Chapter 1

After completing the mission, I refused to leave the world.

I married Pei Huai.

In the fifth year of our marriage, I was diagnosed as pregnant.

He wept with joy.

He had always been indifferent, but both times he lost his composure were because of me.

Everyone in Jing City knew that he loved me as much as his own life.

But I knew that he kept a concubine outside.

The child was already three years old.

This time, the system asked me: “The mission has been completed. Do you wish to leave the world?”

I smiled with acceptance:

“Yes.”

“Congratulations, Marquis Pei, Mrs. Pei is pregnant.”

When the imperial physician said this, Pei Huai’s eyes instantly reddened. He gripped my hand tightly, so happy that he couldn’t speak for a moment.

He was nothing like King Pei, who dominates the court with such ferocity.

“Niaoniao, we finally have our own child.”

Yes, we’ve been married for five years.

Our longing for a child grew stronger and stronger, but the more we hoped, the longer we waited in vain.

He is the only son of the Marquis’s Estate; an heir is of utmost importance. Yet because of my wish for one lifetime, one couple, he resolutely refused to take a concubine.

He said he only loved me, and even if we had no children, he would only want to spend his life with me.

He is so steadfast and devoted-how could I not be moved?

I’ve always been delicate, but in these five years, I can’t even count how many bitter medicines I’ve drunk, how many needles I’ve endured, how many folk remedies I’ve tried.

It hurt, it was bitter.

But I knew it was all worth it.

Now, we finally have a child.

Looking back on the past, I only feel heartache, and tears fall uncontrollably.

He wipes my tears away, so gentle, as if I am his most precious treasure, so fragile I might shatter at a touch.

I gaze into his eyes, full of deep affection, sobbing so hard my whole body trembles.

I know, his deep feelings are not an act.

He truly loves me.

But he could also have hidden it from me, kept a mistress outside, and even had a child with that woman.

Three years old.

He kept it from me for three whole years.