Li Yu analyzed the tasks that he had completed so far. The tasks that the shitty system gave him often had misleading titles. If he could find the correct method of approach, it’s not hard to complete– But he needed to disperse the clouds and see the true nature of the task.
For example, the interaction and the getting along tasks, ultimately meant having some kind of daily interaction with Jing-wang. The iridescent pearl looked rather hard, but the task itself didn’t have any specific requirements as to how he needed to complete it. He only needed to touch the iridescent pearl to complete it. It’s just that his luck wasn’t very good and a series of variables happened in between.
With this kind of conclusion, he really didn’t need to think too hard on the “share a bed” task. As long as he was on the same bed as Jing-wang and using the same pillow, it should probably be enough. The System didn’t even say he needed to be covered by blankets, much less actually sleeping. He must have a lot of leeway here.
Pondering deeply, Li Yu felt like this time, only the title of the task sounded rather crazy, but he should be able to manage it.
What made him feel more assured was that when he told the system his analysis, the system only said: “As long as you finish the task, Host.”
Li Yu: Very good. It wasn’t a clear denial, which means it’s an acknowledgement.
What he needed to consider next was how to get in the same bed as jing-wang and use the same pillow.
…… of course, he had to do it when Jing-wang was asleep! Yea!
Not to mention, fish couldn’t leave the water. Even though occasionally, he could move out of the water for a little while, a fish’s body must be wet. Can a dripping wet fish share a bed with Jing-wang?
Obviously not.
Even if he managed to do it, Jing-wang wouldn’t let him off. Getting the master’s bedding wet might be even more terrifying than eating the master’s tofu.
Unless he finished the task quietly and without a sound while Jing-wang was sleeping.
Therefore, this task became: how to get onto Jing-wang’s bed and hog the other’s pillow briefly while he’s sleeping.
Li Yu: “……”
The crystal fish tank was pretty far from Jing-wang’s bed. This one jump had to be a big jump. After hogging the pillow, he still had to return to the fish tank. The difficulty level here wasn’t the usual level.
The countdown of the last task gave Li Yu lingering fears. Good thing there was no time limit this time. He can practice as much as he wanted to get ready.
Li Yu started to secretly practice jumping from the crystal fish tank towards the direction of the bed when no one was looking.
The first big leap had him falling to the floor as expected. There was still quite a distance from Jing-wang’s bed.
He had thought dropping to the floor would hurt a lot, but this wasn’t true. Li Yu recalled the reward for the “getting along” task. Maybe the sturdiness of his fish body has increased as well.
Since it didn’t hurt falling to the ground, he could try as much as he wanted……
Wait. Why did he have to aim precisely with one jump? And why did he have to reach there in one jump? He can totally hop and skip over……
Li Yu jumped once more to his target and got one step closer to Jing-wang’s bed.
Jumping several times wasn’t hard at all. The little carp was somewhat happy.
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However, by the time he reached Jing-wang’s bed, he didn’t even jump up yet when he felt he couldn’t handle it anymore; and could only jump back quickly.
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Completing this task as a fish was really too difficult. Li Yu naturally thought: if he were a human, everything wouldn’t be this complicated and frustrating.
…… so, did he have to change into a human to complete this task?
Li Yu hesitated somewhat. The difficulties experienced by a fish really were a mere trifle to a human. He just happened to have a medicine that allowed him to temporarily change shape. However, he originally wanted to use it to pass a meaningful two hours, not to be forced and hurried, like a duck being skewered on a stick over the fire.
The shitty system said that there was only one bottle of this shapeshifting pill. Although the main mission could help him turn into a human in the future, he didn’t know how long he had to wait for that to happen. If he really used the medicine now, what if in the future, there was a task that he couldn’t complete without turning into a human?
Making this choice was even harder than jumping all over the place. Li Yu finally decided to try a few more times as a fish. He hasn’t tried other plans yet either.
Perhaps heaven was helping him this time as well; when Wang Xi discovered the water stains that the little carp left on the floor, he thought it was pretty funny and told Jing-wang with a laugh.
“Your highness, looks like the little thing likes to stroll around.”
As a result, Jing-wang learned that this fish actually came out of the fish tank.
Jing-wang had seen the little carp chase the iridescent pearl on the gold tiles of Ganqing Palace before. Learning that it liked to stroll wasn’t really anything major.
Yet for this huge fish tank to not even be able to hold the fish; Jing-wang looked at the little carp with a somewhat complicated expression.
Li Yu pretended to look innocent and blew bubbles: Master, this one doesn’t like to stroll around, this one only wants to jump in your bed.
