After being the favored concubine for many years, Qiu-shi was very clear of the place Jing-wang had in the Emperor’s heart all this time. This made her even more resentful of Jing-wang. What if the Emperor got angry at her over this matter and it implicated the 2nd Prince who was about to become the crown prince, then what!
Qiu-shi couldn’t just watch idle as she and the 2nd prince encountered calamity. Therefore, she thought up a rather brilliant (according to her) idea !
“Zhao-er, come, don’t make a sound. We need to……quickly hide this fish.”
Mu TianZhao: ???
Qiu-shi didn’t want others to get involved. Ganqing Palace wasn’t her territory. The Emperor was sitting not far away on his dragon throne. Suddenly summoning a personal aide to deal with this would most likely attract the Emperor’s attention. The less people who knew about the death of Jing-wang’s fish the better.
Qiu-shi and the 2nd Prince blocked the view of the ocean bowl together and discussed quietly.
Qiu-shi’s plan was to first hide the dead fish, then pretend they discovered that the fish disappeared. The Emperor would definitely send people to search for it all over. She just needed a little time to quietly get another live one prepared and find a good location to ‘coincidentally’ find the fish again to perform this secret substitution.
“Would it be seen through?” Mu TianZhao was somewhat hesitant. He was almost the crown prince. He didn’t want there to be any kind of slip-up.
“What are you afraid of?” Qiu-shi scolded: “Isn’t it just a regular soup fish? They all look the same. Jing-wang probably won’t even notice the difference.”
Qiu-shi was capable of implementing this plan because she was confident about this. Even if that weren’t the case, what was she supposed to do! Wait for Jing-wang to cause trouble for her?
Qiu-shi glanced at the fish that was floating belly up on the surface of the water again. She needed to hide the fish well so people definitely couldn’t find it. The safest place was hiding it in her sleeve. No one would dare to search the body of the favored concubine!
Qiu-shi suppressed her disgust and covered her fingers with a handkerchief to grab the fish. Just as she placed the fish in her hand, the originally motionless fish started to flail and struggled with all of its might.
Qiu-shi and the 2nd Prince: !!!
Mu TianZhao was dumbfounded: “Mother, wasn’t this fish dead!”
How can a fish revive after death? This was really too strange!
Qiu-shi didn’t have time to consider that. She also didn’t have time to talk with the 2nd Prince. Although this fish was wrapped up in the handkerchief, it was still very slippery and also moving vigorously. If she messed up and dropped the fish on the floor, it would be right in front of the Emperor in his Ganqing palace……
Since she had already taken this step, it’s impossible to turn back now!
Sweat poured down Qiu-shi’s head. As a woman who lived a life of luxury, she didn’t have much hand strength. Meanwhile, Li Yu was pretty experienced with flopping about. This time, he really did his best to be as excessive as possible. Adding in a very powerful tail, he easily struggled free of Qiu-shi’s control.
This was the moment when the little carp was closest to Qiu-shi!
Li Yu had swung his fishtail several times before so he had some experience already. Calculating the approximate distance, he waved his tail nimbly once. Originally, he planned to jump on Guifei’s body and scare her a bit, then could grab the iridescent pearl in the chaos. Of course, if he missed l and landed on the ground, he just needed to swing his tail and hop a few more times to return to the ocean bowl. The ocean bowl was very close to him. Leaving the water briefly shouldn’t be a big issue. Not to mention, he had saved enough fresh water inside his dimensional space.
However, he didn’t anticipate that he’d use too much strength, breaking a new record for the first time and directly leaping onto Guifei’s face.
Li Yu: !!!
Qiu-shi suddenly felt coldness on her face as Jing-wang’s fish jumped at her.
View going black, Guifei let out a loud scream: “Ah–”
With this yell of hers, Li Yu also panicked. This was the first time he climbed onto someone’s body… face as a fish after all. He unconsciously whipped his tail randomly and ended up slapping Guifei several times across the face!
The 2nd Prince watched, stupefied. After hearing the series of sharp, crisp slapping sounds, he returned from his daze and yelled hastily: “Mother, mother. Quick, someone come. Save my mother, quickly.”
