Quick Transmigration: Underdog Turns out to be Untouchable

Chapter 905: Chapter 816: Unwilling to Be Enslaved 36

In order to ensure Jing Jieyu’s health, the imperial physician checks her pulse three times a day to make sure her Dragon Embryo is stable and healthy. However, Jing Jieyu trusts Nangong Shuangshuang’s medical skills more and has always wanted to find an opportunity to let Nangong Shuangshuang check her pulse.

It’s just that the nanny and palace maids serving the Dragon Embryo supervise very strictly, so Nangong Shuangshuang and Lan Ying can’t get close to Jing Jieyu. It is not easy for Jing Jieyu to find an opportunity.

Jing Jieyu waited for a full two months before she found an opportunity when she went out and deliberately staggered slightly as she passed by Nangong Shuangshuang. Nangong Shuangshuang immediately reached out to support Jing Jieyu and grasped Jing Jieyu’s wrist in the process.

Actually, if Jing Jieyu hadn’t been unable to find another opportunity, and she had been feeling some pain in her stomach recently, and her complexion was haggard, but the imperial physician couldn’t detect any problems, making her uneasy, she wouldn’t have taken such a risk to let Nangong Shuangshuang check her pulse.

After Jing Jieyu’s pretend fall, although the nanny and palace maids immediately came up to her, Jing Jieyu insisted on keeping her hand in Nangong Shuangshuang’s for a while, giving Nangong Shuangshuang the chance to check her pulse.

Jing Jieyu’s pulse was normal, and the fetus seemed healthy, but Nangong Shuangshuang, with her years of medical experience, felt that while the Dragon Embryo seemed healthy, something was not quite right.

To ensure safety, Nangong Shuangshuang took the opportunity while holding Jing Jieyu’s hand to channel her accumulated strength into Jing Jieyu’s body through her palm, to perceive the condition of the fetus in Jing Jieyu’s abdomen.

The result truly shocked Nangong Shuangshuang, as she discovered that the fetus’ feet were not fully developed! To be precise, the feet had become mermaid feet, with the legs joined together like a mermaid’s tail.

Nangong Shuangshuang is certain that during her previous pulse-checking, to ensure reliability, she had also used her strength to perceive Jing Jieyu’s fetus, and she was very sure that at that time, the fetus was fine without any issues.

There’s no reason for a previously well-developed fetus to suddenly have such issues unless someone tampered with Jing Jieyu’s child in between. In such close supervision, the perpetrator would likely be among the nannies and maids responsible for the Dragon Embryo, and possibly even the imperial physician, one or several of them.

Nangong Shuangshuang felt heavy-hearted; the person behind this scheme was truly ruthless. Killing Jing Jieyu’s fetus would be a hundred times kinder than such a plot. If a concubine gives birth to a deformed child, even going out of the palace to become a nun and pray is a luxury—this kind of crime is punishable by death!

The first person Nangong Shuangshuang suspected to have the ability to scheme against Jing Jieyu was the Empress Dowager, who was known for her kind appearance and was praised by the world for her compassion, yet had immense ambition.

Nangong Shuangshuang was also careless, assuming that since Lady could give birth, the Empress Dowager would go along with it, rather than acting against the Emperor’s offspring early on.

Nangong Shuangshuang assumed that those attending to the Dragon Embryo, for the sake of their own lives, would not harm Jing Jieyu and would supervise each other. However, she forgot that they might cherish their lives, but if threatened with family, they might compromise.

And if someone harbored malice, even in strict surveillance, those looking to harm might still find a loophole.

Rubbing her forehead, Nangong Shuangshuang felt a severe headache. After entering this reincarnated body of Nangong Shuangshuang, her Divine Soul Power was fully suppressed, and her mental speed was greatly reduced due to being in such an ordinary body.

If she had just a bit more power to speed up her mental processes, she wouldn’t have missed this loophole. Sadly, her intelligence is significantly reduced now, and her past memories, due to bodily limitations, feel like watching a movie, lacking any real sensation. Her skills from memory cannot be utilized, leaving her outwitted by an ancient person’s intelligence.

This also made Nangong Shuangshuang alert. She used to disregard mortals due to awakening her Main God memories, always feeling superior. Yet she forgot that she is currently also a mortal in tribulation.

In this tribulation, she is not the formidable Main God Shuangshuang feared by the Demon Clan, but an ordinary person whose intelligence might not surpass these ancient people, vulnerable to being outwitted by clever mortals.

This identity shift is actually a form of training in itself. She needs to abandon her Main God’s arrogance during her journey, truly become an ordinary person, and traverse each world without holding on to her God-like self-image.

When the tribulation ends, she should completely let go of her mortal experiences, missing nothing, regretting nothing, having no lingering attachments. Only then can she move through her trials, dissolve her inner demonic thoughts, and fully restore her glory as the Main God.

Having understood this, Nangong Shuangshuang felt enlightened. Once she stopped viewing herself as Main God Shuangshuang and purely as Nangong Shuangshuang, her mind broadened, and the inner demonic thoughts that had occasionally troubled her since awakening from the Violence Room instantly disappeared.

Nangong Shuangshuang felt a sense of relief in her chest, which had been mysteriously constrained since waking in the Violence Room. She now understood that as a mortal, it’s normal to have victories and defeats in human interaction. She ought to give her all, no longer underestimate her enemies, and find a way to help Jing Jieyu through this crisis.

Nangong Shuangshuang did not rush to tell Jing Jieyu about her discovery. She knows how much Jing Jieyu values her child, and abruptly revealing the truth might be a blow she can’t bear, which would show on her face and be noticed by others.

The immediate priority is to investigate the family members of all suspicious individuals to see if there are any anomalies, such as family members suddenly spending extravagantly or having a sudden influx of large sums of money or other unusual occurrences.

Besides this, it’s vital to find out what was used to harm the fetus and by what method. This has to be done quickly because Nangong Shuangshuang doesn’t know if the toxin causing Jing Jieyu’s fetus to deform might also affect Jing Jieyu’s own body.

If the substance prevents Jing Jieyu from ever conceiving again, it would be problematic. Although Nangong Shuangshuang’s power can remove all negative effects from Jing Jieyu, her power is severely limited when released.

Life in the harem seems peaceful yet is fraught with danger. If her power is exhausted and a crisis unexpectedly arises, it would be troublesome. So, unless absolutely necessary, Nangong Shuangshuang is reluctant to expend her accumulated power.