Her strategic retreat had an excellent effect.
From the third day on, although Emperor Quan still left early every day and his work seemed endless, he started coming home earlier. Even if he brought his unfinished business home and buried himself in his study the moment he got back, with calls one after another, at least he was there to have dinner with her, and afterward, they had time to stroll aimlessly around Jinshan Villa for an hour to aid digestion.
He didn't say it, but Zhan Se knew he was desperately squeezing in time to be with her.
As time went by and her pregnancy progressed, the bulge in her abdomen became more and more visible, impossible to hide even under loose clothing. Strangely though, since he started coming home, her pregnancy symptoms intensified. Whatever she ate, she vomited, sometimes retching so severely that even her stomach acid came up, a sight that deeply pained Fourth Master Quan.
