Chapter 183 – My Lord, Im Pregnant With Your Child (2) (2/2)

The previous attempt with saffron hadn't been successful, and she didn't have any evidence to say that Honored Concubine Xue was behind that attempt. On the surface, the two of them continued to have an amicable relations.h.i.+p.

At the end of the month, Ji Man finally received the news that she had been waiting for. n.o.ble Consort Nie was prematurely giving birth.

Naturally, a premature birth wasn't a good thing. Someone must have done something bad to cause this. However, n.o.ble Consort Nie was tough. Although the baby shouldn't have been born for another month, n.o.ble Consort Nie and the baby survived this ordeal.

The fortunate premature baby was a boy.

n.o.ble Consort Nie had almost lost her life and had barely been able to keep the life of her second son. While crying and holding the baby, she pleaded with the emperor to right the wrong that had been done to her. Someone had something to her food. Fortunately, it hadn't been a serious poison, and it only result in a premature birth. All the evidence pointed that the empress had been behind this.

In this midst of his great joy, the emperor was furious when he heard about this. Although the empress's position couldn't be lightly taken away from her, the emperor took away her phoenix seal. Moreover, he promoted n.o.ble Consort Nie to the position of imperial n.o.ble consort. The power had s.h.i.+fted from the empress to Imperial n.o.ble Consort Nie. Thus, Nie Clan became second to no one according to public opinion. In addition, the third prince had become quite favored by the emperor recently and started partic.i.p.ating in politics. This made the crown prince's faction very worried.

If this trend continued, it wasn't impossible the current crown prince would lose his position. However, this wasn't something for Ji Man to worry about. There were only benefits and no disadvantages to Nie Sangyu's aunt being promoted to the position of imperial n.o.ble consort. She finally had her chance to give Ning Yuxuan a vicious shock.

Ji Man went to the western courtyard. In front of Wen Wan, she bashfully sat down on Ning Yuxuan's lap and gently called out, “Yuxuan…”

Marquis Moyu thought there had to be something wrong with Nie Sangyu today. However, he didn't push her away. He only straightened his posture and asked, “What's wrong?”

“I…”Ji Man looked at Wen Wan's twisted expression from her peripheral vision. Then, she copied Wen Wan's favorite act of looking delicate and weak as she said in an unbearably clingy voice, “This servant had something to say.”

“En, what do you want to say?” Ning Yuxuan actually found her behavior somewhat humorous. He supported his chin and looked at her as he waited for her answer.

Ji Man stretched her hand out and placed it on her already slightly protruding belly. There were two spots of red on her face as she said shyly said, “This servant is pregnant with my lord's child ~”

Ning Yuxuan's smile stiffened. Standing nearby, Wen Wan looked at Nie Sangyu with utter shock.

“… How many months is it?” Ning Yuxuan lowered his head and looked at her belly.

Ji Man wanted to gloatingly smile, but she covered half of her face and pretended to blame herself. “This servant was too careless and didn't discover this until now. This servant has already been pregnant for four months.”

Marquis Moyu almost couldn't stop himself from exposing her lie. Who was she trying to fool? How could she have not known until now? Didn't she say that her period had come when he asked recently?

Wen Wan's lips were trembling. She immediately turned around and ran out.

How could Ning Yuxuan possibly have the energy to care about her little tantrums right now? He only stared at Nie Sangyu.

Hiding her smile, Ji Man looked at Ning Yuxuan's expression. In a very wronged tone, she asked, “My lord, didn't you say that you hoped that this servant would become pregnant soon. Why are you showing this type of expression then? Could it be that my lord doesn't want this child?”

“No.” Ning Yuxuan stood up. Looking at her with a complicated expression, he said, “Go to Old Madame's place for now. I'm going to the palace to bring back an imperial physician to check up on you.”