“Quick, Zhao-er, help me get it off. It’s on my face, it’s on my face!!” Qiu-shi’s eyes were blocked. Scared and surprised, she screeched nonstop.
Mu TianZhao wanted to help. However, after extending his hand halfway, he paused. If this fish flew on him, he wouldn’t be able to explain clearly either!
In the middle of all of this chaos, Li Yu took the chance to find an appropriate position and swung his tail once more at the iridescent pearl. This time, he very carefully controlled his strength and hit the gold ornament. As he wished, the pearl rolled off.
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Li Yu waved his fish fins with all of his strength, but it was not enough to catch the falling iridescent pearl. He could only watch as it landed and rolled on the golden tiled floor.
If he had the pearl, he could obtain the medicine to turn back to a human. He threw caution to the wind!
Li Yu jumped down as well to try to snatch the pearl with his mouth.
At this time, the Emperor was currently enjoying his tea as he waited for Jing-wang. He suddenly heard Guifei and the 2nd Prince scream and yell loudly, and didn’t know what was going on. The Emperor, as well as Head Manager Luo, hastily went over. What appeared before his eyes was this scene. Hair completely in disarray and face ghastly white, Guifei was flailing her arms all over, grabbing randomly at the air. The 2nd prince stood to the side, not knowing what to do.
The Emperor didn’t see Li Yu. The little carp was chasing the pearl on the floor. Under this kind of circumstance, the first thing that the Emperor noticed must be Guifei and her son.
“What’s going on!” The Emperor was furious.
Li Yu didn’t manage to reach the iridescent pearl. Watching as it rolled away after landing on the floor, he still wanted to try to grab it. But– he couldn’t reach. Above him, a hand appeared.
Just as he was about to grab the pearl, this hand appeared and pressed him down, causing him to miss out on the iridescent pearl.
Who was disturbing him from completing his task?
Li Yu furiously raised his head and just happened to look directly at Jing-wang’s angry face.
F…fck. I’m done. Hopping around unrestrained, he ended up getting caught red-handed by Jing-wang who just returned from changing his clothes.
Li Yu lifelessly blew a bubble, wishing he could hide away immediately and adamantly deny everything. But he was already in Jing-wang’s hand, where could he hide?
Just now, he whipped Qiu-shi and attempted to snatch the iridescent pearl, who knows if Jing-wang saw that or not. He– in Jing-wang’s eyes, probably caused big trouble, right? However, he wasn’t recklessly playing around. Qiu-shi definitely would complain to the Emperor about this. As long as he returned back into the bowl before the Emperor discovered him, the Emperor wouldn’t be able to believe Qiu-shi’s words. After all, how can a fish escape out of a bowl, mess with Qiu-shi, and then jump back?
That’s right. He must return. It was so uncomfortable without water. He needed to figure out how to secretly return back to the bowl from Jing-wang’s hand. But this was an even harder task than plotting against Qiu-shi. Jing-wang was hard to trick. He needed to be twice as careful……
Li Yu was still madly using his fish brains. The hard to trick Jing-wang already carried him and gently placed him back in the water.
Li Yu who was suddenly moved back into the ocean bowl and surrounded by water: !!!
Aiya, the tyrant actually put him back!
Li Yu immediately twisted his body fawningly. Jing-wang gave the fish another glare. The terrified, heart thumping little carp read the dangerous words below from the tyrant’s eye gesture.
I’ll deal with you later.
Li Yu: “……”
No way. Did Jing-wang also fail to show anger previously because he planned to settle the score with Li Yu later?
He didn’t want to be fish soup. He didn’t want to die. He might as well let the tyrant squeeze him a few more times. Li Yu bumped his back against Jing-wang’s hand, groveling. What if I volunteer to be squeezed, is that enough payment?
Jing-wang: “……”
“Your majesty, please be the judge for me here. Jing-wang’s fish just randomly jumped on my face……”
Still panicked and distraught, Qiu-shi wept endlessly as she kneeled before the Emperor, hating Jing-wang to death in her heart. Did she fall into Jing-wang’s trap? The fish’s death and revival might have been planned to trick her so she’d lose face in front of the Emperor!
