"Regret?" Liu Wan asked in confusion.
Consort Jing smiled. It seemed the Ninth Prince's Consort truly knew nothing.
What she wanted to ask was whether, after more than a year of marriage to Xia Siheng, Liu Wan regretted not bearing the Ninth Prince a child, doting instead on her former husband's daughter and letting someone else reap the chance to be chosen by the Qilin.
But she did not ask.
That wonderful opportunity had already fallen to Ruyun, and Ruyun had then brought her the chance to obtain a divine fetus.
At this final juncture before the Qilin chose its lord, she could have told Liu Wan about it and thoroughly flaunted her good fortune.
But the Sovereign wanted to help Xia Siheng ascend the throne, so there was no reason to offend him and his wife.
And so, she smiled and patted her son's swaddling clothes. "My child was originally a stillborn. Only through divine favor, which granted him an extra strand of divine marrow, did he gain a chance to live. Perhaps, when the Qilin chooses its lord this time, it will choose that strand of divine marrow."
"Had you borne another child before I did, Ninth Prince's Consort, perhaps that strand of divine marrow would have gone to your child. Anyone else in your position would surely regret it."
Regret hardly began to cover it!
They would regret it until their very guts turned green.
The Qilin Lord, a divine descendant!
What an immense honor that was, to say nothing of East Lin devoting the resources of its entire nation to supporting the Qilin Lord.
How would that be any different from being a god?
So she was certain that Liu Wan would regret it!!!
And Liu Wan must already have been suffering, merely keeping it from