“No one is allowed to divulge what just happened.” The Crown Prince severely warned everyone present. Wang Xi and everyone all astutely shut their mouths.
Li Yu sat in the sedan for quite a while, but the Crown Prince didn’t actually allow Xiao Luo to bring Piao Xue over.
“What’s the matter?” Li Yu felt somewhat uneasy.
During these pregnancy days, he has deeply experienced the almost obsessive concern that the hubby had towards him. If he really didn’t want Li Yu to touch this cat, Li Yu could just let Wang-gonggong feed it in his place as before.
He also knew that the repeated inspections were for his sake. After becoming pregnant, he often had uncontrollable moods. Therefore, it was to avoid any potential for agitating him.
Mu TianChi ordered Wang Xi to secretly get rid of the thing. Xiao Luo was still in charge of holding Piao Xue. He walked over to Li Yu’s sedan and said warmly: “This place is not far from JingTai Palace. Why don’t we go over and have a look?”
Li Yu: ?
Li Yu didn’t have any opinions about where they’re going. However, since the Emperor was waiting for them, was it okay to not head over?
The Crown Prince’s eye expression clearly showed that he was holding back from saying something. Did something happen just now to temporarily change their destination?
Li Yu trusted the Crown Prince. Since the Crown Prince said it, then he will just follow along with the other’s wishes. He nodded his head and said: “Then let’s go.”
The Crown Prince pulled down the window curtains on both sides. The sedan changed directions and headed towards JingTai Palace.
After they left, a person walked out hurriedly from behind a Persian silk tree at the corner of the Imperial Garden. They repeatedly glanced towards the direction of the Crown Prince’s entourage and then turned around and left.
Very quickly, one of the Crown Prince’s guards quietly followed them.
As the previous resting palace for the Crown Prince, JingTai Palace was still reserved for him. This was a mysterious place where some unexpected things would happen occasionally. Li Yu and the Crown Prince had discovered the clue regarding the Lou Lan assassin here previously. However, the Lou Lan force inside the Imperial Palace has been eliminated. Why would the Crown Prince still bring him here?
It definitely wasn’t for that kind of thing. Li Yu was very mature by now and definitely wouldn’t imagine something so silly again.
The Crown Prince first helped Li Yu sit into a chair. Then he placed a soft pillow made of peacock gold thread behind Li Yu to let him sit more comfortably.
Once he settled down, the Crown Prince finally said solemnly: “Xiao Yu.”
Li Yu: “En?” Hubby, why are you so serious right now?
The Crown Prince said: “Someone did something to Piao Xue. Inside the bandages wrapped around Piao Xue’s leg, we discovered something else.”
The Crown Prince didn’t dare to say the entire thing all at once and end up startling Xiao Yu. He only revealed a little bit.
There was something strange with the bandages on Piao Xue?
Li Yu was briefly stunned. So that’s why the Crown Prince didn’t allow Xiao Luo to bring the cat over?
According to the Crown Prince’s temperament, this must be it.
“What was it?” Li Yu asked.
The Crown Prince said: “It’s… dog blood.”
Li Yu: “……..?”
Li Yu only knew novels that were written rather dog blooded. The Crown Prince was clearly not talking about this kind of dog blood. Li Yu asked curiously: “What’s dog blood used for?”
The Crown Prince: “……..”
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The Crown Prince slowly explained the use for dog blood.
Li Yu: !!!
Li Yu’s mouth opened extremely wide, especially when he heard that demons would be forced back to their original forms. It was big enough to stuff most of a fist inside.
“This dog blood can make me…….???”
My god, it can make him reveal his original form??
What kind of miraculous tool was this!
Even though a System Fish was fantastical in itself, it wasn’t this superstitious. What fcking original form. Even if he had one, his original form should be human, alright?!
If this thing can let him turn back to a human forever, it’d actually be great. However, if it were that easy to change, then why would he need to do missions? The System fish would have nothing to fear!
Ai….. wait a minute!
Li Yu suddenly recalled that he had told the Crown Prince before that he was a carp demon. From a carp demon’s perspective, he should be afraid of changing back to his original form. Therefore, he should be afraid of dog blood.
How does one… express fear?
Li Yu’s expression blanked for a second. He did his best to squeeze out some fear.
Seeing Li Yu stiff and blank, the Crown Prince thought he must be frightened out of his mind and became even more furious inside.
“I won’t allow you to encounter any danger while I’m here.” The Crown Prince held his hands tightly.
Feeling like his heart was bumped a little bit, Li Yu lightly nodded.
He had known all this time, no matter what danger he encountered, this person would definitely protect him.
“Do you have any thoughts on who would do this?” The Crown Prince asked.
Li Yu was clueless. Lately, he didn’t even go outside much and had been focused on raising the little sweetie pie. If this was even enough to offend people, then everything under the sun could offend people.
