127: I simply feel that you should be eliminated.

"Who is going to be a father?"

"You, Imperial Son-in-Law. You are going to be a father."

"Whose father am I going to be?"

"What are you talking about? The Two Highnesses are pregnant."

"Preg—pregnant with what?"

"...Aunt, why don't you call the imperial physician to take a look at the Imperial Son-in-Law? Could the Imperial Son-in-Law have suffered from a hysterical disorder due to excessive surprise?"

It wasn't that the maid was being rude, but because Mo Yingqi's reaction was so funny that even Ying Hong couldn't help but laugh out loud: "The Imperial Son-in-Law is just too happy. Please don't be nervous; The Two Highnesses are with child."

Mo Yingqi's mouth hung open, completely unable to close. He never imagined that after going out to meet his master and returning, he would be told by Ying Hong and the maids that Luo Yongan and Luo Yongning were pregnant?

"Yingqi, look at how old you are, why are you still acting so silly?" Luo Yongan had a smile on her lips. "Yongning and I suddenly had morning sickness this morning. I checked our pulses, and it should be certain."

Mo Yingqi looked as if his soul had just returned to his body. He pinched his own face hard, then opened his arms and hugged Luo Yongan and Luo Yongning at once: "I'm going to be a father! Hahahaha, I'm actually going to be a father so soon!"

Luo Yongan and Luo Yongning exchanged a glance; their eyes held both helplessness and joy. The helplessness went without saying—neither of them wanted to have children at this time. The imperial court was in a turbulent autumn, and Mo Yingqi was already involved in this conflict. Being pregnant at this time would indeed make many things inconvenient.

But the joy was also real. After all, they both saw the full-faced, happy smile on Mo Yingqi's face when he learned of their pregnancy. There was no helping it; as long as he could be happy, the two sisters really didn't care about anything else.

"Alright, alright. Yongning and I have just become pregnant, and our bodies are not yet stable. How can you be so agitated?" Luo Yongan reached out and touched Mo Yingqi's cheek. "It's just hard on you, but don't worry, Yingqi. Yongning and I can still..."

"Stop, don't even think about it!" Mo Yingqi knew this pair of sisters' thoughts too well now. "You are already pregnant, Sister Yongan, can you not think about those messy things?"

"I wasn't thinking about anything. Yongning and I can still take good care of you, right?" Luo Yongan blinked. "It's Yingqi, what are you thinking about?"

"...I was thinking you wanted to practice martial arts with me."

Luo Yongan's two sentences made Mo Yingqi blush for a moment. Well, it turned out he was the one overthinking it; his own mind was the dirty one.

"Aunt, you have all worked hard these days." Luo Yongning looked back at Ying Hong and the others. "The Empress Mother has already set out to come to the Estate to visit my sister and me. Oh, that's right, the patrols at the Estate still need to be careful. Don't let any unclean people mix in at this time."

"Yes, this servant understands."

After Ying Hong finished speaking, she turned around and led the maids away. Of course... she also conveniently closed the door on her way out. Some of the maids were a bit confused. After leaving the bedchamber, they couldn't help but ask Ying Hong in a low voice: "Aunt, The Two Highnesses are pregnant, why did you close the door?"

"Uh, actually, I'm just used to closing doors." Ying Hong smiled a bit awkwardly. "However, heh, with our Highnesses' constitution, pregnancy doesn't hinder their affairs."

These maids looked at each other. Instead of worrying about whether Luo Yongan and Luo Yongning would cause trouble, they said with a look of reverence: "As expected of The Two Highnesses, they cannot be compared to ordinary people."

"Alright, stop causing trouble." Ying Hong was amused by these girls. "The Highnesses' instructions are correct. The patrols at the Estate need to be taken seriously. Later, go and order more sentries to be placed. These few months are the critical time. With the Highnesses pregnant, I'm afraid the Imperial Son-in-Law will have to return to the capital from time to time. We absolutely cannot make any mistakes here."

Of course, Ying Hong still prayed in her heart that Luo Yongan and Luo Yongning would find some way to keep Mo Yingqi safely tucked away in the Estate until the child was born, without going anywhere.

If the child was gone, that didn't matter, but if Mo Yingqi was gone... then they would all likely be gone too!

"Oh, Yingqi, look at you. My sister and I are just pregnant, it's not like anything happened. There is no need to be so nervous." Luo Yongning looked helplessly at Mo Yingqi, who was busy doing nothing. "Does Yingqi like children that much? Why do I remember that back in the Northern Territory, Yingqi didn't like playing with children?"

