“Mistress is awake! Mistress is awake!” a voice cried out, choking with tears.
“Quick! Quick! Bring the ginseng soup!”
Jun Wan was half-conscious, feeling a terrible pain in her abdomen. Before she could even open her eyes, someone lifted her head and force-fed her a bowl of some unknown liquid.
Then another voice rang out:
“Push! Push! Your Highness, push harder!”
“Shut up, all of you!” Jun Wan roared irritably after swallowing the liquid she had been forced to drink.
She thought she had shouted loudly, but to the people in the room, it sounded no more than a weak meow from a kitten.
In her dazed state, Jun Wan cursed inwardly:
Damn it, who are these people? Why are they babbling in my room? I already feel like I need to poop. I haven’t even gotten out of bed yet, and they’re telling me to push. What if I push and end up pooping in bed?
And what was that stuff they made me drink? It’s bitter as hell. Don’t tell me it was poison? And why can’t I open my eyes?
“Princess Consort, please push! If you don’t, the little prince will be in danger!”
A woman’s anxious voice sounded beside her ear.
After much effort, Jun Wan finally opened her eyes. The sight before her left her stunned.
But before she could think further, the intense downward pressure in her lower abdomen made her instinctively start pushing.
Although she still had no idea what was happening, one thing was clear:
She was giving birth.
Once she realized this, she quickly adjusted her breathing, forced herself to stay calm, and cooperated with the midwife.
“That’s right! Just like that, Princess Consort. Only push when I tell you to,” the midwife instructed.
Beside her, an older woman wiped the sweat from Jun Wan’s face with a silk handkerchief.
Another violent wave of labor pain struck.
Jun Wan cursed:
“If I ever find out who got me pregnant, I’ll castrate him!”
Everyone in the room was shocked by her bold declaration.
The War Prince’s Consort actually dared to curse the War Prince?
Not only that—she wanted to castrate him?
Still, they only had time for a brief moment of shock. The princess consort was in labor, and none of them dared slack off.
Meanwhile, far away at the border, the War Prince, Mo Yan, had just severed an enemy commander’s head when a sudden chill ran through his entire body, making him shiver.
It was the first time he had ever felt cold after killing so many people.
For a moment, he was bewildered.
Back in the capital, after cursing her mysterious husband, Jun Wan gathered every ounce of strength she had and pushed with all her might.
Then she fainted.
“Waaah! Waaah! Waaah!”
A loud infant’s cry filled the room.
But before anyone could celebrate, the same voice from earlier cried out in alarm:
“Oh no! Mistress has fainted again!”
Everyone immediately became tense.
One of the midwives, trembling, hurriedly placed a hand beneath Jun Wan’s nose.
Only after confirming she was still breathing did she finally relax.
“Miss Linglan, don’t worry. The princess consort merely exhausted herself during childbirth. She fainted from lack of strength. Once she recovers, she’ll wake up,” the midwife explained.
Everyone sighed in relief.
The older woman continuously wiped tears from her eyes.
“As long as she’s alright… as long as she’s alright…”
At that moment, another midwife snapped back to her senses and rushed outside.
To the eunuch who had been waiting for a long time, one of the emperor’s most trusted attendants, she announced excitedly:
“Reporting to Eunuch Wang! The War Prince’s Consort has given birth to a little imperial grandson!”
“Good! Good! Good! His Majesty can finally rest easy.”
The eunuch turned to leave, but then remembered something and warned sternly:
“Take good care of the princess consort and the little prince. If anything happens to either of them, you’ll all pay dearly.”
“Yes, we understand.”
Only then did Eunuch Wang hurry away.
He needed to return to the imperial palace and deliver the good news to the Emperor and Noble Consort Yi.
Meanwhile, the newborn prince had already been cleaned up, his umbilical cord tied, and his tiny body wrapped snugly in blankets.
The midwife who had checked Jun Wan’s breathing began changing the bloodied bedding.
“Linglan, bring out the reward money Her Highness prepared for the midwives,” said the older woman who had been wiping Jun Wan’s sweat.
