After the hunting competition ended, Jing-wang and the 6th Prince returned at the same time.
No matter how good the 6th Prince was at pretending normally, after being surpassed by a mute, he was practically unable to maintain his normal expression. Before when the 3rd Prince was present, the 6th Prince was at best only the 3rd Prince’s helping hand. In actuality, he was pretty good at hunting, yet didn’t dare to stand out too much to avoid the 3rd Prince’s suspicion. This time, he could finally fight with his best and make a name for himself, but he never imagined that Jing-wang would participate as well.
Other people didn’t know that the 6th Prince was adept at horseback archery. The 6th Prince also didn’t know that Jing-wang was quite skilled as well. Jing-wang never participated in any of the previous hunting activities after all. In order to guarantee a top ranking spot in the result, the 6th Prince had arrived bright and early. When the drum signaled the start of the hunt, he was the first to charge out on his horse, not like Jing-wang, who brought his entire family and arrived at the hunting grounds slowly and leisurely. The other people had started a while ago already.
The hunting festival didn’t have any rules that required everyone to start at the same time. It only counted the total sum. In other words, even if someone arrived late, as long as they had the capabilities, they could still obtain a pretty good score. Of course, this was a very ideal logic that has never occurred before, because usually when someone was late, they’d lose a decisive time and also lose morale.
Yet Jing-wang only started in the latter half of the hunt, but he still followed behind closely in scores. If the 6th Prince relaxed even slightly, Jing-wang would catch up with him.
The 6th Prince already felt somewhat tired. Jing-wang’s state was not much better than him. Because plenty of the game were already hunted, Jing-wang needed to use more effort to find new prey. His progress was clearly slowing down. The 6th Prince felt that he shouldn’t be able to catch up anymore. However, who knew what method Jing-wang used: in a flash, he transformed and became practically brimming with energy. Meanwhile, the 6th Prince was so tired that he almost couldn’t raise his bow hand anymore.
Then, Jing-wang managed to hit targets consecutively.
The 6th Prince had no choice but to do his best. Nevertheless, at the last moment, Jing-wang who seemed almost like he was aided by the gods, ended up having an even higher count than him. Yet he had started hunting an hour earlier than Jing-wang!
For a moment, the 6th Prince felt bitter and deprecative. He thought he was good at horseback archery, but it didn’t seem that impressive after all.
“5th elder brother, you really are a late arriving champion, here to steal the limelight.” Before entering the tent, the 6th Prince said this in an ambiguously sour tone.
Jing-wang didn’t even spare him a glance and walked in front of the Emperor with large steps. He respectfully gave his greeting and reported the completion of his task.
The Emperor was extremely satisfied with this result. Sure enough, Jing-wang didn’t disappoint him. After being pushed into the spotlight, he actually managed to surpass the 6th Prince and only lost to a battle experienced military general.
At the same time, the Emperor also realized that Jing-wang wasn’t actually bad at hunting. The reason he didn’t participate in the previous hunting festivals was probably to purposely hide his skills.
The Emperor was originally going to praise him some more, but now his mood was complicated. He only said coolly: “Go take a seat.”
Jing-wang cupped his hand and returned to Li Yu’s side without any signs of arrogance or irritability.
With a pair of red, glossy lips, Li Yu looked at him, charming eyes soft like silk. The two people who just filled their energies still remembered the intense kiss just now. It was inconvenient to speak in front of the Emperor. The two people exchanged gazes for the moment. With a smile, Jing-wang found Li Yu’s hand under their sleeves and interlaced their fingers together.
Sitting on the dragon chair and looking down from above, the Emperor can see a little of the exchange between Jing-wang and his wangfei, feeling it was rather amusing and sickeningly sweet.
The Emperor turned to the other side and said to the 6th Prince: “TianXiao also did pretty well, beyond my expectations.”
The Emperor didn’t lie here. The 6th Prince’s performance was remarkable, as if a completely different person from before. It’s only unfortunate that he was unable to surpass Jing-wang.
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Correcting the ambiguously sour tone from just now, the 6th Prince said humbly: “This son is still very far from 5th elder brother. I will definitely try harder in the future.”
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The 6th Prince was exhausted to death and suffered from a stomach full of smothered anger. After returning, he then saw his wife’s suffering face. Although the 6th Prince didn’t go as far as to take out his anger on Liang-shi, he also didn’t offer any words of comfort either. Liang-shi’s expression became even dimmer. Although the two people were next to each other, they didn’t look even the slightest intimate at all.
