Li Yu switched to a completely new residence. The new fish tank was several times bigger than the original, not to mention it was carved from a practically completely transparent piece of crystal. Such a large crystal was very rarely seen in ancient times, possessed only by the royal family. However, crystals weren’t actually rare in the time period that Li Yu came from. Transparent fish tanks could be easily seen everywhere as well. Therefore, Li Yu was entirely unaware of the price of his new residence; and there was no one who’d tell a fish this.
The little carp only knew, Jing-wang moved the white rock bed that he regularly used into the new fish tank and then used the same kind of stones to expand its size several times. The water grass was also moved over, faithful to its original appearance, not one leaf missing.
Furthermore, Jing-wang also installed a fake mountain for Li Yu entertainment. One of the rocks on the fake mountain was made for reclining. Li Yu could even swing while laying on it. Delighted, he swung several times. Qiu-Guifei’s iridescent pearl was placed in the corner of the new fish tank. Perhaps afraid he would get tired of rolling this pearl, Jing-wang gave him plenty of other pearls as well, in a variety of colors and sizes.
Li Yu couldn’t tell how expensive the crystal was so naturally he couldn’t tell that these pearls were actually precious gems. Ancient artisans were incapable of perfectly cutting precious gems, carving mostly for embedding them into jewelry. The beauty and luster of gems in their natural state weren’t particularly prominent. Meanwhile, Li Yu, this fish, can only distinguish gems by how they shine. Therefore, he only thought that the polished-round gems inside the fish tank were just extremely colorful, ordinary rocks.
Wang Xi-gonggong, who’s been coming frequently recently to tend to the fish, quickly saw the little carp gather the scattered gems together one by one and make a pile. Then, taking the time to pick out a big red ruby, the little carp brought it a distance away and then gave an impressive swing with his tail. The red ruby was flung into the pile of gems; the pile of gems was knocked down……
Seeing all of this, the corner of Wang-gonggong’s mouth twitched. This was a box of top quality gems gifted by the Emperor. His highness thought the little thing liked pearls so ordered people to make the gems into beads. It looked like the little thing really did like pearls, and was even very conscientious. With his highness’s gem pearls, it didn’t even roll around Guifei-niangniang’s iridescent pearl anymore.
Li Yu took quite a while to get used to the new fish tank. When he finally realized the time, there was only about less than half a day left for the ‘Get Along” task.
Not good. How did he get carried away and start playing for real?
Li Yu swiftly left behind the pearls that he was playing enthusiastically with and went around searching for Jing-wang’s figure.
The crystal fish tank was transparent enough so he didn’t need to waste energy jumping up. He could easily find Jing-wang. The handsome young man was currently bent over the desk, reading a scroll. The sunlight passed through the window frame and landed on the young man’s body, giving the youth a layer of warm gold hue.
Li Yu was dazzled by the view. Before, when he was inside the porcelain fishbowl and in the teacup, he always had to raise his head to look at Jing-wang. He was very familiar with Jing-wang’s cold face. But he didn’t know at all that this face could also be so gentle and soft.
As he looked in a daze, Li Yu felt a strange feeling of sadness flooding his heart.
Honestly speaking, they have spent plenty of happy times together. In this world, Jing-wang was the person Li Yu interacted with the most.
In another 2-4 hours, this fish’s life will reach its end. Jing-wang would never know that a person from another world had once become his pet fish.
For a moment, Li Yu suddenly had a crazy idea, thinking perhaps he should disregard everything and use the shapeshifting pill. Even if it would cause a commotion, so what? He was a person. It was already very unfair for him to transmigrate into a fish. It wasn’t ridiculous at all to want to leave this world as a human.
Just as he was about to enter the system to become a newspaper headline fish, Jing-wang put down his book scroll and walked over. Perhaps it’s because Li Yu stopped in front of the wall of the crystal fish tank for too long, so long that it caused Jing-wang, who was reading, to notice the little carp.
Li Yu listlessly waved his tail at Jing-wang, as his last goodbye.
