After Becoming Pregnant With The Empress Cat's Cub - Chapter 37.1

Looking at the human’s eyes, which were as bright as stars, Rin began to process the human’s words from the beginning.

The human was saying that Rin was very important, so Rin’s “liking” was very important.

The human assumed she liked all of her body… plus soul.

The human believed the soul was the thoughts, and was afraid that if she changed, Rin wouldn’t like her anymore…

So this human, for Rin’s sake, could not give up the things she originally cared about.

The human meant that in this choice, she hadn’t abandoned Rin. On the contrary, she was making a choice for Rin’s sake…

Was that it?

Lan Ye looked at Rin’s stunned expression and sighed, having lost hope in the other’s intelligence, so she summarized for herself.

“I didn’t choose freedom. I must be free because of you, so that I can be the ‘me’ that you like.”

Rin’s gaze trembled. She had actually…

Analyzed it correctly…

A gust of wind blew, making the leaves by the road rustle. Shadows of trees flickered and flowers danced. The night, which should have been quiet, suddenly seemed to become boisterous.

Rin snapped out of it and, amidst the boisterous sound of her heartbeat, continued walking forward.

Lan Ye hadn’t expected that after her long speech, Rin wouldn’t say a word and would just keep carrying her.

She instinctively tightened her hug.

“Hmm? Don’t you have anything to say?”

She had said so much.

Rin gave a soft “Mm” and said only three words.

“I know now.”

Lan Ye arched an eyebrow. That’s it?

She gave such a long, philosophically rich speech, and all she got was three words?

And what does “I know now” mean? Does it mean she understood or didn’t?

Lan Ye studied her closely and realized that the “shattered” feeling Rin had, the one that had made Lan Ye feel bad, seemed to have disappeared.

So, she did understand?

Lan Ye breathed a sigh of relief. She had finally managed to glue this “shattering” person back together, and her sense of guilt could finally decrease.

Although she was talking nonsense, in reality, between the two, she would definitely choose freedom.

She wasn’t a “love-brain” who would put a chain on herself for one person and spend her whole life revolving around them.

Fortunately, this little cat was easy to fool, pfft, easy to coax.

She had thought she would need to say more, but unexpectedly Rin just accepted her explanation.

It seemed that between them, it wasn’t just a mundane physical attraction, their souls were actually quite in sync~

Lan Ye rested her head on Rin’s shoulder, relaxing her whole body in her arms, and then blew a breath onto Rin’s exposed neck.

“It’s my turn to ask you.” Lan Ye had questions too.

Rin looked down at her: “Hmm?”

Lan Ye: “When you said before that you’d leave after celebrating the birthday, was that true?”

Rin: “Yes.”

Lan Ye: “Are you sure you won’t stay?”

Rin: “Sure.”

Lan Ye: “You really don’t want that throne?”

Rin: “Mm.”

Lan Ye breathed a complete sigh of relief, softening into Rin’s arms and gently rubbing her head against her neck.

Great, then there was no need to choose.

If this person stayed, Lan Ye would definitely leave.

Lan Ye’s gaze swept past Rin’s shoulder toward the distant castle like buildings and the fairy tale garden in the night.

Actually, based on the fairy tales Lan Ye had read before, they were all just beautifications of reality when you looked closely.

Like a princess in a castle, she seemingly has everything but lacks the most important thing: freedom.

Fairy tales are better left to the imagination.

Just like this imperial palace, in the future, it would only exist in brief memories.

But the Princess in this palace, she would take with her.

Lan Ye interlaced her fingers and hugged the person tighter. Such a good Princess, she really couldn’t bear to leave her alone.

The moon is my witness, this is the truth.

Lan Ye blinked, retracted her gaze, and looked back at the face she could kiss just by tilting her head.

A very strong impulse, she wanted to kiss her.

Lan Ye thought about the afternoon, just a few hours ago, when she had declared that Rin would have to beg her before she would kiss her again.

After struggling for less than a second, Lan Ye decided to slap her own face.

After all, she never said she possessed the noble quality of “keeping promises.”

Tonight, for now, she would be someone who doesn’t keep her word.

Lan Ye hugged the person tighter, straightened her body slightly, leaned in, and kissed the clearly defined jawline under the moonlight.

The person being kissed stopped in her tracks.

Before Rin could verify what had just happened, the warm sensation moved up along her cheek…

Just as the human was about to kiss her ear, Rin suddenly let go.

“Walk yourself.”

Seeing the human’s feet hit the ground, Rin reached out, pulled the human’s hands away from her neck, and strode forward.

Lan Ye, suddenly put down, stood there in surprise…

Rin hurried forward, touching her ear as she walked. If there were a mirror, she would see that her ear had become translucent…

It almost disappeared…

If that happened, her beast ears would have popped out, unable to be hidden…

That was close.

