A dilemma: should he make a move on the Crown Princess soon, or wait until later? Everyone can discuss it in the chapter comments. Also: the second update has been moved to tomorrow noon.
When Sun Shaozong spotted the Crown Prince's Residence carriages in the distance, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief—at last, he would not have to keep listening to Prince of Beijing's grand child-rearing plans!
To be fair, after living in this world for so long, he had gradually grown accustomed to the prevailing belief that "of the three unfilial acts, having no heir is the greatest." He could understand why Prince of Beijing, who had remained childless after six years of marriage, was reacting so excitedly.
But the problem was...
That child was very likely his!
Wei Ying's desperate effort to suppress her emotions in the private room just now made that plain enough—and Xia Jingui had also said that after Wei Ying returned that time, she had not promptly dealt with the aftermath.
Discussing how someone could happily become a father to another man's child right in front of the child's real father was truly far too awkward!
Hoo~
As he pondered this, the leading Prince's Mansion Guards had already reined in their horses some distance away. Yet they did not dismount. Instead, they spread out on either side of the intersection and watched the passing pedestrians vigilantly.
Behind them came the carriage of Wang Dexiu, Deputy Administrator of the Court of State Ceremonial. He rolled out of the carriage like a ball of flesh, first apologizing profusely to Shui Rong and Sun Shaozong before directing the richly dressed servants of the Crown Prince's Residence to move the two carriages in the middle forward.
The first person to emerge from those carriages was still not