Transmigrated As My Former Uncle’s Sweetheart

ho was smartly dressed and ready to go to court.

“Mother, why are you up so early?” Lu Hetian strode up to her and took her arm, asking with concern.

“The older you grow, the less sleep you get.” The Dowager Duchess sighed.
“Don’t worry about me.
The court session’s starting soon; you should get going.”

Looking at the gray hairs on her head, Lu Hetian felt a twinge of pain in his heart.

Mother was really getting old!

“If you’re not feeling well, just ask Lihua to check your pulse,” Lu Hetian advised her.

“Lihua does that every day.
Don’t worry, I’m as fit as a fiddle,” the Dowager Duchess reassured him warmly.

Lu Hetian was relieved to hear this.

Lihua indeed checked his mother’s pulse every day, and if she was ever unwell, Lihua would have been the first to tell him.

“Then I’ll be going to court now.”

“Goodbye.” For some reason, the Dowager Duchess felt a little uneasy as she watched him leave through the mansion gates.

Weiwei was almost nine months pregnant, which meant she was due next month.
They absolutely could not afford any accidents.

“Madam, it’s still early.
Why don’t you go back to your room and lie down for a bit more?” Aunt Lan coaxed.

They were already in the middle of the fifth month, but the mornings were still chilly, and she was worried about the Dowager Duchess’s health.

Although the Dowager Duchess did not say anything, Aunt Lan could tell that she had been rather disquieted for the past few days.

Glancing at the first ray of dawn in the sky, the Dowager Duchess nodded.
“Very well.”

Meanwhile, unbeknownst to them was a horse galloping at lightning speed down a suburban road leading to the imperial capital.

It came to a halt at the city gates, and the rider, drenched in sweat, cried out before the gates could even open, “I’m one of General Lu Tingchen’s personal guards, and I have an emergency report to deliver to His Majesty the Emperor.
Please open the gates quickly!”

As the person shouted in a hoarse and strained voice, he flashed the token of authority from Lu Tingchen in his hand.