For a second, Jing-wang couldn’t figure out what that meant. However, since Xiao Yu was looking like he was facing a formidable enemy, Jing-wang followed along and shook his head: I won’t.
Perhaps Xiao Yu didn’t like him being too intimate with the so-called body double fish. Jing-wang himself couldn’t even stand other people touching Xiao Yu briefly. Now that the shoe was on the other foot, it should be pretty much the same thing.
Li Yu obtained Jing-wang’s promise, but still felt a bit uneasy. Fortunately, Jing-wang really didn’t express any excessive liking towards the fish body double. Most of the time he was looking at Li Yu or the kids.
Li Yu’s vinegar filled head finally calmed down. Recalling that the fish double was only a regular fish, and not a shapeshifting ‘demon’ like him, Li Yu felt that he was really being too ridiculous, getting jealous over a normal fish.
Li Yu felt guilty and decided to raise and feed the fish double well in the future to compensate.
However, no matter what Li Yu was thinking, the fish double only concerned itself with looking pretty in the crystal bottle. In terms of extremely melodramatic humans, the fish double expressed that it didn’t care at all.
Arriving at the ChengEn Palace Estate, Ye QingHuan and the JinJue Princess both came out to welcome them. Li Yu first brought out his fish sons and introduced them one by one. Bao#1 and the others were dressed by Li Yu like little immortal apprentices. They all wore bright red and gold shirts with two pigtails on each of their heads. The JinJue princess was so delighted she couldn’t stop smiling. She was still somewhat incredulous: “My god, there’s really four!”
In ancient times, twins were already rare enough. Li Yu actually conceived four all at once. The JinJue Princess only birthed one and already didn’t dare to look back on the experience. She felt like Li Yu, who was able to birth four, was practically a god.
“Come sit, quick.” The Princess ordered people to fetch seats and also offered Li Yu a cup of warm jujube tea. What was given to Jing-wang, however, was green tea. Li Yu took a sip of the sweet and delicious tea, discovering that the Princess was also drinking the same as him. At the bottom of the teacup was a few plump jujubes. Instantly, Li Yu understood. The Princess wanted to boost his health as well.
This was the Princess’ good intentions. Li Yu thought internally, in comparison to the Princess, his birthing process was more like a game. In terms of labor, the Princess was the one who did the real work.
While they spoke, Ye QingHuan went to bring out his daughter, the QingHe Princess, personally. The little princess was already 100 days old. Her skin was white and glossy, little elbows and legs extending just like lotus roots. Her watery bright eyes were like the Princess, but the shape of her tiny little mouth was more like Ye QingHuan. Around her neck, she wore the Locket of Peace that Li Yu gifted.
The fish babies saw the little meimei. Even the always one beat slower Bao#4 widened his eyes. They have never seen anyone this small, a human even smaller than them.
Bao#1 called out ‘ah ah’ and extended his hands towards the little meimei. Uncle Ye was holding meimei, he also wanted to hold!
Bao#2, Bao#3, and Bao#4 imitated Bao#1 and called out urgently. They wanted to play together with meimei.
“Not allowed!” Fish dad chided abruptly.
Hearing this, the Baos lowered their little hands in disappointment while they peeked pitifully at meimei.
The Princess and Ye QingHuan almost laughed in amusement at these kids.
Li Yu took the chance to teach them: “Meimei is still small and can’t play together with you guys yet. In the future, you all need to remember to protect meimei.”
The Baos all nodded in unison, however, they still wanted to look at meimei. The Princess ordered someone to carry over a cradle. She placed the little princess into the cradle. The Baos all squeezed around the cradle, looking calmly and quietly.
“They’re so smart.” The Princess exclaimed.
“The little princess is also very pretty.” Li Yu couldn’t resist praising.
Ye QingHuan, who’s eyes were practically stuck to her daughter, seemed to have been overcome by unknown drama and said rather melancholically: “In the last few days, I keep thinking. In the future, she will have to leave me and marry into someone else’s family. I really can’t bear it.”
Jing-wang, Li Yu, the Princess: “……”
Li Yu ‘pfft” and laughed out loud. It seemed like in terms of being silly, foolish dad Jing-wang did not compare to foolish dad Ye QingHuan.
“Just shut your mouth!” Thinking Ye QingHuan was being embarrassing, the Princess practically wished that she could throw her teacup at him, to prevent this person from saying more nonsense.
However, unconsciously, the corners of her eyes also became somewhat wet. In JinJue, even with their more open-minded customs, people still liked boys a little more. When she had learned from the midwife that she had given birth to a girl, for a moment, even an extremely noble princess like her felt somewhat apprehensive. However, unexpectedly, Ye QingHuan and everyone in the ChengEn Palace Estate loved this girl. Her parents-in-law came over everyday to see her and ask about her health. They even scrambled to take care of the child for the JinJue Princess, relieving her of all burdens. Originally, the Princess wanted to have a son as well, to complete the son and daughter pair. However, her usually easy going husband became exceptionally stubborn, saying that birthing was hard work for her, and wanting her to improve her own health first and not worry at the moment.
