After Transmigrating As The Scumbag Alpha In An Ancient Pregnant-And-Run Novel - Chapter 6

Yun Chenghuai was startled by the sudden intimate contact between them. First, she worried whether Shen Liunian would get angry. Then she thought, well, she had already held her anyway, so let it be.

She had no real awareness of Qianyuan or Kunze in the first place, so she simply scooped Shen Liunian up in a bridal carry.

She had to admit, Shen Liunian really was so soft. Fragrant and soft, so comfortable to hold in her arms.

But very quickly, she stopped letting her thoughts wander.

Her action made Shen Liunian grip her arm tightly, squeezing it until Yun Chenghuai’s arm hurt so badly that tears nearly came to her eyes. How could she still have the mind to think about a fragrant, soft wife?

Yun Chenghuai’s sudden action shocked everyone. Shen Liunian did not cry out in surprise; instead, the maids beside them were the ones who exclaimed.

Yun Chenghuai ignored them and strode over to the luohan couch, then placed Shen Liunian on it.

Shen Liunian smelled the heavy citrus and agarwood scent on Yun Chenghuai, the fragrance wrapping around her entire body. She immediately stiffened and said in a tone filled with disbelief and anger, “Yun Chenghuai? What are you doing?”

Yun Chenghuai only felt that Shen Liunian’s voice sounded very pleasant, especially when she called her name. Because her voice was hoarse and she could not use much strength, Yun Chenghuai actually sensed a tiny bit of gentleness from it.

If not for the questioning that came after, it really would have been a little moving.

She was amused by her own feeling. How could Shen Liunian possibly be gentle to her?

But she could be gentle. She first poured a cup of tea and placed it beside Shen Liunian, then said softly, “Madam, rest first. I’ll handle this.”

She picked up an empty cup from the table and toyed with it in her hand for a moment. Then she smashed it with a loud bang in front of Momo Xue.

The cup shattered into pieces on the floor, frightening all the maids in the room into kneeling.

Momo Xue, however, stood straight with a stubborn head, believing that Yun Chenghuai would not do anything to her.

Yun Chenghuai said coldly, “Momo Xue, are you questioning this prince’s decision?”

She gave a soft snort in her heart. She absolutely would not allow anyone to obstruct her survival plan.

Putting aside the fact that the original owner had offended too many people, including her own imperial mother, at present, the most important person was still Shen Liunian.

Shen Liunian’s departure was the reason she would be imprisoned, and ten years later, Shen Liunian would starve her to death.

The power over Yun Chenghuai’s life and death rested in Shen Liunian’s hands. Anyone bullying Shen Liunian was bullying her.

Would she let others bully her? Of course not.

She might as well take this opportunity to properly reorganize the entire Prince Chuxiang’s manor.

“Your Highness, this old servant would not dare.” Momo Xue was used to throwing her weight around and had not understood her own position clearly.

The moment Yun Chenghuai lost her temper, Momo Xue became afraid.

In the end, she was only a wet nurse. Imperial daughters did not lack wet nurses. From birth, Yun Chenghuai had three wet nurses at her side. What made Momo Xue different was that she was an old servant who had once served the late Empress. What the prince respected had never been her, but the late Empress’s face, which was why she had been given a bit of courtesy. Over time, this had made Momo Xue think she was the master of the prince’s manor.

In reality, she was nothing more than a servant.

If Yun Chenghuai had not lost her temper, Momo Xue would still be immersed in her own fantasy, unable to recognize her place.

Naturally, Yun Chenghuai would not make a big show of raising this matter only to put it down lightly.

She slowly sat down on the luohan couch and leaned against it, her dark gaze sweeping over the faces of the kneeling maids.

After a long silence, seeing the atmosphere in the room grow increasingly rigid, she said in an indifferent tone, “Momo Xue disrespected the Princess Consort and offended her superior. From today on, she is forbidden from entering the prince’s manor. Her daughter, Lanping, is to be sent home.”

Momo Xue hurriedly kowtowed and begged for mercy. “This is this old servant’s fault. It has nothing to do with Ping’er!”

Lanping had originally been kneeling. When she heard this, she hurriedly pressed her forehead to the floor and cried, “Your Highness, please don’t drive Ping’er away.”

“Anyuan.” Yun Chenghuai had no intention of saying more to them and directly called someone in.

