Same light

After entering middle age, Dites's career path can be described as ups and downs.

First, he was reprimanded by the then Crown Prince Xiu during a prince inspection. Although he defended many times afterwards, he was still kicked out of the Royal Medical Center.Originally thought that his career would be ruined, but he did not expect that the pattern of the main planet would change, and the little prince extended an olive branch to him.

Today's little prince has become the new crown prince, and he has a good chance of winning. Looking at it this way, it's actually a blessing in disguise.

"Dites, you have been working for me for more than two years."

Alfred personally led Dites to the door of Xiu's suite. Before he opened the door, he seemed to have a sudden feeling.

"In the past two years, of course you are not the only personal doctor of mine, but you are always the one I trust the most."

Dites's heart trembled. As a doctor who had been serving the royal family for half his life, he certainly didn't think it was a "feeling."He cheered up and replied cautiously: "Your Highness, I will repay your trust with loyalty."

"Loyalty." Alfred repeated, laughing, "Of course. But, since childhood, too many people have knelt before me and swore allegiance to me. No, Dites, I The reason why I have taken a special fancy to you is not only because you are loyal enough."

Alfred turned his head and looked down at the bowed doctor.

"It's because you're smart enough to know what to say and what not to say. You're going to do a test for me later, it's a...pregnancy test."

Dites understood, and he said: "Your Highness, please rest assured. I will forget what happened in this room after a while, unless you ask me to remember it again."

It turned out that this little Highness made other people's stomachs bigger. In this special period, he didn't want others to know.Dites thought, thinking he understood the situation perfectly.After all, the current emperor has been criticized for his illegitimate children.

But, as for warning him so solemnly?The issue of royal heirs has always been cautious and sensitive. Everyone knows this, so there is no need to specifically mention it...

This doubt of Dites was answered when he saw the patient.

In fact, he didn't actually see the patient, just an arm protruding from the heavy curtain beside the bed - for him to draw blood.

However, this was enough to shock Dites, because the slender and white arm had distinct joints, and no one could mistake it. It was the hand of an adult man.

Dites, who was a little puzzled by Alfred's fuss just now, is now glad that he was specifically mentioned before entering the door, otherwise he would definitely lose his composure now.

Fortunately, he already had enough psychological construction. Although he was shocked, he completed the blood collection calmly.

Alfred has been staring at the movement of his hands, his gaze is as real as it is, making Dites feel like he is sitting on pins and needles, and even an ordinary blood collection operation makes him a little nervous.

"Your Highness, please wait a moment."

As Dites said, he retreated to the side and began to fiddle with the detection instrument he pushed in. After Alfred asked the time, he went around to the other side of the bed, apparently talking to the mysterious person on the bed.

After a while, whispers came from the thick velvet curtain.

A low male voice said something, and then Alfred responded to him in a low voice. Although he couldn't hear the specific content clearly, the tone seemed to be gentle and comforting.

For some reason, Dites felt that he had offended Alfred a little. He obviously didn't hear anything, but he seemed to have glimpsed the extremely private side of the crown prince.

He shook his head involuntarily, deliberately ignoring the movement there, and only focused on the detection on his hand.

After a while, Alfred came out.

Dites had already finished the work and whispered the generated report to Alfred, including how many weeks the pregnancy had lasted, which indexes were slightly high and which were low.

"It's pretty normal overall," he concluded, "but it's just a basic test."

"You mean..." Alfred seemed to be in a daze, "There is indeed a child, growing in his stomach?"

Dites cautiously said: "The results of the blood test are as follows. In view of... the special situation of this gentleman, if you want to confirm whether the fetus is healthy, etc., I am afraid that you need to wait for a period of time before the pregnancy is carried out before further examination."

Rarely, Alfred took the initiative to look away. He stared at the corner of the report that had no words, and said: "...Since this is the case, I mean, then check later, um, check the child. Now Most importantly, he suffers every day, is this normal?"

Although his facial expression remained unchanged and his tone was steady, the incongruous word order and wandering eyes that could not be concealed were revealed—he seemed to be a little shy about the topic of "fetus".

At that moment, Dites realized for the first time after more than two full years that the master he served was actually just a 22-year-old young man.

