In order to eat, I signed a contract with the system

Less than two months after returning to the palace from the Old Summer Palace, the emperor's harem had undergone earth-shaking changes. Ling Rong had not expected that Concubine Hua and Nian Gengyao would be so powerful, nor had she expected that without Wen Shichu and Cui Jinxi, Zhen Huan's cleverness would not be able to be demonstrated at all and she was easily caught.

Now the entire harem is in mourning for the Empress Dowager and eating vegetarian food for the Queen. No matter how heartless the Emperor is, he would not be in the mood to enter the harem and sleep with the concubines under such circumstances.

Lingrong has been pregnant for two months now. Without the Queen, the most powerful concubine in the palace is Concubine Qi Li. However, no matter how stupid she is, she dare not put on airs at this time and ask everyone to pay their respects to her, although she really wants to do so in her heart.

After half a month of treatment by the imperial physician, Zhen Huan finally regained some consciousness from being in a coma all day. However, her reactions were indeed much slower. Her body recovered a little, but it was not as good as before.

Huanbi looked at the weak Zhen Huan and her heart was filled with ambition. "Now that my elder sister is like this, I must rely on my elder sister to ascend to the throne so that I can marry into a good family. It would be better for me to become the emperor's concubine. If I am lucky enough to give birth to a prince, maybe my mother's tablet can be placed in the Zhen family ancestral hall with dignity!"

By the time the emperor was no longer so sad and had the idea of ​​entering the harem, three months had passed. During these three months, Lingrong had not appeared in public. When the emperor came, Lingrong hurriedly took out the silicone fake belly she bought from the store and put it on.

As expected, the emperor did not notice anything wrong. He touched Lingrong's belly with comfort, and a rare smile appeared on his face. Lingrong had been living very well during this period. All those who had humiliated her and treated her badly were dead, some were sick, and some were even imprisoned and under house arrest. As a result, Lingrong's mental state had stabilized a lot.

Occasionally, they would communicate with Prince Guo through his secret staff in the palace to discuss how to give birth to the child and send it to the palace. After all, five months had passed, and the artificial uterus Prince Guo wore had already begun to grow and become larger, and it was obvious that she was pregnant. It would be too self-deceiving to say that she was just experiencing the pregnancy reaction for Lingrong.

Since the other party had already become pregnant and given birth to a child for her, Lingrong would naturally not be stingy in providing emotional value to Prince Guo. Not only did she repeatedly express in her letters that the child in Prince Guo's belly must be the Goddess of Childbirth, but she was also moved by the true love between her and Prince Guo, and in order to make up for the regret of loving each other but not being able to be together, she intended to let the child stay with his biological father for a while longer.

Then she kept praising Prince Guo, comforting his depressed and uncomfortable mood during pregnancy, and giving him some small gifts she made herself from time to time.

It has to be said that Lingrong's approach was right. After this period of communication, Prince Guo has already accepted the bizarre setting that a man is pregnant. He is no longer afraid of his growing belly, but instead begins to look forward to what the child will look like after birth. However, he is still worried about how to give birth to the child after October.

Lingrong had thought about this a long time ago. After all, Prince Guo was a normal man, not one of those omegas in the ABO world who could give birth to children, so Lingrong bought an artificial womb.

To put it simply, an artificial womb is an invention of the future world that can replace the female womb and provide the embryo inside with the same growth environment as a normal uterus. The reason why this artificial womb is attached to Prince Guo is because the embryo needs energy to develop and grow, and this energy is absorbed from the body of the person being attached using the side of the artificial womb that is close to the human body.

According to medicine, when a woman becomes pregnant and gives birth, it is actually a parasitic manifestation of the fetus parasitizing the mother's body. The artificial womb simply makes this parasitism outside the body and not limited to women.

When the fetus in the uterus is mature, Ling Rong only needs to use a knife to cut open the artificial uterus and take the baby out. It is much safer than giving birth by herself.

After seeing Lingrong, the emperor left Qixiang Palace contentedly. After all, Lingrong was pregnant and could not serve him in bed, so the emperor went to Noble Lady Fucha's Yanxi Palace.

This made Noble Lady Fucha very proud. She thought she was the first concubine to sleep with the emperor after he recovered and entered the harem. She felt that she was more favored than anyone else. Even before she became pregnant, she already acted like the brainless and crazy concubines in the plot.

As a result, after two days, the emperor could no longer stand her personality and could not help but go to Suiyuxuan.

In the Sui Yuxuan, Zhen Huan has gained some weight now, and is much better than before when she was skinny. However, the emperor can no longer talk with Zhen Huan about poetry, songs, calligraphy and painting as they used to. After failing to get the response he wanted once or twice, the emperor began to lose interest.

Huanbi took this opportunity to dress up carefully and brought in tea. Under the flickering candlelight, the originally rustic Huanbi looked much more charming. The emperor did not notice anything wrong at first, until he was about to pick up the teacup for the second time and accidentally touched a pair of soft hands.

The emperor looked up and saw the owner of those soft hands looking at him lovingly. The emperor smiled knowingly and finally became interested. He stood in front of Huanbi, stretched out his hand to lift Huanbi's chin, and looked at her carefully: "I didn't expect that this Suiyuxuan also hides such a little beauty."

Zhen Huan's reactions became slower and her eyes were no longer as lively as before. Even though she looked like Chun Yuan, the Emperor would immediately lose interest when he saw Zhen Huan's eyes and found it difficult to concentrate.

Just then, Huanbi came up to him on her own initiative. After taking a look, the emperor found that Huanbi and Zhen Huan had some similarities in their eyebrows and eyes, and he was immediately satisfied.

So the next morning, there was one less palace maid in Suiyuxuan, but one more maid named Bi.

Lingrong never thought that in this life, she had just temporarily ignored Huanbi, who had humiliated her many times, and she actually gave her the opportunity to become the emperor's woman.

"Interesting, really interesting! In this case, it was Zhen Huan who trapped her. If it weren't for Zhen Huan in the plot, maybe Huanbi could really do as she said. If Lingrong could be a concubine, she could be one too."

Ling Rong is currently busy arranging matters related to the birth of her baby, and doesn't want to care about Huan Bi for the time being. "Let her enjoy her status as a concubine first."

Soon autumn passed and winter came. In winter, wearing more clothes was no big deal. Prince Guo could naturally use the wide cloak to cover his conspicuous belly and reappear in front of the emperor.

This year's annual banquet was hosted by Concubine Jing and was very conventional. The Emperor was not in the mood to watch any singing and dancing. He simply said a few words of New Year's greetings and asked Su Peisheng to take out the imperial edict and read it.

It turned out that the emperor felt that it was not good to have few high-ranking concubines in the harem, so he chose the opportunity of the New Year banquet to hold a grand ceremony to confer titles on the harem.

The status of Concubine Qi remained unchanged as the emperor had long lost his feelings for her. Instead, Concubine Jing was given the title of Concubine Jing. Although Concubine Lingrong had only been in the palace for a year, she was also given the title of Concubine Jiao because she was pregnant.

Although Concubine Hua is gone, Concubine Duan has gradually recovered her health and appeared more and more frequently in public, especially in front of Concubine Cao. It seems that Concubine Duan still has her eyes on Wen Yi in this life.

It was originally thought that after Concubine Duan recovered, she might be able to catch up in time for the grand ceremony of enthroning the harem. However, the emperor would now think of Concubine Hua and the Empress Dowager and Queen who died because of Concubine Hua whenever he saw Concubine Duan. For this reason, the emperor not only lost his usual guilt towards Concubine Duan, but instead had more resentment.