My Lady Always Lacks Ambition

Chapter 1129 - 1098: Xuanming: I Knew This Trip Would Bring Disaster! (2)

How can giving birth to a noble offspring be so simple? This is essentially a sinister magic that goes against the heavens. To nurture it to full term requires immense fortune, so relying on just one person won’t do. It’s like planting beans—you need to plant more, and whichever sprouts and grows into a sapling and then a tree, that’s the true success!

Therefore, there’s no need for Princess Si Yi to compete.

Yet Princess Si Yi stiffened. The mother of a noble offspring and just a commandery princess, which is more noble and prioritized, is obvious. But if her lifespan is shortened, what good is it even if she becomes the mother of a noble offspring?

"Isn’t there a safer way?" she asked with a frown.

Xuanming replied with a half-smile, "Princess, how could there be anything where you gain everything with nothing in return? If your life chart wasn’t precious enough, you wouldn’t have been chosen. By the way, Miss Five is already that successful person."

Princess Si Yi’s pupils contracted, and she was furious. "What gives her, a concubine’s daughter, the right?"

"Because her life chart includes the Phoenix Star, which isn’t inferior to the Princess’s Five Elements," Xuanming said. "If not for Princess being born with complete Five Elements, under auspicious clouds, why would the Prince value you so much?" Xuanming laughed. "Princess should be grateful you are noble enough, otherwise..."

Princess Si Yi trembled.

Xuanming, impatient, said, "Princess should make a decision soon. There is a formidable female Daoist on Empress Mu’s side, who is searching everywhere for me. I must leave soon, and there’s also the matter of the fragmented map that I still need to find."

He truly had no time to humor this unruly princess.

The main issue was that he felt extremely uneasy staying in Shengjing, as if an evil beast had its eyes on him, ready to take a big bite out of him at any moment.

He needed to leave as soon as possible; if not for Princess Si Yi being valued, he would’ve left already.

"Let me think, let me think," Princess Si Yi said nervously, pacing back and forth. "Is there really no safer way?"

Xuanming shook his head.

Princess Si Yi gritted her teeth and said, "Fine, I agree with you."

Xuanming nodded and was about to order the preparations when someone ran in in a panic, saying, "Princess, something bad has happened, Aunt Song is bleeding."

Princess Si Yi’s face changed dramatically, scolding, "Useless! How are you taking care of her? Quickly, call the house doctor and also an Imperial Physician from outside."

"No need," Xuanming calculated and frowned. "She must have suffered from feedback. There’s no time to waste; cut it out directly, and I’ll set up the array immediately. Princess, prepare yourself."

Princess Si Yi turned pale; is it so urgent?

She hadn’t fully made up her mind!

...

Night fell, and snowflakes began to drift down from the sky gently.

Qin Liuxi stood outside Princess Si Yi’s mansion, looking towards the main courtyard, her gaze suddenly sharpening.

With a light tap of her toes, she soared to higher ground for a clearer view.

She wasn’t mistaken. From the main courtyard, streams of fortune were continuously flowing inward. Someone had set up an array to seize auspicious fortune from elsewhere. What were they up to?

"Ah!"

A piercing scream echoed through the night sky.

Qin Liuxi immediately ran towards the source of the sound. Arriving at the eastern courtyard, the overwhelming scent of blood filled her nostrils. She attached an invisibility talisman to herself and walked into the room as if no one else was there.

Inside, several rough and burly women surrounded a bed, restraining the person on it. A sharp-featured, hostile-looking old woman extracted a small, human-shaped embryo from the woman’s opened abdomen and placed it into a jade box held by a servant.

Qin Liuxi’s pupils slightly narrowed.

On the bed lay Song Zilian, whose breathing was now barely perceptible, and whom Qin Liuxi had previously warned. At this moment, yin energy spread from her body, deathly aura enveloped her face, and resentful energy connected her to the embryo in the jade box.

Was this the backlash from cause and effect?

As she had predicted, this child turned out to be her death sentence!

Qin Liuxi sighed, watching as Song Zilian’s soul floated out of her body, staring blankly at herself on the bed, until she heard the old woman say, "Hurry, deliver it to the Princess."

The servant quickly carried the jade box out.

Song Zilian came to her senses and hurriedly followed. As she passed by Qin Liuxi, she stopped, glaring at her for a moment before her resentment flared, lunging at her.

Qin Liuxi said nothing.

Hey, I’m just passing by, what’s with the attack?

"It’s you! You knew what would happen to me, so why didn’t you save me? Aren’t you a Daoist, a master?" Song Zilian’s face twisted with rage.