Jing-wang was really very indulgent with this pet fish and made a decision that made the fish feel surprised and delighted. He ordered Wang Xi to place some teacups filled with fresh water on the floor to avoid the fish from lacking water mid-trip. Jing-wang didn’t mind if the fish went out to wander around, but he definitely didn’t want to return to see a dead fish.
A master only needed to give the order. The subordinate still had to go through great pains to think about where to place the teacups so that they were both convenient to the little carp, yet not in the way to be stepped on by the master. Wang Xi deliberated for a while, then asked Jing-wang for his opinion, before placing the teacups in places where Jing-wang didn’t usually walk by. Most of them were placed near the fish tank. One of the teacups just happened to be on the path towards the bed.
The little carp twisted and turned in delight: happiness arrived too quickly. Who would have thought that the tyrant master would give him a cheat code!
Wang Xi even astutely changed the rugs in the room to ones that absorbed moisture, so that the ground wouldn’t get wet with the little carp jumping around.
This was really the arrival of a very timely assistance. Li Yu was originally worried that his wet dripping fish body would make the pillow wet. With this rug, he didn’t need to be afraid. The day that the rugs were placed, Li Yu quietly stole one. He temporarily placed the fresh water in his interdimensional space back into the fish tank and then put the rug in it.
Like this, he could use the rug as a cushion anytime. No need to worry about getting the pillow dirty.
Everything all ready, in order to not let Jing-wang hear the papapa sound of his tail swinging, Li Yu decided to wait until Jing-wang slept deeply before acting.
On this night, Jing-wang returned pretty late. Li Yu heard the door open. Yet after Jing-wang entered, he didn’t order people to light the lamp. Instead, he fumbled directly to the side of the bed and climbed in, kicking over a few teacups along the way.
Li Yu secretly laughed. Did Jing-wang get drunk somewhere? Being drunk was good. This was even more convenient for him to act.
Li Yu waited very long, waiting until long after there were no more movements from the bed, before nimbly jumping and hopping over to the head of the bed.
He pulled out the water absorbent rug out of the interdimensional space and moved it onto the bed. With a light leap, he jumped onto the rug.
Jing-wang had his back facing him. The blankets covered his head as he laid unmoving with only half of the jade pillow exposed outside.
Li Yu wanted it just like this. Just in case, he also used a fish fin to touch the jade pillow briefly, making sure he didn’t get the jade pillow wet. Tomorrow, Jing-wang won’t be able to discover anything.
The “sharing a bed” task should be settled now.
After doing all of this, Li Yu waited for the notification from the System. Yet, after waiting for quite awhile, the notification didn’t come.
The somewhat anxious Li Yu: ???
Where did a hiccup occur?
Li Yu decided to move this entire fish onto the jade pillow. If that didn’t work, then he could also bury himself into the blanket. He was already very close to the person on the bed, when suddenly, he smelled a faint fragrance.
Li Yu froze. How come Jing-wang used fragrance like he was a woman? Last time when he stealthily bit Jing-wang’s mouth, there didn’t seem to be this kind of thick aroma.
Just at this time, the person on the bed turned around. A pair of moist glossy eyes faced Li Yu head on.
Borrowing the moonlight through the window frame, Li Yu saw this person’s appearance clearly. This wasn’t Jing-wang at all. Instead, it was a beautiful woman.
No wonder his main mission didn’t update. Because Jing-wang wasn’t in the bed!
Li Yu, who got quite a shock, immediately fell back and slid off of the jade pillow.
The unknown woman also had quite a shock. She raised the arm that was withdrawn under the blanket, like she was about to take it out. After discovering that it was only a fish before her eyes, the woman tsk’d and then disregarded it completely, laying back down again with the blankets half covering her, revealing a bare white shoulder.
Li Yu: “……”
When that woman raised her hand, Li Yu glanced at the thing she wanted to take out. It was actually a shining, snow white dagger that was hidden under the blanket, which almost flashed this fish’s eyes blind!
This was……
At first, when he discovered this woman laying on Jing-wang’s bed with disheveled clothes, he thought this was some palace maid that wanted to climb the ranks, making a futile attempt to seduce Jing-wang. Yet this woman had a dagger hidden inside the blankets; that made everything complicated. This situation probably wasn’t an attempt to climb the ranks, but rather, it was a female assassin trying to take Jing-wang’s life!
No wonder this person knocked over the teacups on the ground before. Jing-wang would have never done that normally!
Li Yu curled up inside the blankets, doing his best to not let the assassin notice him anymore. At the same time, he was very puzzled. In the book, didn’t it say that Qingtai palace was like an iron prison? How did this woman avoid the guards of Qingtai and intrude into Jing-wang’s room?
