Chapter 1: Childbearing Mission Completed, Escaping!

Chapter 1: Childbearing Mission Accomplished, Time to Escape!

Military camp, main tent.

Outside the tent, the cold wind howled, but inside, there was a spring scene rarely found in such places.

Ji Qingwu gasped as she leaned toward the couch. Her hands trembled as she unfastened the silver armor, outer robe, inner garment, and trousers of the man beneath her.

The man’s cold, sharp eyes seemed as if they would pierce her through on the spot.

She took a piece of silk and covered his eyes, her waist trembling as she straddled his hips.

Shadows intertwined within the tent.

Ji Qingwu’s body felt pain to the extreme, as if she were undergoing torture.

She felt an intense regret; how could she have forgotten to take a packet of Yin-Yang Harmony Powder herself?

Ji Qingwu was a transmigrator. To cure a rare disease that modern medicine could not heal, she had made a deal with a "childbearing system" named "Peanut."

The system gave her two years to transmigrate to the Great Liang Kingdom, conquer the General of the North, and bear his heirs.

However, Ji Qingwu had mistaken her target at the beginning and had lavished her attentions on the wrong general. By the time she realized the mistake, there wasn't much time left.

Thus, she used some "special means." After forcing herself upon the General of the North, Ji Qingwu went into hiding.

In the blink of an eye, over nine months passed.

In a dilapidated military tent.

Having just given birth, Ji Qingwu looked pale and haggard, with two infants sleeping soundly in swaddling clothes beside her.

"Peanut, may I ask if my mission is complete?"

[Congratulations to the host, the childbearing mission is complete. I will now clear your body of accumulated ailments and restore your health.]

A strange golden light swept over her.

Her complexion turned rosy at a speed visible to the naked eye, and her radiance flourished.

Now, her chronic illnesses were gone, and the physical damage caused by childbirth had been fully repaired.

For the first time, Ji Qingwu felt what it was like to breathe freely.

Her eyes were clear and bright. She said impatiently, "Since I have completed the childbearing mission, I am packing my things to leave the camp."

[Reminder to the host: After you leave, the children will have no one to care for them. They will cry all night, and as they grow up, they will face a cruel stepmother and be corrupted by wicked people.]

Listening to the system’s embellished, pitiful description, Ji Qingwu frowned and interrupted.

"Is the children's father dead? Besides, you didn't say anything about after-sales service at the beginning."

[That may be so, but logically speaking...]

Now it wanted to talk about logic and sentiment?

When it was counting down her life, it hadn't allowed for a single second of delay.

Ji Qingwu waved her hand in refusal and reminded it, "We signed an agreement. Once the birth is over, I am a free woman."

The system had never encountered a host who wanted to "resign" and leave immediately after giving birth to twins.

However, this seemingly delicate host had drugged an entire military camp and forcefully taken the General of the North just to conceive.

There was simply no affection between the two.

Ji Qingwu held her waist and slowly sat up. "My biggest concession is that I can take the daughter. It’s fair for each of us to raise one."

In the end, the system tacitly agreed to her proposal and updated the corresponding terms in its central processor.

Ji Qingwu’s gaze fell on the baby boy wrapped in pink-blue silk. She gently tapped his forehead with her fingertip.

"Little one, a good man has ambitions in all four corners of the world, and a good daughter should travel the world as well. Mother is taking your sister and leaving first."

She took off half of the double-carp jade pendant she had always worn around her neck and carefully tucked it into the baby’s blanket.

The world of the martial arts was vast and distant; she wanted to use her healthy body to see it for herself.

And so, filled with high spirits, Ji Qingwu took one little cub and began her new journey!

But good times don't last long.

They didn't even last three days.

Ji Qingwu discovered that the world outside was not as beautiful as she had imagined.

This era was a chaotic time of separatist warlords and power struggles; who would eventually claim the throne was anyone's guess.

Many commoners lived lives of displacement and misery; in some places, it was no exaggeration to say that people were eating people.

Ji Qingwu saw too many refugees. As a weak woman traveling with a newborn, finding a safe place to settle down was the most important thing.

