I just want to be a princess, no, you want to be a queen

Chapter 294 The Disaster of Pregnancy

"You're really crazy." Qin Miao, suddenly turned into a pig, took the Queen Mother's arm and urged her aggrievedly: "Grandmother, you must teach her a lesson."

Lu Mingyang glanced over and sneered, "Princess Ningyuan, right? I think you don't want to be this princess anymore. Dasheng is marrying a madwoman to the Xiongnu. Where does that leave them? Are you trying to humiliate them?"

"I didn't say that." Qin Miao trembled with fear.

The Queen Mother suppressed her anger and reminded, "Daughter Lu, although you married into the Xiongnu, the Chengyang Marquisate receives a salary from the Sheng Dynasty, and your brother is still an official of the Sheng Dynasty."

She even wished that her brother would be demoted so that the emperor could sleep more peacefully and stop focusing on her third brother.

Lu Mingyang smiled and asked, "So?"

The Queen Mother was somewhat at a loss for words when asked so bluntly. She said in a deep voice, "Sit down and have your meal."

She hadn't wanted to invite Lu Mingyang to a banquet, but she felt Miao'er was right and worried that she might break the rules and cause unnecessary trouble. At this moment, she could only grit her teeth and swallow her anger.

"Yes, today we are giving Princess Anhe a farewell party, just to have good food and drinks." Concubine Song tried to smooth things over.

Lu Mingyang raised his wine glass and said coldly, "Mingyang is here to wish all the ladies to never become tools in the hands of those in power."

After saying that, he drank it all in one gulp and turned to leave.

After walking a few steps, Lu Mingyang suddenly felt dizzy and knelt on the ground, holding onto the door frame. Ruying and Rushu hurried to help him.

"what happened!"

No one dared to step forward, only Concubine Song went to see Lu Mingyang. Lu Mingyang waved his hands and pushed himself out, feeling nauseous and nearly vomiting.

"Did you eat something bad?"

The marriage was a matter of the utmost importance, and no mistakes could be made. Concubine Song looked at the Empress Dowager, and after receiving her approval, she helped her to the couch to rest. Then she sent Jiaoli to summon the imperial physician.

Not long after, Pharmacist Ge, now Imperial Physician Ge, entered Shoukang Palace to take Lu Mingyang's pulse.

"What's going on?" asked the Queen Mother.

Imperial Physician Ge secretly glanced at Concubine Song and reported, "Empress Dowager, Princess Anhe's pulse is a sign of pregnancy."

Lu Mingyang looked up in shock.

The Queen Mother was also panicking. The princess who was about to be married off was actually pregnant. If this got out, what would happen? She glanced at the concubines in the hall and said sternly, "No one is allowed to spread this matter."

"Yes!" Everyone knelt down.

Lu Mingyang stood up. Although this child was not what she expected, when she saw the murderous look in the Queen Mother's eyes, she subconsciously wanted to escape.

"Hold her down." The Queen Mother understood her intention and ordered the eunuchs to come forward. She didn't even ask whose child it was. Lu Mingyang was no longer powerless. He kicked a eunuch away and ran away.

But she could escape from the palace gate, but not from the gate of Shoukang Palace. The palace gate closed in time, trapping her in the palace courtyard, unable to advance or retreat.

Lu Mingyang was detained by the eunuchs.

The Queen Mother stood in the corridor and ordered, "Go and boil the medicine."

Soon, a bowl of boiling hot abortion medicine was brought to Lu Mingyang, who was kneeling in the courtyard. The Queen Mother said coldly, "Do you want to drink it yourself, or do you want me to feed you?"

Lu Mingyang sneered: "If it disappears, it no longer exists, right?"

"How can you have children when you're a widow?" the Queen Mother said angrily. "I've lived for over seventy years, and I've never seen a woman as shameless as you."

"What is shame?" Lu Mingyang was also angry.

"To be good, to be able, to be respectful, to be just, to follow the law, and to discern—these six things are based on integrity. Integrity is good, integrity is capable, integrity is respectful, integrity is just, integrity is following the law, and integrity is discerning. Since I have not lost my integrity, why should I feel ashamed?"

