Minghou smiled bitterly: "Zhaozhao and I have been childhood sweethearts since childhood. She was fine until she got pregnant."
"But since she became pregnant, her mood has changed from time to time..."
As if he was considering his words, he paused and continued: "That's why he will be radical."
Su Ruotang withdrew his hand with a calm expression: "How to be radical?"
Minghou lowered his eyes, looked at the woman in his arms, and uttered three words with difficulty, "I can harm myself."
As he spoke, he gently rolled up Xu Zhao's sleeves.
The wide sleeves of the lining were rolled up, revealing arms as white as suet.
However, that section of mutton-fat white jade was covered with terrifying red scratches.
Some have scabs, some have just been scratched, and some have been picked open repeatedly and have suppurated...
Minghuo's eyes were filled with distress.
He lightly touched the scabbed wound on Xu Zhao's wrist with his fingertips, and said in a hoarse and light voice, "Zhao Zhao has been smart since she was a child. If she is allowed to see the child, she will definitely become suspicious."
Su Ruotang stared at the blood-soaked gauze on Xu Zhao's wrist: "She mutilated herself again last night?"
Minghuo nodded with a bitter look on his face: "Well, I originally thought that after giving birth to a child, her illness would be cured."
"But I didn't expect that it would become more serious."
"After she became pregnant, she easily lost control of her emotions. Once she lost control of her emotions, she would self-mutilate, but she never cut into important places."
"But last night when Zhaozhao woke up and looked for the child, I told her that the child was dead, and she actually pricked her wrist with a hairpin."
Su Ruotang frowned slightly: "Are Xu Zhao's parents related by blood?"
Minghuo nodded: "Father-in-law and mother-in-law are close cousins."
Su Ruotang nodded lightly, looked at Xing Yuhuang, and spoke slowly, "Actually, strictly speaking, Xu Zhao is also abnormal."
Xing Yuhuang's brows almost knitted into knots: "But before she got pregnant, everything was normal."
"Everyone in the capital has said that the young lady of the Ming family is gentle and generous, with a rare gentle temperament. She has never been angry with anyone."
Su Ruotang sighed lightly: "Xu Zhao's disease is recessive. Pregnancy was an opportunity to trigger her hidden illness."
Xingyu's yellow pupils shrank suddenly: "Then she will always be like this in the future, harming herself after being slightly stimulated?"
Su Ruotang nodded: "It's just self-inflicted harm at the moment. I'm not sure yet whether it will harm others in the future."
She had seen Xu Zhao's situation in her previous life.
Her parents were half-siblings from an orphanage. They didn't know it, but the children they gave birth to after getting married were normal when they were young.
It wasn't until the first menarche that the girl began to have mental disorders.
The symptoms are almost the same as Xu Zhao.
Later, his mental state became more and more serious, and he began to attack those around him.
Her parents took her to the doctor and she was treated as a mental patient.
Instead of getting better, the situation is getting worse.
It wasn't until a genetics doctor in the capital suggested a genetic test that she discovered that her mental disorder was caused by genes.
A thorough investigation revealed that the reason was because the parents were half-siblings.
There was hope in Minghou's eyes: "The third prince's concubine, can it be cured?"
Su Ruotang shook his head: "It can't be cured."
Genetic diseases cannot be treated by medical methods in previous lives.
The light in Minghou's pupils gradually faded.
He hugged Xu Zhao tightly in despair, his face full of bitterness, "Zhao Zhao has been doing good all his life, why does heaven want to treat her like this?"
Su Ruotang's light voice cast deep doubts in Minghuo's heart: "Because, Xu Zhao's parents are close cousins."
A question mark slowly popped up in Minghou's mind: "What do you mean?"
The person who answered him was Xing Yuhuang's heavy voice, "Xu Zhao's parents are cousins and are related by blood."
"When two people who are closely related by blood get married, the children they give birth to will have more or less problems."
Minghuang's eyes were full of disbelief: "How is that possible! Only when two people with a deep blood relationship get married can the purity of a family's bloodline be guaranteed."
Su Ruotang sneered: "Stupid."
Minghou looked at Xing Yuhuang: "Eldest Princess, don't let her fool you!"
Xing Yuhuang smiled bitterly: "I also hope that I have been deceived."
"However, the facts tell me that what the third prince and concubine said may be correct."
She let out a long sigh: "The three major aristocratic families, especially the Quan family, have had more and more abnormal or disabled children in recent years, and the disabilities have become more and more serious."
"These are all caused by the pure bloodline that the three major families have always pursued."
"I have investigated other families. The smaller the families, and among the common people, there are very few children with abnormalities."
Minghuang opened his mouth: "Isn't this a curse from the gods?"
Xingyuhuang Yaoyaotou: "No."
People just don’t want to pay for their wrong actions.
They never feel like it's their fault.
They will blame the consequences of their own mistakes on others.
Su Ruotang looked at Minghou calmly: "Chief Ming Shao, do you plan to keep it secret from Mrs. Ming?"
Minghou was shocked and stiffened when he heard this.
After a while, he finally said with a wry smile, "Then what should I do?"
"Let Mrs. Ming see the child with her own eyes."
Minghuo refused without hesitation: "No!"
Su Ruotang raised her eyebrows: "You kept hiding it from her, and that's why you harmed her."
Minghou hugged Xu Zhao tightly: "Zhao Zhao will collapse when he sees the child."
"Clan Master Ming, you underestimate a mother's love for her child."
Minghuang looked up at her blankly: "A mother's love for her child?"
Su Ruotang nodded lightly: "Maybe the child can alleviate her condition."
Minghuo thought of the child's appearance and his pupils shrank suddenly, "Impossible! When Zhaozhao sees the child, he will only be more stimulated."
He couldn't accept the monster-like child.
Zhao Zhao is so kind-hearted and loves beauty, he must not let the child scare her.
Su Ruotang crossed his arms and looked down at him, "Chief Ming, do you dare to make a bet with me?"
Minghou frowned: "What kind of bet?"
Su Ruotang looked firmly into Minghou's eyes, and her ethereal voice carried reassuring power, "Bet on whether I can alleviate Mrs. Ming's condition."
Minghou lowered his eyes and glanced at the emotionless man in his arms.
Reason told him not to make this bet.
But my emotions tend to be a gamble.
After a moment of silence, he slowly said, "How to bet?"
"Take Mrs. Ming to see the child. I guarantee that she will not lose control and harm herself. But if her condition improves, you promise me a condition."
Minghuo glanced at Xing Yuhuang warily: "What are the conditions?"
The emperor's eldest grandson is friends with the third princess of Dongqi. If she asks the Ming family to support the eldest princess in ascending the throne, he will not agree to it no matter what.
Su Ruotang raised the corners of her lips, and the seductive color in her eyes gradually faded away, "I haven't thought about it at the moment, but it will not violate benevolence, justice and morality."
Minghou remained silent, looking down at his lover in his arms.
After a while, he asked in a hoarse voice: "When you see the child, can you guarantee that Zhao Zhao's condition will not worsen?"