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The care and attentiveness of her husband and his family made the Princess feel like, although this marriage was appointed by the Emperor, she still managed to marry an extremely good person.
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The two people, who each had their own internal thoughts, instantly understood each other.
Li Yu awkwardly scratched his cheek. Who let the little princess be too cute. He also wanted one!
However, he also couldn’t see the little princess for long. Soon after, the wet nurse came out and carried the little princess back inside.
Li Yu learned from the Princess that in the last few days, the little princess accidentally got a cold and had just gotten better. It wasn’t good for her to stay outside for too long. Because her daughter was sick, the Princess was also alarmed for several days. A child this small usually couldn’t directly use medicine. Instead, the wet nurse had to drink the medicine first, which made the drug enter her milk. Then that was fed to the child.
For Li Yu, no matter if the four fish babies were fishes or infants, they’ve all been extremely healthy. Therefore, he has never experienced misery in this aspect. When he heard the Princess talk about this, Li Yu only felt something flash by quickly, but he didn’t have the time to understand it.
The little princess returned inside. The Baos couldn’t see the little meimei anymore and were all very disappointed.
In the West Frontier, Ye QingHuan had looked after these little ancestors before and knew their tempers. With a smile, he gave a sharp whistle. The day-saving hero, Gale, dashed wildly inside. Noticing Li Yu, Gale excitedly wagged its tail nonstop at him.
“Gale, long time no see.” Li Yu crouched down and rubbed Gale’s head. Gale tried to lick his hands.
Li Yu suddenly felt a chill behind his back. He looked back and discovered Jing-wang swiftly looking away.
Li Yu: ?
When the Baos saw the dog, their eyes lit up and finally stopped making a fuss about holding meimei.
“Doggy is man’s best friend. No bullying!” Li Yu hastily warned these kids. However, since the kids were still too little, it’s not suitable for them to play with the dog. Li Yu carried them and did his best to lower down a little to let them see Gale more clearly.
Gale was most likely trained by Ye QingHuan ahead of time and didn’t dare to get too close to the kids. However, Gale already liked kids a lot from the bottom of its heart, so it restlessly paced back and forth in a distance not too far away.
Li Yu just finished his education; Bao#1, Bao#2, Bao#3 moved closer. However, they were somewhat afraid of the dog’s sharp teeth. Only the simple and stupid Bao#4 fearlessly extended a hand and mischievously poked Gale on the tip of its nose.
Now, not only everyone present, but also Gale, who loved to poke fish the most, all froze.
Jing-wang’s figure moved faintly, wanting to snatch Bao#4 back. Li Yu hastily stopped him. Before them, Gale only attempted to use its nose to gently poke Bao#4’s finger. Bao#4 let out a happy giggle. Jing-wang finally relaxed.
“Don’t be afraid, Gale won’t bite Bao#4.” Ye QingHuan consoled warmly.
Li Yu knew this was true. Gale has never even bitten fish before. Nevertheless, he still nervously watched Bao#4 and Gale interact. He should trust in Gale, but to have him completely disregard everything was impossible.
Bao#1, Bao#2, and Bao#3 were encouraged by Bao#4 and also imitated Bao#4 to poke at Gale with their fingers.
Jing-wang, Li Yu: “……”
Surrounded by the kids, Gale wagged its tail so hard, it was creating a double image. After wagging for a while, Gale started to roll around happily.
“Oh right, where’s your fish?” The Princess finally recalled Jing-wang’s fish at this time.
Although she had missed it dearly, she was watching the kids interact with the dog. Therefore, she only remembered now.
Li Yu smiled faintly. Before everyone all scrambled to see the fish. Having kids really made things different.
For the first time, Li Yu pulled out the crystal bottle without any hesitation.
The fish body double led the little tiny fishes to swim around happily in the bottle. That dazzling color and notable tail, for a second, Li Yu even thought that it was himself.
The Princess walked closer with a smile. After looking for a while, she furrowed her brows in confusion.
Was something off?
Li Yu became nervous: “What’s the matter? Is something wrong?”
“No……” The Princess said: “I just feel like this fish…… isn’t as expressive as before.”
Li Yu: …… this should be praising him, right right?
With a smile, Li Yu said profoundly: “Princess, this is most likely because he became a dad just like me. Therefore, he became more responsible.”
The Princess smiled, and believed this to be true.
Meanwhile, Ye QingHuan played with the four Baos as he asked Jing-wang: “How come you’re not going to look at the fish?”
The Princess didn’t know, but Ye QingHuan knew just how much Jing-wang pampered that fish, to the point of not even letting him take a look.
However, this time, Jing-wang had brought the fish so magnanimously to ChengEn Palace Estate. Ye QingHuan didn’t know if it was his misconception, but he discovered that Jing-wang was a bit indifferent towards the fish.
Ye QingHuan felt more and more perplexed. On the wedding night, Jing-wang even did that kind of unspeakable thing to the fish. Ye QingHuan even felt unjust for the wangfei. Now Jing-wang’s thoughts were clearly all on Wangfei and the kids. Looking at the wangfei, even his distant, cold expression turned gentle.
If he was this deeply in love, then why did he do this and that to the fish back then?