The Emperor saw the sickening sweet atmosphere between Jing-wang and his wangfei. Seeing the 6th Prince and his wife, the Emperor only felt the alienation between them.
However, the Emperor didn’t actually want to get involved in his sons’ family businesses. He ordered people to bring up the meat acquired from the hunt.
The Imperial Kitchen was in charge of roasting and cutting all of the animals that were hunted. Placed in numerous silver platters, they were brought up for the Emperor to bestow them as rewards.
There’s also a custom in this. Normally the people participating in the hunting festival would always offer the first animal they hunted to the Emperor as tribute. If the tribute was good, it can also help them gain the Emperor’s favor. In return, the Emperor would reward them with a corresponding piece of roasted meat.
The previously mentioned General offered a deer. The 6th Prince offered an eagle. Although his ranking wasn’t as good as Jing-wang’s, when the eagle was carried up, it gave the 6th Prince quite the honor.
The Emperor rewarded the general with roasted deer meat. He also awarded the 6th Prince with roasted eagle meat. However, he didn’t specifically give anything to Jing-wang.
After listening to all of the rewards, Li Yu didn’t hear his hubby’s name and started pondering what exactly did Jing-wang offer as tribute.
Li Yu wanted to quietly ask Jing-wang when he suddenly remembered. The animal that Jing-wang hunted seemed to have been a rabbit, the new pet of the Jing Estate.
This rabbit was originally given to the Emperor. Then the Emperor gave it to him to deal with.
Li Yu: “…….”
Other people had hunted deer and eagles, yet his hubby only offered a live rabbit as tribute!
The bunny was so cute. Li Yu didn’t think there was anything wrong with offering a rabbit. However, the Emperor definitely didn’t think too much of it.
That’s why he openly gave the commemorative tribute to Li Yu and his kids to raise as a pet bunny, isn’t that right?
Li Yu was internally bursting with joy. Head manager Luo brought over an entire roasted chicken for them. Because of Jing-wang’s little thoughtful act, Li Yu picked up a huge piece of meat with his chopsticks and placed it in Jing-wang’s bowl.
Bao#2, Bao#3, Bao#4 held up their chicken legs. Li Yu purposely didn’t help them, wanting to see how they were going to eat it themselves.
The Baos only had one tiny rice sized, white tooth each. Gnawing back and forth on the chicken leg for a while, they couldn’t even bite off a tiny bit of meat.
“Meat meat!” Having good food but unable to eat it, the Baos looked extremely panicked, almost like they were about to randomly start wailing. Li Yu pulled out an already prepared little knife, cut off the meat from the chicken leg for the kids, and placed them on a plate.
Li Yu only managed to cut half of one when Jing-wang pulled the knife out of his hand and started cutting it himself. As expected of the tyrant protagonist who was even capable of flipping the hunting scores. He cut the meat much faster than Li Yu. Not long after, there was a full plate. The three Baos opened their mouths wide in unison, wanting daddy to feed them.
Jing-wang picked up a piece with his chopsticks. He was just about to feed one of them when Li Yu said hastily: “Wait!”
Jing-wang paused slightly. With a reddened face, Li Yu also imitated the Baos and shamelessly opened his mouth wide.
Jing-wang: “…….”
Jing-wang seemed to understand. Seeing this big one and three small ones all blinking their eyes at him, like birds crying pitifully for food, Jing-wang couldn’t help but laugh. Without a second thought, he fed Li Yu the piece of meat originally meant for the kids.
Li Yu ate it noisily from his chopsticks and gave the three Baos a smug glance: Did you guys see? He likes me the most.
Bao#2, Bao#3, Bao#4: “……”
Fish dad stole away the delicious smelling meat. The Baos scrunched up their faces, wanting to cry.
Scared, Li Yu hastily picked up a piece of meat and stuffed it into Bao#2’s mouth.
The tears were still spinning in Bao#2’s eyes. His chubby cheeks also quickly puffed up.
Bao#3 and Bao#4 saw that he had food to eat but they didn’t, and became even sadder.
Li Yu and Jing-wang originally planned to feed one of them each. Who would have known that while Bao#2 ate the meat, he arrived at a ridiculous conclusion. He thought that this piece of meat was the one that daddy Jing-wang had fed fish dad, which fish dad then fed to him. Then wasn’t it his turn to feed Bao#3 next?
Bao#2 liked Bao#3. Therefore, he very seriously nodded his head and pulled out half of the saliva covered meat from his mouth and stuffed it into Bao#3’s mouth.
Li Yu: “…….”
