Mo Heng had already prepared the labor-inducing medicine, ready to use it should anything go awry with Pei Qin.
The entire month of August passed without any movement.
Lady Chen then started to curse Zhang Shiqian, accusing him of deceiving them, wanting to use them for revenge against Pei Qin, and instead having them be humiliated.
Shen Songming also wrote several letters, worried about Pei Qin, asking whether his godson or goddaughter had been born yet.
It wasn't until the Double Ninth Festival that early in the morning, Pei Qin woke up to contractions.
That wave after wave of pain, each more intense than the last, made Pei Qin unable to refrain from cursing Mo Heng, "If I ever bear you another child, I won't take the Pei surname!"
