Hearing Zhi Ning's words, Prince Ji Min stood as if struck by lightning, frozen in place.
Then, with a complete change of color, he warned, "Zhi Ning, I warn you not to joke with me like this."
Zhi Ning said, "I'm not joking with you. I've been throwing up every day lately, throwing up whatever I eat. But I have to force myself to eat because I'm worried about not getting enough nutrition for what's inside my stomach. You're the one who's often joking, not me."
Prince Ji Min suddenly found it hard to breathe and gasped, "But... but, don't you do everything you possibly can to marry me?"
Zhi Ning replied, "It was my brother who did everything he could to marry me off to you, to successfully forge a marital alliance with the Flame Empire."
Tears swirled in Prince Ji Min's eyes as he fought to keep them from falling. The news from Zhi Ning struck him like a bolt from the blue.
"Whose...whose child is it?" Ji Min asked, his voice trembling.