Lan Ye watched the departing figure. The other person no longer had that “shattered” look from the lounge doorway, now it was Lan Ye’s turn to feel uncomfortable.

Damn it, she was just a bit away from kissing that ruby like earlobe!

She had even sacrificed her moral character to be a person who doesn’t keep her word, and yet this tsundere Princess actually ran away!

After Rin let go of the human, her spiritual power was much easier to control. After a few steps, she had mostly calmed down.

Hearing no sound behind her, she stopped and turned around, seeing the human standing still in place.

Can’t walk?

Hadn’t she asked to be put down… and she didn’t seem to have any issues anymore…

Just as she was hesitating whether to go back, she saw the human walking toward her.

Lan Ye decided to let it go this time, for now not pursuing the fact that the tsundere Princess had rejected her kiss again.

After all, she was the one who had made her “shatter” tonight, and it hadn’t been easy to glue her back together, she didn’t want any more accidents.

Lan Ye stepped forward and took Rin’s hand: “Let’s go.”

Feeling the warm fingers slide between her own, Rin’s heart beat with a strong sense of presence. She wanted to say something, to remind the other that this place wasn’t just the two of them… that some things were very inappropriate…

But the inappropriate things had already been done, saying it now seemed pointless…

After some hesitation, she squeezed the human’s hand tightly and remained silent.

In the night, two figures walked side by side.

The guards stationed in various corners along the way saw this scene and felt as though a play was reaching its finale.

Although they were far away and couldn’t hear what the Princess and the human were saying, they had their own imaginations.

Each one of them felt the excitement of seeing a shocking piece of gossip, planning to share their observations and thoughts with friends after their shift.

Lan Ye didn’t know yet that tonight’s events would be told in many versions tomorrow.

After taking Rin’s hand, she noticed a problem.

“Where is the item?”

“Hmm?”

Lan Ye checked Rin over, she didn’t have anything extra on her, and her hands were empty.

“Didn’t the Queen say she wanted to give you something? Where is it?”

Hearing this question, Rin remembered the words the Queen had said to her in private. Her footsteps faltered slightly, but she quickly returned to normal, so quickly that Lan Ye didn’t notice.

“There was no item, she just wanted to talk.”

Lan Ye’s eyes widened: “Huh?”

Lan Ye knew the Queen calling Rin away was an excuse, but even as an excuse, she should have actually given her something…

It was a bit ridiculous.

She hadn’t had a good impression of the King to begin with, and now Lan Ye felt the same about the Queen.

“Is the Queen sick?” Lan Ye thought of the face she had seen tonight, looking full of illness.

“Yes.”

Lan Ye pursed her lips, holding back some things she wanted to say. Fine, let’s just assume the patient is low on energy and has no strength to care for her child.

“By the way, does the King have some kind of illness too?”

Rin glanced at her.

Lan Ye: !

Wait, she wasn’t insulting her.

Seeing Rin’s look, Lan Ye felt she had been misunderstood, she wasn’t saying the King “had a problem” (was crazy).

“I’m asking if there’s something wrong with her physical health. I saw her taking medicine.”

Rin arched an eyebrow: “Medicine?”

Lan Ye nodded: “I couldn’t tell what it was. Did she have a condition that requires medication?”

Rin frowned: “No.”

The King’s health had always been good, perhaps her “Vast Desire Period” was approaching, and she was taking something to calm her spiritual power.

Seeing that Rin didn’t seem to want to talk about the King, Lan Ye dropped the subject. The two had arrived back at Rin’s bedroom.

Seeing Lola waiting at the door, Lan Ye thought, this is bad.

Sure enough, the other stepped forward and asked what had happened, saying the doctor had arrived.

Lan Ye turned to Rin: “I’m already fine.”

Now that Rin had calmed down, she basically guessed that the scene in the Queen’s palace had been an act.

“Let the doctor check.”

Even knowing it was likely an act, Rin was worried about that one in a million chance.

Left with no choice, Lan Ye had to go to the sitting room and undergo a series of thorough examinations.

On the way there, the doctor, Dora, had received three consecutive phone calls with instructions that were all essentially the same. Ensure the child in the belly of the human in the Princess’s palace is okay.

She had wondered what had happened and rushed to the palace.

After the examination, she found no problems at all. She looked at the report with a serious expression.

The kitten was fine, and not a single indicator for the adult was abnormal.

For the sake of caution, she still asked the human before her again.

“It only hurt that once, and you had no sensation after that? No discomfort anywhere else in your body?”

Lan Ye was serious: “Correct, just that once, and it got better immediately.”

She hadn’t expected the palace doctors to be so dedicated. She had hinted several times that she was fine, but the doctor still looked worried.

