Three days passed in the blink of an eye. Hongze rejected his old father's proposal for an extravagant celebration, choosing instead to spend a sweet birthday quietly with his own wife.
Originally, his Imperial Father had strongly disagreed. After all, ever since his precious eldest son returned to the palace, the Imperial Father had always thrown lavish and grand banquets for his birthdays. However, the good son finally revealed the truth about why he and his wife had remained childless all these years. It turned out that in the four years since their marriage, the couple had truly just slept under the same covers without crossing any lines whatsoever—not a single overstepping action had ever occurred.
Terrified, the Imperial Father immediately summoned the imperial physicians to examine whether his eldest son had some hidden affliction, or if the boy was simply too naive to realize that merely sleeping in the same bed could produce children. With a complicated expression, Hongze endured his Imperial Father's concerned gaze as he explained the real reason why he had not shared a bed with his Primary Consort. It turned out he had listened to a traveling quack doctor who claimed that if a woman bore children too early, it would not only harm her health, but the child would also be prone to premature death.
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