After carefully listening to the description of symptoms, he said: "It is true that they are all symptoms in the first trimester, but if they are so serious, they may be related to this gentleman's special constitution, and there should also be factors related to the flight. All major civil aviation companies have expressly stipulated that pregnancy..." He originally wanted to refer to pregnant women, but he paused and changed his name to a neutral one, "Pregnant people are not recommended to take interstellar airlines."

Alfred's heart sank.

He had actually thought about this question, but in this turbulent period, Xiu couldn't be left alone at the border.

And Xiu is not only currently in the interstellar voyage, since he was pregnant, he has spent most of the time on the spaceship, basically taking the empire around.

"Can I take medicine?"

Dites asked: "Are you referring to abortion or abortion? I suggest not to have an abortion during an interstellar voyage, the medical conditions on the spacecraft..."

Alfred interrupted, "I mean the medicine to make him feel better!"

Only then did Dites realize that he was thinking in the wrong direction.He was slightly surprised in his heart. It seemed that the weight of this child in the crown prince's heart was far less than that of the gestator.

He adjusted his cognition and said, "It can be used a little...but because of the pregnancy, only very mild medicine can be used," he glanced at the tightly closed bed covered by the curtain, his voice was very low Low, only Alfred can hear: "To put it bluntly, it is more of a placebo effect."

Just a placebo is also better than nothing.

Alfred nodded, asked him to go out to prepare medicine, and went back to where the bed was.

The thick flannel curtain was lifted, and there was a person lying on the huge soft bed.

The bed was a little messy, the result of not having the servants tidy it up for days.Under the soft and warm quilt and the soft fabrics piled up everywhere, there is a person lying peacefully in it. He was originally resting with his eyes closed, but he opened his eyes when he heard the movement.

His black hair, which hadn't been trimmed for a long time, was a little long, and a few strands of hair hung down in front of his eyes, trembling and trembling by his own long eyelashes.

Alfred got on the bed, leaned over and stretched out his hand to straighten the hair on his forehead.

"It's confirmed." He showed the report to Xiu, and said cautiously, "It was that night."

Even though he was mentally prepared for this result, Xiu still turned pale.

Alfred tentatively stretched out his hand to touch Xiu, and seeing that Xiu didn't reject it, he stuck his whole body up, carefully avoiding his abdomen.

"I'm sorry, brother, I didn't mean to..."

Xiu paused, and somehow wanted to laugh, and said, "I don't think this is intentional."

Alfred put his arms around him and said, "Then, have you thought about what to do?"

Xiu fell silent.

"It doesn't matter if you don't think about it." Alfred said immediately, "Anyway, no matter what the decision is, we have to wait until we return to the main planet..."

"Actually, I've thought about it." Xiu said, "Or, it doesn't really need to be thought about."

He looked up at the top of the veil, as if looking through there into the void.

"My fate has never been controlled by myself. I was created out of the world because of my muddy utilitarianism, and then put into the body of the crown prince...I have never belonged to me."

Alfred clenched his fists, as if he wanted to say a thousand words, but he still kept listening, waiting for Xiu to finish.

Waiting for Xiu to make that judgment.

"I admit that I never included the item 'suicide' in my original plan." Xiu said suddenly, "At most, I would be killed by you, but I didn't take the initiative to die. Later, I temporarily adjusted the plan because... Because I suddenly learned that my adoptive mother, my biological father, what they gave me, what I thought I had, were all fake. Everything was used, and I was never loved by them. At that time I Tired and wanting to leave for good because I shouldn't have been here in the first place."

This was the first time that Xiu confessed that he had ever felt world-weary. Even though Alfred guessed a little bit, he was still heartbroken.

"But I couldn't leave...you brought me back. Alfred, I was supposed to be dead, but you rescued me. You said you wanted me to live for yourself, so this is the first time , I want to decide a fate for myself.”

Xiu looked at Alfred and said, "I don't want it. I never expected to be pregnant, let alone have children."

The hammer of judgment fell.

In the silence, the loud bang echoed in Alfred's heart, and he heard himself say, "Okay."

"Alfred." Xiu called, reaching out to cover the back of Alfred's hand.There was a bit of sadness in his eyes, not for the child, but for Alfred's failed hope.

He said, "Sorry."

"Brother, you don't need to apologize, you didn't do anything wrong." Alfred closed his eyes and said, "We'll get rid of him when we return to the main planet."