Chapter 68

Li Yan stood up from the grass, fixing his disheveled white robes. "Can you walk?"

"I suppose I can't even stand all thanks to you!" Shen Nuo flattened himself more onto the grass.

Li Yan half squatted on the grass. "Then get onto my back." He said with a smile. "I will give you a ride!"

Shen Nuo was flabbergasted. "What!!? Are you serious?"

"Do I look like I'm joking?" Li Yan asked tapping his shoulders. "Come on!"

So Shen Nuo wrapped his hands around Li Yan's neck from behind and Li Yan slipped his strong arms under Shen Nuo's knees, raising him.

They came down the mountains together. "Nuo Nuo."

"Hmm?" Shen Nuo hummed in a sleepy voice, resting his chin upon the side of Li Yan's shoulder.

"Who brought you here? Was it Shendu?"

"How do you know?"

Li Yan pursed his lips. "So it was really him." Shen Nuo did not see Li Yan narrow his eyes. "Only he knows of the exact location of this place except me..."

"Oh. But how?"

"Zhen does not wish to speak about it."

The moment Li Yan switched from I to Zhen, Shen Nuo knew Li Yan was irritated. Shen Nuo was too drowsy to argue and annoy Li Yan a bit more anyway. So he thought of having a short nap while he can.

Li Yan was baffled to the extreme. While Shen Nuo had slept on the grass, Li Yan had searched his scroll for a long time, but in vain. He couldn't find it at all. No wonder...

He didn't understand even after making things clear, why was Shendu like this? If Shendu was able to break through the killer enchantments around Jingshan... He suddenly had a terrible guess in his heart.

"Nuo Nuo..."

"Hmm?"

"Did he by any means, take your blood?"

"Huh?"

"I mean, did you get wounded at least once while he took you here?"

Shen Nuo thought for a moment.

"Think carefully. This is important." Li Yan urged. "Did he by any means come across your blood?"

"I guess so." Shen Nuo said vaguely. "When you sent me the divorce, I signed on it with my blood. I saw Shendu take it and put it underneath his chest lapels before pulling me here. Does that count?"

Li Yan felt his heart burn. So that was how Shendu broke in without even alarming him. He had Shen Nuo's blood with him. Li Yan pursed his thin lips. Looks like he must meet Shendu sooner.

That evening, Li Yan brought Shen Nuo into the nearest town amid the bustling streets full of people.

Shen Nuo was irritated when he found excessive girls staring at Li Yan's devastating beauty. Li Yan truly was handsome as an immortal in his white hair and deep black eyes. His sweeping robes of flowing white did not help Shen Nuo either. He frowned.

Li Yan laughed gently. "Jealous?"

Shen Nuo humped and tilted his face to the side to sleep but his hands tightened onto Li Yan's neck in a death grip that even Li Yan found himself choked in suffocation.

They enjoyed a lot. Li Yan brought him lots of sweets. As the evening deepened, children who ran amid the streets in gangs, circled around Li Yan and Shen Nuo, singing the 'Ode To Spring'.

Shen Nuo pulled out a red thread twined with pearls. He quietly tightened it around Li Yan's neck with eyes full of affection.

"What is it?" Li Yan asked.

"This is my token of love!" Shen Nuo spoke in a genuine whisper. "I twined this for you since months. I had wanted to give this to you. But you only annoyed me. I thought I should throw it back. But now that we..." He blushed shaking his head.

He was still loftily lying on Li Yan's back since five hours. Li Yan despite having to walk amid the bustling crowds in the streets, did not shed a single sweat. He looked refreshed than ever. The fragrance of sandalwood was mind calming.

"Li Yan, won't you also give me one?"

Li Yan coughed lightly. "You might already have it inside you." He suppressed his evil smile and tilted his face away from Shen Nuo to hide his evil intentions. "If within weeks we don't get the result, I'll definitely continue to give it to you until you get the result. Don't worry!"

Shen Nuo did not understand at first. Then suddenly blood rushed into his face. "F@#k you Li Yan!"

"I did it for seven hours." Li Yan didn't hold back in his shamelessness. "Could it be I didn't give you enough?"

Shen Nuo's scalp went numb. He struggle out of Li Yan's back furiously. "Shameless!"

But Li Yan pulled him into his snuggle with a smile and quickly kissed his lips. The moving crowds were too busy. They did not see the abnormality. Shen Nuo pursed his lips silently and smiled throwing his hands around Li Yan's shoulders hugging him. "Li Yan..."

"Yes?"

"Li Yan..."

"..." Li Yan looked confused. That face was too cute.

"Li Yan..." Shen Nuo laughed gently, hugging Li Yan tighter. If he could be with Li Yan like this for the rest of his life, he would have no regrets...

Another fifteen days later, Li Yan brought Shen Nuo from Jingshan back to the Palace. Li Yan was busy again. So Shen Nuo had to withdraw back to Mingyue Palace quietly. Minghe accompanied him almost everyday, spending the night together in the warm snuggle of daddy Shen...

