"Congratulations, Queen, you are pregnant with a dragon baby,"

I woke up.

People in the room surrounded me and congratulated me.

I looked at my stomach blankly.

Neither happy nor sad.

"Queen, you must not get angry anymore, it's not good for our child."

I looked up at Shen Weiming.

His eyes became calm like water again.

A child?

My and Shen Weiming's child.

If everything could go back to the beginning, I should be very happy.

"Why can't you let Shimian go?"

"You know very well, in this palace, she is the only one I have."

I grabbed Shen Weiming's clothes, tears streaming down my face, fingertips turning white.

"Lier, because you are the Queen."

I shouted at him angrily.

"But I don't want to be a queen at all!"

He slowly loosened my fingers, his expression complicated.

"Jiang Lier, this is our predetermined fate."

"It cannot be changed."

"This is the only thing I can do."

His words sounded vague to me as I looked at him.

In a daze, I saw a stranger's face.

I was frightened and kept backing away.

"Who are you?"

"You are not my Weiming!"

"Who are you?"

I held onto the pillow on the bedside tightly, resembling a madwoman.

People around started whispering about me.

"Is the Queen mentally unstable after all?"

"Could a mentally unstable person still be a queen?"

"I wonder what the Emperor thinks..."

Each word drilled into my mind, and I could only helplessly cover my ears.

"No, I didn't, I'm not crazy."

"He is clearly not my Weiming! Why don't you believe me?"

But when I looked again, it was unmistakably Shen Weiming standing there.

"Take good care of the Queen. If anything goes wrong with the child, I will hold you accountable."

There was no trace of me in his eyes.

If it wasn't for this child, I'm afraid he wouldn't even spare a glance at me.

I gently touched my stomach.

A terrible idea formed in my mind. Perhaps Shimian was now accompanying me in a different way.

With that thought, my mood improved somewhat.

"Shimian, what name do you think is good for this child?"

Like this.

The palace spread rumors that the Queen was seriously ill and always talking to Shimian's soul.

Some even said I was talking to the spirit of Shimian.