Future Beast World: Becoming A Pampered Beauty-Chapter 103 - 60: She Is His Pillow-Side Dream

Sang Luo’s face was pale, and cold sweat streamed down her skin. She gripped his arm so tightly she couldn’t even form a complete sentence.

"Witch doctor! Someone! Get the witch doctor, quick!"

Duotu scooped her up and instantly teleported to the hospital.

Her due date should have still been some time away, but Sang Luo had consumed too many Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and Crystal Stones recently, causing her to go into labor prematurely.

At the hospital, all the most experienced obstetric witch doctors had been summoned. Sang Luo was wheeled into the delivery room.

An elderly female witch doctor came to the door and said to Duotu, whose forehead was beaded with cold sweat, "Your Highness, please wait outside the delivery room. Your presence might cause unnecessary stress for the mother-to-be and the staff."

"O-Okay..." Duotu’s mind was a complete mess. He was too nervous to speak. Last time, he hadn’t been allowed to stay by her side. Only now did he truly understand how Caesar must have felt, wishing he could be the one to bear all her pain.

He paced back and forth, waiting anxiously. "Will... will she be okay?" 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

"Rest assured, Your Highness. The Empire’s medical system for expectant mothers is quite advanced now. The noble female has given birth before. That time, she delivered the child of an Innate King Beast, which is a far more perilous birth, and she came through it just fine. This time will surely be the same—frightening, but not truly dangerous."

...

Sang Luo could no longer hear the tense, panicked footsteps and voices outside. Her consciousness slipped into a chaotic state, as if she were sinking into a formless dream.

Time seemed to freeze. In the delivery room, the witch doctors all stopped moving.

A tall, slender figure cloaked in silver-blue light appeared at her bedside, indistinct and blurry. Her mind was a throbbing mush of pain. She grit her teeth and weakly called out, "Ah Ze..."

The man’s figure froze. A moment later, comprehension dawned on Sang Luo. She shook her head, refuting her own words. ’No... Ah Ze is already dead... Lou... Lou Xianyue... It’s not him...’

’The one I love is Ah Ze, not Lou Xianyue.’

’They aren’t the same person.’

’And Lou Xianyue doesn’t have a shred of affection for me.’

The intense pain quickly overwhelmed Sang Luo, and she passed out.

Lou Xianyue gazed at the pale, fragile face of the female on the bed, her eyes squeezed shut. Her entire body was drenched in cold sweat, her black hair plastered messily against her skin. It was as if all the life had drained out of her in an instant... At that moment, he felt his own breath catch in his throat.

He rushed forward, gathering Sang Luo tightly in his arms. His body trembled uncontrollably as he gently kissed her face, trying to wake her.

"Sang..."

’How could I not love her?’ he thought. ’A female willing to bleed for me. A treasure like her... I’ll probably never find another in my lifetime.’

He was her passing whim, and she was his fleeting dream.

Outside the delivery room, Duotu suddenly sensed an unusually powerful energy fluctuation from within. His expression darkened instantly. He ordered everyone back and tried to force his way inside, only to find the room sealed, inside and out, by an incredibly powerful Ice Array!

’He’s here to take the child!’

’No, perhaps not just the child. He’s here to take my mate, too!’

Golden flames surged forward, coiling around the barrier in an attempt to shatter it by force!

Lou Xianyue glanced toward the door, killing intent flashing in his ice-blue, vertical pupils. The Ice Power began to melt slightly, dripping into Water, but in the next instant, it condensed into countless razor-sharp ice blades aimed at the entrance. ’The legendary Fiery True Flame, said to be able to incinerate anything... Interesting. That male must be a Flame King Lion.’

Lou Xianyue’s fingers twitched, but then he seemed to remember something and looked down again at the weak, pale female in his arms.

’She’s in labor. Her body and mind are already extremely fragile. If she undergoes too much emotional turmoil, it will only cause her further trauma...’

Remembering her earlier words, Lou Xianyue sighed. A look of struggle and sorrow crossed his exquisitely handsome face.

"Fine. Since you wish to stay by his side, I will not force you..."

He lowered his head and kissed the spot between her eyebrows. A blue Soul mark flared into existence for a moment before quickly fading away.

At the same time, he drew a ball of faint blue light from her abdomen. Her stomach instantly flattened.

What at first glance seemed to be a ball of blue light was, upon closer inspection, a translucent, egg-like sac. Vaguely visible inside was a small beast in the nascent form of a Mermaid, curled up weakly. It was only about the size of a person’s head. Lou Xianyue took it with the utmost care. After one last, deep look at the unconscious Sang Luo, he vanished, and the Array sealing the room dissipated completely.

BANG!

Duotu burst into the delivery room.

The presence was completely gone.

The witch doctors startled awake, their faces clouded with confusion. "Did something just happen?"

"Right, the female!"

"Wait, who among you delivered the baby? Is it already born?"

"...All of you, leave for now." Duotu strode to the bedside. He saw that Sang Luo’s abdomen was flat, but there was no sign of a newborn anywhere in the room.

An unknown amount of time passed before Sang Luo awoke. Aside from feeling a little weak, she felt no other discomfort.

She secretly activated her body’s self-healing ability. She recovered quickly, to the point that even the little bit of extra weight around her waist vanished. She looked almost exactly as she had before the birth.

The witch doctors had left the delivery room. Duotu had been sitting by her bed waiting for her, his expression grim.

She looked around the room, then asked Duotu, "Where’s the baby?"

’Did I pass out from the pain?’ She had no memory of the actual birth. Hesitantly, she touched her stomach... ’It really is flat. It’s all gone.’

Duotu looked at her and said in a low voice, "He was here."

Sang Luo froze for a moment. ’Lou Xianyue took the baby!’

’He took the baby just like that, without a single word?!’

’Last time I at least got to see the two eggs. This time, I didn’t even get a single glance? Of course! I really am just a tool to him!’

Sang Luo was furious enough to die. Her only consolation was that, through this birth, her cultivation had broken through the King Rank and settled at the Half-King Middle Rank.

Duotu sensed the heaven-and-earth-shattering change in her aura and instantly understood. Guessing who the child’s biological father was, he sighed with a hint of helplessness.

"Luoluo, the males you get involved with just keep getting more and more powerful. A Deep Sea King Shark... that’s the most unique and powerful lineage among the Mermaid race..."

’No wonder the South Sea reopened for trade.’

’Now, it all made sense.’

"I’m sorry," Sang Luo started. "I didn’t mean to lie to you before. He isn’t actually dead, uh, but..."

"I know," Duotu interrupted. "I heard that the current generation’s King Shark awakened the Clone Talent Ability. The one you met must have been his Clone. I imagine that in order to produce an heir, he suppressed the Clone’s power to below King Rank. That’s why you were able to conceive his child so quickly..."

’But still, a Clone is an extension of the original body; the bloodline of an Innate King Beast doesn’t change. To think she could give birth to two Innate King Beasts, one after the other, in the span of just half a year!’

Duotu touched her flat abdomen in amazement, a mix of joy and wonder in his voice. "What kind of womb do you have..."