The Concubine's Daughter Travels Through Time and Space and Takes the Road of Confrontation

Upon hearing this, Cen Miaoxin's tears gradually stopped. She sat in the chair with a numb expression, not knowing what she was thinking.

Lu Yun noticed that even in such a situation, her back was straight, just like the family tradition of the Cen family.

"Miss Cen, there is one more thing I must clarify."

Cen Miaoxin turned half her head, her face pale, her voice filled with pain, "My Lady Princess, are you trying to ask me who the father of my child is?"

Lu Yun looked at her and softened her voice, "Your entry into the mansion may not be without wiggle room. As long as you tell me the identity of the father of your unborn child, I can help you."

"For example, let the queen adopt you as her adopted daughter and marry you off from the palace to become that man's wife." Lu Yun threw out a bait.

The room fell into silence for a long time, and then a self-deprecating voice was heard in the room.

"I appreciate your kindness, Princess, but—it's unnecessary." Cen Miaoxin's eyes were filled with tears. "He was very good to me, but I was the one who wronged him first. Back then, I was in that situation—now that things have come to this, even if he is still willing to marry me, I don't want to drag him down anymore. Princess, you don't have to worry about me."

"But don't you think you're being a little selfish?" Lu Yun was feeling depressed. "Let me put it aside for now. How will you cope after His Royal Highness knows the truth? And what about the child in the future—"

Cen Miaoxin closed her eyes, knelt straight down in front of Lu Yun, and cried, "My Lady Princess, please have mercy on me and spare the child in my belly. He is innocent. As long as you don't hurt my child, I will accept your beating or killing!"

Lu Yun felt her head buzzing. Was this asking her to bite the bullet and acknowledge the child? She raised her hand to signal Mother Chen to help the child up. Lu Yun met her eyes and asked, "Ms. Cen, do you want the child to have the surname Zhou?"

Miss Cen's eyes flashed with a trace of guilt, and she explained with red eyes, "My Lady Princess, I know this is unfair to the palace, but I really have no other choice."

Lu Yun didn't know what to say. Although the child was innocent, in the ancient society where inheritance depended on bloodline, she was asked to raise a child with an unlucky father as a bastard of the royal family?

It’s easy to tell that the King of Nanyue and Princess Gao would never agree to this.

In private, Lu Yun already has her own child. Right now, Cen Miaoxin only wants to find an identity for the child. What about the future? If she has other thoughts, there are precedents. Too much kindness is not good!

She kept a straight face, thinking over and over again. Lu Yun stood up and said to him, "I will keep your pregnancy a secret. Let me think about it carefully, and you can rest assured and take care of the baby."

Pushing Cen Miaoxin, who wanted to follow, back inside, Lu Yun led Caihe and the others out of Xiuzhu Pavilion. Facing the slender, emerald green bamboos, Lu Yun took a deep breath and then slowly exhaled, "Caihe, pass on my instructions. You must keep a close eye on Xiuzhu Pavilion's movements over the next few days. Cen Miaoxin must not make any mistakes. All supplies and food for Xiuzhu Pavilion must first pass through Anlan Courtyard before being delivered."

Caihe responded in a low voice, turned around and left in a hurry.

When Lu Yun returned to Anlan Courtyard, Zhou Boli was staring at the scroll in his hand in a daze. Seeing his wife, he suddenly woke up and rushed over to her, asking anxiously, "What's going on?"

Caihe, Mother Chen and others bowed to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, then left the room and closed the door.

Lu Yun intended to scare him, so she walked around him with a cold face and went straight into the west room and sat under the south window without saying a word.

The man followed closely behind, his expression visibly panicked. "Ayun——"

Lu Yun pointed across and said, "Sit down!" Her voice was unrecognizable.

Zhou Boli's throat was rolling up and down. After sitting down, he hesitated and said, "Ayun, what happened to Cen Miaoxin--?"

Lu Yun suddenly changed her expression to one of gloating, and said with a grin, "Zhou Boli, you are such a sucker!"

Zhou Boli thought of thousands of possibilities in his mind, but the situation before him was something he had never expected. After learning that the child was not his, he first breathed a sigh of relief, and then felt a sense of joy at having his injustice redressed. "Ayun, I said I didn't touch her."

Lu Yun smiled and shook her head, "Zhou Boli, congratulations on becoming a father again. Becoming a father is one of the joys of life!"

Zhou Boli could hear the ridicule in his wife's words. He coughed lightly, wrapped his wife's hand around his lips and kissed her. "As long as it can prove my innocence, nothing else matters." It didn't matter whose child it was, as long as it wasn't his.

Lu Yun glared at him angrily. "The child is indeed not yours, so what are you going to do with it? Are you going to ask Cen Miaoxin to abort it?"

Zhou Boli narrowed his eyes. "That's how it should be. Your Highness hasn't yet taken her deception to task. Do you still want me to acknowledge this child whose origins are unknown?"

Lu Yun gave him a sympathetic look. "That's what General Cen's daughter meant. She wanted the child to have the surname Zhou."

"Absolutely impossible!" Zhou Boli refused without thinking, with an arrogant look on his face, "My Nanyue Palace is not a small family. If Zhou Zhongyi was not surnamed Zhou, he would have been expelled from the camp long ago." At the end, he did not forget to ridicule his only half-brother.

Lu Yun wasn't surprised by his reaction. She rested her chin on her hand and frowned. "No matter how much I try to insinuate myself, Cen Miaoxin refuses to reveal the identity of the child's father. She has a strong temper, and this is a critical moment for military deployment. If anything were to happen to her, how would you explain it to General Cen's former subordinates?"

As soon as she finished speaking, she met a pair of blue-gray eyes that said, "I'm a little disappointed in you." Lu Yun felt uneasy under his gaze and sat up uncomfortably. "We should think of a foolproof plan." He paused and said, "For the time being, it's best not to let Mother know about Cen Miaoxin's affairs."

"Ayun, do you have any ideas?"

Lu Yun actually came up with a few ideas. She said sternly, "Zhou Boli, I won't allow you to recognize Cen Miaoxin's child. So I think the best plan is to clear up the misunderstanding and marry Cen Miaoxin to the child's biological father, but Cen Miaoxin refused."

There is no strict separation between men and women in South Vietnam, but Cen Miaoxin just refused to agree.

"So I guess the child's biological father must have a certain status and position in South Vietnam, which makes things a bit tricky."

Zhou Boli's expression gradually grew solemn, with a faint light flickering in his eyes. "If this is really the case, our palace cannot acknowledge this child."

Lu Yun knew what Zhou Boli was thinking and continued, "So, I've come up with a second plan. General Cen only has one daughter, Cen Miaoxin. Cen Miaoxin wants to keep the child because she wants to give him a respectable family background. If we can find a way to give her unborn child the surname Cen, she might not be so obsessed with the Zhou surname anymore."

Zhou Boli was stunned, as if he had not expected Lu Yun to come up with this idea. His expression turned gloomy and he suddenly hugged his wife and kissed her. "Ayun, your idea is really great."

Lu Yun disdainfully broke free from the man's arm and pushed him aside to sit. "The problem is, it's impossible to hide the fact that Cen Miaoxin is pregnant. I guess Mother and Father already know about her pregnancy. How are you going to explain this to the elders?"