Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 140: Desperate Declaration

"I'm sorry, Yunzhen, I know I shouldn't have gotten pregnant with him..." Baogui Fei's hand gently covered her lower abdomen.

Although her belly was still flat, perhaps due to psychological factors, she always felt that she could feel the faint beating of another heart in her body from the palm of her hand. Although she knew that the heartbeat was an illusion, as long as she thought that another life was growing in her body, she didn't know whether it was a feeling of peace and comfort, or fear and sin.

"I know I shouldn't have gotten pregnant with him, Yun Zhen...but, he has half of my blood in his body...I can't despise him, but I can't bear to give him up..." Baogui Fei's lips trembled slightly, revealing her hesitation and panic.

"Baoer, don't think too much." Yun Zhen felt extremely heartbroken when he saw her pale face.

"Yun Zhen, I used to be afraid of hearing you call me 'Empress'..." Baogui Concubine seemed to have a lot to say tonight. She held Yun Zhen's hand tightly, as if only in this way could she have the strength to speak, "Because as long as you call me Empress, I feel that you are so far away from me... As long as you call me Empress, I feel that there is only a relationship between us as concubine and minister, and I feel that... everything outside the palace ten years ago was an illusion, just an empty dream..."

Baogui Fei's wet hair was sticking to her ears in a messy manner, and her eyes looked a little red and swollen, but that deeply moving gaze never left Yun Zhen's eyes that were bearing pain.

She looked at Yun Zhen so persistently and firmly, and kept muttering in a manner that was almost incoherent: "But now, it is finally time to give up the dream. I finally know... I can never leave the palace, and I will never hear you say take me away again... I don't even have the chance to refuse you like I did before. I am destined to stay here because of this child."

"Bao'er." Yun Zhen took a deep breath and lowered his voice to whisper in Baogui Fei's ear, "Nothing in this world is predetermined, everything can be changed. If you can put aside all your worries and believe in me... I can still..."

He paused for a moment before finally saying the last three simple words: "Take you away."

Hearing this, a faint smile appeared on the corner of Guibao Concubine's lips.

Although she smiled, she shook her head and said, "Yun Zhen, you are wrong... I said so much to you, not to let you take me away, but just to tell you... It's time, Yun Zhen... It's time for you to leave, and it's time for me to let go... It's been ten years, too long... It's been so long that I have completely belonged to another man, so long that I am about to become a mother... It's been so long that I finally recognize the facts and know that it's time for me to... break up with you completely..."

Completely cut off.

I don’t know if this is the best way or the worst outcome.

After calmly saying these four words, the huge rock that had been weighing on Guibao Fei's heart completely disappeared. She finally found her breathing rhythm and finally calmed down. The panic in her heart disappeared without a trace, as if she had suddenly been liberated.

Perhaps not long ago, she was afraid that she would lose Yun Zhen forever while getting the child. But now, she suddenly realized that this might be an opportunity.

An opportunity to rescue her and Yun Zhen from the entanglement they have been in for several years.

"End?" Yun Zhen was stunned by the two words from Baogui Concubine.

He never thought that one day he would hear Baoer say the word "end" to him.

"Yun Zhen..." The tears in Baogui Concubine's eyes had disappeared, but the tear stains were still dry on her face. She closed her eyes and calmly said more clearly, "It's over, Yun Zhen, you didn't hear wrong, and I didn't say wrong. Our current relationship is very abnormal, you know? If I could make up my mind to break up with you ten years ago, I wouldn't be suffering now... If I can't make up my mind now, maybe in another ten years, we will be even more painful... Do you know, Yun Zhen? You should leave the palace, you should leave me, go back to your family, your parents and siblings are still waiting for you, you should marry and have children, have your own life, instead of staying with a woman who doesn't deserve your protection at all."

After saying this in a heavy voice, Concubine Baogui stared at Yun Zhen's stunned face, waiting for his answer.

But after a long silence, Yun Zhen's response to her was just a slight shake of his head.

"You said that if we don't end it, it will be even more painful in ten years... But if I nod and agree to you now, I won't be able to survive for even a day." Yun Zhen couldn't imagine how he lived outside the palace walls without being able to see Baoer.

"Yun Zhen." Baogui Fei said to him seriously, "If I die one day, you will understand that in fact, in this world, no one can really live without anyone else... If I die one day, you will understand... In fact, without me, you can live better and happier... The happiness of the future can quickly make you forget the me of the past..."

Yun Zhen still shook his head and said painfully: "You don't understand, Baoer, you don't understand at all."

I don't understand how important you are to me.

"You are the one who doesn't understand, Yun Zhen." Concubine Baogui exhaled calmly and said lightly, "I am the mother of the child in your belly, the concubine of the Emperor of the Long family, and a woman belonging to the harem. But what am I to you? Nothing... and what are you to me?... Still nothing."

Baogui Fei thought that these sharp words could wake Yun Zhen up completely, but the result was just the opposite.

All she got in return was Yun Zhen's sneer and some crazy behavior.

Yun Zhen grabbed Baogui Fei's wrist, pulled her into his arms and asked, "Nothing? So it's nothing?"

Concubine Baogui tried to pull her hand out, but failed after several attempts. At this moment, Yun Zhen's eyes made her feel a little scared.

"Let me go... Yun Zhen..."

Concubine Baogui's heartbeat suddenly quickened, as if she had anticipated what was about to happen.

Yun Zhen hugged Baogui Fei tighter. His actions and demeanor at this moment, though he was usually gentle, showed a lot of male dominance. He also spoke with heavy breathing, as if he was trying hard to suppress something.

He growled at Concubine Baogui: "You said you are my mother, my concubine, and a woman in the harem - yes, I admit it. But above all this - you are still the one I love, the one I have loved for more than ten years! You can never say that I am nothing, you can never say that you want to end it all, and you can never drive me out of the palace!"

"Let me go...Yun Zhen..." Baogui Fei's throat began to choke again.

"Baoer, you still have one last chance."

After ending the impulsive roar, Yun Zhen took a deep breath and tried to keep himself calm.

But the hand that was strangling Baogui Fei's wrist still unconsciously tightened, and he said clearly in Baogui Fei's ear: "If you slap me now and wake me up, I will let you go immediately, turn around and leave, and never come back. But if you still have even the slightest hesitation now, I can tell you the consequence very calmly and clearly - you will become my woman, right now, right here."