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Due to soreness, An Jing managed to get up the next day, but in less than two hours, she returned to lie down in her chamber. This deeply distressed Xiao Changyi, who sat by the bed, feeding An Jing plums one by one.
An Jing felt no embarrassment, thoroughly enjoying the pampered care from Xiao Changyi as if she were disabled.
On the other hand, Empress Yu had already started preparing for the flower-viewing banquet.
Empress Yu even released news so that every prince and noble family knew to bring their eligible children to the flower-viewing event, because An Jing and Xiao Changyi wished to pick a child from among them as their heir.
At the Emperor of Xiyun's birthday banquet, not only did every prince and noble learn of Changyi's marriage into the family, which precluded him from remarrying, but they also knew that An Jing could not bear children. Everyone felt that An Jing and Changyi must surely want someone to carry on their legacy, which inevitably meant adopting.