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Song Yunzhi nearly choked on her own saliva. "How could that be? I'm not!"

"The mission requires a certain level of favorability, not a certain level of love. Don't you think the female supporting character is much easier to win over than the villain?"

System: [This has never been done before.]

"Then let's set this precedent." Song Yunzhi clasped her hands together and pleaded, "Big Brother System, please, please."

"You should try to help me. We're in this together now. You won't gain anything by eliminating me."

The system remained silent for a long time, so long that Song Yunzhi thought it had crashed, before it finally returned.

[Wait, I'll go back to the main system and report this.]

Song Yunzhi breathed a long sigh of relief. "Thank you so much!"

……

Qi Yitang thought that after eating, drinking and having fun until evening, it would be time to head back to the palace. But Xie Ling carried her on his back, passing through streets and alleys, until they reached the Shu River.

The entire river surface reflected the lights on both banks, creating a warm, orange-red hue.

Xie Ling bought a small boat with a gold ingot.

The boatman took the gold ingot with some skepticism, bit it, and then happily put down his oar and left.

Qi Yitang suspected that he was secretly cursing them for being easy targets.

Li Degui and his men quickly made arrangements. Xie Ling was the first to board the boat, and he reached out his hand to her, saying, "Come here."

Qi Yitang took his hand and stepped onto the boat. The small boat swayed gently for a moment, then stabilized.

The most captivating sight in Beijing is the night view of the Shu River.

The Xie family ancestors strictly enforced a curfew, and those who violated it would be punished with twenty strokes of a bamboo stick.

However, by the time of Xie Ling's great-great-grandfather, they felt that the night was too dull and lifeless, which was not in line with the grandeur of a prosperous era, so they abolished the walls and allowed the night market to operate all night long.

The streets are bustling before midnight, with only brief restrictions in the latter half of the night for fire prevention and theft control.

Qi Yitang bent down and crawled into the awning. After Li Degui's arrangement, the cabin was covered with thick animal-patterned carpets and filled with fruits and snacks, like a small, cozy haven.

While luxurious pleasure boats are nice, small boats offer better value for money.

Qi Yitang lay down directly into the thick blanket and sighed.

Comfortable.

The Shu River flows slowly from west to east, and you can drift gently along the waves without paddling.

"Are your legs sore?" Xie Ling sat down next to Qi Yitang, placed her calves on his knees, and began to massage her calves with a light touch.

Qi Yitang's ankle was a sensitive spot, and she subconsciously shrank back.

"...What are you doing? It's so itchy."

Xie Ling didn't let go. "Don't dodge. The book says pregnant women shouldn't walk for long periods, as it can easily cause leg swelling. Massaging it beforehand will prevent discomfort tomorrow."

Actually, it wasn't a long walk. He either carried her on his back or hugged her, and Qi Yitang wasn't tired at all.

She asked, "What book are you reading?"

"Books like 'Outline of Pregnancy and Childbirth,' 'Good Prescriptions for Women,' and 'One Hundred Questions about Childbirth,'" Xie Ling tilted his head and gently kissed her palm. "Tangtang, your husband has already consulted many midwives for their experience. Once we've thoroughly studied these medical books, we should be able to help you deliver your baby."

[Midwife?! Oh my god, I always feel out of place because I can't keep up with Wagner's pace.]

[Seriously, don't love (the pervert) too much! Spread the word quickly, Brother Wa is going to help deliver the baby.]

[Okay, Wago is going to deliver the baby.]

[Just arrived, what's going on? The villainous emperor wants to give birth himself?]

Qi Yitang was also dumbfounded, her mouth opening and closing repeatedly. Helping her... deliver a baby?!

"Are you serious?" she asked incredulously.

Xie Ling wasn't joking at all. "Of course."

Qi Yitang couldn't understand it at all, and was extremely horrified.

It's already good enough for a husband to be by his wife's side during childbirth, but he actually wanted to deliver the baby himself?

That's truly outrageous.