When Bao#3 also split the halved, saliva covered meat to feed Bao#4, Li Yu finally realized that the kids might have misunderstood. He didn’t know if he should laugh or cry.
However, since the fish babies were willing to share, fish dad also felt very relieved.
The Baos’ loving exchange wasn’t actually complete.
As Bao#4 ate the meat, he remembered Bao#1 and started to call out ‘ah ah’ while swinging his finger and pointing at Bao#1.
Bao#1 was still sitting on the Emperor’s knees. When Bao#4 called, the Emperor also saw him and kindly waved his hand at Bao#4.
To the side, Wang Xi took a step forth and carried Bao#4 over.
Bao#4 and Bao#1 met up with each other on the Emperor’s knees. Bao#4 called out ‘ah ah’ and then stuffed the already scarcely remaining meat all into Bao#1’s mouth.
Bao#1: ?
Bao#1 slowly understood as well. However, the other Baos already found a brother to feed. Who can Bao#1 feed?
Bao#1’s eyes light up. The Emperor was originally watching this scene with suppressed laughter. Unexpectedly, Bao#1 turned around and placed the last bit of meat into the Emperor’s hand.
“YeYe, eat!” Bao#1 generously patted the Emperor’s hand.
Ever since the Emperor became the sole ruler of the nation, he has bestowed plenty of meat to other people. This was the first time someone had rewarded him with meat in return. Although this meat was passed around, all covered in the kids’ saliva, and definitely inedible, the kind intention held within it made the Emperor feel touched.
Jing-wang’s kids were all good kids. In a moment of happiness, the Emperor rewarded each of the kids with huge platters of barbecue individually.
Plenty of people at the scene were smart and astute. The Emperor looked like he was favoring Jing-wang’s sons right now. These people also followed along and praised the little clever boys.
They pretty much forgot that the 6th Prince was present as well. Meanwhile, the 6th Prince Mu TianXiao only buried his head and ate his own food with a tranquil expression.
At night, Li Yu and Jing-wang entered a tent that the Emperor had appointed to Jing-wang.
Wang Xi brought the four Baos to sleep next door, separated from Jing-wang and Li Yu by a flap.
Because they were outside, it wasn’t convenient to speak too much. Li Yu did his best to converse about things that are not too classified with Jing-wang. He and Jing-wang understood each other very well. Sometimes even without speaking, an eye gesture was enough to understand the other’s meaning.
The two people finished washing up quickly and crossed gazes.
Not knowing who started first, they started kissing each other’s lips. Mouth and teeth engaged in a battle for a while, Jing-wang picked Li Yu up and laid down with him, letting Li Yu rest on his chest. Stroke by stroke, he lightly caressed Li Yu’s back.
Both of them felt like the 6th Prince was extremely likely to act within these few days at the hunting festival. Jing-wang had already gotten prepared. However, because of this, the two people couldn’t be too intimate together.
Li Yu laid on Jing-wang, drowsy with sleep. In actuality, he also did sleep for a while.
A light sound came from outside. Someone shouted loudly: “There’s an assassin.” Li Yu immediately opened his eyes and sat up.
He and Jing-wang were both wearing regular clothes under the blankets. This was just what they were waiting for.
The babies are my favourite part of this. Them sharing meat reminds me of when me, my brother and two neighbourhood kids decided to share a lollipop by sitting in a circle and everyone getting one lick each before giving it to the next person. Kids, man. Funny how little germs matter when you don’t know about them but once you do, your entire childhood flashes through your eyes and you can’t help cringing. Thanks for the chapters!
In such cases, I always say to myself: “Extremely specific collective immunity”
Well at least you didn’t share a cup of poridge with one spoon or one mineral water with a bunch of grown ups and teenagers because of scout rules thinking of how I was ready even if it cost my life and eat and drinking it without even flinching was quite amusing to look back at and yeah it was quite disgusting looking back at it
oh thats so cute
Aww I really love little Baos. That was kinda disgusting but they are still baobeis so It actually looks cute ( ；∀；)
The baos are realllyyyy cuteee 🥰🥺
Thank you very much for the translation
And thank you to everyone who is in this fandom with me, you little suns💙
Thank You for the chapter（*’∀’人）♥
thanks for the chapter!
Hahahaha! Notice how it doesn’t mention the emperor chowing down on that piece of shared Bao#1-4 meat! LMAO! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️
I couldn’t stop laughing hahahahaha Baos why are you so funny
Little Baos are so adorable 😍 🥰
The meat-sharing scene was equal parts adorable and disgusting. Pretty much toddlers in a nutshell, lmao.