Anyuan was her guard captain, someone arranged by the Duke Who Stabilizes the State’s estate, and could be trusted completely.

Dressed in a black flying-fish uniform, Anyuan quickly walked in. “Yes.”

No matter when, the distance between Anyuan and Yun Chenghuai would never exceed the range of Yun Chenghuai’s voice.

“Drive them out.”

Yun Chenghuai showed no mercy. If she wanted to reorganize the prince’s manor, she first had to start with the people by her side.

There were too many maids around her, and there would be no shortage of masters behind them.

The guards were different. They were her personal guard. There were thirty-six of them in total, and every single one had been chosen for the original owner by the old Duke Who Stabilizes the State back then. Calling them death warriors would not be too much.

In truth, this was Yun Chenghuai’s modern way of thinking. In everyone else’s eyes, she had already shown mercy. In this era where imperial power stood above all, a servant’s life or death was decided by a single sentence from those above. When most people dealt with servants, they usually beat them with boards and exiled them, leaving them alive only to throw them onto some estate.

She had merely driven them home and had not even let them suffer any flesh wounds. In ancient times, this was already considered lenient treatment.

Therefore, once Anyuan came over, Momo Xue and Lanping did not dare linger.

Anyuan was not someone who cherished beauty. If they let her throw them out of the prince’s manor, they would lose all face. Lanping was not yet married either.

Thinking of this, they no longer dared say anything and left in dejection.

Watching their retreating figures, Yun Chenghuai coughed softly. “From now on, all matters in the main courtyard will be decided by the Princess Consort. You must listen to the Princess Consort’s words. Understood?”

“Yes, Your Highness.” The remaining maids hurriedly answered.

Momo Xue and Lanping had both been driven out. They did not have a mother who had been the prince’s wet nurse. If they dared talk back, they would probably be beaten with boards.

Yun Chenghuai did not know what the servants below were imagining. In any case, as long as everyone in the prince’s manor behaved properly and treated Shen Liunian with respect as the true Princess Consort, that was a good thing for her.

If Shen Liunian felt comfortable, then she would feel comfortable too.

At the side, Shen Liunian frowned. She definitely would not let off the people who had bullied her. If she left, everyone in this manor who had ever humiliated her or the Shen family’s people would have to pay the price.

As for Momo Xue and Lanping, the former targeted her, while the latter targeted the people who had accompanied her as part of her dowry. Neither of them was anything good.

Shen Liunian had been thinking of dealing with these people herself. She had not expected Yun Chenghuai to suddenly change completely and drive her most trusted momo and maid out of the prince’s manor.

Unfortunately, they had only been driven out. That was letting them off too cheaply.

As for Yun Chenghuai’s actions, Shen Liunian kept feeling that she might be plotting something.

What could Yun Chenghuai be plotting? She was just trying to preserve her life, and she was also a little worried about Shen Liunian’s legs.

She had knelt for so long last night, and she was pregnant too. It was thanks to Shen Liunian’s good constitution that she had not collapsed after all that torment.

The fact that Shen Liunian had not caught a cold or anything else was probably related to her martial arts training.

Thinking of this, Yun Chenghuai felt that she had to pick up the original owner’s martial arts foundation as soon as possible. The medical environment in ancient times was too poor. One careless mistake could kill a person. Having a good body was better than anything.

However, although Shen Liunian had not caught a cold, after kneeling for so long, her knees were definitely in serious condition.

When they had gotten up earlier, Yun Chenghuai had heard Shen Liunian’s maid suck in a cold breath. Presumably, the maid had reacted that way after seeing the injuries on Shen Liunian’s knees.

At that time, the maid had not yet applied medicine for Shen Liunian. They had probably thought they would return to their own courtyard to apply it, only to be kept here instead.

Yun Chenghuai guessed that applying medicine would require Shen Liunian to remove the clothing on her lower body, so it would be inconvenient with Yun Chenghuai present.

Understanding this, Yun Chenghuai said considerately, “Nanling, take good care of the Princess Consort. Remember to apply medicine for her. Serve the Princess Consort well, and have the resident physician come morning and evening to take her wellness pulse.”

Nanling was Shen Liunian’s personal maid and was more capable than the other two.

As Yun Chenghuai spoke, she stood. “This prince is going to the front courtyard. I’ll come accompany the Princess Consort for lunch.”

After saying that, she added warmly, specifically to Shen Liunian, “Madam, I’ll go first.”

