Doomed to be Cannon Fodder

Chapter 185: Pregnant Lady, Fragile Goods

Why wouldn’t she be? Another living being was now inside of her! How would she bear to return to the modern world when the ghost festival arrived in the seventh month? If she counted the days, her child would’ve just been born in the seventh month. It wouldn’t even be a month old then! Was she going to abandon her child for the sake of returning to her world?

She couldn’t bear to part with her parents still in the modern times, yet she couldn’t bear to part with the life here either. She felt extremely conflicted. And because of her inner conflict, she began to feel depressed. Once she was depressed, she began throwing up again. With the her lack of appetite added in, it only took a mere ten days before she was nothing more than skin and bones.

Long Heng’s face was locked in a frown all day. There was quite a dark, morose atmosphere with him everywhere he went. Everyone thought that he was like this because of Miss Lin and couldn’t help but sympathize with him. If he were to do this on any other day while attending court, rumors would have spread about how unapproachable or unreasonable he was. But because he was obviously the victim in this situation, everyone was sympathizing with him instead.

Even the emperor felt guilty towards Long Heng. After all, he was the one who’d insisted on their marriage in the first place, and then refused to break off the arrangement. Now that such things had happened, he couldn’t blame Long Heng for doing what he had done. Since he was the one who’d arranged this ill-fated marriage, the emperor tried to make it up to him by proposing a few other maidens from eminent families for him to pick at his own preference. He even punished Minister Lin by confiscating a year’s wages from him, citing that it was his own fault for not teaching his children properly.

However, Long Heng declined the new marriage arrangements, citing that he couldn’t entertain a new marriage while issues still remained within his manor. He managed to stopper all the emperor’s suggestions with this single rebuttal.

Well, it is only normal for him to want some time alone to heal his wounds. Taking some time to consider things over is a good thing. However, no one expected that there really was a big issue in Long Heng’s household. In fact, it was genuinely a giant problem.

Song Jiaoyue was sure that Long Heng didn’t actually have any feelings for that Miss Lin of the Lin Manor. He knew that everything that had conspired at the wedding was all a part of Long Heng’s intricate plans. Long Heng was likely the one who had forced Luo Yunzheng to steal the bride at the wedding. Only, why hadn’t Song Jiaoyue received a single word of Bai Xiangxiu’s condition after her injuries? Could it be that Long Hen’s current mood had something to do with her injury? And yet, he couldn’t directly ask the man himself because Long Heng released a furious killing intent whenever they crossed paths. But something’s strange. Even though he’s been furious in the past, there was no killing intent. His attitude has clearly changed in these past few days.

How could Long Heng’s attitude towards him not change? The situation was entirely different now that Long Heng knew that his friend had almost kidnapped his woman along with his child, instead of just his woman!

Song Jiaoyue was almost beside himself with worry. He dispatched one of his servants who had good relations with the servants of the Prince Li Manor to gather some news. When he heard the findings, he slumped back in his chair, in a daze. He could neither hear Yu Se nor anyone else. It was almost like his soul had left his body.

Yu Se and the other maidservants were worried sick, but Song Jiaoyue just wouldn’t come back to reality no matter what they tried. He remained motionless all the way until nighttime, when he suddenly stood up. She’s pregnant with Long Heng’s child. But… if she doesn’t love Long Heng, does that mean that he’d raped her? If she was raped… then the fault is all mine for being heartless on that day.

He could no longer sit still. So, he changed into his night garb and left the Song Manor. Yu Se and the rest didn’t ask too many questions and kept their worries to themselves. After all, a woman shouldn’t intrude on a man’s matters.

However, Song Jiaoyue wasn’t the sort who would do brash things in the heat of the moment. He was deep in his thoughts as he stood outside the prince’s manor. If Long Heng was to see me when I break in, then wouldn’t her reputation be sullied? How will I face her after that?

He stood outside the manor until the sun rose the next morning, but ultimately didn’t sneak into the prince’s manor. He turned around and walked back to his own manor, sending someone to secretly keep an eye on Bai Xiangxiu. However, the news he received was far from optimistic. According to his man, Madame Xiu wasn’t feeling very well and spent most of her days lying down and doing nothing. Not only that, it was said that she’d often shed tears when she was alone. Song Jiaoyue’s mood took an obvious turn for the worse when that news was brought to him. He was no longer as calm and collected when he faced Long Heng. He even found himself at a loss for words when they sat down together for a chat. Long Heng was also very busy in recent days as well. He didn’t even have the time to hunt down Lin Qianzi and Luo Yunzheng. As a result, his plans for revenge were on indefinite hold.