Yet Jing-wang thought this fish wanted to play again. The crystal fish tank allowed him to see the fish’s movement more clearly. However, because the fish tank itself was bigger and taller. It wasn’t convenient for him to reach his fingers inside the water to touch the little carp like before.
Jing-wang somewhat felt it was a pity. The hand that wanted to play with the fish pressed against the crystal wall.
Li Yu paused briefly, then slowly swam over. Right now, he was an extremely dangerous fish, not easy to coax at all.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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Fine…since Jing-wang treated this fish pretty well, he might as well…… not cause more trouble for Jing-wang.
Separated by the crystal wall, the little carp rubbed Jing-wang’s finger longingly and passed the last two hours of his life accompanying Jing-wang.
“……Host. The time is up.” The System interrupted him.
With a mere lapse in attention, Li Yu found himself already inside the shitty System. He didn’t know what happened and why he would suddenly be inside the system. Don’t tell him, he turned into fish bones and fish ashes right before Jing-wang’s eyes?
“Host, please don’t be nervous. You’re still alive.” The system comforted him.
…… Still alive? That’s good.
After relaxing, Li Yu felt something didn’t seem right: Didn’t you say that exceeding the time limit was also considered failure?
The system explained: “The time limit of this task was indicating the duration needed to complete the task.”
Li Yu: …… Why didn’t you say this earlier? Why the heck are you screwing this fish over again!!
System: “I already warned the host to have patience. This step of the mission is to pass the set time and let the system judge if the mission was successful.”
Li Yu thought back, it seemed like the shitty system did mention something about patience before. But it was so ambiguous, who the fck could have figured that out!
After cursing, Li Yu asked: So I was successful?
System: “Please examine the main mission.”
Under the System’s suggestion, Li Yu went to examine the “Get along” step in the main mission of ‘The Tyrant’s Guppy Pet Fish.’ The countdown before already changed into a blinking square that was changing colors unceasingly.
System: “The tyrant’s satisfaction level in the last few days will be used to determine the result of this task. Green means pass; red means failure.”
Li Yu: …… speak human, stop shtting. What exactly is my result?
The system’s notifications spontaneously stopped here. The little square that was changing colors suddenly stopped as well.
The result was decided. Failure meant turning into fish bones and fish ashes!
Li Yu gathered his courage to look at the end result. Actually, he felt pretty optimistic. Although he caused a lot of trouble for the tyrant, and ate the tyrant’s tofu, the tyrant pampered him a lot. It shouldn’t give him a red color.
Li Yu– swiftly glanced at it, and saw the result that System gave him– was a rainbow color.
Li Yu felt even the tip of his heart trembling: rainbow, what does that mean?
System: “Congratulations on completing the ‘Get along’ task exceptionally well, host. The reward for this task is an improvement in your self-healing skills.”
Li Yu didn’t bother with the reward, his thoughts were still relentlessly spinning around. So rainbow meant an exceptional result?
System: “It means extremely satisfied.”
Li Yu: ……
Li Yu instantly grinned from ear to ear. So this was saying that Jing-wang was extremely satisfied with him? Hahahaha, he really has to thank heaven and earth, and thank Jing-wang!
The little carp shook, exhaled deeply, and leapt up.
Li Yu exited the system and found himself laying in Jing-wang’s hand again. It looked like when he was dragged into the system, he was still playing with Jing-wang. The shitty system didn’t deal with the aftermath at all so he ended up sinking right in front of Jing-wang without any warning.
This scene was really too shocking. Jing-wang couldn’t help but think, this fish was sick again.
The servants outside of Jing-wang were already used to this. They remembered that the same thing pretty much happened last time. Seeing the fish stiff, but without any actual problems, they can only answer vaguely, this fish fell asleep again.
With a heavy face, Jing-wang still waited personally for the fish to wake up again.
When Li Yu saw Jing-wang, his eyes immediately felt teary. Jing-wang didn’t know that the fish in his hand was actually a human. Of course, he also didn’t know that Li Yu just experienced a matter of life and death, and that what allowed Li Yu to escape the jaws of death was Jing-wang’s favor towards his pet.