"It is the Queen Mother who speaks with shame and keeps silent. You dare to judge only the chastity of a woman."

With a "slap," Qin Miao stepped forward and slapped Lu Mingyang in the face. Not satisfied with the first slap, she slapped him again. Then, turning to the Empress Dowager, she saluted and said, "Grandmother, please let Miao'er come."

The Queen Mother waved her hand. Qin Miao picked up the abortion pill, blew it gently, and looked at Lu Mingyang with a smile.

Lu Mingyang said, "Qin Miao, if you dare to touch him, I will kill you."

"Hmph!" Qin Miao laughed and whispered in her ear, "Sister, do you still think you are the Ningyuan Princess, the apple of His Highness's eye? People must accept their fate. From now on, I will be the high and mighty Ningyuan Princess, and you will be nothing more than a plaything of the Huns."

As she spoke, she pried open Lu Mingyang's mouth and poured the medicine into his mouth.

"What's going on?" Eunuch Su's voice rang out from outside the Shoukang Palace gate. Then, a dull knock sounded. Lu Mingyang bit Qin Miao's tiger's mouth.

Qin Miao felt pain and dropped the abortion pills on the ground.

"Help, help..." Lu Mingyang shouted while spitting out the medicine.

A curved knife thrust through the crack in the door, slicing through iron like mud. Instantly, the bolt snapped free, and the palace gate flew wide open. Lu Mingyang turned and saw Jin Yiluo.

Jin Yiluo threw down his scimitar and ran towards the woman who was lying on the ground in a mess.

"What do you mean?"

After helping Lu Mingyang up, he looked at the emperor angrily.

Today, after he and the Emperor finalized the peace agreement, the Emperor planned to visit Shoukang Palace. Eunuch Su informed him that the Empress Dowager was hosting a farewell banquet for Princess Anhe. Jin Yiluo, eager to see how Lu Mingyang interacted with others, had come to Shoukang Palace with the Emperor. Unexpectedly, he encountered the Empress Dowager, an old witch, bullying his beloved.

The emperor stepped forward, his face grimacing, "Mother, what are you doing?"

"She does not……"

"Miao'er!"

The Queen Mother sternly rebuked Qin Miao, her face kind: "She has caught a cold and refused to take medicine. She said she would die of the disease, so how could I let her act so recklessly?"

Jin Yiluo looked at Lu Mingyang in confusion.

Lu Mingyang knew that if Jin Yiluo left, the Queen Mother would definitely give her medicine again. The man in front of her was her only hope, so she said directly: "I'm pregnant."

"What?" Jin Yiluo's voice was cold.

Lu Mingyang cried timidly: "It's not that I don't want to drink the abortion medicine, but it will harm my body. I'm afraid that I will never be able to give birth to a child for you again."

"Whose?" Jin Yiluo asked.

"Princess Anhe," the Queen Mother said, hinting at a threat: "Speak nicely."

As long as it is not Chu Mingzheng's, the royal dignity can be preserved.

"I don't know." Lu Mingyang cried and shook his head.

"How could you not know?" Jin Yiluo frowned. "Tell me, is it Chu Mingzheng's or Song Wei's?"

Concubine Song glanced at the Emperor, then at the Empress Dowager, and quickly agreed, "It's my younger brother's. He came to ask Your Majesty for permission to marry him because he had physical contact with Lu."

In this way, the Empress Dowager and the Emperor will definitely accept her favor.

Lu Mingyang held Jin Yiluo's hand and secretly wrote the word "king" on his palm as a hint. Compared to Song Wei, Chu Mingzheng's child was more likely to make Jin Yiluo keep him.

In the eyes of the Dasheng people, this was clearly cuckolding, but in the Xiongnu tradition, this was an achievement worth showing off.

Jin Yiluo embraced Lu Mingyang in his arms and said generously: "If you want a child, then you have a child. It's not like we Xiongnu can't raise a child."

Everyone was shocked and looked at them as if they were fools, but Jin Yiluo was the only one who laughed happily and loudly.