Experiencing the panic just now, Qiu-shi completely lost all of her composure, suspecting everything to be deception.
The Emperor rubbed his temple, looking rather confused at Jing-wang. Jing-wang scoffed coldly and with his chin, he gestured at the ocean bowl not far away.
When he placed the little carp back, he made certain that no one noticed him. Since Qiu-shi bribed people to slander him, he should also let Qiu-shi have a taste of the feeling of being unable to explain oneself.
Jing-wang glanced at the little carp. This fish was quite interesting. It actually managed to set up this situation and bless him with this golden opportunity.
The Emperor ordered Luo RuiSheng to go investigate. Luo RuiSheng only saw Jing-wang’s fish still swimming happily in the bowl.
This time, the Emperor really got angry: “Guifei, why are you lying without batting an eye? Jing-wang’s fish is clearly still in the bowl!”
Qiu-shi felt hot blood rushing to her head and said angrily and urgently: “Your majesty, it’s real. This fish flew out just now!”
The Emperor frowned: “What you mean is that it, a fish, can fly? And it flew out to bully you, then it flew back inside?”
To Qiu-shi, this fish left a psychological shadow in her heart. She unconsciously nodded her head repeatedly: “That’s what happened. Zhao-er saw it too.”
“Guifei, have you been possessed?” The Emperor sighed, clearly not believing her. Qiu-shi was fine before, yet now she was causing a commotion and even speaking nonsense. A fish that flies? How can this be possible?
If she wasn’t possessed, why would she rave like so and even mess up her hair like that?
“It’s fine if you want to speak nonsense yourself. Do you also want to drag TianZhao to speak nonsense with you as well?”
Mu TianZhao originally planned to help Qiu-shi. Hearing these words, he instantly choked. Qiu-shi wildly shot him eye gestures. Mu TianZhao pondered: right now the Emperor didn’t believe this at all. If he stubbornly helped Qiu-shi, he’d make the Emperor unhappy. Why should he flaunt courage at this moment?
For the crown prince position, Mu TianZhao was willing to do anything. Immediately, he said sensibly: “Father, your words of wisdom are correct. This son…… didn’t see clearly.”
Qiu-shi looked incredulously at her own son. Mu TianZhao guiltily shifted his gaze away. He was about to be the crown prince. What’s wrong with self-preservation?
The Emperor said unhappily: “Guifei, even TianZhao reported as such, what else do you have to say for yourself.”
“Your majesty, it’s… It’s I who was possessed. I spoke wrongly, please forgive me.” Qiu-shi resentfully bit her cherry lips. Since her own son won’t help her, what else can she say? She had to admit that she was confused temporarily. The Emperor didn’t believe her, so it was pointless to continue complaining. The best plan currently was to relent and sooth the Emperor’s anger first. She couldn’t afford to fight to the death with a fish at a time like this.
Just as Qiu-shi admitted her mistake reluctantly, Jing-wang stepped on a handkerchief on the floor with his cloud embroidered shoes. Wang Xi, who was closely following Jing-wang this whole time, rushed forward, bent over and picked up the handkerchief.
Because he didn’t know who’s handkerchief this was, Wang Xi opened the handkerchief specifically and shook it out, then ‘aiyo’d in surprise.
“Wang Xi, what’s wrong with you now?” The Emperor felt a headache from all of these events happening one after the other.
Wang Xi said: “Reporting to your majesty, this servant seemed to have picked up…… Guifei-niangniang’s handkerchief. How come there’s fish scales on it?”
As Wang Xi talked, he held up the handkerchief in order to let everyone see.
The handkerchief was embroidered with crab-apple flowers. Even the Emperor was able to recognize that this was the one Guifei used. As Wang Xi said, the handkerchief did have some fish scales sticking to it.
Why would there be fish scales on Guifei’s handkerchief? There just happened to be a fish in Ganqing Palace at the moment!
