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No matter what, the woman inside was giving birth to his child.

She was enduring extreme pain.

Thinking of her pale, sweaty face, Li Hongyuan’s usually stony heart softened a bit.

He stood at the door, motionless, his expression calm, not revealing any anger. But the anxiety in his heart tightened bit by bit as Jiang Ning’s pained cries intensified.

Imperial Physician Dong hurried in.

Li Hongyuan’s voice was murderous: “You finally came!”

Imperial Physician Dong quickly said: “Your Highness, please don’t worry. This is Princess Consort’s first child, it won’t be that quick. Moreover, based on previous diagnoses, the Princess Consort’s fetal image is good, and the fetal position is also correct, there shouldn’t be any problems with the delivery. Your Highness, please stay calm.”

But how could he not worry?

The woman’s voice inside sounded painful.

How could she be so delicate? He really wished he could take the pain for her.

Li Hongyuan frowned and glanced inside, then realized what he was thinking about, and couldn’t help but frown.

Why did he have such thoughts?

Isn’t it natural for a woman to experience pain during childbirth?

Hadn’t he known that already? He had mentally prepared himself for it long ago.

But now, hearing the woman’s voice, he felt anxious, irritable, and couldn’t help but want to kick the door open to see what was going on.

He had never experienced this feeling before.

He couldn’t hold back any longer, he couldn’t maintain his calm, and began pacing back and forth outside the door.

One hour, two hours passed.

The woman’s voice inside went hoarse.

It was already past noon, and the baby still hadn’t come out.

Li Hongyuan’s palms started to sweat.

“Dong Chaofeng, what’s going on?” he questioned Imperial Physician Dong. “It’s been half a day, and she still hasn’t given birth!”

Imperial Physician Dong smiled and said, “Your Highness, please stay calm, half a day is not long… some people take two or three days.”

“Two or three days?” Li Hongyuan was taken aback, his voice raised, “Did you hear that? Can you hear her? She’s in so much pain already, can you bear that? Hurry up and make her deliver faster!”

Dong Chaofeng said with a bitter smile, “How can we force the speed of childbirth?”

“Medicine!”

“This official has already prepared a prescription for inducing labor. It will work soon.”

After the inducing labor soup was taken in, Jiang Ning’s clothes were all soaked with sweat, her hair also soaked, and her face as pale as paper.

She knew childbirth was painful, but she hadn’t expected it to be so painful.

The contractions were already very close together; before she could recover from one, another one arrived.

After drinking the inducing labor soup, the midwife let Huang Ying give her a piece of ginseng to regain her strength.

Outside Crystal Clear Manor, Li Yuanyuan and Maid Fang came over to visit.

However, they couldn’t go in.

Xiaoman was guarding the door like a door god, staring intently.

They were helpless.

There was no one in the manor who could beat her.

As they watched another hour pass, Jiang Ning drank the second bowl of inducing labor soup, and finally, there was some effect.

After another half-hour, a baby’s cry finally came from inside the room.

Li Hongyuan, who was almost squeezing his fist to pieces, suddenly stiffened and turned abruptly to look inside.

The baby’s cry was loud and clear.

“It’s born,” Imperial Physician Dong wiped the sweat off his face. “It was a close call, but congratulations, Your Highness.”

Li Hongyuan stared intently at the door until the midwife came out with the swaddled baby.

“Your Highness, congratulations! The Princess Consort has given birth to a young son.” The midwife was all smiles.

Everyone in the courtyard cheered at the news.

It’s a boy!

It really is a boy!

Li Hongyuan finally got the child he had been longing for, but instead of being as happy as he had expected, he frowned and asked, “How is she?”

“Oh, the Princess Consort is safe and sound, both mother and child are fine,” the midwife quickly said.

But just as she finished speaking, a scream came from inside the room: “Oh my god, there’s another baby in the Princess Consort’s womb!”