"Sister Yongning, I was a child back then too, alright?" Mo Yingqi covered her with a blanket and looked at her speechlessly. "How can things from that time count? Besides, this is our child. To be honest, it's like a bond formed between you, me, and Sister Yongan, and the child is the embodiment of this bond."

"Hehe, that's right." Luo Yongan gently stroked her still-flat lower abdomen. "By the way, Yingqi, let's name the child?"

"Ah? It's too early, right? We don't even know if it's a boy or a girl."

"It's fine. I don't know why, but I always feel it will be a daughter." Luo Yongan's voice was still incomparably gentle, but a trace of coldness flashed in her eyes. "I don't know why, but this thought is getting stronger and stronger."

"A daughter? A daughter is good, as beautiful and gentle as you and Sister Yongning." Mo Yingqi was even happier when he heard this. "If you ask me, a daughter is even better... If it really is a daughter, then why not call her Wei'er and Xue'er? Let's just use your original names."

"Good, everything is up to you."

Luo Yongan really had no way to deal with this infatuated fool, Mo Yingqi. She had once heard her Maternal Grandmother mention a swordswoman in the Jianghu who had extremely high martial arts skills. Even her Maternal Grandmother couldn't help but sigh when mentioning her: "Unprecedented and unrepeatable, ancient and peerless. You think Maternal Grandmother is strong? Compared to her, I am but twinkling stars; how could I be compared to the bright moon?"

That swordswoman eventually fell into a crazed love, falling for a talented and peerlessly handsome man. The two should have been a loving couple, but the swordswoman had an absurdly strong possessiveness and desire for control. The young gentleman had a childhood sweetheart, a neighbor's sister who was like a sister to him. They were already betrothed to others, and the two had no improper behavior, yet the swordswoman cruelly killed her entire family of over twenty people.

The young gentleman felt it was absurd and cut ties with the swordswoman. However, the swordswoman's martial arts were shockingly high, and she abducted the young gentleman to her sect. But the young gentleman's family background was prominent, and his father was a powerful official in his time. How could they let it go?

But the swordswoman was determined; anyone who wouldn't let them be together deserved to die. She killed the young gentleman's parents, relatives, friends, and acquaintances.

The young gentleman tried to seek death several times but failed. He was just a weak scholar; how could he be the opponent of this female demon with supreme martial arts? In the end, the swordswoman became pregnant. The young gentleman took advantage of the swordswoman's labor to set a fire. But he didn't expect that in the big fire, the swordswoman would neither dodge nor hide, holding the young gentleman and the newborn child, laughing crazily.

What she said, what kind of last words she left behind, no one knows. Even Nangong Wumeng couldn't help but sigh when mentioning this: "I don't think she was wrong, it's just that her methods were too extreme."

Regarding this, Luo Yongan and Luo Yongning deeply agreed. Maternal Grandmother was right; her methods were indeed too extreme.

Originally, the two had mutual affection. Even if you detested that young gentleman's neighbor's sister, you shouldn't have done it yourself. Was she important? Not important; it didn't matter if she died.

But if the two developed resentment and cracks appeared, no matter how much you did, these cracks would always exist. Not to mention the subsequent, almost unreasonable imprisonment by the swordswoman, killing parents and the whole family, and even cruelly exterminating the families of friends.

They could understand that swordswoman because they were the same kind of people. But they did not agree with this method because neither of the two sisters wanted to see Mo Yingqi loathe them.

Trapping the body is far inferior to imprisoning the heart. As long as there is "Love Follows," once the sisters' plan is completely successful, Mo Yingqi will never be able to leave them ever again.

"Having said so much, does Miss Su understand what I mean now?"

Luo Yongan let Luo Yongning hold onto Mo Yingqi, while she lied about having things to do. In fact, she went to a quiet courtyard in the Estate.

Su Yan sat uneasily on a chair, her head lowered, trembling all over, not daring to look up at the beautiful Legitimate Princess in front of her.

From the first time she saw Luo Yongan, Su Yan was amazed that there could be such a beautiful girl in this world. Even though Luo Yongan was not yet an adult at that time, she was born with a charming aura, especially those peach blossom eyes, which were simply soul-snatching and world-toppling.

But when these two sisters went crazy, they were like the evil ghosts in rumors, evil spirits crawling out of hell, the killing gods of heaven.