The little carp looked up at Jing-wang’s handsome face, overwhelmed with emotions.
A fish couldn’t shed tears and also couldn’t speak. No matter happy or sad, it can only wave its tail and blow bubbles. However, Li Yu wasn’t an ordinary fish. Whenever he got emotional, he felt like he needed to do a little something; he needed to express his gratitude towards Jing-wang.
Thinking about how cats and dogs expressed their affections, Li Yu thought, he could also use his fish mouth to rub Jing-wang’s face. It shouldn’t be a problem.
And he just happened to be held in Jing-wang’s hand. A chance blessed by the heavens!
Li Yu did his best to stand his fish body up, however, fish was still not the same as cats and dogs. When cats and dogs stood up, their paws could pretty much rest on their master’s shoulder. When a little carp stood up, the fish fins were too short and couldn’t reach anywhere. After flailing a bit, he fell back into Jing-wang’s hand.
Li Yu didn’t give up. He still had a powerful fish tail. As long as he aimed at Jing-wang’s face and gave a little jump, he could rub there.
Just remember not to use too much strength. He wanted to rub Jing-wang’s face, not to slap his mouth. He must be gentle.
This time, he didn’t make a blunder on his strength. It was only his sense of direction that wasn’t very good. When he swung his tail, he didn’t aim correctly and he… went astray.
The little carp didn’t notice at all. When he jumped up, he saw Jing-wang’s handsome face coming closer and closer. The little carp was secretly gleeful, completely disregarding all consequences. When his fish mouth got closer, he just cheerfully bumped randomly wherever.
His pointy fish mouth… rubbed against an extremely soft thing.
Li Yu thought to himself, rubbing against Jing-wang’s face actually felt pretty good. Speaking honestly though, shouldn’t a person’s cheek be flat? How come this felt a little curved and a bit hot?
Li Yu: “……”
No way? What did he just rub against?
Startled, Li Yu opened his fish eyes wide and discovered that his fish mouth was currently pressed (devastatingly) against Jing-wang’s lips. Jing-wang’s pitch black eyes were currently staring at him unblinkingly.
He made another mistake again!
With a shudder, the little carp slid off of Jing-wang’s lips, soul leaving his body.
Jing-wang dangled the fish with one hand as he wiped his aching lips with the other. This fish… was starting again?
He could practically imagine this fish wilting for a few days again.
After finally managing to complete a tiny step of the main branch with great efforts, (the advancement of this task really tested his abilities even more than last time), Li Yu just got ready to gather more fish food to apologize to Jing-wang, when the shitty system threw down another bolt of lightning from the sky at him.
“Hello host. The 4th step of the main mission, ‘share a bed with the tyrant,’ is starting. Please complete it cautiously.”
Li Yu: “……”
Did the shitty system think he wasn’t giving enough gifts of apologies to Jing-wang? It actually wanted him to share a bed with the tyrant? Not to mention, a fish can’t leave the water, how was he supposed to share a bed with a person!
However, the system never cared about his thoughts and feelings. Else why would it keep screwing this fish?
HAHAHAHAHA~ sharing a bed 😄 🤣
Thanks for the chapter author-nim
Thank You for the chapter (=^w^=)
LMFAO—
I think he really might have to become a human for this one, but seeing the progression so far, its kinda unlikely….
Seabed, riverbed, his little white rocks beds… No, no, no! Out there where the giant human bed is and the water isn’t… System tyrant!! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🐟
thanks for the chapter!
Congratulations to Jing-wang for being the first ML to have his tofu eaten by a fish….. Multiple times(´ε｀ )
rainbow = gay
no need to think so deep li yu HAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
Li Yu sighs you really do have a shitty system
this fish is rather unlucky ba!
I THOUGHT RAINBOW MEANT HE TURNED HIM GAY LMFAOOOO
XD
I think the real tyrant is the system😭😂
Nah fr