Chapter 1: Giving Birth in a Coffin

  Dark clouds are gathering, the sky was clear just now but seems to be pouring down. On the winding small road, several men dressed as family servants are carrying a coffin towards the big pit dug in the woods.

  "It was fine just now, how did it change in a moment, as if it's going to fall down." The man walking on the left front of the coffin looked up at the sky and shuddered.

  "They say it might be the vengeful spirit of the princess that won't leave and has come to take revenge." said the house servant walking behind on the right side.

  "I'm telling you, what are you afraid of? Even if the princess's ghost doesn't disperse, she won't come to take revenge on you. But if we don't complete our mission, one by one, we'll all become ghosts." A sturdy house servant from the left rear spoke with resentment.

  "Hurry up, hurry up! We're almost there, let's finish quickly and go back to report."

  Before long, they arrived at the destination. Several servants hastily put down the coffin and picked up the shovels to fill in the soil. At this time, a strong wind blew, and the sky suddenly flashed with lightning, striking down fiercely, scaring the several servants who fell to the ground, got up stumbling and ran back. Their panicked appearance was as if there were ferocious beasts behind them that would devour humans.

  The coffin stood alone, the unfilled earth resembling a giant beast's open mouth. The wind howled, clouds surged, and at that moment, a bolt of lightning struck the coffin, enveloping it in a white glow. In an instant, the wind subsided, the clouds parted, and the sky returned to its pale blue hue, as if nothing had ever happened.

  After who knows how long, a 15 or 16 year old girl wearing a light green dress stumbled and staggered into the forest, running until she reached the coffin. She jumped in, pounding on the coffin with her fists and digging at the dirt with her hands. Alas, her slender fingers soon became bloody.

  "Wu wu, miss, you must hold on, I'm coming to save you. It's all my fault for not being able to protect you, miss. You must hold on, young master can't have anything happen to him either." Tears blurred her vision, Xiao Lian lifted her arm and wiped her eyes fiercely, continuing to dig at the soil with both hands. The king's heart is really cruel, how could he say that miss was pregnant with young master and still send her back to the general's mansion? And old master wasn't around, second madam didn't let miss enter the mansion, and said so many unpleasant things. "Miss, old master will be back soon, he'll definitely take your side." How could the king not believe miss? Miss loves the king so much, how could she do such a thing? It's obvious that she was framed, Xiao Lian thought angrily.

  It hurts, like a tearing apart. There are sobbing sounds beside my ear. "Miss, wake up quickly, it's all because of the useless canopy, can't protect you, wu wu..." The sobbing sounds mixed with the knocking on the wooden board come over. Damn, who is making so much noise? As soon as I open my eyes, everything is black, and when I raise my hand to touch, it's all hard wood. What kind of broken place is this? A narrow, four-sided space, with a brain full of black lines... what situation is this? Didn't she get into a car accident? Shouldn't she be in the hospital? How did she wake up in a place that feels like a coffin? She's not dead, who is so cruel to not send her to the hospital and instead put her in a coffin?

  No, the crying continued, lower abdomen burning, touched with hand, belly bulging high, wet and sticky below, a bloody smell rushed into the nostrils, accompanied by another wave of pain. Terrifying! This is going to be... childbirth!

  She remembered that she was helping her husband deliver a document, but the car broke down halfway and crashed into an oncoming truck. She was thrown out of the car at the time and fainted after a flash of light in front of her eyes. This body is obviously not hers, so now she should be the legendary traverser, reborn as a child in a coffin. In her previous life, due to an accident, she injured her uterus, and the doctor said that she would never become a mother this lifetime. Is this heaven's compensation for her? Another wave of pain came, and Yun Qing quickly calmed down, thinking about how to open the coffin lid and give birth to the child first, otherwise, after being reborn, she would face death again. This body is too weak, lifting her hand to push the coffin lid above didn't have enough strength.

  "Wu wu, miss, hold on, I'm coming to save you. When the master returns, he will definitely take charge for you." The maid Ceng was digging the soil with her hands non-stop, and her slender fingers were also stained with blood due to the continuous digging, but she still didn't stop.

  "Knock, knock." The curtain heard a sound coming from the coffin and was stunned. She raised her head to listen carefully and asked in a trembling voice: "Miss, is that you? Is that you? You're not dead, are you? Xiao Lian knew Miss would be fine." In an instant, Xiao Lian rushed to the coffin, crying with joy.

  It's great, this little girl is quite good, listening to her tone doesn't seem fake, she should be a loyal little girl. Yun Qing slightly hooked the corner of her mouth, and a warm feeling rose in her heart.

  "Is that so, don't panic, first go find something to open this coffin lid, the rest is not a problem, wait until I come out and talk." A cold voice came, but it carried a soothing power.

  "Yes, miss, I'll go find him right away. You must hold on, wait for me, I'll be back soon." After saying that, Xiaolian stumbled up and ran back in the direction she came from.

  Hearing the sound of the curtain running away, Yun Qing estimated that she would be back in a while, and there must not be anyone to help her here. It hurts, it really hurts too much. Now she has to rescue herself, although she had heard many women giving birth in her previous life, but after all, she hadn't given birth before, and under such circumstances, she could only follow the contractions according to what she understood from her past life, adjusting her breathing, and using force.

  Yun Qing's clothes were all soaked with sweat, and with a loud cry of the baby, Yun Qing finally let out a sigh of relief. After her strength recovered slightly, she sat up halfway, tore off her clothes to wrap the baby up.

  At this time, a hurried footsteps sounded, Yun Qing knew that Lian Er was back and the corner of his mouth slightly hooked up.

  "Miss, I found the lid of the coffin on the road ahead, I'll pry it open now, you wait." As soon as he finished speaking, the iron shovel was swung up and pried at the nails in the four corners of the coffin. The air inside the coffin had gradually thinned out, Yun Qing slowed down her breathing as much as possible to leave enough air for the baby.

  At last, Xiaolian pried open the coffin nails. Yunqing raised both hands to push open the coffin lid and carried the baby out from inside.

  When she saw Yun Qing walk out, Xiao Lian couldn't help but shed tears. She took the child from Yun Qing's hands with a strong heart and only called out two words: "Miss." Yun Qing knew how disheveled he looked now, so he forced a faint smile on his face, like the first light of the moon, which made him seem as if he was shrouded in a layer of clear mist. Even though he was covered in dust, it couldn't hide his elegant demeanor.

  Lian'er stared blankly at Yun Qing, feeling that something was different about her mistress.