Or perhaps, Jing-wang only obsessed for a few wild days before changing his ways for the better?
Ye QingHuan said: “It’s very good that you were able to think it through.”
Jing-wang: ?
After the banquet of the little princess’ 100 day celebration ended, Jing-wang brought Li Yu and the kids to see the Old ChengEn Gong.
Li Yu was well aware that this trip was to attend the 100 day celebration, but at the same time, a chance for the Old ChengEn Gong to openly see his grandsons.
Ye Qian was just waiting for the two of them and had the good wine prepared in the garden already.
When he saw Jing-wang’s four kids, Ye Qian’s eyes reddened for a long time.
Perhaps it was because of some mysterious fate, the Emperor liked Bao#1 more and Jing-wang liked Bao#4 more. The pitiful Bao#2 and Bao#3, were therefore more suitable in the old ChengEn Gong’s eyes.
The Old ChengEn Gong said, before his two kids also loved to squabble back and forth.
Who were the old ChengEn Gong’s kids?
Li Yu exchanged a look with Jing-wang, feeling respectful.
Now all of the four Baos were someone’s favorites. Li Yu felt like everything was perfect.
The Old ChengEn Gong, who’s beard had become even whiter, held Bao#2 and Bao#3 to the left and right of him. With a smile, he wanted Li Yu to tell him interesting stories about the West Frontier. The old man was extremely interested in the duck army and also liked the roasted duck that Ye Qing Huan had brought back from Quan Jude. He could eat almost the entire thing in one sitting.
Celebrating until the dark of the night, Jing-wang carried the slightly inebriated Li Yu back to the Jing Estate. The kids had long fallen asleep and were carried to their room by Wang Xi.
Jing-wang placed the half coherent Li Yu on the bed and wrapped him in a grass green blanket with gold trim. Li Yu suddenly opened both eyes and looked around in confusion: “TianChi, we’re home?”
With a smile, Jing-wang rubbed him on the head as a reply. Li Yu had drunk wine. His face was red like the sunsetting clouds and his head was sluggish. For a moment, he couldn’t remember what he wanted to do.
Wang Xi lightly knocked outside. Wangfei was drunk. He probably wouldn’t feel good the next day. At this time, Wang Xi should be bringing the liquor sobering tea that Jing-wang had specifically ordered.
Jing-wang planned to go fetch the tea to feed Xiao Yu a cup. However, Li Yu mistakenly thought he was leaving and narrowed his eyes in displeasure.
In a moment of desperation, the drunk fish used a skill to attempt to make Jing-wang stay.
Jing-wang only felt a wave of cool air blowing pass him. Then, a silver with gold tail swept over and wrapped around his waist.
Jing-wang: “……”
Li Yu: “hmph hmph hmph, let’s see where you plan to escape to!” Bringing out the tail and coiling around you until the end of time!
The overbearing tail gave a tug and pulled Jing-wang back.
Afraid of hurting Li Yu, Jing-wang relented to the strength of the fish tail and returned back to the front of the bed.
Seeing that he ‘changed his mind,’ Li Yu laughed giddily as he wrapped his arm around Jing-wang’s neck.
“TianChi, the little princess was so cute……”
“Bao#1 and the others all liked the little princess very much…… I also like her.”
“How about if we have a daughter like the little princess?”
“If we could birth one, it’d be better.”
Li Yu said a pile of impassionate words, tail wrapping around Jing-wang even more tightly.
Like he didn’t plan to let Jing-wang go if they didn’t do it.
Jing-wang stopped his movement and embraced him back.
In regards to Xiao Yu’s requests, he usually never refuses. However, the request this time was somewhat special. For once, Jing-wang hesitated.
“TianChi, what are you waiting for!” Li Yu moved closer with a secretive expression, blowing air into Jing-wang’s ear nonstop: “What to do, my tail feels so uncomfortable……”
The fish tail sulkily rubbed against Jing-wang’s waist slowly. Jing-wang took a deep breath and picked up this drunk fish who always loved playing with fire.
After they had returned from the West Frontier, Jing-wang took over and slightly renovated their bedroom. Pond water was drawn in from the outside and renovated into a small bath area. Normally, it can be observed like background scenery. If needed, it can be used by Xiao Yu after his transformation.
Jing-wang held Xiao Yu tightly and walked towards the bath in large steps.
Translator’s Note:
Thank You for the chapter（*’∀’人）♥
Just what does Ye Qinghuan think Jing-wang did to the fish? 😂 And thank you for the chapter!
I think he’s thinking more along the lines of Jing – wang loving the fish more than Li Yu that he’d rather spend the wedding night with Xiao Yu than Li Yu. Wang Xi is thinking more along the lines of fetish 😂
thanks for the chapter!
Pfft! So many silly assumptions about the wedding night… fish touching over ahem. Hahahahaha! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🐟
The joke about the cousin thinking ML doing a fish isn’t starting to be annoying to me. Hope this misunderstanding will be cleared soon
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I think the cousin thinks ML loves his pet more than the MC.
Pretty sure the cousin think ML DID IT with the fish
ooh so that’s what the powder that the wet nurse consumed was for.