Jiang Xinman walked around the flowerbed and then returned to Jiang Xinci's place to rest. Duanxin was still on the way to deliver the letter.

After Duanxin delivered the letter in the Magic Pen Pavilion, he received another reply. Really... Didn't he feel the slightest bit strange?

Su Xiujie took the letter very naturally, then carried Duanxin back, who wanted to leave. When he finished writing the letter, he handed it to him to take back.

...

Returning to Jiang Xinman's side, Duanxin laid on the ground with his limbs spread out.

Jiang Xinci took the letter and sighed. Su Xiujie's attitude in the letter was very firm. Even if Jiang Xinci clearly rejected him, he would not retreat at all. Jiang Xinci knew him too well.

But she and he were doomed to have no future, and she, who could not see her own future, would not want to drag a man into it.

"Sigh..."

Jiang Xinci's sigh was the most Jiang Xinman had heard in all these years, even more than she had heard before.

Jiang Xinci saw Jiang Xinman's worried expression and laughed at herself. She was worried about her. No matter what, her elder sister could not sigh in front of her younger sister and make her worry.

"It's not easy for me to come to the palace. I'll take you around the scenery here first. The green tiles and cinnabar trees are beautiful."

"Are you okay... you...?"

Jiang Xinci laughed and said, "I can't even go to relax?"

"I didn't say that it's impossible... It's not easy to meet such a person, you have to hurry up. Although this is planting grass on the head of the Son of Heaven, I still believe that you all will have a future!"

Jiang Xinman looked at Jiang Xinci, who had a smile on her face, and could only comfort her.

"I hope..."

After all, she still wanted to eat a melon...

Jiang Xinci heard her muttering and only heard the word 'melon'. She was surprised and amused at the same time. When she was locked up by her father, she only thought about eating snacks. Today, she didn't eat anything and her mouth was hungry again, but...

"How did you know there was a melon in my room? Your nose is so sensitive?"

After teasing Jiang Xinman, Jiang Xinci entered a cubicle. Jiang Xinman curiously followed her to take a look and found many melons soaked in cold water.

Jiang Xinman pulled on her sleeve and waved it excitedly: "So much! Too greedy... It's better to stay alone. Eat whatever you want."

When she thought about how she couldn't eat anything at home, she felt despair! Although she didn't know why her body didn't conform to common sense and she wouldn't get fat no matter what she ate, it allowed her to eat all kinds of fried and high sugar without restraint.

Jiang Xinci wanted to scoop up the melon, but Jiang Xinman brushed her hand away. Pregnant people could not touch cold water, nor could they carry such a heavy melon. Of course, this melon would be carried by an idler like her.

"Be careful, this servant girl is not allowed to enter the room to take care of you. You can't carry such a heavy thing yourself."

The reproach in her tone made Jiang Xinci's hand, which was about to reach for the melon, stop.

Jiang Xinci lowered her head and put her hand on her lower abdomen. Although it was not very obvious yet, the recent symptoms of pregnancy and vomiting were getting more and more obvious. She did not want this child, but this child was the foundation of her existence...

"The Emperor doesn't have many children, and he places great importance on his successors. As long as a child is born, no matter male or female, he or she will be promoted to a concubine. But in this palace, there aren't many children who can come out of their mother's womb alive..."

"I don't want him, but I can't not want him... What I want..."

Jiang Xinci did not continue. The child she wanted was with him, with Su Xiujie.

Seeing her like this, Jiang Xinman felt a little uncomfortable. She said something she shouldn't have said, which made Xinci's mood worse again. Although she didn't care whose child it was, it was Xinci's after all.

Jiang Xinman held the melon in one hand and wiped the water on her clothes with the other. She pulled Jiang Xinci's hand and sat down at the table. She used a knife to cut open the melon.

After handing Jiang Xinci a piece, Jiang Xinman spoke with an aged voice.

"This child is not someone else's, but yours. No matter who father is, you are the one who gave birth to him. You are not someone else's child. You gave birth to him because you wanted to keep him..."

Jiang Xinman felt that Jiang Xinci must have had some intention of keeping this life. Otherwise, with her personality, when the other concubines came to cause trouble, she would have played along and miscarried.

Jiang Xinci felt very uncomfortable. Yes, she wanted to keep this life, so she protected him. But she didn't love the child's father. Even if she could accept it, could Su Xiujie accept it? It was impossible!

Although Su Xiujie seemed indifferent, he had the arrogance of a commander in his heart. A stubborn person who hid his edge and was ready to take action...

Jiang Xinman patted Jiang Xinci's shoulder, "Let him go, but it will be dangerous for you in the palace. If you insist on not wanting him, I really have nothing else to say."

Jiang Xinman's hand was held by Jiang Xinci. Her fingertips were cold, but her palm was warm. Just like her, she was cold on the outside but warm on the inside. She felt that Su Xiujie was somewhat similar to her. Sure enough, they were not a family...

"It's still, it's okay..."

Jiang Xinman sighed. As expected, it still wasn't enough...

"If I don't take him away, I'll let him live."

... ""

This... Would it kill him to say that he wouldn't take him away at once? Why was he panting so heavily?

"Xinci, don't breathe so heavily. It's very scary."

There was a line in the script that led to Jiang Xinci's earliest death. In the end, her child was unfortunately lost, and she was sent to the cold house.

This was a near-impossible ending line. It only appeared once out of tens of thousands of options. After the system upgraded, there were even more small probability endings. Of course, there was a result of the Jiang family being intact. Jiang Xinman was gambling, gambling that she would be able to catch the thread behind the scenes.

"Go outside. It's stuffy inside."

"Okay."

Jiang Xinman supported Jiang Xinci and walked aimlessly around the lake. The two maids followed behind with cushions in their hands. Originally, Jiang Xinci did not want them to follow, but after thinking about it, she decided not to. If something happened, it would be very troublesome.

After walking for a while, Jiang Xinci couldn't walk anymore. She sat down in the pavilion to rest and watched Jiang Xinman, who was beside her, running back and forth between the flowers planted by the side of the road.

Similarly, Duanxin was also running back and forth. It had been a long time since he had a body. Although he was a little disgusted with it being a cat, he had no other host, so he could only use it.

"Duanxin... This flower smells so good!"

It was indeed very fragrant. What was the name of this flower?

... "I don't have any culture..."

A man came.

Jiang Xinman raised her head and searched for a long time, but she did not find the man Duanxin was talking about. Duanxin pointed for a long time before she realized that there was a person standing on the other side of the bridge.

Jiang Xinman whispered to Duanxin: "It can't be the emperor, right? That person is coming."

The Emperor went to discuss matters with the prince. I heard it from someone when I passed by.

Jiang Xinman didn't look at anyone directly. She still had the embarrassment and shyness of a man. Only when that person was about to walk in front of her and reveal a playful smile did Jiang Xinman realize that she had been looking at him the entire time. She raised Duanxin in front of her and covered her face with the cat.

He must have thought she was a pervert...

"Xinman... Look."

The man called her name very familiarly, and when he said look, Jiang Xinman looked at it with a death wish. It was a small and exquisite blue hairpin, but it had some traces of age.

... "Chaosheng? No, thank you, Your Highness... Hmm..."