Jing-wang sent a cold and sharp, dagger-like gaze towards Guifei. Wang Xi immediately followed up and said in Jing-wang’s place: “Fish scales usually grow on the fish’s body. They don’t fall off easily. Could it be that Guifei-niangniang saw his highness wasn’t present, so she did something to our family’s Master-Fish?”
Pfft! Wang-gonggong was truly worthy of being Jing-wang’s spokesperson. His fighting strength was excellent. Li Yu was delighted. Nevertheless, he was only a fish, when did he become a master?
What master? The Emperor was stupefied when he heard this.
Wang Xi explained with a smile that reached ear to ear: “Your majesty, this servant heard Xiao Linzi say before, that the cat that Guifei-niangniang raised was called Master-cat. Therefore, I thought, the fish that his highness raised naturally should be Master-fish.”
The Emperor was the master of this entire world. He was the person most suitable to be given the title Master. Yet Guifei actually dared to let people call the cat she raised ‘Master.’ Was she trying to put a cat and the Emperor on the same level?
“Ridiculous. There will be no random nicknames in the future.” The Emperor gave Qiu-shi a displeased glare: “Qiu-shi, what did you do to Jing-wang’s fish? Why did fish scales appear on your handkerchief?”
Of course Qiu-Guifei knew that it was because she used this handkerchief to catch the fish, but she definitely couldn’t admit it.
Ever since she came over to look at the fish, the original advantageous situation for her has turned. This fish definitely had animosity towards her. Where would she find the time to do anything to this fish? Clearly it was this fish that was tormenting her!
Qiu-shi said with a sob: “Your majesty, why don’t you ask Jing-wang? Jing-wang was the one who abused my Piao Xue first……”
“Your majesty!” Wang Xi knelt down, disregarding possible danger to himself, and stated loudly: “His highness can’t speak, and yet he has to face slander for no reason. You know, since his highness was young, the injuries he obtained are not easily healed. All of the imperial physicians know this. Just now when he was changing clothes, this servant saw there was a bruise on his highness’s leg. The position matched the level of a cat. That day, it was Guifei-niangniang’s cat who first ran into his highness. That’s why his highness would punish it a little. I beg your majesty, please give his highness justice!”
A bruise caused by the cat?
Qiu-shi’s pupils constricted abruptly. Why didn’t she know Jing-wang would actually have this kind of loophole on his body?
After the Emperor learned that Jing-wang ‘was injured’, he felt very upset. Immediately, he summoned the imperial physician over to ‘treat’ Jing-wang’s injury. Hearing from the imperial physician that there really was a bruise, the emperor burst into rage: “Just a mere cat and it dares to run into my son? Being punished was really ‘rightfully deserved.’”
Since the cat was the one who first hurt Jing-wang, it indicated that Xiao Linzi didn’t tell the truth. Later, investigation revealed that Xiao Linzi was bribed by Guifei, a rain of blood poured over Ganqing Palace.
The Emperor burned with a vengeance. He didn’t even officially title the 2nd Prince crown prince yet, and Qiu-shi was already bold enough to frame Jing-wang. If she became the Empress Dowager in the future, how was Jing-wang supposed to survive in the future?
The Emperor punished Qiu-shi to seclusion in Zhongcui Palace, not permitting her to leave without being summoned. Originally, he planned to promote Qiu-shi to Huang-Guifei soon after her birthday. Now he was no longer in the mood. The Emperor didn’t even feel too pleased with the future crown prince, the 2nd Prince.
There was no way Qiu-shi could have imagined that the scheme she concocted meticulously would be so messed up and end in such a conclusion all because of a mere fish.
This time, Li Yu made quite the contribution. Outside was full of cacophony and noise. He felt somewhat tired listening to it. Remembering the two grains of fish food at the bottom of the bowl, Li Yu pulled himself together and swam over to gobble up the fish food. He was just about to take a nap when he felt like he seemed to have forgotten something.
……wait. The iridescent pearl. He almost forgot!
Li Yu quickly scurried to the surface of the water, looking all over.
Found it. The pearl was currently laying by its lonesome at the corner of the palace hall. At this moment, no one noticed that the iridescent pearl was missing from Guifei’s forehead.