Shen Liunian: “……”

Yun Chenghuai straightened her clothes. Before leaving, she glanced to the side and happened to see Shen Liunian’s dissatisfied expression. She knew Shen Liunian did not want her company.

But what could she do? Her desire to survive did not allow her not to accompany Shen Liunian.

Nothing was more important than accompanying her “wife.” Oh, in ancient times, should she call her wife or madam?

Yun Chenghuai strode toward the courtyard gate, not noticing that behind her, a gaze followed her for a long time.

“What do you think Yun the dog is playing at?”

Once only Shen Liunian and her servants were left in the room, Shen Liunian leaned against the luohan couch and lazily lifted her eyes.

Nanling said doubtfully, “Perhaps it’s because of the child? Now His Majesty has many Qianyuan daughters, but only one Qianyuan granddaughter, and she is also…”

Also born to the Eighth Imperial Daughter, whom the Emperor disliked most. The Eighth Imperial Daughter’s birth mother had once been glorious for a time. Later, her mother used witchcraft to murder the Emperor and was ultimately granted death.

From then on, the Eighth Imperial Daughter was despised. Now, at twenty-two, she still had not been granted a princely title.

Many people said that a mother became noble because she had a Qianyuan child. In truth, only when the mother was loved by the head of the household did the child have status.

Only when the mother herself had low status and was not favored by the head of the household would there be talk of a mother gaining honor through a Qianyuan child.

The Eighth Imperial Daughter’s situation was closely tied to her mother.

This was true not only in the imperial family, but also in noble families, and even in ordinary households.

Shen Liunian did not believe that just because she was pregnant, Yun Chenghuai’s attitude toward her would change.

The two of them had been married for half a year. The situation was already fixed and could not be changed. Based on Shen Liunian’s understanding of Yun Chenghuai, this person would absolutely never give up on the throne.

Having a child might make the current Emperor change her mind and let Yun the dog regain a chance to inherit the throne.

Perhaps that was exactly what Yun Chenghuai was thinking, which was why she cared so much about the child in Shen Liunian’s belly.

Not only did Shen Liunian think this, even the maids by her side felt the same.

“I’m afraid Prince Chuxiang is counting on the child in Young Mistress’s belly to turn her situation around.” Momo Xu stepped forward and said in a deep voice.

Momo Xu had accompanied Shen Liunian as part of her dowry. From the fact that the people by Shen Liunian’s side still called her Young Mistress, one could hear that the people who had come from the Shen family were angry at seeing their young mistress suffer in the prince’s manor.

Shen Liunian sneered. “Turn her situation around? On what grounds?”

Yun the dog had such a noble status. If she had even a little bit of brains, she would never have ended up like this.

This was only the beginning. Shen Liunian could see it very clearly. Once Yun Chenghuai made a mistake, the consequence would not be as simple as one month of grounding. Very possibly, she would be confined in the prince’s manor forever and never be able to leave again.

Yet Yun the dog could not see it clearly. She thought it was because she had married Shen Liunian that she had been pushed away from the throne.

Yun Chenghuai was not the only unmarried imperial daughter. So why was she the one chosen to marry Shen Liunian? It was merely because the Emperor had long since grown disgusted with her.

Momo Xu was somewhat worried. “But Young Mistress, you are pregnant now. If Prince Chuxiang cannot achieve her goal, I’m afraid…”

“There’s no need to worry. No matter what, the outcome won’t be worse than it is now.”

In just half a year, Shen Liunian had gone from the pampered Kunze daughter of her family to a princess consort living under another’s roof, suffering humiliation and possessing the title in name only.

She had long since gotten used to it. After adapting to it, naturally, she would not simply sit back and wait to be captured.

No matter what the reason behind Yun Chenghuai’s abnormal behavior was, as long as she did not harm Shen Liunian or the people by her side, it was fine.

But Shen Liunian was not someone who waited passively for results.

“When will Li Zhaoxian’s people come?”

“Young Mistress, are you truly going to meet the people of the Crown Princess of Northern Qi?” Nanling was a little worried.

“Yes.”

Shen Liunian did not explain. She understood the concern of the people at her side. Meeting the people of the Crown Princess of Northern Qi in Southern Qin would be a capital crime if discovered.

But if others would not let her live, then everyone could simply die together.

If she could not live, she would definitely drive her dagger into Yun Chenghuai’s heart first.