Chapter 478 Parents' Side Story Thirteen: Wanting to Escape

Only when Gao Changhong and Mo Hanyu's voices gradually faded into the distance did Lan Xing, distraught, lead her son away from the garden.

She had come here to look for her son, but she never expected to run into Gao Changhong and the princess.

On the way back, she was restless. The thought of Mo Hanyu carrying Gao Changhong's child to her heart was like a knife to her heart.

They had a child together, and that princess was someone Gao Changhong could never let go of in his life.

Then what is she?

Her status was inferior to that of the princess; if the princess were to give birth to a son, she and her son would be relegated to the sidelines.

It's bad enough that I have to suffer humiliation from the princess, but in the future my son might also suffer from the princess's son's harassment and bullying.

Lan Xing became increasingly panicked and distressed, to the point that she didn't even pay attention to where she was going.

"Ah! Madam Lan, how could you break the princess's pregnancy-preserving medicine?"

Suddenly, a maid screamed and berated Lan Xing.

Lan Xing then realized what was happening, looked at the maid standing in front of her, and at the broken porcelain bowl and the dark medicine on the ground.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."

Blue Star expressed its apologies.

"This is a medicine to help the princess prevent miscarriage, personally prepared by the prince consort. Madam Lan, how can I explain to the princess that you've just broken it like this?"

The maid sighed with a bitter expression.

Lan Xing's expression changed, and she immediately asked, "You mean this is the medicine that the Prince Consort personally brewed for the princess?"

"Yes, ever since he learned that the princess was pregnant, the prince consort has been incredibly good to her, doing everything for her personally. He not only went down to brew medicine for her but also fed her spoonful by spoonful!"

The prince consort was actually extremely busy every day, but he would rush to the princess's room as soon as court was over. Even though the princess was pregnant, he would not touch other women and would hold the princess to sleep at night!

The princess said she liked to eat fish from the Dongjiang River, so the prince consort personally rode to the Dongjiang River to fish. Since the princess was pregnant and couldn't eat spicy food, the prince consort now avoids all spicy food himself.

The maid kept praising Gao Changhong, her face full of envy.

As Lan Xing listened, her hands involuntarily clenched and unclenched, as if a worm was crawling into her heart, gently nibbling at it.

"Mother?"

She only snapped out of her daze when Gao Yuanbin's soft, sweet voice called her name.

By then, the maid had already walked away.

During dinner, whether out of spite or for some other reason, Lanxing deliberately had extra spice added to her meal that night.

She ate the spicy dishes bite by bite until her lips turned red from the spiciness, and then tears streamed down her face.

"Ruan Ruan, what's wrong with you?"

Just then, a familiar, gentle voice came from the doorway.

It is Gao Changhong.

He finally found an excuse to get away from Mo Hanyu and immediately came to Xiyue Courtyard to see Lanxing, but he didn't expect to see her in tears as soon as he arrived.

"Father, Mother ate so many chili peppers, she cried from the spiciness!"

Seeing his mother eating the spicy dishes, Gao Yuanbin assumed that this was the reason she was crying.

Upon hearing this, Gao Changhong immediately came in and sat down, taking the chopsticks from Lan Xing's hand.

He advised, "Eating too much spicy food is bad for you. Stop eating it and ask the kitchen to bring up something milder."

But Lan Xing stubbornly snatched the chopsticks away and casually picked up a piece of spicy chicken and handed it to Gao Changhong's mouth.

"This is delicious, I really like it, you should try it too."

She stared intently at Gao Changhong, who looked helpless and snatched her chopsticks away and put them down again.

"I don't eat spicy food, it's not good for me to eat too much of it, can we all eat something light?"

These words were originally just Gao Changhong's sincere concern, but when they reached Lan Xing's ears, they sent a chill down her spine.

She remembered what the maid had said: he really did stop eating chili peppers for the princess.

"You used to love spicy food, why don't you eat it anymore?"

Lan Xing held back her tears and stubbornly asked.

She wanted to get an answer from Gao Changhong himself.

"I'm not in a good position to eat spicy food lately."

Gao Changhong replied without much thought.

He didn't know why Lan Xing would ask that question, nor did he realize how important the answer was. He really couldn't eat spicy food lately because he had been injured while fighting bandits outside.

But when Lan Xing heard this, she became even more certain that he was only refraining from eating spicy food because Mo Hanyu was pregnant.

He eventually developed feelings for her.

"good."

Lan Xing stopped making a fuss and put down her chopsticks in disappointment.

Seeing this, Gao Changhong felt relieved and was about to ask the kitchen to send over some light food to eat with her when Mo Hanyu's people arrived again.

They said the princess had a nightmare and was crying right now, so Gao Changhong had no choice but to leave and go to Mo Hanyu's room.

Lan Xing watched Gao Changhong's departing figure with a heavy heart, her spirits cooling inch by inch.

With just a few words, the princess easily took him away from her. What's the point of her staying by his side?

"Mother, why are you still crying? These dishes aren't spicy anymore."

When little Gao Yuanbin saw that Lanxing was still crying, he sensibly stepped forward and reached out to wipe away her tears.

Lan Xing hugged Gao Yuanbin tightly. "Yuanbin, your mother doesn't want to stay here anymore. Would you like to leave with your mother?"

"I'll go wherever my mother goes, but does my mother no longer want my father?"

Little Gao Yuanbin, not knowing much, asked innocently.

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