Meanwhile, Li Yan faced a terrible issue. Shendu had actually fled. The Grand Martial of Li Yang Empire had fled away with the phoenix scroll. So Li Yan didn't get the chance to meet him personally.

Li Yan looked at the message left by Shendu on the desk in the Study along with the jade seal. It only had two characters.

Goodbye...

Li Yan was in a turmoil. What had happened to Shendu? He wasn't an irresponsible person like this. Why did he take the phoenix scroll? Was he rebelling?

Li Yan felt a thorn in his heart. No matter what, after all, Shendu was the son of his enemy. He immediately released the edict handing over the Northern Border Fortress to Deputy Martial Shen Hao temporarily. This won't do. He must definitely find back Shendu.

No matter what, he must definitely get back the phoenix scroll. It was too dangerous if it fall to the wrong hands.

And few weeks later, one curious evening, while Shen Nuo was feeding the carps in his pool, he suddenly felt dizzy and vomited, falling onto his knees. Li Yan who came behind to meet him was horror-stricken. He quickly huddled Shen Nuo into his chamber and immediately summoned the imperial doctor.

The doctor who checked Shen Nuo's pulse smiled broadly. "Congratulations, Your Majesty, Consort Shen is pregnant!"

Li Yan felt his heart burn. He sat by the bed, leaning down and silently hugged Shen Nuo into his arms for a long time. He didn't speak a single word. His heart was beating wildly. His eyes drew moist and red. Shen Nuo smiled hugging him back.

"Li Yan..."

Silence...

"Li Yan?"

Still silence...

But Shen Nuo felt Li Yan's shoulders tremble slightly.

"???" Shen Nuo slowly tore apart from Li Yan and looked at Li Yan's face and gasped. "You-!" He was flabbergasted. "You're crying!"

Li Yan silently pursed his lips. "I need to be alone for a while." He said in an extremely hoarse whisper. "I'll come back soon, ok? Don't mess around!"

Shen Nuo nodded in concern. "Take care then."

Li Yan came back to his chamber with a cold expressionless face. But the moment he slid the door shut behind him, he couldn't contain any longer. Tears bursted out of his eyes like a river. He silently leaned his back onto the sliding door and slid down slowly until he sat on the stony tiles.

His heart was aching. His throat was paining. It hurts a lot. Shen Nuo was pregnant? This... Li Yan really did not know what to feel at all. He would have been happy to the extreme if the circumstances were different. He was going to be a father. Why should he not be happy?

But, he only felt pain. Shen Nuo... The person whom he loved silently for two lifetimes long without the fate to receive the love back from that person, was now bearing his child. It was like a long dream. Why should he not be happy?

But he only felt his heart ached...

Will he be able to see the face of his child even for once before he die? Will he ever be able to hold the child in his hands even for once?

Would he be able to hear that child call him father for the first time? Would he be able to see the child of his grow up?

No... He would die... He won't be able to see his child even fo once... How can he say this to Shen Nuo? A thin bloodline felled down his lips. He tightened his eyes full of tears.

Why was everything happening only to him? What had he done to bear this kind of a horrible fate? He suddenly remembered memories from his last life. Didn't he make Shi Lian pregnant and kill her child even before the child was born?

Tears gushed down Li Yan's eye more and more. True! He was totally a brainless lunatic back then. He didn't feel anything. He only wanted revenge. He only wanted to hate those no made Shen Nuo's life worse...

But, Shi Lian... She must have dreamed a lot about that child before the child was killed. Must she have felt the same pain the moment the child was aborted? Li Yan did not know. His fingertips trembled. He only knew one thing at the end. "It was me who brought this to myself." He whispered in a heart broken voice.

The karma was being returned in several folds. In this life, he knew he cannot run away from the numerous sinful crimes he had committed in with madness in his previous life. He brought this himself. He was now paying for what he did to Consort Lian back then...

Li Yan did not know what to feel anymore. His heart felt already numb. His face was deadly pale. He swallowed trying to calm down and forced a painful smile.

So that night when Li Yan came to Mingyue Palace to spend the night with Shen Nuo, Shen Nuo rolled on the bed and gently tapped Li Yan on his shoulder with a red face. "Li Yan... Perhaps tonight, we can..." He looked at Li Yan hopefully.

True, Li Yan had repeatedly asked him for it all these days. But since the play inside that cave at Jingshan, Shen Nuo was too afraid. It was too painful for him in the first time. He did not dare think of a second time. He always made the lame excuse of feeling weak and aching all over, whenever Li Yan brought up the matter. Li Yan could only press him onto a wall or a desk, hug him and kiss him and vent on his lips and neck.

But today, Li Yan flipped him to the other side and hugged him tightly from behind. Shen Nuo had his back firmly pressed against Li Yan's chest. Li Yan had often loved this posture recently. Li Yan wrapped his arms around Shen Nuo's waist and gently slipped his hand in through Shen Nuo's loose waist laces.

