GBP Chapter 278 The shocking giant melon
Chapter 278 The shocking giant melon
"Your Majesty... Empress, what makes you say that?"
She felt a little uncomfortable under Xin Moyan's gaze and didn't know what to say for a moment.
"Consort Yao, do you enjoy sleepless nights?"
She asked again. Although escaping was the priority, she didn't want to see Yao Ruoyu tortured by that perverted emperor day after day, especially since the child was almost due...
She had thought it through. If she could escape, or if Xuan Yuan could come to her rescue in time, and if Yao Ruoyu also wanted to leave this guy, then she would definitely save Yao Ruoyu and help her escape from Ye Wumian's clutches.
"Your Majesty, I... I only wish to give birth to this child safely; I have no other thoughts."
As she spoke, she stroked her belly, her eyes overflowing with tender maternal love.
"If he treats you like this every day, don't you feel angry and in pain? Don't you want to leave him?"
A bitter smile suddenly appeared on her usually cold face. "How I wish I could leave, but I have no choice! For the sake of my child and my family, I have to obey."
"Your child is his child too! Even tigers don't eat their cubs, how could he be so perverted as to threaten you with his own child?"
Upon hearing this, Yao Ruoyu's mouth opened slightly, and her eyes became somewhat strange.
"Consort Yao, why aren't you saying anything?"
She came to her senses and remembered that Xin Moyan was a princess of Yuanqi, so it was normal that she didn't know the inside story.
"Your Majesty...Princess, is it alright for Ruoyu to call you that?"
Xin Moyan nodded. "Just call me Yan'er! That's what everyone calls me. Please don't call me Empress anymore."
"Hehe~ Okay, Yan'er."
This was the first genuine smile Yao Ruoyu had seen in a long time. This princess was not only exceptionally beautiful but also incredibly clever. If there were such a lovely person in the deep palace, it would certainly add some fun. However, she couldn't bear to see this brilliant star fall in the deep palace.
"Consort Yao, you look so beautiful when you smile. Everyone says that pregnant women should be happy so that their babies will be well-behaved. Prenatal education is very important. For the sake of the baby, please smile more often and don't be so aloof!"
Looking into those sincere and clear eyes, Yao Ruoyu smiled again, then took Xin Moyan's wrist and slowly walked to the edge of the Jade Pool. The 'Lianyu Zuidi' flowers in the pool bloomed flamboyantly and passionately, with nine layers of petals that were so red they were almost black, while the stamens were pure and immaculate, like a woman who was proud and aloof from the frost and snow, trapped within these layers of palace walls.
"Yan'er, my child is now seven months old."
That's why we need to be even more careful!
"Hehe~ Have you forgotten that I just said this morning that I've been in the palace for half a year?"
Xin Moyan paused, mechanically and stiffly turning her head, her beautiful eyebrows instantly furrowing, her eyes filled with shock.
"Consort Yao... Consort Yao, could it be..."
"Yan'er, please call me Ruoyu!"
Her smile was very gentle, completely unlike her initial aloof demeanor.
"Sister Ruoyu, could it be that your child... isn't Ye Wumian's?"
Seeing her nod, Xin Moyan subconsciously bit her index finger, seemingly quite frightened by the truth.
"This child is my late husband's. I only found out I was pregnant a month after entering the palace, at that time..."
She pursed her lips, her expression complex and helpless. "At that time, the king was furious and almost killed my child."
"That pervert actually allowed you to be pregnant with another man's child?"
Xin Moyan licked her dry lips. This emperor, who killed people every day, didn't seem like someone who would accept this fact at all!
Could it be... that sleepless nights are true love? Pure love? Or angst?
"Ever since I found out I was pregnant, I've been determined to keep him from touching me. Once... I even hurt him."
"You still dare to lay a hand on Ye Wumian?"
This incredible reversal truly stunned Xin Moyan. Fearing that she would get tired from walking, she quickly pulled her to sit on a stone bench nearby.
"Yes, I should be the subject of the world's scorn and ridicule. My husband had only been gone for less than a month, and I was already pregnant when I gave myself to another man, even though he was the ruler of a country..."
"Sister Ruoyu, don't say that! You were coerced by Ye Wumian, it wasn't your own choice. Besides, you didn't even know you were pregnant at that time!"
She sighed and continued, "Later, when I was unwilling, I stabbed him with a dagger. In a fit of anger, he wanted to abort the baby. I begged for a long time until he finally gave in. But in the days that followed, he tormented me even more and never let me have a good day."
"and after?"
She held Xin Moyan's wrist, looking like she was confiding in her best friend.
"I'm not afraid to tell you this, Yan'er, but although the King no longer forces me to sleep with him, he still comes to the Shangle Palace every day to share my bed, or..."
At this point, she bit her lower lip, her expression seemingly hesitant to speak, which left Xin Moyan stunned.
"Or what?"
"Or I could go to his bedchamber. In the past six months, every time he has favored a woman, I have to witness the whole process there."
"Wow, that's so perverted!"
Xin Moyan gasped. Sure enough, some people are born with a twisted talent...
"Sister Ruoyu, you really..."
She wanted to say how tragic it was, but then she thought again, how could such a perverted, lewd, and extremely twisted guy just stand by and watch his concubine get pregnant with another man's child?
What's more, he kills people every day. I heard that the concubines are beheaded by him for no reason. Sister Ruoyu not only gives him a hard time, but also hurts him and doesn't obey him. Yet she's still alive and well.
"Um... Sister Ruoyu, do you think Ye Wumian likes you?"
Although she wanted to escape as soon as possible, she also hoped to help this poor woman as much as possible.
Yao Ruoyu shook her head without hesitation, "The king's interest in me is just a passing fancy, it's his determination as an emperor. Perhaps it's because I never submit that he has this desire to conquer. He is a heartless person who has no regard for ethics or morals."
As they were talking, Xin Moyan's wrist was suddenly gripped tightly by Yao Ruoyu. Yao Ruoyu's expression became increasingly serious as she leaned closer and whispered a reminder.
"Yan'er, the king is even more cruel and ruthless than he appears. You must not anger him."
"He's already so twisted and inhuman, but he's actually even more terrifying?"
"Ah."
Yao Ruoyu nodded firmly, "Yan'er, listen to me, he has absolutely no feelings for me. Although I... I will not accept him, I cannot leave him."
"why?"
She glanced around, then leaned close to Xin Moyan's ear, her voice so soft it was almost inaudible.
"In this Yelan royal family, there is only the King. Even the current Empress Dowager, his birth mother, is said to be imprisoned in the cold palace by him. Yan'er, how can you expect him to have any feelings for me when he is so inhuman?"
"What do you say?"