The Employed Empress - 185 Wife

*Crunch*

The candied fruit was bitten thoroughly and a harsh sound echoed within, seemingly reflecting the crumbling of her intelligence instead.

First to be affected were her speech. “W-wut?…”

Child? Our? What evil spawn?!

“Yi Yi…” Jiang Yu carefully repeated, “Let’s have our own child.”

“What the fvk.” Wei Yi Yi’s internal cries escaped to her lips.

“…”

“…”

“… ???…”

“I meant to say that came out from the left fie—” Wei Yi Yi beat her chest and cough. “Where would…Ah-ha..ha.ha.”

Wei Yi Yi could only laugh nervously.

Where did that come from?! How did you conclude that?! At which point of the conversation did the suggestion of having a child was hinted?! A child! With me?! Me?! Where did… where… How could… Oh.My.Lord! Someone has a different script ah! That did not follow the conversation! Left field! Crawled out from hell! Snipe me from the back.

So many thoughts rush in her head like horses running on grass mud. Finally she concluded in small whispers. “Wow. It’s finally the end of the world.”

Jiang Yu watched her receive a shock, mumbling words hard to make sense of. He reached out to her hand that turned cold.

Wei Yi Yi jolted from the touch. She composed herself, fake her calmness and faced Jiang Yu. “This is sudden. And I don’t see where such thoughts came from.”

Changing her tone, she discreetly inch away. “Your Majesty, chenqie felt moved from your thoughts and heartfelt intentions but chenqie is quite alright.”

“It is not sudden nor am I saying this to coax you.” Jiang Yu heart thudded. He searched her face, looking for the familiar reassurance but found nothing and the need to explain himself turned into a crisis. “This has always been in my mind but you’re not in the best of health.”

“Your Majesty, as you said, chenqie’s health is not stable. This duty, chenqie can only disappoint the emperor.”

“That is why I’m telling you this. So that you’ll be ready. We will prepare, take it slowly, and be at ease as I will be with you.”

“Is His Majesty tired? Stressed? Chenqie thinks you are confused.”

“How so?” He asked, visually confused, and she finally felt frustrated.

Through gritted teeth, she spoke with emphasis, “You got the wrong person!”

When Jiang Yu gave her another confused expression, followed by ‘I-don’t-understand-you’, ‘I’m-coaxing-you-are-you-not-clear-in-the-head’, and a long silence with distorted face from both of them, she felt her soul crumbling with a crisp sound of ‘aaaaahhh!’.

Somehow, somehow, like really somehow, she’s getting a bad vibes.

Little did she know, it’s their wavelengths finally meeting.

“I’ll write you a status report, event report, or any report. There’s no need to discuss it with me, I’ll just follow as you said once you decided. Now go on, coax sister Ye and forget about me.”

–and a child. Why are you even talking about a child with me, ah!

Finally, Jiang Yu show a face of clarity. Conflict surfaced and stir with his current emotions.

Before, when Wei Yi Yi started to speak freely with him and even able to discuss about Ye Ai Ning and other consorts with clear and open mindedness, Jiang Yu only had satisfaction. But when he was worrying about them and yet her mind thought of someone else, the harem, and political machinations, dissatisfaction overwhelm him and pour a bitter taste in his mouth.

His brows almost formed a line. “We will talk once she settles her emotion.”

“…”

Ah.ha! Ha.ha.ha! Her boss is showing prospect in shutting people up.

Wei Yi Yi felt the need to put a certain distance between them. It took her 0.1s reaction speed to circle and have the table between them. Having retrieved her personal space, she expressed exaggeratedly and sarcastically, “So, when the two of you are having an issue…you just…you know, not talk and have space? But doesn’t she like, needed you the most now? Like really right now?”

Dude, someone currently is carrying your child! And it’s another woman!

“Lately, her outburst has become frequent. It must have been because I heavily doted on her. She’ll need to start reflecting on it. Now is the best time.”

“Really?” Ah. The world turned crazy today. Wei Yi Yi caressed her aching head. “Go back then. What are you doing here? Other things can be discussed after and I can handle the situation at hand. What if she thinks you prioritize other women’s feelings? Even if you wanted to teach her a lesson, you shouldn’t give her a reason to have insecurities and question your feelings.”

“Other woman? Are you talking about yourself?”

“Yes!” Wei Yi Yi snapped. “What else? Hey! I just noticed that you only react to certain points! Immediately say sorry to your poor listening comprehension!”

She totally lost her filter, her thoughts and speech has long been merging. She stood up and banged on the table. In shock, Jiang Yu almost flipped over his chair.

A certain stubbornness within her that believed in Jiang Yu’s declaration of affection swelled and within it, a taste of worthlessness brought tears in her eyes. “You said you treasured her! How shallow is that actually?! I clearly asked you and you actually lied!”

“I didn’t lie!” Jiang Yu stood up as well. These two probably thought the taller one had more credibility. “We were raised together and my concubine mother entrusted her to me. She has always been as important as a blood sister to me!”

“Holy! You tumble in sheets together with your sister!”

“Ridicules! Wei Yi Yi! How could you put it that way?!”

The poor table was then hit again, this time by Jiang Yu.

“It came from your mouth!”

“Alright!” Jiang Yu inhaled sharply. He paced around the room, refusing to continue their unhealthy barking. “I misspoke!.. I only tried to put it in the simplest words.”

“Jiang Yu!” Shouted by her.

Insert Jiang Yu’s mouth dropping and his eyes popping. With tembling finger, he pointed. “Y..you–”

Wei Yi Yi has long erupted. When mad, she’s known for not backing off. The ups and downs of her chest are similar to her current emotions. “Yi Yi gave up many things to be with you, to accompany you, to wed you. But because you insist on your feelings. Because you said, it can only be her, Yi Yi let go! Yi Yi accepted every heartache that accompanied it. Yet, is this all that love is? Yi Yi did not endure this just to see such half-heartedness!!”

“You…” Jiang Yu set down his finger attempting to point at her nose. “Calm down. I will talk to her as well but right now we are talking about us.”

“There’s no us! Go talk to your beloved don’t take me for your little miss number three.”

“What are you saying, you are my wife!”

“Correction, your Empress!”

“Which is Zhen’s legal wife!”

“Right!” Wei Yi Yi abruptly stopped. “What? I likely misheard it. Have the devil’s been whispering to you? I’m your what?”

“My wife.”

“… You married me for political reasons. Took me as an Empress to assist you. Just like another subject.”

“…But, you are also my beloved wife.” Jiang Yu stubbornly stated.

“You’ve been ignoring Yi Yi’s feelings before.”

“That was…”

“…”

“…”

“I thought we came into a peaceful agreement. Waved our white flags and decided to live in peace?”

“En. Didn’t we start over…?”

“…”

“…..”

“When?”

“….”

How far is the distance between two people? Between the moon and the earth? You’re joking! Let me tell you, it’s when we face each other and you thought this and I thought that, and in our misunderstanding, came in agreement and laughed heartily. Like two idiots! Your mother! We are not actually in the same time and space! Our minds in different directions and our brain waves in parallel!