Dora finished listening and looked at the report again. In her heart, she was actually suspicious, how could someone have a stomachache when everything was fine… She looked at the human. If the other’s expression weren’t so sincere, she would have suspected she was lying.

After all, it wasn’t as if it hadn’t happened before, some of the King’s pregnant lovers often used the excuse of being unwell to get the King to visit.

But none of that was her business as a doctor. After confirming the patient was fine, she began her routine of vague reassurances.

“It might be physiological. Sometimes under stress, human muscles can have some pain. It’s nothing.”

After saying that, she reminded Lan Ye to stay relaxed, exercise appropriately, and pay attention to nutrition.

Lan Ye listened seriously, but she was actually a bit distracted. She looked at Rin behind the doctor, who had been looking very solemn since earlier.

Thinking of how in the Queen’s palace, as soon as she said her stomach hurt, this person had “flashed” in front of her with such a panicked look… even while she herself was in a shattered emotional state…

Lan Ye’s heart felt as though it were being squeezed, it softened, and a bit of heat welled up in her eyes.

Rin truly was a good person, and she would surely be a good mother in the future.

She now felt a sense of luck, lucky to have come to this world and met Rin first.

She was also lucky that they hadn’t missed each other.

Thinking of their future family of three, Lan Ye felt a special kind of happiness she had never felt before swirling in her heart.

It was a happiness that felt peaceful just to think about.

Perhaps she truly had felt lonely…

In the Queen’s palace, when Lan Ye said she was an orphan, she wasn’t talking about her identity in this world.

In her original world, she was also an orphan.

A true orphan with no family and no memories of family.

Some of what she had said to Rin was actually the truth, she had indeed lost some memories.

But not the memories of this world, as Lan Shan and the others assumed.

In her original world, she had already lost the memories of her first eighteen years.

Three years ago, in her world, a severe earthquake had occurred in her small county.

She had survived but lost her memory.

She only remembered her name, Lan Ye.

The police confirmed her identity through her name and also told her that her family had all perished in the earthquake.

The doctor said her amnesia might be due to that, she didn’t want to remember the pain.

At that time, Lan Ye’s emotions were indeed in a state of immense pain. That feeling had been very difficult because she didn’t know what she was suffering for, she had tried hard to remember.

Unfortunately, she couldn’t remember anything at all.

She even felt a sense of strangeness toward the whole world, as if she didn’t belong there at all.

That feeling was very uncomfortable. Lan Ye still didn’t like thinking about it.

She was very lucky that after coming to this strange world, she met Lan Shan’s kind family, and now had a family member in Rin, as well as new friends.

She even had a child. Lan Ye now felt a sense of belonging to this world.

Others might not understand why this feeling was important, but Lan Ye knew it was crucial.

It gave her peace of mind.

“Your Highness, based on my preliminary examination, Miss Lan Ye is fine. However, to be safe, I suggest Miss Lan Ye come to the Medical Department tomorrow to undergo another examination with professional equipment.”

Dora couldn’t bring the large equipment to the Princess’s bedroom.

“Okay.”

The conversation between the two interrupted Lan Ye’s thoughts. She looked at Rin, who still looked serious after hearing the doctor’s words.

Rin asked Lola to see the doctor out, then looked at the human who had been distracted for a while: “If you’re worried, we’ll go to the Medical Department tomorrow for another check.”

She had mistaken Lan Ye’s distraction for worry.

Lan Ye shook her head: “I’m fine.”

Rin looked at the human, whose speech had suddenly slowed down. Her gaze was also a bit sluggish.

Slow speech, slow gaze… Rin glanced at the clock on the side, a look of understanding in her eyes.

Sleepy.

“Let’s go.” She stepped forward and helped the human up from the lounge chair, leading her toward the bedroom.

At the door, she let go of her.

“Rest early.”

Lan Ye looked at the bedroom door, then at the person who seemingly didn’t plan on entering. Her gaze suddenly became sharp.

“Don’t tell me you don’t plan on sleeping with me tonight?!”

Rin: … How did her gaze become energetic again?

And… that was exactly what she had planned…

“I’ll stay in the room next door.”

She wanted to say she could be reached anytime if something happened, but her words were cut off by the human raising a hand.

“In such a large room, I can’t fall asleep alone.”

Rin thought to herself: She slept quite soundly alone at noon… she didn’t even wake up when someone took the blanket.

Lan Ye also thought of noon: “I can sleep during the day, but at night I’m afraid.”

Rin: … Didn’t see a trace of fear on her face at all.

Lan Ye looked at her, narrowing her eyes. She really hadn’t expected that Rin hadn’t planned on sleeping with her!

This was far worse than the rejection of the kiss earlier!

She was getting a little angry, and the consequences would be severe!