Pampered By All In Different Planes-Chapter 350: After Disguising Herself as a Man, the Rabbit Spirit Ran Away with a Baby in Her Womb 60

"You say." Su Zhiruan looked at his determined eyes, but immediately she hung her head.

"I know you are a woman with great strategies," Shen Qingman, however, lifted his gaze, "With such education and abilities, you could thrive anywhere else. Have you... have you ever thought about your future and your child’s? Perhaps remarrying..."

He hesitated, yet he was hopeful, his incessant fidgeting revealed the panic inside him at that moment, which Su Zhiruan noticed completely.

She naturally knew.

If she couldn’t see through Shen Qingman’s thoughts after seven years, it certainly would have been impossible.

Initially, she had pretended to come to the Imperial Palace, aiming to secure a foothold for herself and her child. At that time, she had coaxed the Empress into trusting her and had her appointed as a Princess. To outsiders, she might have indeed seemed the lost Princess returned from the masses.

But later, even if all the people in the world knew she might be a faker, her abilities were too significant, her achievements too numerous, even fiercely dissolving a powerful nation that attempted to encroach on them. She transformed a nearly extinct small Shen Kingdom into a powerful entity that surpassed its larger neighbors. The common people, courtiers, and royal family did not even need her to clarify—naturally, someone would declare she was the true Princess.

The original purpose Shen Qingman had for seeking her was to have her act as the sole Heir of Shen Kingdom remaining in the Imperial Palace while he pursued his dream of becoming a Demon Exterminator by slaying demons.

But what he could never have imagined was that a stay which was supposed to last only three days, he postponed to thirty days, then later extended to two months, and next it was New Year’s Eve... until at last, he had stayed for seven years!

"You want to marry me?" Su Zhiruan, sparing no excess sentiment on her part, found this sudden affection somewhat troublesome. Her words straightforward, she directly met Shen Qingman’s eyes and added, "Why? I remember you initially treated me only as a sister. Besides, I have a child, as you know."

At the beginning, there were absolutely no romantic feelings between them. Shen Qingman naturally and smoothly addressed her as "sister," and his care for her child was as if it were his sister’s child.

But somehow, in their day-to-day interactions, he found the label "sister" he used growing increasingly inappropriate, even transcending familial feelings, gradually mutating.

"I don’t know," Shen Qingman’s voice was soft, his tone sounding very tired, as though he had awoken from a thousand-year slumber. He continued in a low voice, "Because you have a child, I never dared to overstep, to cross the boundaries, but nonetheless, I am moved by you. After being subtly rejected by you several times, I tried to come to the tavern to drink you away, but who would have thought that even the stories the storytellers spoke were about our bizarre adventures? After that, I became a regular here, always coming, always coming."

"But later, the storytellers were changed time and again, each of their tales different, bizarre, saying you would ascend to heaven, saying you were the Mysterious Heavenly Maiden, saying you were destined to leave." Shen Qingman hadn’t been drinking, but he reached out his hand, tightly grasping the wooden rail, just as he had countless times before. Even without the wine, he was deeply entranced, drunkenly unconscious.

Su Zhiruan sighed deeply, casually ruffling his hair, "Don’t worry, when I ascend someday, I will surely send you a message, and I will surely not leave without saying goodbye."

"Okay." Shen Qingman’s voice sounded somewhat dejected, but as Su Zhiruan had already spoken, he said no more and got up to stand with her.

The two walked one after the other in silence, as if the confessions that had just been made had never been spoken.

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As soon as Su Zhiruan alighted from the carriage, she saw several little ghosts lurking around the corner.

"Come here, Mother sees you," Su Zhiruan waved to beckon the four children out from the corner.

She personally gave the orders, and one after another, the children came out.

In the span of seven years, they had all grown considerably, even becoming taller.

After Shen Qingman suggested that they be renamed, Su Zhiruan also took it to heart. After all, the names Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter were just random thoughts of hers, and could hardly carry meaningful sentiments as meticulously as the Internal Affairs Office could.

As children of Princess Su Zhiruan, and the only newborns in the Imperial Palace for years, the Internal Affairs Office, in collaboration with the Ministry of Rites, practically wore out the dictionary to come up with these names.

The youngest sister, previously named Xiaxia, a name personally given by Su Zhiruan, was not changed; the Internal Affairs Office simply added the character Yun in front of her name, thus naming her Yun Xia.

The eldest brother was named Lin An, the second brother Lin You, and the third brother Lin Zhou.

"Mother, Xiaxia also wants to go out and play. Can you take Xiaxia with you next time?" Yun Xia, with her hair in braids, smiled sweetly. She tilted her head up, her snow-white cheeks dangling with tassels, cooing at Su Zhiruan.

"Next time I’ll take you all with me," Su Zhiruan agreed first, looking at her children with a sense of profound emotion.

Although they had never seen their birth father and had wandered with her since birth, they were now being well-cared for.

The concubines in the harem, having no children of their own, doted exceedingly on the four delicately nurtured children, wishing they could pluck stars and moons for them. The Emperor, having never had a daughter in his life, found Yun Xia sweet-talking and charming, and instantly became utterly devoted to her, spoiling her to the skies.

Besides being doted on and charming, what truly amazed the public were the children’s abilities.

At times, even Su Zhiruan found this astounding.

Perhaps because Yun Xia, Lin An, Lin You, and Lin Zhou were her children with a being from another plane, they inherited Changqi’s genes and her abilities, managing to speak and walk shortly after birth.

By the age of three, the four children were already able to recognize most characters.

The main reason they were hailed as prodigies was apparent when they were five years old.

From a young age, Su Zhiruan intentionally guided them, teaching each according to their interests and abilities for comprehensive development.

Late on, during the busiest growth years of Shen Kingdom, Lin An took over the Ministry of War. The senior generals thought Su Zhiruan was merely jesting, entrusting military deployment to a five-year-old child, and nearly resigned to go back to farming. However, Lin An completed all tasks of the Ministry of War meticulously. Even the tasks that previously required eight people working together were now being completed independently by this five-year-old, allowing Su Zhiruan the opportunity to significantly cut down on redundant officials and reduce expenses.

With the arrival of this first prodigy, the second, Lin You, took over the Ministry of Rites, responsible for the imperial examinations and education. Although Lin An’s exemplary performance set a precedent, the public and courtiers remained convinced. However, eliminating total dependence on a five-year-old child was still not entirely believable.

Until one day—