Gu Qiang didn’t know how cute, attractive, and mysterious she was. Shen Qianshan was afraid she would slip away if he loosened his grip. He would do whatever he could to keep her around. Every moment with her was precious for him.

His heart was full of warmth and he was wearing a big smile on his face as if spring came and flowers bloomed at that moment. As long as he could stay with Gu Qiang, he was willing to do anything.

But was love so easy? He fell in love with Gu Qiang in this world, while he encountered a crushing blow in the other world.

The Empress stumbled to her room and slammed the door. Then she leaned against it and sat down on the ground slowly. It was uncomfortable to sit on the icy ground, but she didn’t feel uncomfortable at all.

She became a Princess from the Empress overnight. She always yearned for and was in pursuit of a high position, but later she regarded it as less important. She realized it meant nothing and the man behind her was the most important.

It was true that Shen Zhongbai was not a good man, but she had been used to his existence as her husband. What drove her to go forward was her wish to torment Shen Zhongbai.

However, now she became Shen Qianshan’s Princess without even knowing why. Everything happened so quickly that she couldn’t accept it. Shen Qianshan was better than Shen Zhongbai, but she still couldn’t make do with him for that.

Someone knocked on the door quietly but firmly. The Empress shouted angrily, “Go away!”

The comer said outside the room, “Princess, be sure to have a physical examination. Please take care of yourself for the baby in your belly.”

The baby in the belly…

The Empress stood up suddenly, opened the door, and saw an aged physician, who looked kind. When meeting the Empress’s eyes, he showed the medical kit in his hand and pointed at her belly.

She was pregnant? Why didn’t she know?

“You mean I have a baby in my belly?” The Empress asked. She didn’t find that her voice and body were trembling when she said those words. She was scared. She had been pregnant before she had sex with Shen Qianshan? Or was it possible that Shen Zhongbai was the baby’s father?

She felt she was at a loss.

Though the physician tried to control himself, he still couldn’t help looking at the Empress just like looking at a fool. He knew she was unpredictable, but he hadn’t expected that she would joke with her baby.

It was said that the Princess was wayward. Though she didn’t misbehave herself, she often did something strange.

The imperial physician didn’t believe that before, but now he knew how different the Princess was.

He lowered his head and managed to calm down. Then he looked up at her eyes, and said quietly, “Princess, don’t you remember that? You’ve been pregnant since August. Now it was pretty obvious.”

Then he pointed at the Empress’s belly. It seemed that she had been able to accept anything. She looked down at her belly and felt upset at once. Her belly became bigger. She was indeed pregnant.

What the hell was going on? Nothing happened between her and Shen Qianshan, but now she was pregnant. She couldn’t accept it. Before the imperial physician was done, she stumbled to the middle of the mansion with a pale face. Her brain was so messy that as if it would explode the next second.

Shen Qianshan was sitting in the main hall. The cup in front of him was empty. When he was ready to bring another pot of liquor, Jin Ye snatched the pot before him and said tremblingly but firmly, “Your Highness, please stop. The Princess is waiting for you. She has been pregnant for about five months.”

Jin Ye looked completely different from before. Shen Qianshan turned around and saw the sincere look of Jin Ye.

“Don’t you know I hate her?” Shen Qianshan said coldly and firmly. Standing outside the main hall, the Empress felt cold on the back and stared at Shen Qianshan whose expression was serious and even slightly bad.

She heard everything he said.

She knew he didn’t like her, and vice versa. They both knew it, but unexpectedly he talked about it openly today.

Jin Ye was surprised and then said smilingly, “Your Highness, you must be joking. Everyone in the capital envies your relationship with the Princess. We are all familiar with your love story. It’s tough indeed.”

Shen Qianshan was clear about it. Since he read the Empress’s diary that day, he had got a memory that belonged to him or the former him.

