Shock! The maid in the Marquis's mansion gave birth to the eldest son of the prince

"You'er," the emperor said as he sat in the study, looking at Jingyou lovingly, "stay a few more days."

"Father, I want to stay a few more days, but," Jing Ye said in a low voice, "I finally like a girl, but..."

"You'er, who told you to be a step late?" The emperor sighed slightly, "There are so many noble ladies in the capital, don't be too persistent. I heard from your mother that the eldest daughter of the Marquis of Wuyang is well-educated and virtuous."

"Father, I have no plans to take a concubine for the time being. I am afraid that if I stay in the capital for too long, those censors will impeach me, which will only cause me trouble." Jingyou said with a sense of loss, "Before I leave, please ask Father and Mother to let me meet Miss Xiao again."

"You'er, since it's impossible for you two to be together, then don't see her anymore. It's just adding to your troubles. Why do you do this?" The emperor felt a little distressed when he saw his son's desolate look. "There are beautiful women everywhere in the world. There are many young ladies who want to marry my son."

"Father, I have no other request but to see her again. There are things I want to tell her in person." Jingyou knelt down and said in a deep voice.

"Get up, I will obey you." The emperor shook his head helplessly and said, "But she is your mother's niece after all, you treat her..."

"Father, don't worry. I will treat her with courtesy and will never insult her." Jingyou said loudly, "I want to fight for myself again in person."

"Okay, this is my good son." The emperor nodded slightly, patted Jingyou on the shoulder and said, "Father will talk to your mother for you and arrange for you to meet her in the next two days.

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"I should go. An'er won't wake up for a while, and I'm afraid mother will worry." Chan Yi said softly as she looked at An'er who was sleeping soundly.

"Chan Yi, can you stay?" Pei Jinming knew that she would not agree, but he still asked. He hoped that Chan Yi could stay with him, and that the three of them could live a happy and warm life, because he knew that it might not be long before a bloody storm would break out in Shangjing.

"Pei Jin, I told you last time that the relationship between us is not as simple as you think. Maybe you only like the weak and helpless me in your memory, not the me now." Chan Yi looked up at him with a firm gaze, "If we are forced to be together for An'er, it is not a good thing for both of us. Why don't we just get along as friends? If you want, you can come to see An'er."

"Chan Yi, no matter what you look like, I like you." Pei Jin looked at the confident and calm Chan Yi with a deep gaze. He knew in his heart that the gentle and attached young lady in his memory might never appear again.

He had always been unwilling to believe that the Chan Yi of the past was just an illusion of her. However, the Chan Yi of the present made him admire her even more, she was gentle and calm, mature and wise, making him feel ashamed of himself.

"Don't say that. I don't want to hear it." Chan Yi touched An'er's forehead. The little baby didn't feel shy sleeping on his father's bed. Perhaps this was the innate blood relationship.

"We are free, we don't have an engagement. If you meet a girl you like, I don't mind you marrying her. As for me, maybe one day I will meet someone who is suitable and makes my heart beat faster, and maybe I will marry him." Chan Yi picked up An'er and said to Pei Jin indifferently, "In fact, you don't have to give up the engagement with the eldest lady of Wuyang Marquis Mansion. I have met Miss Lu, she is gentle and virtuous, well-educated, and has deep feelings for you. She is really a rare girl."

"Chan Yi, please don't say such cruel words. I will never marry anyone else." Pei Jin was anxious. He walked up to Chan Yi and hugged her. He buried his head in her shoulder and said softly, "Chan Yi, believe me, I only love you. I was bewildered at the beginning and thought she would not embarrass you, so I agreed to marry her to my mother."

"Don't do that. Be careful not to wake An'er up. You did nothing wrong. In your eyes, even if a little girl like me can become a concubine, it is a blessing from you." Chan Yi frowned and said. A strong smell of medicine came from him, which made her wonder if he was wearing some ointment on his body.

Pei Jin had no choice but to slowly withdraw his hand. His face turned pale and something in his heart suddenly ached. It turned out that when all was revealed, the past between him and her was so unbearable.

He is the master, and she is just a poor little maid. She can only obey him and obey him. How painful it must be for her!

"Chan Yi, can you please listen to me? I still have a lot to say to you. Do you know that when I learned that you and An'er were gone, I rushed back to the capital city day and night for three days and three nights..." He leaned sideways and held his chest to prevent Chan Yi from seeing that he was unwell.

"We are leaving." Chan Yi didn't want to continue discussing this topic with him. She came here today just to find out about the safety of Mrs. Wang and him, and to have a calm talk with him.

"We'll talk about it later when we have time. I still have a lot of things to do when I get back. My wedding dress shop is doing better and better. I still have a lot of designs that I haven't finished drawing, and my customers are waiting for me to arrange the samples."

Chan Yi spoke calmly, holding An'er and walking towards the door.

"Chan Yi..." Pei Jin watched her walk forward step by step, as if she had no reluctance at all and was about to leave calmly. He thought that by taking her back to the old place, she would remember the sweet days they once had.

Pei Jin suddenly realized that perhaps if he left this door, he would lose her forever, the young lady who had long been engraved in his heart.

He took a deep breath, turned around desperately, took a few quick steps, and hugged her back. The sharp pain in his chest made him sweat profusely.

He rested his head on her soft neck, and used all his strength to ask the question he had thought about thousands of times in his heart: "Chan Yi, tell me the truth, you were so gentle and considerate to me in the past, so tender and sweet, was it really just because you had to?"

He closed his eyes in pain, trying to convince himself that Chan Yi loved him, and she was just jealous because he once wanted to marry someone else, or she was angry because she blamed him for not protecting them.

"Pei Jin, what are you doing? Let go now. If you don't let go, I will be angry." Chan Yi shouted in a low voice.

How could she answer such a question? Should she tell him directly that she was just fulfilling her duty as a concubine, and that she was also doing so to get better protection from him as her master? She really couldn't say it. If she said that she had been completely false to him in the past, Chan Yi herself couldn't explain it clearly.

"Chan Yi..." Pei Jin called in a low voice, slowly let go of his hand, and watched her leave the room.

In an instant, everything went dark and he fell heavily to the ground.

Chan Yi had just walked out of the house with An Er in her arms when she suddenly heard the sound of something heavy falling to the ground. She was surprised. What kind of madness was Pei Jin going on? Did he kick over something in the house?