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This Emperor’s Condition (3)
T/N: Translated by Jen on Broken Jinsei! Please do not repost my translations! All translations outside of Broken Jinsei are stolen and reposted without permission!
When not knowing, it was just going on as usual, but after learning, even if at present, it hasn’t happened, one was still unable to remain indifferent. Even Jing Wan herself was unable to stop herself from being paranoid, so she could understand why her husband was ultimately unable to forget.
Jing Wan continued to sit, not planning on leaving. Li Hong Yuan also didn’t order anyone to rush her, and the others couldn’t chase her out either. Thus, they stayed all the way until the men of the Luo family returned from their respective offices, causing Luo Pei Shan and the others’ first reaction to be: ‘Did something happen?’
Towards them, Li Hong Yuan wasn’t in the mood to nicely and gently explain. After using the evening meal, and then sitting for a while, Jing Wan and Li Hong Yuan finally returned to Jin Qinwang Manor before night curfew.
Head Minister Luo expressed that he was completely puzzled, asking his own wife, “What did third girl and wangye come back for?”
“Wan Wan said she just missed us, and since she had nothing to do, just came back for a sit.”
“There’s really nothing?” If it really was nothing, why would they wait until after he returned? But if there was something, how can they just left without saying a word?
Luo Old Madam frowned. Truthfully speaking, she actually wasn’t too sure either. Her granddaughter seemingly wasn’t any different from before, but she still sensed that there was something wrong faintly.
Head Minister Luo upon seeing the situation, “Forget it, Jin Qinwang is one that has a ravine in the heart, if there really is something, he certainly would have propriety. Third girl also isn’t one to be at a loss for what to do when encountering something.”
The two of them thus had this matter pushed down, waiting a few more days and see. If there really is something big, there won’t be no movements. But, perhaps, there really was nothing. No one ruled that married daughters bringing their husband back need to leave at a certain time.
Returning to their horse carriage, Jing Wan quietly leaned into Li Hong Yuan’s arms.
“What’s wrong, returning for a look, yet instead becoming gloomy?”
“Nothing, just temporarily unable to walk out from it. It’ll be better after a few days.”
“That’s why, you women are just like this, that heart, just like glass, very fragile.”
“Indeed, look at how hard men’s heart are, even boulders can’t compare.” Jing Wan indifferently retorted without even thinking.
Li Hong Yuan grasped her hand, placing it on his chest, “Feel it, is it hard?”
Jing Wan pinched him twice. His muscles were just like rocks. It really wasn’t that much different. “Isn’t this precisely a rock.” Jing Wan angrily smacked a few times.
Li Hong Yuan grabbed her hand, “Don’t randomly provoke me. In the afternoon, in the study, I wasn’t able to deal with you, but you think this husband won’t be able to deal with you now?”
TN: All translations outside of Broken Jinsei are stolen and reposted without permission!
Jing Wan sensed the reaction from a certain someone’s body, lightly clicking her tongue, “Pervert.”
“Right, you husband is precisely a pervert, even one that’s only perverted to you alone.”
Jing Wan however didn’t come out from his arms. She actually also needed to do a bit of something to distract herself from the other matters. Leaning in to the side of his neck, she stuck out her pink tongue and licked him, saying with a smile, “This is provoking you. Hey, not allowed to move.” Jing Wan pressed down his hand. “Wait until we get back.”
Li Hong Yuan somewhat dangerously narrowed his eyes, “You’re being deliberate?”
Jing Wan’s eyes and brows curved from smiling.
Li Hong Yuan lightly caressed her soft waist, “Say, how many days do you plan on staying in bed?”
“If you really make me be unable to climb down from the bed, then your kidney will surely break down.” Jing Wan softly whispered by his ear, her breath like an orchid brushing by, even naughtily licking his earlobe.
The peculiar feeling was too obvious. Li Hong Yuan slightly leaned his head, “Being unable to climb down from the bed doesn’t necessarily mean going continuously nonstop. Nicely going once, and then rest for a few hours before continuing, just like starting when going back, and once Wan Wan can’t move anymore, we will rest, continuing tomorrow morning. Wan Wan, say, going over and over again as such, how long do you think your husband, I, can last, and how long can you endure? Hm?”
Jing Wan was teased by his low voice until her liver shook. For him to seduce her, he just needed to lower his voice, but for her? This was just the difference. But, right now, it wasn’t the time to talk about this. Thinking of the meaning in his words, Jing Wan waist couldn’t help but go limp, silently wiping a tear for herself. Sure enough, it was still her courting death. “Ah Yuan, let’s pretend I didn’t say anything.”
“That won’t do, getting one’s ability questioned by one’s wife, no matter what, one still need to properly prove oneself, no?”
