Zhao Wanqing set down the medicine basket from her back and gestured for her not to panic.
"Caiyan, look at how happy you are. Getting too worked up isn't good for the baby in your belly."
"Oh, I'm not that happy. If anything, I'm a little worried and scared."
"What are you worried about? Isn't this a good thing?"
Jiang Caiyan waved her hand. "Help me take a look first. See whether there really is one."
The two sat off to one side, while Black Robe hurried over and watched nearby. Zhao Wanqing took her pulse and examined her for a long while. Normally, checking whether someone was pregnant was no difficult matter. Yet judging from Jiang Caiyan's pulse, it somewhat resembled a pregnancy pulse, but not quite.
If one went by the physical reactions Jiang Caiyan described, it really did seem as though she was carrying a child.
Yet there was not the slightest sign of a happy pulse.
Even if the fetus had yet to take shape, the proper pregnancy pulse should still have been there.
This truly left Zhao Wanqing at a loss.
"Caiyan, I don't quite know how to put this. It seems like you're pregnant, but it also doesn't. Perhaps the fetus in your belly hasn't formed yet, so it's hard to detect."
"Why not just find Lin Heng or the Female Emperor and have them see through you with their eyes? Hehe, I think that would be more convenient."
Zhao Wanqing smiled.
She did not think this was a bad thing. If Jiang Caiyan really was pregnant, her mother-in-law would surely be delighted.
Jiang Caiyan's expression was complicated. "All right, all right. Since that's the case, let's set this matter aside for now. Wanqing, you must keep this secret for me. Don't let anyone