbled back without raising her head.

”It's okay, we'll check again...” Lei Xing said and then turned back to the servants and said, ”Send for the head physician...” And one of the maids scurried off and Lei Xing continued to absentmindedly continued to pat her back.

They could confirm her pregnancy, but at this point it did not really matter. The fact that they was suspicion of pregnancy meant that they were intimate and that alone was enough for problems in this time period.

Lei Xing inwardly sighed and wondered how the conversation on the Emperor's side was going.

Princess Nalan suddenly and looked at Lei Xing with knit eyebrows, ”I need to ask you something...”

”Alright? Ask.” Lei Xing skeptically responded with raised eyebrows. Usually, when people started a question like that, it was usually not a welcome question.

”Your Emperor...why is he against this?” Princess Nalan asked with a frown.

Lei Xing blinked at her and then knit her brows, ”Nalan, he didn't say that he is. It w -”

”He is! That's why Jun Shan did that.” Princess Nalan irritatedly said.

Lei Xing blinked in confusion, ”Nalan, you-”

”If he's not, then why not just say yes then? Huh? My father will have no issue with my choise so why make it into an issue then? Look at the mess he's caused now!” Princess Nalan barked, jumping to her feet in annoyance.

Lei Xing's eyebrows twitched in irritation and she closed her eyes and let out a breath.

{...The one who made this is an issue is obviously your newly found dearly beloved as***le! ≖_≖)...}

Lei Xing opened her eyes and looked up Princess Nalan and went, ”Nalan, he wasn't making it into an issue, he was taking considerably reasonable steps which you and your beloved failed to consider in your wayward approach.”

Princess Nalan frowned, ”We-”

”You were not thinking.” Lei Xing interjected with exasperation, also rising to her feet, she let out a breath and then turned to Princess Nalan and explained in a less than pleasant tone, ”You hijacked an event and demanded for an Emperor to sanction your marriage. He receives you in you good cheer and then you go against his order several times in the span of a minute. You're lucky he's lenient enough to let that blatant disregard for his authority go...”

”...And no, he doesn't have a personal problem with you and Ju- Prince Yi being together. The problem stems from who you are - who you both are, and in the manner in which this has come about. You are a princess in a foreign country here for diplomatic relations and you not only go about frolicking about with a foreign prince but you get yourself pregnant in the process and rather than handling this with dignity you let yourself be led by the nose, disregarding who you are and the people you represent...”

”...Since you cannot maintain your own dignity, at least maintain that of your nation and stop stirring up trouble. Now sit down and wait patiently.” Lei Xing irritatedly ordered, Princess Nalan glared at her and Lei Xing repeated, ”Sit down.”

then sat back down in a huff... Delicate was really not her thing.

”Hmph!” Princess Nalan went as she sat down in a huff, facing away from Lei Xing as she mumbled, ”Things aren't so complicated in the grasslands...” She did not appreciate being spoken to like a child. Alright she was pregnant but it really was not that big of deal, after all the responsible man did want to marry and she liked him, so there really wasn't that much of a problem...They just skipped a step is all.

{...Well, we're not in Kansas anymore, you brat...Get used to it ≖_≖)...}

Lei Xing looked up at the clear sky and let out an irritated breath, before sitting down and massaging her aching head as she hoped the Emperor was having better luck with the better half of this mess.

Clueless people were the worst kinds of people to deal with.

{...Such a waste of a good day...}