The Disabled Tyrant’s Pet Palm Fish [Transmigration]Chapter 18

(Translator’s note: Since all of the Prince’s names are really similar. I’m just going to put numbers to separate them)

Li Yu decided to use the shapeshifting pill on the day of the banquet. ZiItF2

Not long prior, the “sharing a bed” step was completed. He received a very strange reward– a lifelike fish pillow that looked just like him. Because his previous rewards were stuff like the interdimensional space or all sorts of physical enhancements, he originally was pretty excited to see the reward. Who’d have expected he’d get this kind of seemingly useless thing after all that effort. At that time, Li Yu instantly felt the System screwed him over again. He saved the reward and didn’t retrieve it. Now that he planned to change into a human, this pillow suddenly gained significance.

If he changed into a human and the fish tank became empty, the servants walking around could very easily discover that he had

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disappeared. He might be exposed immediately. This fish pillow was practically designed to help him make his escape. When placed in the water, it didn’t move at all. From far away, it looked pretty similar!

After finishing the “sharing a bed” task, the next step was “Reach a deeper understanding with the Tyrant.” Li Yu was used to these eccentric tasks already, his expression no longer changed and his heart no longer jumped because of the misleading titles. The shitty system often pretended to be dead after announcing the mission. Li Yu engaged in all sorts of attempts. This ‘deeper understanding’ was even more ambiguous than ‘interacting’ and ‘getting along,’ and made this fish completely at a loss. Since he didn’t make any progress yet anyways, it didn’t hurt to temporarily put it aside. la9AOy

Li Yu made plans seriously. He only had 2 hours to turn into a human. The banquet was held in the Ninghui Hall inside the Jing Estate. During that time, most of the people will gather over there. Because there will be servants and chefs from the Imperial Palace, and attendants brought over by the other Princes, the Jing Estate will definitely be bursting with noise and excitement and all sorts of people walking all over. Mixing his unfamiliar face amongst the crowd won’t attract much attention.

He wanted to first visit the kitchens and eat some human food. After changing into a fish, he could only eat fish food. The red fish food was made from flour, but after eating it a lot, he really missed normal food and dishes. He really wanted to eat a good stir-fry meal and stuff himself. The Jing Estate kitchens needed to feed the guests; they definitely won’t be lacking in food. Li Yu heard Wang Xi say before, in order to avoid guests not having enough to eat during the banquets, usually they’d prepare every dish several times. Li Yu decided that he’d only scoop a little from every dish to have a taste, completely not worried about devouring all of the good food.

After eating, he planned to wander around Jing Estate. He never toured the Jing Estate yet. He heard that the Emperor even prepared opera singers. He can sneak over and watch ancient people sing opera while eating some sunflower seeds. Originally he even wanted to leave the estate, but he was afraid that exiting would be easy, but returning would be hard. There were guards at the Jing estate gates. The time was too short as well……

If something happened midway and he changed before reaching the bedroom again, he also had this well planned already. He could bring a teacup with him, along with enough fresh water and fish food in his interdimensional space. If he changed back, he could jump into the teacup and not be afraid of anything.

Whatever he could think of, he considered. Everything seemed foolproof. In order to make people not discover that the fish pillow wasn’t the same as the real fish, before the scheduled day of the banquet, Li Yu stopped swimming so frequently. Most of the time, he spent laying on the white stone bed like a salted fish. A few times when Jing-wang came to see him, Li Yu would swam over reflexively to nuzzle his fingers. However, moving closer, he’d suddenly remembered that he needed to maintain his distance; and thus, he’d changed his action to waving his tail and then swimming away loftily.

Jing-wang: ???

On the day of the banquet, Wang Xi accompanied Jing-wang to Ninghui Hall bright and early in the morning. Although the Emperor prepared everything already, as the host, Jing-wang still couldn’t avoid dealing with the guests. By his side, Wang Xi also helped him. According to Jing-wang’s wishes, several inner servants were placed around the bedroom where Li Yu stayed. They didn’t need to stand guard constantly; this way, they wouldn’t accidentally scare the little carp if it came out strolling. However, the inner servants needed to occasionally come in to give the fish a glance.

— This assignment from Jing-wang was really pretty troublesome. 1Kv87d

As soon as Jing-wang left, Li Yu immediately retrieved the fish pillow reward. He pushed the fish pillow onto the white stone bed and placed it like a salted fish. Thinking and still concerned, he covered the pillow with the water grass blanket. Now when seen from afar, it’d really look like he was only sleeping.

Arranging the pillow in order, Li Yu jumped into the teacup closest to the crystal fish tank and then obtained the shapeshifting medicine at this time.

Taking a deep breath, he confirmed his selection with the System for the last time. The pill bottle of the shapeshifting medicine fell into his arms in a blink of an eye.

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Originally, he was pretty worried about opening the pill bottle as a fish. However, this bottle almost seemed sentient, like it knew it was about to be used. Even the seal on the bottle disappeared. EvjfFi

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The predestined meeting should have started, right……?

