"The Emperor didn't come, huh?"
Ying Yue had nothing else to say, so she changed the subject. "Your Highness, would you like to see the Little Prince? Or perhaps eat something first?"
Only then did Noble Concubine Shih remember that she had a son. She immediately became joyful again.
"My child, my child..."
The infant in swaddling clothes was still sound asleep, his wrinkled, red skin having turned somewhat fairer.
Noble Concubine Shih sensed that something was amiss.
"Ying Yue, how... how can he still be sleeping?"
He hadn't cried out since birth. How could he still not be awake by now? Could it be...
"Sister said the Little Prince was premature," Ying Yue hurriedly explained. "He'll be fine after some nurturing..."
Noble Concubine Shih finally remembered that her child had been born prematurely, so...
She held the child, her gaze fixed elsewhere, her eyes revealing the ferocity of a she-wolf!