The fear Su Yan had for these sisters was deeply engraved in her memory, completely impossible to erase. Even now, the expression on Luo Yongan's face when looking at her was extremely calm, even with a smile, but Su Yan still didn't dare to look up, didn't dare to look at her.

"You can rest assured. Although that Old Daoist Priest has practiced martial arts for many years, how could there be no price for practicing that Universal Poison Immunity technique?" Luo Yongan supported her chin gently, as if coaxing her. "None of the women harmed by him were touched by him. It can be considered his last bit of decency... although, I still really want him to die."

"You, you could have done it yourselves. Why go through all the trouble to make me do it?"

Even so, Su Yan was still unwilling. Since she entered the capital, she had been imprisoned by Luo Yongan and Luo Yongning. Every day, it was either learning etiquette and music theory or taking some strange medicine.

Su Yan didn't understand pharmacology, and she knew nothing about medical skills. But she instinctively felt that this medicine was probably not a good thing.

However, she was at the mercy of others, and the other party was a Legitimate Princess of Daxing, with overwhelming power, and The Emperor spoiled them without bottom lines. She had no choice.

"Believe me, Miss Su, if I could, I would want to do it myself." Luo Yongan sighed as if in regret, but Su Yan didn't feel any helplessness from her at all; instead, it felt a bit pretentious. "But it goes without saying for Yongning and me. As a dignified Legitimate Princess, it is not good to personally step into the arena to fight that Daoist to the death, so we can only use this method."

Su Yan's hands couldn't help trembling. What did this have to do with her? She was just an ordinary person. If one really had to talk about the things between the Su family and the Mo family in the past, it had nothing to do with her.

Just because she had liked Mo Yingqi, and because she had a marriage engagement with him, did she have to be this cannon fodder and go die for them?

"Miss Su, I am still willing to discuss this with you properly. Otherwise, if I let my sister come over, perhaps you wouldn't be so hesitant and indecisive?"

Luo Yongan's words made Su Yan's heart go cold for more than half. But before she could speak, Luo Yongan smiled and continued: "Yongning is the type of person who, except for Yingqi, sometimes even I cannot control when she goes crazy. I think Miss Su understands this, right?"

"Besides, Miss Su, you should understand that whoever I, Luo Yongan, want to go, must go. Don't be afraid that you think I am using power to oppress people, but the fact is just like this. Just because I am the Eldest Legitimate Daughter of the current Emperor, because I am the Eldest Legitimate Princess of Daxing, I can be willful, I can act recklessly, and I can even enjoy many privileges."

"Therefore, Miss Su, you are not only working for me now, but also for the imperial court. Your father has already been exiled, and I kept your brother safe with one word. If you can accomplish this, I can even let him be promoted."

"Those civil officials and Righteous Officials open their mouths with integrity and close their mouths with not coveting power... Truly ridiculous. If everyone were like me, do you think they would still say these things? You also don't need to think I am excessive, because I have the capital to be excessive, and even more, the means to be excessive."

Su Yan still lowered her head and said nothing. Luo Yongan was right; she indeed had the capital to be excessive. Now, she and her brother's family were like insects pinched in the palms of the Luo sisters. Life or death was entirely a matter of a single thought from them.

"So, Miss Su, you should be glad that you can still be used by others." Luo Yongan slowly let go of her hand that was supporting her chin. "Many people in this world, even if they want to be used, don't have this opportunity. Don't think I'm mocking you, or that I'm saying something exaggerated; this is the truth."

"Your father, oh right, and Zhang Jiawen, don't they know they are chess pieces? Don't they know they will be abandoned one day? They understand it too well."

"But they still did it. Even if they are chess pieces, even if they are being used, at least... it proves you still have the value of being used, isn't that right?"

Su Yan's complexion changed from red to white, and finally, there was no trace of blood left. Her body completely slumped on that chair. After a long while, Su Yan spoke in a hoarse voice: "I understand, Your Highness. I am willing to do these things, only asking Your Highness... to spare my brother's family."

"This is natural, I keep my word." Luo Yongan slowly stood up. "Oh right, Miss Su, actually I don't dislike you, never have. It's just that I don't know why, I just want you to do this."

"If you insist on me giving you a reason... maybe I simply feel that I want to eliminate you? Ha, who knows? Maybe in a past life or a future life, you wronged me, or wronged Yingqi, so I am so annoyed by you?"