“Ah Yuan, I was wrong, really.” Jing Wan wanted to cry but there were no tears.
“En, this can wait until a few days later.” Li Hong Yuan expressed, right now, he was just going to listen to his wife, not doing anything much, just lightly teasing.
That kind of feeling was the most annoying. Jing Wan bit the clothes over Li Hong Yuan’s shoulder, tears squeezing out from her eyes. That’s why, even if her constitution was not bad, recovering quickly, it was still best to not question her own man’s abilities. That was just courting death. After all, in this aspect, the great majority of women actually were all weaker. Moreover, facing the living Enma, one probably wasn’t able to draw the strength. Even if you want to be a queen and dominate, still don’t know what kind of interest that might stir up in him.
Li Hong Yuan knew that his own wife’s skin was thin, and for the sake of not making any sounds, painstakingly endured. Having ‘punished’ enough, he finally mercifully lifted her chin, having her soft moans all swallowed.
This night naturally was another night of blossoming spring.
The living Enma was a man of his word, really making Jing Wan be unable to lift a single finger.
Finally, when washing up, Li Hong Yuan, as usual, dissolved the birth control medicine into the water.
Once he finished dissolving, Jing Wan grabbed his hand, “You said, in your past life, we had a child? But you were affected by the infertility powder. That extremely extremely low probability didn’t get encountered by your concubines, instead getting encountered by me?” Jing Wan felt complicated inside, yet also somewhat amazed.
“It has nothing to do with us now. Wan Wan don’t need to think of that much.” That son, Li Hong Yuan expressed that he still didn’t like.
“Can’t you tell me?” Towards that child that she completely didn’t know, Jing Wan was unable to resist, even feeling exceptionally curious. If not for knowing that a certain someone was ‘unwelcoming’ towards children, she wouldn’t have waited until now to ask.
Unknown as to what he thought of, Li Hong Yuan suddenly laughed, even somewhat smugly, “Wan Wan is right. We were just together for one night, yet you immediately got pregnant. It can be seen, even if you had married someone else, you still had the deepest ties with me.”
Jing Wan couldn’t help but get angry. Was she talking about this? “Don’t try to change the topic. What was that child like?”
Li Hong Yuan’s expression turned cold, “That child, I only found out about at the very end. When you were pregnant with him, the entire time, you were out on the run. You yourself had wasted away until just skin and bones, yet that child was still considered pretty good. You want to know how that child was born? According to the last guard Fu Yun Ting left by your side, you had him cut out yourself. With your body’s condition, it already didn’t allow for him to smoothly be born. If not for you entrusting me to properly take care of him, I would’ve long strangled him to death. Then again, during that period of time, my mental state was completely hazy, only learning the specifics of how he was born afterwards, else he would’ve died. He and I were both cut out from the mother’s stomach, yet the meaning was completely different.”
(T/N: In ancient times, c-sections would be considered taboo and most definitely inauspicious. However, Li Hong Yuan was cut out after his mother had died, while Jing Wan was still alive when she had sliced open her own stomach.)
“Ah Yuan………..” Jing Wan didn’t know that this would deeply hurt him again.
“Wan Wan, you have to know, that child, even if afterwards I gave him the best of everything, having the best upbringing, I was still unable to like him. Fortunately, he was still considered satisfactory, somewhat qualifying as your son, else I wouldn’t have acknowledged him. Even if sparing his life, I still wouldn’t have the throne left for him, even if he was my only child. The mountains and rivers that I conquered don’t necessarily need a successor. I can easily have it destroyed.”
That’s why, for that child to have been able to sit onto the throne, one was because he was born from Luo Jing Wan, and two, it was because he qualified as Luo Jing Wan’s son. It had nothing to do with him being Li Hong Yuan’s only heir at all! This probably was something that no one had ever considered. If they knew, then don’t know how many strands of hair those high ministers would’ve ripped out. Most likely, even if like stuffing a duck, they probably still would’ve done everything they can to let that little crown prince meet the standard.
Even if Luo Hong Yuan had already given Jing Wan too many shocking news, Jing Wan this while was still shocked to the point of speechlessness.
“What if, what if it was a girl?” Jing Wan mutteringly asked.
“If passing, she will just be the female emperor.” Li Hong Yuan said without hesitating in the slightest.
Although in the past life, he indeed never considered this problem before, but if this really was the case, he a hundred percent would do this, and no one would be able to stop his decision.
T/N: LHY believes in equal treatment because whether it’s a son or a daughter to him it’s the exact same thing lol.
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I would like a story about this child. Reminds me of baby Lan in Shadow Quen. After fl died in the beginning, I wondered what would become of him. I like the side story because it shows ml realized the mistakes of his cold attitude and decided to raise Lan as fl would have wanted.
He’ll appear in the first side story