Chapter 239 Jealousy

Chapter 239 Jealousy

Early summer, at the Regent's Palace.

Recently, the atmosphere in the mansion has become somewhat strange.

Or more accurately, the animals in the manor have become somewhat strange.

In the garden, Tangli was lying on a rocking chair, basking in the sun, holding a storybook and dozing off.

Beside her feet, the majestic white-browed tiger, Da Bai, was making a comical gesture.

It retracted its sharp claws that usually intimidated the mountains and forests, and cautiously circled around Tangli, its thick paw pads protruding.

If even a butterfly flies by, Big White will immediately bare its teeth and snarl, silently threatening, as if the butterfly were some kind of ferocious beast that would harm its mistress.

Up in the treetops, lightning remained on high alert at all times. Any other bird that dared to approach the yard would be immediately driven away.

"What...what's wrong with you all?"

Tang Li put down her book and looked at these paranoid kids with amusement: "Da Bai, are you walking or dancing? Don't your legs get sore?"

【roar……】

Big White lay on the ground, looking aggrieved, its large head gently rubbing against Tang Li's skirt, its heart filled with cautiousness:

[I dare not move... There's a tiny bean sprout inside the eldest sister's belly... It's very fragile...]

"Little bean sprouts?" Tang Li was taken aback.

Before she could react, a familiar dizziness suddenly struck, followed by a churning of acidic water in her stomach.

"vomit--"

...

Half an hour later, in the bedchamber.

Li, the Imperial Physician, knelt by the bedside, his fingers resting on Tang Li's wrist pulse, his wrinkled face beaming like a blooming chrysanthemum.

"Congratulations, Your Highness! Congratulations, Your Highness!"

Judge Li withdrew his hand, excitedly cupping his hands in greeting:

"Your Highness, this is a sign of pregnancy! You've been pregnant for over two months! Your pulse is smooth and round like a pearl, a very healthy, slippery pulse!"

"real?!"

Tang Li's eyes lit up, and she subconsciously touched her still flat stomach.

There's actually a little life here?

She turned her head and looked at Pei Yunjing standing by the bed with great joy, expecting to see his surprised expression.

However, there was no joy on Pei Yunjing's face.

Instead, his face instantly darkened, turning as black as the bottom of a pot. A hint of... terror, as if facing a formidable enemy, even flashed in his phoenix eyes.

"What did you say?"

Pei Yunjing stared intently at Judge Li, his voice chilling:

"She has...something growing in her stomach?"

Judge Li: "..."

This sounds a lot like a tumor.

"Your Highness, it's a child! It's the young prince!" Judge Li explained, wiping his sweat.

Pei Yunjing's brows did not relax; instead, they furrowed even more.

He stared at Tang Li's belly, his eyes filled with complex emotions.

Do you have a child?

That means...

For the next ten months, or even longer, her energy and attention will be devoted to this suddenly appearing "third party".

and……

"Does childbirth hurt?"

Pei Yunjing suddenly asked a question that left Judge Li dumbfounded.

"This...childbirth is like passing through the gates of hell for a woman, so of course it will be painful..."

"Then I don't want it."

Pei Yunjing interrupted him decisively: "I will not allow her to be in pain."

"Pei Yunjing!"

Tang Li was so angry that she grabbed a pillow and threw it at him: "Are you crazy! This is our child!"

...

In the following months, the Regent's Palace was placed on high alert.

Pei Yunjing became more neurotic than before.

He forbade Tangli from walking on the ground (for fear of her falling), forbade her from eating raw, cold, or spicy food (for fear of getting an upset stomach), and even kicked Dabai away without mercy when it tried to get close and rub against him.

"Stay away. What if your fur chokes her?"

The most outrageous thing is that it happens when it's late at night and everyone is asleep.

Tang Li fell asleep, but Pei Yunjing couldn't sleep.

He would turn to the side, and by the moonlight, stare at Tang Li's slightly protruding belly, his eyes looking as if he were looking at a rival in love.

"Hello."

Pei Yunjing stretched out his finger and poked at the thin layer of skin on the belly, then lowered his voice and threatened viciously:

"You little brat, listen to me carefully."

"You'd better behave yourself in there."

"If you dare to mistreat your mother, if you dare to cause her pain, or if you steal her nutrients and make her thin..."

Pei Yunjing narrowed his eyes, his body radiating a murderous aura like that of a demon:

"When you come out, I will throw you out to feed the wolves."

Did you hear me?

If outsiders saw his childish yet ferocious appearance, they would probably be shocked.

However, the very next second after he made those harsh remarks.

"Wave."

Suddenly, I felt a slight yet distinct movement on the belly beneath my palm.

That's not intestinal peristalsis.

That was the little life inside retaliating against its "bad father".

Pei Yunjing froze. The finger that had been threatening him by poking his stomach just moments before now hung in mid-air as if burned, trembling and afraid to fall.

He moved? He... moved?

"What's wrong?" Tang Li was awakened by his movements and asked groggily.

"he……"

Pei Yunjing's voice trembled slightly. He looked at his hands, then at Tang Li's belly, and the hostility in his eyes vanished in an instant.

"He kicked me," Pei Yunjing said blankly, like a country bumpkin who had never seen anything like it.

"You deserved to be kicked, who told you to be mean to it?" Tang Li turned over and went back to sleep.

Pei Yunjing couldn't fall asleep anymore. He put his hand back on her stomach, and even carefully pressed his face against her belly.

That was his child, the continuation of his and Tangli's bloodline.

In the still of the night, the once deranged regent, who had only ever wanted to destroy the world, felt the faint yet tenacious fetal movement beneath his palm, and his eyes actually... welled up with tears.

"never mind."

He sniffed, his voice barely audible, with a hint of awkward gentleness: "I won't feed them to the wolves anymore."

"...As long as you behave well, you won't cause your mother pain."

"This empire... I'll give you half of it in the future."