The reason Xie Ling had this idea was because she recently read a stack of storybooks, which contained all sorts of random things—

Some servants coveted their master's property and deliberately switched babies during the wife's childbirth, hoping to gain wealth and status; others, because the midwife's reward was not paid in full, tampered with the delivery, causing the mother and her unborn child to die.

Xie Ling became increasingly alarmed as he looked at the scene. What if those villains took advantage of the situation if he didn't personally guard it?

Those storybooks always favor the fake heiresses, saying things like "the affection of raising a child for many years is greater than blood ties," while looking down on the real heiresses for being vulgar and ignorant.

Xie Ling put himself in Tangtang's shoes and thought, what if someone dared to switch his and Tangtang's children, causing their own flesh and blood to suffer all kinds of bullying outside?

He will personally skin the other party alive and make them pay back tenfold, a hundredfold, a thousandfold for every benefit they have enjoyed!

Even if his bones were crushed to ashes, it would not be enough to quell the hatred in his heart.

Therefore, Xie Ling specially sent people to arrest those authors of vernacular stories and gave each of them twenty lashes.

That's utter nonsense and it corrupts morals.

Qi Yitang didn't take it seriously at first, since the story was fictional. But then she thought about it again, and Jiahe and Jiasui beside her were perfect examples.

Gu Ziye's momentary wickedness caused the imperial sister and her daughter to be separated for many years, almost to the point of never being found again...

Being a little more careful doesn't seem like a bad idea.

—But is it really necessary to be so careful as to deliver the baby yourself?! Throughout history, I've never seen a man deliver his wife's baby!

Why does he always like to create things that are unprecedented?

Qi Yitang was at a loss. "Whatever makes you happy, I have no objection..." As for whether the Empress Dowager and the court officials had any objections, she didn't know, and it was none of her business anyway.

"Tangtang, your happiness is the happiness of our family of four."

Xie Ling gently placed her palm on Qi Yitang's lower abdomen. She was not one to show much pregnancy, and even with twins, the curve of her abdomen was smaller than that of an average woman.

Therefore, even now, the imperial physicians dare not easily conclude that it is twins. If they cannot give birth to two, whose children will they be?

Xie Ling's kiss landed on her earlobe, "...It's been more than four months."

Qi Yitang knew perfectly well what was going on, but pretended not to. "So?"

The next moment, the kiss moved from her earlobe to her lips. Unlike the fleeting touches on the street during the day, Xie Ling at night was like a hungry dog ​​suddenly released from its leash. Her warm lips and tongue licked him, with suppressed eagerness.

Suddenly, a dazzling display of fireworks burst across the sky.

Qi Yitang subconsciously looked up.

Red, gold, purple—fireworks of all colors exploded one after another in the night sky.

Reflected on the water's surface, it shattered into a shimmering, multicolored light.

There are fireworks even though it's neither a holiday nor a festival; it's probably another surprise prepared by someone.

Xie Ling followed her lips and kissed her. "Focus. We can watch fireworks anytime. Right now... you can only focus on feeling your husband."

Xie Ling usually acts like Qin Shi Huang, serving tea and water, whatever he says goes.

The style on the bed was completely different, and Qi Yitang had nowhere to hide, so she could only mumble a vague sentence.

"So domineering?"

The kiss deepened, and Xie Ling chuckled softly, "For you, I will always be the same."

Fireworks continued to explode overhead, and pedestrians on the riverbank marveled at the spectacle.

The entire Shu River was bathed in shimmering light. In the distant boat awning, glass lamps swayed gently in the night breeze, casting the intertwined shadows of two people onto the awning wall, making it difficult to distinguish whether they were candlelight or the glistening water.

Having not been intimate for a long time, they were both quite aroused.

That brief, tender moment was far from enough to ease Xie Ling's restraint and longing over the past month.

He was about to continue when his movements suddenly froze.

Qi Yitang's eyes widened suddenly, and she looked down in disbelief, "...Just now, it seemed to move?"