Reborn as the Crippled King's Beloved-Chapter 180 - Contraceptive Soup No I Wont Drink It

Chapter 180: Chapter 180: Contraceptive Soup? No, I Won’t Drink It!

Chapter 180 -180: Contraceptive Soup? No, I Won’t Drink It!

“Miss, would you like something to eat first? I can go to the kitchen and find you something.”

After the old woman left, the maid looked at Murong Man’s face and said cautiously.

Murong Man’s face was stern, and a terrible emotion was surging in her eyes.

After a good while, she seemed to suppress the hatred in her heart and said:

“Go ahead.”

She figured that the Second Prince probably would not come to her room to spend the night today, after all, she was just a concubine.

The Second Prince could not possibly disregard the Principal Consort’s feelings to visit her, his concubine.

Moreover, she also knew that the Second Prince must be annoyed because of the incident at the Marquis Mansion, which had also implicated his reputation.

If it were any other man, he probably would not have married her by now.

But the Second Prince still married her as a concubine, and she was still grateful and happy, feeling that she was in his heart.

Before long, the maid Hong Feng came back with red eyes and empty-handed.

Murong Man’s face darkened: “What happened? Did they not let you take anything from the kitchen?”

Hong Feng nodded, “Miss, those people in the kitchen are too awful. They said that the ingredients were portioned for today’s banquet and wouldn’t let me take anything. I asked for just some pastries or fruits, but they made excuses and didn’t allow me to take them, they even pushed me away.”

“How outrageous!”

Murong Man’s face flushed red with anger.

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She had just arrived at the Second Prince’s Mansion, and these lowly servants were all siding with Yun Weiwei!

Yun Weiwei really had good tactics; I really underestimated her before!

So early on, she was putting me in my place, do all these servants think I have no chance of rising again?

Murong Man gritted her teeth, thinking that once she carried the Imperial Grandson, she must find a way to replace all these servants!

Each one of them looking up and trampling down on lowly servants!

“Why cry, what’s there to cry about, who can predict the future? Just wait, Yun Weiwei will not have good days ahead! Hong Feng, if the Second Prince comes later, make another trip to the kitchen, then come back crying. I won’t have to do anything; the Second Prince himself will deal with it and expose Yun Weiwei’s true colors!”

Hong Feng quickly agreed.

However, the mistress and servant waited and waited, waited till the sun set over the hills, till all the guests outside had gone to their homes, till the cries of the autumn cicadas grew fainter, and still, the Second Prince had not stepped foot into this courtyard.

Murong Man stood at the entrance of the yard with bloodshot eyes.

She had known the Second Prince would not come to stay the night, but he should at least have come to see her, to comfort her with a few words!

When dawn broke, some lower-ranked servants were sweeping outside. Seeing Murong Man and her servant still standing there, they all covered their mouths and snickered, quickly passing the word around so that everyone in the back court knew that Concubine Murong had waited all night for the Second Prince and he hadn’t shown up.

Hong Feng advised Murong Man, “Miss, please, go back to your room and rest. Look, many servants are quietly coming to watch the excitement. They are really good-for-nothings!”

Murong Man instead became calm.

“Since I have no face to speak of anyway, I might as well go all out. If this matter reaches the Second Prince, he will actually pity me.”

It must be said, after standing quietly for a night, Murong Man had truly come to understand, and by forgoing her dignity, she indeed gained the Second Prince’s pity.

Even if the Second Prince held a grudge, he still had some feelings for Murong Man. Hearing that she had stood outside the courtyard all night, as a man, his vanity was greatly satisfied.

When Murong Man came in the morning, her face pale, to serve tea to him and Yun Weiwei, the Second Prince personally helped her up.

“Manman, why are your hands so cold? I heard from the servants that you waited all night. Now, as autumn deepens and the dew grows cold, you must take care of your body.”

“Yes, Sister Man… No, that’s not right, look at me, I should be calling you little sister, shouldn’t I? Little sister, from now on, let’s serve His Highness together, and you must take good care of yourself. Don’t end up frail and weak like me, causing His Highness to be distracted by affairs of the harem.”

Yun Weiwei’s tone was extremely gentle.

Murong Man knew she was showing off, boasting that she was the principal wife and she herself was a concubine, naturally relegated to “little sister.”

She also warned herself not to feign weakness like her, lest it distract the Second Prince and turn it into her own fault.

Murong Man felt a bitter itch in her teeth, especially when she saw Yun Weiwei’s face, pale yet flushed, and remembered how a maid had deliberately mentioned that last night the Second Prince had called for water twice, spending most of the night favoring Yun Weiwei, which only intensified her loathing.

She was also aware that currently the Second Prince wasn’t particularly favored. If the matters of the harem were to distract and irritate the Second Prince, it wouldn’t be good for her either.

Even if she had to fight with Yun Weiwei, she could only do so covertly.

She would endure it for the time being, as the Second Prince was bound to favor her at some point. As long as she could become pregnant, all of Yun Weiwei’s schemes would count for nothing.

She wondered if Murong Qian had managed to convince Murong Jiu to tamper with the herbs in Yun Weiwei’s conditioning medicine.

However, in the following days, whenever the Second Prince visited her room, Yun Weiwei would excuse herself as unwell and send the Second Prince away.

Murong Man was extremely depressed, knowing full well that Yun Weiwei was doing it on purpose, but she was just a concubine—what could she possibly do?

Finally, when she and the Second Prince had a real encounter, the next morning a bowl of pitch-dark medicine was delivered from the kitchen.

“What is this medicine? I’m not ill, why are you sending me medicine?”

“This is Contraceptive Soup, sent here by the Second Princess Consort,” said the maid.

The old maid’s smile hid her needles, and behind her stood two strong maidservants, ready to force the drink down Murong Man’s throat should she resist.

Murong Man couldn’t believe it. Yun Weiwei dared to openly make her drink Contraceptive Soup? Where did she get the courage?

“Does His Highness know about this? Does she have His Highness’s approval to do this? A bunch of troublesome servants, get out of my way, I need to see His Highness!”

The old maid blocked her directly, sneering:

“If His Highness didn’t agree, would our Second Princess Consort dare to make you drink Contraceptive Soup? Concubine Murong, look at what your status is now; do you really think you can bear a concubine-born son before anyone else? In the Capital City, which prominent family would let a concubine-born son be born first and become a laughingstock? Concubine, I advise you to be sensible. Be careful not to displease His Highness, or he might forget you in the back of his mind.”

Murong Man stood frozen in place.

Seeing this, the old maid immediately signaled the two strong maidservants, and together, they forced the Contraceptive Soup down Murong Man’s throat.

Murong Man sat on the ground, unable to regain her composure for a long time.

The Contraceptive Soup… was it really the Second Prince who wanted her to drink it?

Did the Second Prince look down on her status just like those other people?

Could she no longer even hope to bear a child?

Murong Man was utterly disheartened.

The Imperial Examination was over.

Lou Zixi returned to his residence, and the first thing he did was take a bath, because during the exams, all bodily functions had to be taken care of in one place. By the end, the smell was almost unbearable.

After cleaning himself up, he saw the gift sent by the Princess Consort.

Manager Chai excitedly called to him, “Zixi, come and see what the Princess Consort has sent you!”