But there was no time to think more on this. Outside the door, Wang Xi’s voice floated over, saying: “Your highness.” Jing-wang, this poor fellow, was about to enter soon.
Li Yu was extremely anxious. How was he supposed to warn Jing-wang that there was an assassin hiding in his bed?
Oh right. Since this woman had her clothes all disheveled, she shouldn’t be planning to attack immediately. Jing-wang also knew martial arts. And he had attendants beside him. Therefore, she definitely planned to seduce Jing-wang and make him lower his guard first before……
As long as it’s not an immediate attack, it’s fine!
The door was pushed open softly. Li Yu and the assassin instantly both held their breaths.
Wang Xi lit up the lantern. Jing-wang glanced into the room and discovered the faint shadow of a person laying on his bed.
“How audacious!” Seeing this scene, Wang-gonggong instantly became furious. Just who was this daring to actually climb into his highness’s bed!
The woman on the bed turned a deaf ear to the shout, and sat up with blankets wrapped around her, revealing an extremely beautiful complexion. She giggled sweetly at Jing-wang, voice like a silver bell.
The sweeter she smiled, the colder Li Yu felt. He could only pray in his heart for Jing-wang to definitely not be bewitched by this woman.
Wang Xi wanted to charge forward and drag this woman off. Yet, Jing-wang suddenly stopped Wang Xi and made him back up to the side.
The woman felt complacent internally and said with a laugh: “Your highness likes me.”
Jing-wang walked closer with an expressionless face and looked at the woman. Li Yu nervously stared at him, hoping he would throw this woman out. However, Jing-wang only raised his hand and placed it on this woman’s cheek!
The woman immediately smiled knowingly and went to nuzzle his hand. Although his cold, freezing fingertips made her tremble, she already knew that he’s been hooked.
Jing-wang, you idiot!! This woman is obviously a problem, okay?!
Li Yu was so angry, he couldn’t even breathe. He was just about to jump up and flail in front of Jing-wang when something shocking occurred at this moment. The light in Jing-wang’s eyes abruptly turned cold as he grabbed the woman’s throat, fast as lightning.
He can’t speak and didn’t need to say anything. Anyone who dared to intrude into his room harboring hidden motives will only face one result: death!
Everything was fine just now, so the woman didn’t expect Jing-wang would act so straightforwardly. For the sake of self-preservation, she had no choice but to endure the pain in her neck as she stuck her hand into the blanket, planning to pull out the dagger hidden in it. Unexpectedly, something in the blanket bit her viciously.
Distracted, the female assassin didn’t even get a chance to talk when she was stabbed right through the chest by Jing-wang.
She looked in surprise at the big hole going through her chest, then looked in surprise at Jing-wang’s apathetic face. She didn’t even get a chance to say what her master wanted her to say. She had thought Jing-wang would at least keep her alive to make her confess; yet Jing-wang didn’t care at all!
He only, wanted her to die!
Jing-wang ruthlessly turned his sword. The female assassin slowly collapsed.
Jing-wang pulled his sword out and glanced at the bloodstains on it with disgust. Wang Xi heard the movement and ran over with attendants. Seeing the woman dead on the ground, Wang Xi said with a scoff: “How foolish.”
Jing-wang recalled that the woman seemed to have wanted to take something out of the blanket, yet let go for some unknown reason. He assumed that she hid something inside the blanket. Jing-wang didn’t wait for Wang Xi and used his sword to lift the blankets. Immediately, he saw his fish here, shaking and trembling, curled up in the blanket.
Jing-wang: “……”
What’s going on?
Jing-wang reached out his hands to pick the fish up. But the little carp, who usually loved to curl its tail around his fingers, moved out of the way in fright.
Thank You for the chapter (=^w^=)
Heroic little fish! ❤️🐟
my fav scene!
girl, your reaction for seeing a fish in bed is weird af.
thanks for the chapter!
Jiang-wang: My fish slept with someone else. My fish… Is having an affair!
I laughed so much. I don’t know why but I found this chapter hilarious even if there was an attempted assassination and Li Yu getting inadvertently traumatized by it. Hmmm who is that woman and who sent her?
Thank you for the chapter!
Thank you for the chapter
I noticed how Li Yu keeps calling Jing-wang a master repeatedly…^~^He is already so accustomed to living his life as a fish ,ayooo.
Will he use the transform pill when the unimaginable thing happens?!
Is little fishy trying to get Jing wang to get intonbed with him?? Hehe sly little koi