"What on earth is wrong? Say something!"
Fan Xian looked at her and remained silent for a long while before saying quietly:
"Wan'er, your mother, the Eldest Princess... is pregnant."
Lin Wan'er froze, as though she suspected something had gone wrong with her ears.
"What?"
She stared at Fan Xian, hoping he would repeat himself.
"Stop joking. How is that possible?"
But Fan Xian's gaze was utterly serious.
"I'm not joking. I felt it very clearly. It really is a pregnancy pulse-almost two months along already."
Lin Wan'er began trembling uncontrollably, frightening Fan Xian into hurriedly taking her into his arms.
Naturally, she trusted Fan Xian's medical skills.
If Fan Xian said so, then her mother really was pregnant.
"H-how could this happen?"
Even Lin Wan'er's voice was trembling.
She knew Li Yunrui and Lin Ruofu had had no contact for many years.
This child could not possibly be her father's.
Then whose could it be?
Lin Wan'er was falling apart.
What little remained of Li Yunrui's image as a mother in her heart crumbled even further.
Guangxin Palace.
Li Yunrui returned to her bedchamber and sat on the couch, her mind unsettled.
That strange expression on Fan Xian's face kept lingering in her mind.
What exactly did he discover?
Is there something wrong with me?
The more she thought about it, the more uneasy she became. Finally, she summoned a female official.
"Go and summon an imperial physician."
The imperial physician soon arrived. He was an old man with graying hair who had served at the Imperial Academy of Medicine for many years.
He had already been in the palace when she was a child.
He bowed in greeting, then carefully took Li Yunrui's pulse.
A moment later, his expression became somewhat strange.
Li Yunrui stared at him.