Unless, this was another hidden BOSS? Please don’t, ahh! One Princess LangYa was enough to almost send the entire nation into chaos. Please don’t give him the same kind of “unexpected surprise”!
The Crown Prince was also aware of Xiao Yu’s daily whereabouts. He knew that this was unrelated to Xiao Yu. Plus, this person had placed the bandages on Piao Xue and was waiting on their road to Ganqing Palace. This was definitely done by someone inside the Imperial palace.
He had already left a subordinate to watch the Imperial Gardens. Piao Xue was only a cat. The culprit should be behind the scenes. He just needed to follow the vines to get to the melon.
The Crown Prince smiled coldly: “The results will become apparent soon.”
The Crown Prince ordered Wang Xi to bring a message to the Emperor, saying that Taizi-fei felt somewhat exhausted and they will be heading over after a rest.
Feeling pretty bored, Li Yu found a stack of peach blossom cookies from the food box he had brought out of the Crown Prince’s Estate and was just eating them. At the same time, he thought to himself, he was well-fed and plump, sitting in a carriage and sedan, how can he be tired?
Ze, this was probably a scheme to trick the enemy again!
Li Yu immediately put down the peach blossom cookie and pretended that he was so tired he couldn’t even lift his arms.
“TianChi, I’m so exhausted.” Li Yu deliberately winked at the hubby, enticingly.
The Crown Prince: “……..”
The Crown Prince was so familiar with this fish by now that he was at a point where, as soon as fish waved his tail, he’d know what the other wanted. Suppressing a smile, he picked up a peach blossom cookie and fed fish. Don’t just focus on how listless this fish seemed in appearance, all feeble and weak. When the peach blossom cookie was placed next to his mouth, he immediately nibbled it all up until nothing was left.
Seeing this fish’s lively manner, the Crown Prince was filled with a firm determination to protect.
A teacup of time later, a guard came to report. It was the guard that was ordered to remain in the Imperial Gardens. As expected, he discovered a personal servant spying on them there. The guard followed this person and found that after they entered YongFu Palace’s side hall, they never came out.
YongFu Palace?
Li Yu was dumbfounded. Wasn’t this the territory of the previous Concubine Zhang, aka Princess LangYa?
However, didn’t Princess LangYa die utterly?
“There’s…….still people living there?”
Mu TianXiao scoffed. How could there not? Although Princess LangYa died, there was still a male concubine living right there inside the side hall of YongFu Palace.
This was a Guiren with the surname Chu, who only managed to enter the Imperial Palace through Princess LangYa’s ‘recommendation.’
“It’s–Chu YanYu? He wants to hurt me?” Li Yu really couldn’t believe this.
However, according to the guard’s words, the person who was spying in the Imperial Gardens lived inside the side hall of YongFu Palace. Other than Chu YanYu, there was no one else.
Li Yu thought about this carefully. He and Chu YanYu basically never even conversed before. The only interaction they had was when he interrupted Chu YanYu from drugging his hubby. He didn’t do anything else. Later on, he did manage to see Chu YanYu a few times. However, because Chu-Guiren’s ranking wasn’t high, there was never an occasion where they needed to speak. Every time it was at most a fleeting glance.
Plus, he was the protagonist’s wife. Chu YanYu was a small concubine of the protagonist’s dad. There were no advantages to clashing with him. Chu YanYu shouldn’t be so obsessed to want to pour dog blood on him?
…… this was the style of someone whose head was messed up.
The Crown Prince thought about much more than Li Yu and said: “Chu YanYu’s motive is unclear. Perhaps it’s still related to Princess LangYa.”
Chu-Guiren was ‘recommended’ by Princess LangYa after all. Previously, he was once the 6th Prince’s sweetheart– the 6th Prince had already been completely removed from the royal registry by the Emperor. Chu YanYu still might throw an already broken pot.
When Princess LangYa was orchestrating her rebellion, Chu YanYu had followed her. However, the Emperor didn’t actually punish him. There was a story behind all this.
That day when the Emperor was detained in GanQing Palace, Chu YanYu was outwardly following Princess LangYa, but secretly taking care of the Emperor.
Although he couldn’t help the Emperor escape, a cup of water, a cup of tea, was enough to allow this male concubine to leave a deep impression on the Emperor.
The Emperor had even given Pu Liu a respectable burial. Later on, when he personally asked Chu YanYu, Chu-Guiren said that he was coerced by Princess LangYa and had no other choice. The Emperor couldn’t obtain any evidence that Chu-Guiren had conspired with Princess LangYa and felt that he was also a pitiful person. Therefore, he dropped this matter.
After Princess LangYa died, Chu-Guiren’s living conditions were actually even better than Princess LangYa when she was alive.
The main hall of YongFu palace was sealed. Chu-Guiren still lived in the side palace. The Emperor had originally picked out a palace courtyard to appoint to Chu-Guiren. However, Chu-Guiren stated that he was living in the side palace as a constant reminder, and that he was praying for the Emperor.