No matter whether he experienced it, his memory had changed. There was a fresh scene in his memory that the girl Gu Qiang kissed the young Shen Qianshan. This piece of memory seemed to be inserted into Shen Qianshan’s memory forcibly all of a sudden. He was repulsed by it.

“Envy? Our love story? Do you know what you are talking about?” Shen Qianshan rose to his feet suddenly and yelled at Jin Ye. He was so furious that his blue veins stood out. He even knew the Empress wanted to kill him with Shen Zhongbai and it was deadly to marry such a woman.

Their relationship once got closer, but Shen Qianshan still didn’t have a good impression of the Empress.

Jin Ye was scared by Shen Qianshan’s reaction. Before he said anything, he saw the Empress rush to Shen Qianshan.

“What did you say? You hate me? You don’t know I hate you too!” The Empress shouted.

Her eyes glistened and the tears were about to burst out. Or course, she was clear about herself. Even if someone disliked her, it was normal for her. However, she couldn’t accept that he showed his aversion to her openly.

She was not only the Empress but Gu Qiang, the woman with power in her heart. She was able to protect herself and would never allow anyone to slander her.

Besides, Shen Qianshan and the Empress had an embarrassing relationship. It was improper to gossip behind her back, wasn’t it?

Shen Qianshan turned around and met the Empress’s eyes surprisedly. He was caught cursing by the person concerned, so he felt embarrassed.

Jin Ye couldn’t believe what he saw. What was going on with the couple who used to be harmonious? They didn’t seem to be so tender as before.

“Your Highness, I think you’d better apologize to the Princess. If she gets angry, everyone will have a hard time.” He recalled that the Princess had made a scene in the mansion because of Shen Qianshan’s cousin, which everyone here nervous and worried.

Though Jin Ye didn’t know what put their relationship in a deadlock, the duke had better apologize.

“Why should I apologize to this crazy woman? Don’t lord it over me just because you are the Empress!” Shen Qianshan shouted.

Jin Ye was confused. Though the Princess could address herself in the same way as the Empress did, she was more awe-inspiring than before, and her demeanor was more like the Empress in the palace.

At this moment, Gusu Liang walked out of the adjacent yard with fruits in her hand. Looking at the scene, she found it surprising and confusing, so she moved closer to Jin Ye and asked quietly, “What happened?”

The Empress looked Gusu Liang in the eyes. She knew the girl, who was her servant when she was sixteen years old and was dispatched to her by Shen Qianshan. She hadn’t expected the girl would appear here.

Jin Ye sighed heavily and said with hidden bitterness, “I don’t know what the harmonious couple is doing here, either.”

The Empress withdrew her eyes, sneered, and glowered at Shen Qianshan, “What did you say? Who is the crazy woman?!”

Then she stepped forward. She was really angry. Shen Qianshan seemed to realize that he had gone too far. After all, neither of them wanted to see such a nasty situation. This was an unexpected outcome for both of them.

Shen Qianshan coughed quietly, stood up, and then said in a low voice without eye contact with the Empress, “See you.”

He wanted to leave, but the Empress rushed to him, grabbed his arm, and said with cold eyes, “Do you know I have your baby in my belly?”

God knew even though she had known the fact for quite a while, she still couldn’t accept it. She failed to figure out what happened in such a short time.

Shen Qianshan stood still astonishedly and stared at the Empress quietly and blankly. After a while, he laughed and said, “Are you kidding? You are the Empress, and I am a duke. We didn’t even…”

When he said it, his eyes became affectionate. They didn’t have sex, but she became pregnant. The baby must be Shen Zhongbai’s. It was unreasonable to blame him for that, wasn’t it?

No matter how cultured a man was, he couldn’t stay calm when he was wronged.

The Empress laughed, “Then how about aborting the baby?”

She didn’t want a child or hear anyone talk about children. Her memory about her kid haunted her constantly like a dark cloud on her head.

She even doubted that she couldn’t have another kid. It was the cruelest thing in the world for a woman. What could she give to the man she loved or the man loving her?