“Yes.”
Soon, Linglan returned carrying a tray.
On it were several lotus-embroidered pouches filled with gold leaves.
“Thank you, Princess Consort! Thank you, Nanny!”
The midwives bowed repeatedly in gratitude before eagerly tucking the pouches into their robes.
After the midwives left, the nanny instructed Linglan to keep chicken soup warm in the kitchen so Jun Wan could drink it whenever she woke.
Then she turned around and looked sorrowfully at the unconscious Jun Wan before walking over to the baby’s cradle.
After returning to the emperor’s residence, Eunuch Wang reported to the Emperor of Longyuan Kingdom and Noble Consort Yi:
“Congratulations, Your Majesty! Congratulations, Your Highness! The War Prince’s Consort has given birth to an imperial grandson. Both mother and child are safe!”
The sickly-looking emperor immediately showed a trace of relief.
“Excellent! Truly an outstanding grandson of mine.”
Noble Consort Yi smiled happily.
“Your Majesty, now that Yan’er has a son, shouldn’t he be summoned back to see his child?”
“Indeed. He should come back.”
The emperor turned to Eunuch Wang.
“Wang Cai, draft an imperial decree. Summon War Prince Mo Yan back to the capital immediately.”
Then he continued:
“The War Prince’s Consort has rendered great service by giving birth to an imperial grandson. Reward her with one hundred taels of gold, fifty bolts of fine silk, three chests each of jewels and jade, and numerous gold and silver ornaments.
The War Prince’s eldest son shall be bestowed the name Jingchen.
By imperial decree!”
Eunuch Wang froze briefly.
This was the first time he had ever seen a newborn prince receive a name directly from the emperor immediately after birth.
It showed just how much the emperor favored the War Prince.
Noble Consort Yi’s smile never faded.
Her son finally had an heir.
Jun Wan slowly awakened from her unconscious state.
She did not immediately open her eyes.
Instead, she quietly absorbed the memories that had suddenly appeared in her mind.
She had never expected that she had transmigrated into another world.
Not only that, but she had ended up in a completely fictional continent with no counterpart in history.
The original owner of this body was also named Jun Wan.
She had been a princess of Silver Wolf Kingdom and had been sent to Longyuan Kingdom in a political marriage.
At first sight, she had fallen for the War Prince and begged the emperor to marry her to him.
Unfortunately, the War Prince had never liked her.
When they married, he even demanded that only her personal maid and wet nurse be allowed into the manor. No one else from her homeland could accompany her.
She had agreed to everything.
Yet on their wedding night, someone drugged her.
She never even knew who she shared the bridal chamber with.
The War Prince left for the frontier the very next day.
The original Jun Wan remained confused and isolated until the day of childbirth, when she died from exhaustion.
And that was when the current Jun Wan arrived in her place.
Inside her mind, Jun Wan cursed heaven a thousand times.
Because of her special abilities, she had become a battlefield doctor in a special forces unit.
She had merely gone home to visit her family and slept in her own bed.
How had that somehow led to transmigration?
She simply couldn’t understand it.
How could sudden death happen to someone like her?
Jun Wan carefully reviewed everything that had happened in her previous life, hoping to find some clue.
Then she suddenly remembered something.
Less than ten months ago, she had also gone home.
That night, she seemed to have had a dream.
In the dream, she had been entangled with a long-haired man inside a room draped entirely in red curtains.
The dream felt incredibly real.
She could even hear the man’s heavy breathing.
Yet when she woke the next morning, she was still in her own room.
Nothing had happened.
And she couldn’t remember the man’s face at all.
She tried comparing that visit home with all the others.
The only unusual thing she could think of was that her mother had given her a jade pendant during that trip.
Thinking of the pendant, she quickly reached toward her chest.
To her surprise, she really felt something resembling a jade pendant hanging there.
Opening her eyes, she looked down.
It was exactly the same as the jade pendant her mother had given her.
Was it merely a coincidence?
Or was it actually the very same pendant?
Just then—
“Waaah! Waaah!”
The cry of a baby suddenly rang out.