And often covered for them. Time flew by, and soon it was the Crown Prince's birthday. During the banquet, Noble Consort Rou showed signs of morning sickness, and the Empress asked if she was feeling unwell.
She falsely claimed that the sun was too harsh and she suffered from heatstroke.
The Crown Prince's birthday was on the Dragon Boat Festival; the sun wasn't too harsh to cause heatstroke!
The next day, the Emperor secretly summoned the Imperial Physician. The answer he got was shocking: Noble Consort Rou was pregnant.
This news infuriated the Emperor because he had been injured during the autumn hunt shortly after the Crown Prince was born and had been impotent since, so how was Noble Consort Rou's child possible? He was determined to find out.
However, at this time, Noble Consort Rou was foolish enough to try to ensure the child in her womb was seen as a dragon seed.