Just like this, Chu-Guiren advanced the ranks by stepping on the deceased Princess LangYa.
However, the Emperor’s enthusiasm towards the harem was no longer the same as before. Although Chu-Guiren left him a deep impression, the Emperor still didn’t dote on him much. Perhaps a few years in the future, Chu-Guiren would have advanced his concubine status. However, it’d be merely that.
The Crown Prince was very clear of Chu YanYu’s past. Originally, the Crown Prince wouldn’t have given the Emperor’s concubines a second glance. No matter how unsightly Chu YanYu was previously inside his estate, since the other had already become a palace concubine; the Crown Prince wouldn’t gossip unnecessarily with the Emperor. He only wanted the other to know his place. If they each minded their own business, the Crown Prince naturally wouldn’t do anything.
However, of all the things Chu-Guiren could have done, he really shouldn’t have attempted to harm the Taizi-fei.
Since he knew Xiao Yu’s identity, then the Crown Prince definitely couldn’t allow him to divulge this information.
“……. TianChi, TianChi!” Seeing the Crown Prince sinking into deep thought, Li Yu extended two fingers and waved them in front of the Crown Prince’s eyes.
With a smile, the Crown Prince grabbed his mischievous fingers.
Li Yu said: “Why would Chu YanYu use that to hurt me? Do you think he knows something?”
Although Li Yu wouldn’t actually be harmed by that, it still wouldn’t be good if the information got out. When had he been careless and got discovered by Chu YanYu? He needed to figure this out clearly.
“…….I will investigate.” The Crown Prince took the chance to pull Li Yu closer and kiss the center of his palm.
Chu YanYu was only a lowly Guiren. He only had 2 palace maids and 2 personal servants taking care of him. The guard very quickly found out that Chu-Guiren had a maid that went to the hunting grounds during the hunting competition. After she returned, she became completely neurotic, always saying that she had encountered a demon. How can anyone believe this? Everyone thought that she had developed some strange illness. Lately, this maid often conversed with Chu-Guiren behind closed doors.
Li Yu was completely at a loss: “I shouldn’t have exposed myself at the hunting grounds. Even when transforming, I always did it with you present–”
Wait! Li Yu actually recalled one time when this wasn’t the case!
It was when the Crown Prince became emotionally unstable and coughed up poisoned blood. The imperial physician was assessing the Crown Prince overnight. Meanwhile, Li Yu was keeping the Crown Prince company and had to hurry to a neighboring tent to change forms. Could it be at that time……
Although later on, when delivering the Tiger Seal, he had turned into a fish headed human and ended up scaring the bystanders, he had transformed from fish into fish human at that time. It wouldn’t connect the ‘monster’ to Taizi-fei.
To find out that Taizi-fei can change into a fish, this person must have seen him in the process of transforming from a human into a fish. It had to be at that time!
Li Yu explained what happened at the hunting grounds. The Crown Prince nodded his head.
The palace maid most likely had accidentally seen Xiao Yu change forms. And although Chu YanYu didn’t know that fish could deliver the Tiger Seal, he had seen Xiao Yu slap the 6th Prince across the face. In combination with the palace maid’s words, Chu YanYu would become suspicious at the very least.
However, why would he scheme to make Xiao Yu change forms?
“Your highness, I have an idea.” Li Yu looked towards the Crown Prince, rubbing his hands together with glee.
Look at this trouble-making little expression! And that naughty mischievous tone!
The Crown Prince: “……..”
The Crown Prince smiled: “Whatever you want. I will cover for you.”
“Crown Prince, you’re awesome!” Li Yu cheered jubilantly. He didn’t get enough last time at the hunting grounds, but now he finally had a chance to make it up.
Li Yu was a very professional carp demon! Since Chu YanYu wanted him to transform back to his original form, then let’s transform!
Li Yu smiled widely. Leaving the estate this time, he had brought the crystal bottle. Fish body double, I’m counting you again!
An hour later, the little green sedan from the Crown Prince’s estate hurried towards the palace gates.
The personal servant that had followed the Crown Prince in the Imperial Gardens back tracked again. Wandering their way to JingTai palace, they discovered that the sedan was about to set off and followed along secretly.
The wind inadvertently blew open the window curtains of the sedan. The personal servant looked inside with their sharp eyes. There was no one inside the sedan at all, only a large crystal bottle. Inside the bottle was a silver and gold Koi that was elegantly waving its fish tail.
PFFT— I wonder if they’ll splash Li Yu with dog blood and he’ll just… stand there, completely normal? That’d be hilarious!
Li Yu: 🧍♂️ are they trying to change the genre to “dog-blooded”?
Thank You for the chapter (ꈍ꒳ꈍ)❤
thanks for the chapter!
DOG BLOOD??!!!
Save the dogs!!!!!
+1SAVE THE DOGS!!!
+1 SAVE THE DOGS!!!
Leave the dogs alone!!! 😭