After The System Punished Me to Give Birth

Chapter 46

Draft
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After nightfall, Ah-Xuan soon fell asleep and was taken away by an attendant. The house filled with the smell of medicine was suddenly quiet, as if there were no trace of life. Ling Li was lying on the bed, leaning on the headrest with black hair scattered, bearing a dull expression and a clenched lower jaw. His whole person was pale and haggard.

He didn't know how long it had been, the door was gently pushed open and a red figure flashed in quickly.

Ling Li looked over with indifference, when he saw that the person was Rong Hua, he straightened up slightly, a little surprised, "Rong Hua, what are you..."

Rong Hua closed the door and pounced straight on the bed, she hugged him hard. Ling Li fell back because of her strength. He had just raised his hand to pat her back, but Rong Hua suddenly sat upright again, grabbing his shoulders with both hands. Her reddened eyes stared at him and she said in a distressed and puzzled tone: "Ah-Li, what on earth do you want to do? Using Rong Ci to turn away the guards that the Crown Prince gave to you, drinking that in the wizard's side hall... Did you know how scared I was? I was almost scared to death by you when I saw you like that! Can you at least tell me why you did this? Don't you like His Royal Highness?"

Why did you do this? Ling Li's breath slowed slightly, his long eyelashes dropped, and he hissed after a while: "Rong Hua, His Royal Highness told me that he wanted to make me his concubine."

Rong Hua was stunned, "Really? Isn't that good? Why did  you..."

"Good?" Ling Li raised his face and stared at her beautiful and bright face, he shook his head and smiled shallowly. Those clear eyes seemed to be determined, and his low and slow voice was mixed with a little self-deprecation, "Ah-Xuan and I struggled to survive in that small town for so many years. If I followed him into the Palace, do you think everything would suddenly be alright?"

Rong Hua slowly let go of his grasped hand and said nothing.

Ling Li said: "So what if I become a royal concubine? Even if my identity's concealed and my past erased, I'll still be a civilian who had never even dreamed of getting close to that identity. I have no foundation, I won't be able to sit firmly in that position, and I don't have the ambition to sit in that position. Besides, Your Highness merely has a young and vigorous love for me. It'll only last for a while, and how long can royal relationships last? My child and I will be swallowed clean with no bones left. What's more... his temperament had always been moody. Now he has greater affection for me than others to give me this grace, but... in his eyes, back then, I lied to him with one of his guards. This had always been a thorn in his heart. I can't say that one day he'll stop asking questions, and when that happens, everything related to me will become the sand that entered his eyes; the stone that's stuck in his heart. If he wants to get rid of it quickly, then I'll be able to bear it, but Ah-Xuan..."

Ling Li paused, showing a gloomy expression. Suddenly, he raised his hand in frustration and gently stroked his lower abdomen before continuing to whisper: "I don't want this child, because if I can't get out of this quicksand by then, at least he won't have to suffer with me."

If he could get away with it, he wouldn't want anything that had something to do with the Royal family. It was a sheer accident to keep Ah-Xuan back then, he didn't want to have another one.

Listening to Ling Li's words, Rong Hua's mind ached for some reason. She knew that what Ling Li said was reasonable, but she vaguely couldn't agree with it. She knocked her sore head with her hands, frowning at Ling Li and saying: "Ah-Li, it'll definitely not be like this, you don't have to be like this. His Royal Highness treats you..."