Reborn as a Sickly Child: The Emperor's Beloved

The winter wind was cold and snowflakes were falling. Time passed day by day, and in the blink of an eye it was Shen Yanyan's birthday.

The Queen's birthday must have been a grand celebration, with the entire palace filled with excitement.

Grand court banquets, courtiers’ homage, and a stream of gold and silver jewelry sent into her Yaohua Palace were luxurious and valuable.

Shen Yanyan just realized that Xiao Jingzhan had not been to Yaohua Palace for nearly a month. The situation inside and outside the court was unstable, and the seemingly peaceful capital city was actually surging with undercurrents.

After the banquet, when Shen Yanyan was on her way back to Yaohua Palace, fine and dense snowflakes suddenly fell and slowly turned into flying snow all over the sky.

"Empress, it's snowing." Xia Zhu followed behind Shen Yanyan, chattering all the way, and exclaimed as she looked at the snowflakes that suddenly fell.

Shen Yanyan wore a red queen dress, which was exquisite and luxurious, with pearls and jade shining between her high bun.

The snowflakes gradually grew larger and fell on the pearl hairpins in her hair, on her long and dense eyelashes, and on her exquisite and luxurious red palace dress.

Today is her birthday. She remembered that it was also a snowy day when she first came into this world. Her mother told her that Jiangnan was rarely covered with snow, but that year, it snowed heavily for three days, and the entire Jiangnan was frozen and magnificent.

"Yes, it's snowing." Shen Yanyan stretched out her slender and tender hands and caught the slowly falling snowflakes. She watched the pure and regular snowflakes turn into snow water the moment they fell into her hands, and the sadness between her brows lessened a little.

When she met Xiao Jingzhan today, he was caring and considerate to her as usual. But Shen Yanyan was not stupid. He had not been to her palace for about a month. She thought that he might have known about this matter. Perhaps he had the same idea as her. He had been busy recently and was waiting for the right time to deal with her.

She had never doubted his feelings for her, but he was an emperor, and his world did not revolve around him alone.

The snow was flying everywhere, and in a short while, the whole world was covered in silver. The cold wind was howling, blowing through the eaves and corridors, bringing a biting chill.

"My queen, it's snowing so heavily. Please come into the house quickly. The snow is almost soaking your hair." Dongxue followed Shen Yanyan in a hurry.

As soon as the three of them stepped into the inner courtyard, they saw Li Defu standing under the eaves.

Shen Yanyan's eyes flashed, and there was a hint of sadness in her eyes. He was only at the banquet for a short while today and left in a hurry. Did he say that he had something urgent to deal with? Why was he here now?

Could it be that he can't wait and wants to deal with this matter in advance?

"This old servant greets the Queen. Your Majesty, His Majesty is waiting for you inside!" When Li Defu saw the Queen's figure, he hurried forward to salute and invited her in.

Your Majesty has been waiting for a long time.

Shen Yanyan stepped into the bedroom and entered the inner room, where she saw Xiao Jingzhan sitting leisurely.

"Greetings, Your Majesty." Shen Yanyan took two steps forward and saluted him.

Xiao Jingzhan frowned when he saw her like this. When had she ever been so well-behaved in the past?

Seeing the hint of sadness between her brows, Xiao Jingzhan stepped forward, held her hand, took out the handkerchief in his arms and wiped her slightly wet hair.

"Why don't you take a sedan chair back? It's snowing so heavily."

Shen Yanyan looked up at his gentle gesture, her eyes slightly red, "It's not far, I want to take a walk."

"My hands are so cold. What if I caught a cold?"

Shen Yanyan looked at him like this, holding a broken jar and throwing it away, her voice a little hoarse, "Do you know everything? I can't get pregnant."

Xiao Jingzhan held her hand for a moment, a dark light flashing in his eyes.

Looking down at her already watery eyes, red and helpless, I felt a pain in my heart as if it were being stabbed by needles.

He didn't say anything, but pulled her to sit on the cushion by the window, put the exquisite hand warmer on the table in her hands, and sat down opposite her.

"Shen Yanyan, look at me. Answer me some questions seriously." Xiao Jingzhan lifted her lowered head and looked at her with gentle and firm eyes.

"After you knew about this, have you ever thought about pushing me to someone else? Have you ever thought about running away from me?"

As Shen Yanyan listened to his words, tears fell uncontrollably from her eyes, one after another falling on her exquisite clothes.

"I don't like you contacting other women, and I don't want to push you to others," the sob was faint, but her face was already wet.

But she also had no right to ask him to not have a child for her whole life.

Xiao Jingzhan smiled when he heard this. It was a determined smile, a happiness that came from the heart.

He pulled her over and sat her on his lap, hugging her tightly, "Luckily you didn't push me away."

He asked her two questions, but the other one wasn't important, it was enough that she didn't want to push herself to other people.

Feeling her hot tears dripping onto his neck, Xiao Jingzhan pulled her out of his arms and wiped her tears with the handkerchief in his hand.

"I don't care whether I have a child or not, and I don't care whether you can give birth or not. I love you as a person. If you want to be a mother in the future, find a child from the royal family to raise. If you don't want to be one, I will find a child from the royal family to raise and let him succeed me to the throne. Then I will take you to visit all the places you wanted to go but didn't have the time to go. Don't cry, okay?" Xiao Jingzhan's tone was gentle, and there was no unhappiness in his eyes when he looked at her, but full of joy, and his heart and eyes were full of her.

"But you are the emperor. If you don't have your own children, those ministers will not let you go easily."

"Besides, I have no right to deprive you of your right to be a father. You don't have to do so much for me. We...we..."

Shen Yanyan looked at his eyes that were about to become angry, lowered her head, and her voice became weaker and weaker. She didn't dare to say anything more, but her meaning was already very clear.

"Shen Yanyan, finish your words. What should we do?" Xiao Jingzhan got a little angry and forced her to look at him and finish her words.

"Why don't we part ways in peace?" Shen Yanyan looked into his angry eyes and finished her words.

She likes him, but she has no right to ask him to do anything for her. She will give him the right to choose. If he finally chooses her, she will stand by his side no matter how great the risks are in the future and will never say a word about leaving again. Even if he wants to find another woman to give birth to her, she will not agree.

Xiao Jingzhan lowered his head and bit her lips hard, a faint light flashed in his eyes, "I allow you to say this once, but you can't say it a second time. Listen carefully, I only like you. If the child is born by you, I will be very happy, but if it is not born by you, I will not even look at it. I only care about you, not others. As for other things, you can leave it to me."