Husband, Be A Gentleman

Chapter 46

Chapter Forty-Six

Yan Shi Ning stared at her stomach.

Yan Shi Ning rubbed her stomach like a fool. 'I'm pregnant?'

'It explains why you've been tired lately,' Pei Jin said.

Yan Shi Ning thought she couldn't be pregnant that soon. She wondered if hers and Pei Jin's child was inside her.

Yan Shi Ning's stomach didn't look like it changed but she felt a strange change. 'Pei Jin, should I give birth to this child?'

'What?' Pei Jin asked.

'Princess Kang Hua and the empress used Fu Gui to poison me because they hoped I would die pregnant... wait, something's not right. Pei Jin, I remembered something. Pei Jin, when I was at the Yan Manor I asked Princess Kang Hua about it and her reaction was strange...'

'Shi Ning, are you saying that someone else poisoned you?' Pei Jin asked.

Yan Shi Ning nodded her head.

'Who?' Pei Jin asked.

'Yan Shi Ting gave me the incense sticks,' Yan Shi Ning said. 'She said the empress gave them to her. It can't be the empress. Princess Kang Hua and the empress are fishes in the same net. If the empress wanted to kill me then the empress wouldn't hide it from Princess Kang Hua.'

Yan Shi Ning couldn't believe there was someone else behind Princess Kang Hua and the empress who wanted to kill her.

Pei Jin held Yan Shi Ning's hand. But his eyes saddened, he thought of who else would want to kill her.

Pei Jin thought if Princess Kang Hua didn't try to kill Yan Shi Ning then it could also be possible the empress didn't kill Consort Chen. But Bei Dou said Fu Gui was rare and hard to make so an ordinary person couldn't possess Fu Gui.

Pei Jin's heart constricted, he had followed the wrong suspect for a long time. He wondered who could have such a cruel heart to make him suffer for many years. The cruel hearted person he thought of was his father and his back turned cold.

'Pei Jin, what are you thinking?' Yan Shi Ning asked.

'I think perhaps it's imperial father who killed Consort Chen and who also tried to kill you,' Pei Jin said.

Yan Shi Ning's heart ached for Pei Jin. She had never seen him that sad before. She knew the emperor was cold toward Pei Jin. But if the emperor was the culprit then the emperor wanted Pei Jin to lose his wife and child. It meant the emperor held a big grudge against Pei Jin.

Pei Jin didn't fight for or requested anything from the emperor. Yan Shi Ning thought if it truly was the emperor then it would be no different from the emperor using a dagger to cut Pei Jin into small pieces. She didn't care about her chest injury, she sat up, hugged Pei Jin and kissed his lips.

'Pei Jin, it's alright,' Yan Shi Ning said. 'You don't need to think about it anymore. You still have your little lion and a little lion cub here with you.'

Pei Jin felt like he was falling into an abyss. But Yan Shi Ning hugged him, kissed him and saved him from the abyss. He buried his head on her neck and greedily stole her warmth.

Pei Jin's father had been cold toward him since he was a child and in the palace only Consort Chen gave him a little warmth. Consort Chen's death when he was a twelve-year-old made him felt the world around him darkened. Then his teacher took him out of the palace to Xuan Qing. In his darkest period a little girl entered his dark tunnelled heart and into his world.

Pei Jin remembered clearly the first time he saw Yan Shi Ning. Her hair was messy, her dark eyes, her messy dress and her chubby arms. She clearly was a naive little girl but acted wise and tough. After she knew he was teasing her, her face puffed like a lion's mane and she widened her eyes like she wanted to jump onto him to bite him. In that moment he thought she looked like a provoked little lion... his little lion. It didn't matter if she was in Xuan Qing or in the imperial city acting like a gentle lady, she was still his little lion. No one forced him to love his little lion, his heart willingly loved her deeply.