Because she lacked travel permits and household registration documents, she carried her cub and smuggled herself all the way from the border of Liang to the neighboring Southern Chu Kingdom, which was relatively peaceful, before she finally found a place where she could live a normal life.

This childbearing system wasn't entirely useless; it specialized in treating infertility. After a successful treatment, she could accumulate points to exchange for special abilities.

On the run, a village woman in her forties kindly took Ji Qingwu and her child in for a few days. To show her gratitude, Ji Qingwu cured the woman’s long-standing infertility.

This was just a basic case of infertility, earning Ji Qingwu 100 points, which she immediately exchanged for the art of disguise.

Ji Qingwu’s face, while not stunning, was like a summer lotus covered in dew—a rare, fresh, and eye-catching beauty. Combined with her increasingly soft and graceful figure after childbirth, she feared she would be targeted by evildoers.

In a small border town in the Southern Chu Kingdom.

Ji Qingwu opened a medical clinic. To avoid drawing attention, she used disguise every day to cover her true appearance.

Life was leisurely and free, and earning enough money to raise the baby wasn't difficult.

She only hoped that this chaotic world would soon stabilize so she could restart her travel plans.

Without realizing it, four years passed.

Ji Qingwu was sorting medicinal herbs. She held a piece of Eucommia bark she had picked herself on the mountain and was using a plane to shave off the rough skin.

She wore a cyan-white tunic. Her disguised skin was dark and swarthy, her eyebrows were thick and bushy, and her features were flat. The only thing that could be considered outstanding on this face was her pair of dark, bright eyes.

"Doctor Wu!"

Ji Qingwu went by the name "Ji Wu" in these parts, so the locals called her Doctor Wu.

A woman in coarse cloth clothes hurried into the clinic.

Ji Qingwu looked up and saw the woman’s bitter expression; she knew it was another case of someone who had been seeking a child for years to no avail.

As soon as the woman saw her, she prepared to kneel: "Doctor Wu, I came all the way from Danshan County specifically to seek your treatment."

Danshan County was over a hundred miles away. Ji Qingwu observed the woman’s appearance—her face was moist and her lips were red; she didn't look like someone who had been traveling and sleeping in the open.

She stopped the woman from kneeling and said in a gentle tone, "Madam, please sit down first. Have some tea and tell me slowly."

"Doctor Ji, please help me. My husband and I have been married for six or seven years, but my belly just won't cooperate. Others have two children in three years, and now their kids are running all over the place. My heart is filled with both hatred and anxiety."

Ji Qingwu listened patiently to her recount the hardships of all these years.

"Sometimes, the more anxious you are, the more counterproductive it becomes. Madam, place your hand on the pulse pillow."

She placed her fingers on the woman’s wrist, and her thick, bushy eyebrows twitched.

"Madam, have you had your period this month?"

The woman nodded with an unnatural expression: "My period comes every month, of course. I’ve been hoping it wouldn't come."

Ji Qingwu withdrew her hand, rolled up her sleeves, and picked up a cloth to wipe her hands.

"Please leave."

"Doctor Ji, what do you mean by this?"

Ji Qingwu said directly, "Since you are unwilling to tell me the truth, why should I treat you?"

The woman stood up, hands on her hips, and cursed: "I didn't expect you to be such a snobbish doctor, brushing me off just because I look poor. You want to chase me away? Since I’ve come today, you must find the cause of my illness!"

There were many who wouldn't tell the truth about their infertility, and quite a few who cursed her after being exposed.

Ji Qingwu picked up the Eucommia bark she had been shaving again and said without looking up, "It is impossible for you to have had your period. You have a congenital absence of the uterus. You will never be able to bear children in this lifetime. No matter how brilliant my medical skills are, I cannot create something out of nothing."

Upon hearing her diagnosis, the woman’s eyes lit up.

She walked quickly to the window and shouted outside: "Lord Ji, this mountain doctor really has some skills!"

Hearing the title "Lord Ji," Ji Qingwu’s heart sank.

*Not good!*

Ji Qingwu: *I have more than just "some skills."*

*Swish, swish, swish~ I’ll pull out a hundred skills. Come on, everyone gets a share!*

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