“Ye?”

Murong Qian was shocked and she could not understand what was going on. Why was this man treating her this way?

“I’m not Qianbei Ye.” Cang Ming shot her a cold glare. “My name is Cang Ming.”

Murong Qian’s eyes slowly lit up.

Could it be that Cang Ming was angry because I had called him ‘Ye’? Does that not prove that he really loves me ¹ ?

“Ming, I was wrong. I should not have mistaken you for someone else. Our child is hurt. If we don’t do anything to save him, he will lose his life. Take me home, okay?”

She does not care about the agony she was feeling in her body as she stared pitifully at Cang Ming.

Cang Ming’s lips curled into a cold smile. “Are you certain that the child you’re carrying is mine?”

Murong Qian was shaken and asked, confused, “Ming, what do you mean? He’s definitely our child. Have you forgotten everything which has happened between us this past year?”

Cang Ming did not speak and only looked dispassionately at the gash in Murong Qian’s belly.

Murong Qian’s belly was still bleeding and caused her to become extremely frail. Despite the bleeding, the fact that she had not collapsed proved the valiant form she was in.

“Unfortunately.” Cang Ming shook his head and spoke sympathetically, “If you had obediently stayed in the Underworld’s Palace, this child would have been born not too long after. However, you had to go running around. As a result, he had to leave this world before he could even open his eyes.”

When Murong Qian heard the regret in Cang Ming’s voice, she believed that he still cared for their child and her heart bloomed with hope.

“Ming, we can avenge our child! It was Qianbei Ye and Gu Ruoyun who had killed him. As long as we have our revenge, we can…”

Stab!

Suddenly, a large hand reached into her belly and caused Murong Qian shake. Her eyes opened wide in disbelief.

“You… What are you doing?”

The violent pain caused her voice to tremble as she asked with pale lips.

“Even though this child is dead, it’s better than nothing. As for you, you have no other use.”

Cang Ming then exerted a bit more force and pulled the child from her belly…

When Murong Qian saw the dead fetus, her eyes popped as if she had just seen a ghost. She then shrieked, “Impossible. This is impossible. That’s not my child. It’s not!”

There was a little fully-formed lion cub in Cang Ming’s hand. Its eyes were closed serenely and its body was still covered by the translucent white caul like a proclamation that it had lost its life before arriving into the world…

“Heavens, this woman had intercourse with a spiritual beast and tried to push the blame on our Imperial Consort!”

“Our Imperial Consort already has our Emperor who is the perfect wife so how could he have fallen for this woman? It’s clear that she had joined with the spiritual beast some time ago and could not find the spiritual beast to take responsibility so she wanted to implicate the Imperial Consort.”

The cabinet ministers of the Empire, incited by Liu Yue, began to discuss fervently. The looks they threw at Murong Qian were of absolute disdain.

Crash!

Murong Qian stumbled back as if a stroke of lightning had exploded over her head. She then lost all strength and collapsed onto the ground.

Only one sentence was echoing in her mind…

All this while, it was a spiritual beast who had been affectionate with me?

No wonder this man would always turn the lights off every time they were intimate. It was to make things convenient for the spiritual beast to join with me! As a result, I’ve been carrying this demi-beast human all the while!