A cold shudder ran down Shen Nuo's back. He threw his head back moaning. But Li Yan's warm and comfortable palm gently started caressing his stomach. "No." He whispered in a hoarse voice. "We are not going to do that until the baby is born. You're not a woman. You're a ger. Not only it will hurt, it won't be good to the baby."

Shen Nuo sensed the slight shudder in that voice. Li Yan had been always eager regarding bed matters. He would be always ready to do with Shen Nuo if Shen Nuo was willing. But why was he like this today? Shen Nuo felt a little guilty. He flipped to the other side facing Li Yan and burrowed into Li Yan's arms pouting his mouth. "Then until that day, just hug and kiss..."

Li Yan silently pulled Shen Nuo closer and pressed his thin cold lips against the top of Shen Nuo's fluffy head. Though he said like that just to console Shen Nuo, he himself knew well that that day will never come.

"Nuo Nuo..."

"Hmm?"

"Promise me. No matter what the circumstances are in the future. No matter how it turns out between us in the future, you must protect our child. And you must also be safe, ok?"

Shen Nuo was drowsy as he took a deep breath of fragrant sandalwood scent from Li Yan. He played with Li Yan's long white hair that felled onto Li Yan's sturdy chest. "I have a good husband to protect me. Why should I care?"

Li Yan's heart bled. "Don't mess around, Nuo Nuo, you're not a child anymore!" That voice was a bit hard and it was also wrenched with pain.

Shen Nuo realized something was wrong. He raised his face to Li Yan. "Why do you suddenly say this?"

Li Yan was silent for a long time. His heart was in a storm. "Nothing." He said at last in a whisper. "I just feel, not alright. But don't worry, it's just my feelings, perhaps. Anyway, it better to be cautious."

Shen Nuo furrowed his brows. "You had been acting strange since we came from Jingshan. Li Yan! What exactly are you hiding from me?"

Li Yan pulled Shen Nuo's face and pressed it onto his chest without letting Shen Nuo see his face. Shen Nuo did not move. He burried his face in Li Yan's chest.

"We've already come this far. Li Yan... But I really don't understand you."

Li Yan did not say anything. He hugged Shen Nuo tighter.

The room was dipped in darkness so Shen Nuo didn't  see the tears that felled down Li Yan's tightened eyes. He pursed his lips rubbing them against Shen Nuo's head intimately. Shen Nuo was very warm against his body. But that warmth could never melt his frozen heart.

Nuo Nuo... I'm sorry...

Sooner the news spread far and wide that the Imperial Noble Consort of the Emperor was pregnant. The tidings reached the General's Manor too.

Shen Ruoyun had a different coldness towards this.

"Master." His subordinate asked excitedly. "Imperial Noble Consort is our Seventh Young Master! Mingyue Palace just reported that Young Master will come back to General's Manor until the baby is born!"

Ruoyun smirked. "So doesn't that make my work easy?"

The lad next to him had a lame expression. "Master, what does that mean?"

"I hate that bastard Li Yan!" Ruoyun spat through gritted teeth. "So does everything that is mingled with his dirty blood. He's alive all thanks to Shen Nuo!"

The lad anxiously looked at him. "Then... Seventh young master... Baby..."

"Oh yeah!" Ruoyun said narrowing his eyes with a vicious smile. "If it's a daughter, I'll be a good grandfather. Am I not being too merciful?" His eyes darkened. "And if it's a son, I'll kill him!"

"!!!"

The old Martial tilted hi head to the lad. "As always, the throne must be reserved to my only capable son. Shendu..."

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AUTHOR'S NOTE

Yeah, I know this is so sudden, but I decided to temporarily log out from Wattpad due to some inconvenience. I don't know when I would be able to start updating again. Maybe it's tomorrow. Maybe it might take a month, or may be next year.

Secondly, I'm not sure whether I would be able to use this account. So if I fail to log into this, I'll open a new account and bring the rest of this book as "After Transmigration I Became The Villainous Consort Part 2"

I assure you that it would be very interesting with more sharp ups and downs than what I've written so far. Besides, I even hadn't created the murderous battle between our ML and the villain. How can I end it from here? Huh? 🤭

I sincerely hope anyone won't plagiarize my work during my absence. Or start a part 2 with me even without knowing it. 😆 It was really hard for me to come this far amid a lots of studies I had to do. I hope you understand. So if you find a similar book to this, please be kind enough to notify me in the comments. I can still see. 👉

And -

Hey friends, I started writing two new books since I got several ideas. Both are BL consort stories. Hope you'd like them too. 😉

[BL]MY SASSY CONSORT (already updated): the youngest ger son of Prime Minister of Jing, decided to crossdress and replace his sister's marriage to tame a cold and arrogant Emperor.

[BL]THE LOTUS SPIRIT LEGEND (to be updated): a sad story of a beautiful weak lotus spirit who fell in for a cold and a heartless Emperor who did love him.

Please vote and comment if you like them. I like to know your thoughts.

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