Jiaojiao is getting married, and the male leads fall for her and fight over her.

Chapter 337 The child was born, the biological father didn't cry, but he did.
Back at Fusangin, Pei Dongzhou suddenly kissed Shen Shuyi without warning.

Shen Shuyi passively endured his passionate kisses, feeling as if her mouth was about to be devoured by him. Just when she was about to suffocate, Prince Pei reluctantly released her.

"What happened?" Shen Shuyi sensed Pei Dongzhou's emotional fluctuations and asked curiously.

After hesitating for a moment, Pei Dongzhou told her about Xia Nianchu's visit to him. He carefully observed Shen Shuyi's expression and felt a little uneasy.

Shen Shuyi then realized the reason for Pei Dongzhou's emotional breakdown. After a moment of hesitation, she confessed that she was a transmigrated woman and also told her about the things the system had forced her to do.

Pei Dongzhou wasn't too surprised after hearing this, and silently hugged her tighter: "Madam said that she came from another world. Will she be able to travel back one day?"

This question stumped Shen Shuyi.

This was beyond her control, and she was in a very passive position.

"I don't know," she replied.

Upon hearing this, Pei Dongzhou hugged her even tighter: "If Madam is going to leave, please remember to take me with you."

Shen Shuyi: ...

Is this something she can just bring along whenever she wants?
Seeing that she remained silent, Pei Dongzhou hugged her even tighter: "Madam, give me an answer. No matter what, Madam cannot abandon her husband. Wherever Madam goes, her husband will go too. Madam, don't even think about getting rid of your husband."

Shen Shuyi gave him a fake smile: "That's not necessarily true. The world I used to live in valued equality for all, unlike the Great Qi where men are superior to women. A domineering man like my cousin, the Crown Prince, would never find a wife."

Pei Dongzhou simply held Shen Shuyi tightly and didn't say anything more.

Shen Shuyi, in her moment of impulsiveness, soon discovered the problem: Pei Dongzhou had suddenly taken sick leave and was no longer going to the palace. He was sticking to her side every day and not going anywhere else.

Five days later, when Shen Shuyi couldn't stand Pei Dongzhou's constant clinging, Li Yi personally came to the Marquis's residence to ask for help.

Despite Li Yi's best efforts to persuade him, Pei Dongzhou insisted that he was ill and unable to attend court.

Li Yi was at a loss and looked at Shen Shuyi, asking, "What happened to Dongzhou?"

Shen Shuyi couldn't possibly say it was her fault, could she?
Since she had caused the trouble herself, she had to appease him: "My cousin, the Crown Prince, has indeed been a little upset. I will try to comfort him. Why don't you return to the palace, Your Majesty?"

Li Yi rarely left the palace, and he didn't want to return so soon. He pretended to be reserved and said, "I'm hungry. I'd like to have lunch at Fusang Courtyard before going back. Is that alright?"

Since the emperor was the emperor, Shen Shuyi naturally couldn't say no and readily agreed.

She had the small kitchen prepare a table full of delicious food, and as a result, Pei Dongzhou and Li Yi followed her around.

Li Yi found this scene strange: "Dongzhou, why are you always following Cousin Shen?"

He had just witnessed it; wherever his cousin Shen went, Prince Pei followed. His obsessive attention was baffling to him.

Pei Dongzhou glanced at Li Yi: "It's perfectly normal for a humble subject to follow his wife."

Li Yicai didn't believe his story, but he couldn't get any answers from him.

After lunch, Pei Dongzhou couldn't wait to invite Li Yi out of the Fusang Courtyard.

After Li Yi left, Shen Shuyi planned to have a good talk with Pei Dongzhou.

"Does Cousin Prince intend to follow me around like a shadow from now on, giving up his official post? Let me tell you, I dislike idle men the most!" Pei Dongzhou remained silent upon hearing this.

Shen Shu found his ridiculous appearance amusing: "You think I can just travel through time whenever I want? Cousin, don't you think about it? I'm already carrying your child in my belly, which means I'm more deeply connected to this world. I can't go back."

Pei Dongzhou's eyes lit up upon hearing this: "Really?!"

“The system has been gone for a long time, how could I joke about something like this? Only someone as spineless as you would think that time travel is an easy thing.” Shen Shuyi pulled Pei Dongzhou to sit down next to her. “His Majesty has just ascended the throne. Cousin Crown Prince, you cannot neglect the great cause of the country for the sake of personal feelings.”

Pei Dongzhou thought to himself that he was supporting Li Yi for his cousin's sake. If his cousin still left, then everything he had done would have been meaningless. If he himself was unhappy, how could he have the energy to care about whether others were happy?
After much persuasion from Shen Shuyi, Pei Dongzhou finally stopped spending all his time with her.

But Shen Shuyi still noticed that no matter how busy Pei Dongzhou was, he would still come back to Fusang Courtyard to be with her every day.

A month later, a fire broke out in the Cold Palace, and Consort Li died there.

While others were unaware of the truth, she learned from Pei Dongzhou beforehand that it was Li Yi who had pardoned Xia Nianchu.

Moreover, Xia Nianchu made a special trip to see her before leaving the capital.

Shen Shuyi hadn't expected Xia Nianchu to come looking for her again. She had thought Xia Nianchu would be full of resentment towards her again, but Xia Nianchu was very calm. Looking at her pregnant belly, she asked, "Can I touch Cousin Shen's belly?"

Shen Shuyi refused decisively: "No!"

Xia Nianchu scoffed at this, "What's so great about it? I'll have my own children in the future too. I came here to tell Cousin Shen that if I had awakened earlier, she might not have had the chance to marry Prince Pei."

"If you think so, then so be it," Shen Shuyi said dismissively.

Xia Nianchu found talking to Shen Shuyi particularly boring. She sat for a while before getting up to say goodbye: "Let me be honest, you're quite capable. I only attract men's attention because of the female lead's halo, but you attract them with your own merits. It seems perfectly normal for me to lose to you."

Shen Shuyi didn't mince words: "No problem."

"I won't be going back to the capital, but one day I'll be able to live the life I want. Cousin Shen, goodbye forever!" Xia Nianchu said before walking away gracefully.

She has a chance to start over, and she should cherish it.

The days passed peacefully and warmly. The following year, Shen Shuyi gave birth to a big, healthy boy, which made Zhang Shi and everyone in the Pingyang Marquis's mansion extremely happy.

What's even funnier is that Pei Xizhou actually cried while holding the child.

Pei Dongzhou felt a bit conflicted seeing this scene. Anyone who didn't know better would think the child was Pei Xizhou's own flesh and blood, and that he was so happy that he acted like a fool.

Not only Pei Xizhou came, but Emperor Li Yi also came.

Li Yi never considered himself an outsider, but rather regarded the Pingyang Marquis's residence as his own home. Upon hearing that Shen Shuyi was giving birth, he insisted on coming to the Pingyang Marquis's residence to personally guard outside Shen Shuyi's delivery room, saying that he was now the emperor and that his dragon aura could protect Shen Shuyi and her child.

Moreover, Pei Xizhou and Li Yi were the happiest when the child was born.

The most outrageous thing was that Li Yi actually said the child looked like him, which left everyone in the Pingyang Marquis's mansion looking at each other in bewilderment.

Normally, it would be a good thing for the Marquis's family if the emperor valued them, but the emperor really didn't consider them outsiders.

(End of this chapter)