The General's Darling Is Delicate-Chapter 363 - 225: What She Carries in Her Womb... Is a Monster!
"So I’m really pregnant, right?"
Yun Chunnuan held her belly with her hand, and in her clear eyes, there was not only confusion but also a hint of excitement.
The fear and worry had already vanished.
Even though she was trying hard to suppress it, that initial excitement of becoming a mother was hard to hide because her husband had said... this child cannot be kept.
Yet since she was pregnant, the glow that only belongs to a mother was something she couldn’t conceal.
Yelyu Lie saw it all and felt more and more burdened and pained in his heart.
He nodded, wanting to say something to comfort her, but his throat felt like it was blocked with cotton, and he couldn’t make a sound, except for a long sigh.
"Nuannuan... I’m sorry."
He held her slender wrist gently and drew her into his arms.
It was supposed to be joyful, supposed to be a cause for great celebration...
Because of his trembling embrace, Yun Chunnuan’s heart sank, "Husband, what exactly did Imperial Physician Cui say?"
Yelyu Lie thought of the note he had swallowed, "It wasn’t very clear, but Imperial Physician Cui’s medical skills are outstanding. Whether it’s me, or the princes and princesses in the Royal Palace, we’ve all been saved by him.
The King once had a very favored concubine, who was diagnosed early in her pregnancy by Imperial Physician Cui as carrying a child with a serious illness. But the concubine didn’t listen and wanted to use the unborn child to gain favor.
The King also did not believe it, since the child was too young and still in the womb, so he allowed the concubine to persist and give birth.
In the end... both mother and child were safe, but that child was different from others at birth, and it became more evident as he grew, he was a dullard. Causing trouble was a minor issue; the King would despise him whenever he saw him.
Even his favor towards the concubine waned. The concubine, tormented by the child, on a winter day, the dullard fell into an ice lake and drowned...
The concubine thought that once the child died, she could regain favor, a fool’s dream."
"The child... was it the concubine herself...?
Yelyu Lie nodded slightly, "Driven mad by the dullard."
He supported his little wife’s shoulder, "Our baby, I don’t know the exact situation, but since Imperial Physician Cui is so cautious, won’t let the King know, I guess it might be like the concubine then..."
"Husband!" He was interrupted by the urgent voice of his beloved before he could finish, "I’m different from the concubine! Have you forgotten I have the Spiritual Spring? No matter what kind of ailment, I can heal it. If there’s really something wrong with the baby, others’ ailments can be cured, so why not my child?"
These words seemed to spark a glimmer of hope in the already burnt-out ashes.
The originally dim eyes of Yelyu Lie suddenly lit up slightly.
Without saying anything, the old physician announced the death sentence for a child he hadn’t even had time to rejoice over.
At that moment, it felt like his heart had been brutally cut open by a dull blade, bleeding painfully.
But he couldn’t show a hint of it, what about his young wife? If he succumbed to the pain, what would she do?
But that was his child!
A child he and Nuannuan had once joyfully anticipated! How could he not grieve?
Upon hearing her words, Yelyu Lie trembled as he held her arms, "But... what if..."
He still didn’t dare to take the risk.
What endless suffering would a dullard bring to Nuannuan, Yelyu Lie couldn’t even dare to imagine. Rather than being tormented in the future, perhaps it’s better to...
"Husband, let’s not sentence our baby to death just yet; shall we bring in another doctor for an opinion?"
In the inner chamber where the note was written, Yun Chunnuan didn’t see it and didn’t know the old physician had said ’visiting soon.’
After Yelyu Lie explained, Yun Chunnuan felt slightly relieved.
No doctor would be more appropriate than Imperial Physician Cui.
"Husband, why is Imperial Physician Cui so good to you?"
Thinking about their recent interactions, Yun Chunnuan didn’t believe it was simply due to her husband’s threats that made Imperial Physician Cui disregard the King of Bianliao and side with them.
In the Royal Palace, had Imperial Physician Cui stated it clearly, it would have brought untold disaster to both them and the child in her womb.
"It’s because of my mother." Yelyu Lie didn’t say more.
Yun Chunnuan didn’t pursue further. Since it concerned her mother-in-law, it meant they could rely on him.
In the following days, Yun Chunnuan lay on the bed, claiming vertigo without relief.
The doctors called were all useless, making her vertigo worse.
Left with no choice, Yelyu Lie personally went to Imperial Physician Cui’s residence and invited him over.
After taking her pulse, the old physician’s expression was more solemn than it had been in the hall that day.
"Madam, you should terminate this pregnancy today."
No other words, just the call to terminate the pregnancy.
Yun Chunnuan quickly sat up from the bed.
Beads of sweat rolled down her pale face, "Imperial Physician Cui, what exactly is it? Is the baby in my womb also a dullard?"
The old physician shook his head slowly, "Has Madam felt increasingly tired and fatigued recently, unable to bear it?"
Yun Chunnuan glanced at the man frowning at her bedside and nodded slowly, "I’ve heard that early pregnancy reactions can be significant; isn’t this a normal physiological response?"
"Madam, could you tell this old man when you conceived this child?"
This question was somewhat intrusive, as it delved into the private matters of a couple’s bedroom.
Typically, a doctor should be the one to inform the pregnant woman.
As an experienced physician, Imperial Physician Cui naturally wouldn’t ask such a silly question without reason.
Yun Chunnuan, not caring about her shyness, exchanged a glance with Yelyu Lie and hesitantly said, "It should be the beginning of the month."
Her periods were not very regular, each time when she prepared ahead of time, they would be delayed by a few days.
This time too, it came at the end of January, and finished at the beginning of February.
The man, having just had a taste of flesh, was always eager, and on the very day her period ended, she was pinned to the bed...
It had only been twenty days, Yun Chunnuan thought, and it was likely conceived then.
If it had been later, it wouldn’t have been detected so early.
But she forgot this was ancient times, not as advanced as modern technology.
The old physician stroked his goatee and sighed deeply, "Madam knows that the joy of pregnancy cannot be diagnosed until after forty-five days at the earliest? I dare not call myself a Divine Doctor, yet it still takes me over a month."
In the Royal Palace, whether it was the Emperor’s concubines or the Princess Consorts of the princes, their monthly cycles were all recorded in document.
Yun Chunnuan didn’t even know that her monthly cycle had long been noted in the Imperial Hospital.
So, right from the moment he felt the pulse, the old physician was initially pleasantly surprised, as it was another hope for the King to have a royal grandson. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺
But the dates clearly didn’t add up.
Based on the General’s wife’s menstrual cycle, the fetus in her womb could be at most twenty days old.
But the fetus in her womb...
This wasn’t just the issue of being dull; to put it bluntly, she was carrying... a monstrosity!