Li Yu kind of wanted to give a try to secretly run out again to take the pearl with him. Even if he couldn’t take the pearl with him, if he could just touch it, maybe the task would count as completed.
Wang Xi came over this time, picking up the ocean bowl that Li Yu was in with a wide grin and started to head outside.
Li Yu: ???
So the Emperor was still reprimanding Qiu-shi, but Jing-wang wasn’t patient enough to continue listening and asked to be excused early. Li Yu, who came with Jing-wang to meet the Emperor, naturally had to leave together with him.
Li Yu: “Oi. Is there a mistake here or something? I didn’t get the iridescent pearl yet……”
As Wang Xi carried the bowl out of the palace, he saw the little carp clinging to the side of the bowl, as if staring reluctantly towards a certain direction.
Wang Xi almost laughed out loud. Shaking his head, he thought perhaps he was thinking too much.
Li Yu saw himself depart farther and farther away from the pearl and assumed he probably wouldn’t be able to complete this task. Li Yu couldn’t help but wilt a little.
To the side, Jing-wang also saw the little carp looking dispirited. Jing-wang looked towards that direction, pondering for a moment. Then he pointed at an attendant to investigate over there. The attendant very quickly brought back a pearl.
Jing-wang recognized that this was the iridescent pearl worn on Qiu-Guifei’s head. He was very certain that the little carp was looking at this pearl. After he finished changing clothes and came out of the side hall, he saw the little carp chasing after this pearl on the ground after all.
So it wanted this pearl that much?
“Master, master. Please give me the pearl!” Li Yu immediately became vigorous and came over fawningly, waving nonstop. He swam circles after circles around Jing-wang’s fingers, as flatteringly as possible.
Jing-wang: “……”
We didn’t even settle the previous score yet. You think you can just twist a few times to get the pearl you wanted? It’s not that easy.
Lips curling upward, Jing-wang placed the iridescent pearl inside his sleeve.
Hahaha! Must do better to get that pearl! Hahahaha! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🐟
Hum… Couldn’t he just use the interdimensional space to get the pearl ?(:3」∠ )
And thanks for the chapter ^^
THANK YOU!
I was screaming that in my head the entire time—
OH WAIT— I totally forgot, the space is completely filled with water right? Wouldn’t he have to empty some of it to get the pearl???
Well the pearl is just finger nail size-
On second thought, he definitely just forgot—
I think he probably need to touch the pearl to transport the pearl into his interdimentional space, right? He also need to touch his scale 3 times, but might not have enough times to touch the pearl as he still chasing after it
I think he probably forgot xD
Thank You for the chapter ♡ฅ(ᐤˊ꒳ฅˋᐤ)
thanks for the chapter!
Oh that idiot, the system said you could put things in your space as long as you can see them. Are you a blind fish?
After so many years as a human, fish forgot that he is a fish and would.go flopping after a pearl 😂
And LOOOOL Jing-wang, u savage hahaha
Lol is everyone’s IQ zero? How can there not be water splashed everywhere when a fish jumps out. Still entertaining tho
Didn’t even settle the score? That fish saved your butt!!!!
i was laughing to death when li yu started slapping her face, IT WAS SO FUNNY
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So why didn’t he just put the pearl in his space that way he could take it easily since he can put anything nearby??
this novel wouldn’t be half as funny if Li Yu had a high IQ hahaha bless our no thoughts/head empty fish
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Lol Jin Wang is mean 😂
See, a person who chases two rabbits catches neither. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ And really, she’s the one rising her son to be obsess with the throne, why she shock when her son chose the throne over her? Y ou reap what you sow, madame.
Poor xiao Yu, did he forgot that if he can see the pearl, it mean that he can summon it to his space? But now, it’s too late because xiao Chi also see the pearl too. He can’t snatch that with his space anymore. 😂
AHHHHHH the last line had me flustered. Imagining Jing-wang with a mischievous smirk on his lips made me blush like a fckin school girl with a crush. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Lmao, that whole scene where he attacked Qui was hilarious, he fr just jumped on her face face-hugger alien style 😭😂