"Has the lord returned?"
Bai Su's face openly betrayed her delight.
But she still remembered that there was a nominal Princess beside her.
She said, "This subordinate will not disturb Your Highness's rest any longer. Please follow the physician's orders and rest assured while nurturing the child."
The Princess stopped her. "General Bai, wait."
"Does Your Highness have any further instructions?" Bai Su's heart had already flown outside the carriage, and even her voice carried a trace of perfunctoriness.
The Princess heard the displeasure in her words. Pressing her lips together, she said timidly, "Shen Jun has returned safely. This is naturally a cause for great celebration. I wanted to go congratulate her together with General Bai..."
Bai Su rejected the suggestion without a second thought.
The Princess could not see it herself, but Bai Su had seen it clearly. The former's face was as pale as a sheet of paper, looking as if she might faint at any moment. She was also a pregnant woman who had suffered a whole night of fright. If she could rest, she ought to seize the time to do so.
"This would not be appropriate."
Unexpectedly, the Princess did not insist.
Once Bai Su was given permission to leave, she practically leaped from the carriage, desperately suppressing the excitement in her heart. Because of what had happened last night, her heart had hung suspended for most of the night, and several times she had wanted to disregard everything and kill her way back. But she could not do that, and Gu Wangchao would not allow it either.
Now that she had heard her lord had returned safely, how could she truly feel at ease without seeing with her own eyes that the other woman was safe and sound?
Bai Su spurred her horse