It was only transforming for two hours anyways. He was just going to eat some food next door, it’s nothing serious. wt8ukj

Li Yu no longer hesitated. In an inexplicable mood, he drank the medicine in one go.

This medicine…… didn’t have any taste. After drinking, he can still smack his lips without a care. Yet, unexpectedly, the next moment, his vision became fuzzy.

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Crap. He didn’t expect the shapeshifting medicine would have negative effects.

The little carp gradually lost consciousness. y0IphG

……

Ninghui Palace.

The 3rd Prince, Mu TianMing(3) got up several times to drink toasts to Jing-wang.

Mu TianMing(3) was not the same as Mu TianZhao(2). His birth mother’s status was lower than Qiu-Guifei. His age was also younger than Mu TianZhao(2). He was suppressed in all areas by Mu TianZhao(2) by a head. Ever since he decided to fight for the throne with the 2nd Prince, Mu TianMing(3) did everything the opposite of Mu TianZhao(2). 7ao1Li

Jing-wang had a disability and couldn’t inherit the throne. In Mu TianMing(3)’s eyes, he wasn’t a threat at all. Since Mu TianZhao(2) didn’t like Jing-wang, of course Mu TianMing(3) had to express his goodwill towards Jing-wang. If Mu TianZhao(2) wanted to win over Jing-wang, then Mu TianMing(3) definitely needed to intercept midway! As long as he could make the 2nd Prince unhappy, he was happy!

Not to mention, although Jing-wang wasn’t useful and the Emperor never gave Jing-wang any real power, Jing-wang still had Empress Xiao Hui’s clan, the ChengEn Palace Estate backing him. If Mu TianMing(3) could gain connections with ChengEn Palace Estate through Jing-wang, that would be an extremely beneficial thing.

Mu TianMing(3) had sent plenty of gifts to Jing-wang before, but they were all rejected by Jing-wang. He was just fretting about having no excuse to get close, fortunately Mu TianZhao(2)’s mother, Qiu-Guifei, did something foolish. He immediately planned to seize this opportunity.

However, Jing-wang didn’t like anything so it was very hard to please him. The generous gifts sent before were not good enough. Mu TianMing(3) and his trusted aides thought of plenty of ideas, but Jing-wang didn’t need anything. The only thing was that his harem was empty. Mu TianMing(3) wanted to try his best to send some bed partners to Jing-wang. On one hand, it could please Jing-wang; on the other hand, there’d be someone next to Jing-wang who could help put in a good word for Mu TianMing(3). Multipurpose with one action. QpY0tr

He brought over a few entertainers into the Jing Estate, all exceptionally beautiful. In the dance group, the lead dancer was a man with a refined appearance, red lips and white teeth. With  light make-up, he was actually several times more attractive than the women in the same group. Mu TianMing(3) didn’t know Jing-wang’s taste, so he purposely prepared men and women. What if with the dance performance, one could enter Jing-wang’s eyes?

After the start of the banquet, Mu TianMing(3) first started to give toast. Jing-wang didn’t like to drink liquor so he didn’t accept.

Mu TianMing(3) then suggested calling forth the entertainers and dancers. Jing-wang didn’t like watching dance, so he didn’t respond.

For a moment, Mu TianMing(3) felt somewhat awkward. tKqOjG

The 6th Prince, Mu TianXiao(6), was the 3rd Prince’s follower. He hastily helped Mu TianMing(3) smooth things over and then shot some eye gestures towards 7th Prince and 8th Prince, who were finally able to leave the imperial palace to play. Upon learning that there were interesting dances to see, the little 7th Prince and 8th Prince were both extremely excited. Although Jing-wang didn’t have much relations with the older Princes, he wouldn’t bicker with the little kids. Plus Wang Xi also put in a few words of persuasion, so Jing-wang permitted the dance entertainment.

Mu TianMing(3) was finally able to order the long awaited dance group on stage.

The 3rd Prince went through great pains. He knew ahead of time that Jing-wang started raising a fish recently. So he specifically prepared a fish lotus dance. The entertainers were mostly wearing green, dressed up as the leaves of the lotus. The lead dancer was in white, transformed into the elegant and refined lotus flower. The 3rd Prince felt that this was a rather novel idea.

Jing-wang reluctantly watched it. The 3rd Prince said it was a fish lotus dance, but Jing-wang didn’t see any fish from start to finish. Not to mention, there was a white clothed dancer who had an outstanding appearance, but his eyes carried anxiety and resentment, like they were filled with water. 6yMlOK

On the contrary, Jing-wang felt somewhat angry. Was performing a dance for him some enormous injustice to this person or something?

Mu TianZhao(2) saw Jing-wang staring at the person leading the dance and felt his heart jump. Terrified that Mu TianMing(3) was about to win over Jing-wang first, the 2nd Prince also got up and said sincerely: “5th little brother, my mother offended you greatly a few days ago. As your elder brother, I apologize for her mistake and hope 5th little brother will be magnanimous enough to forgive her.”

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As soon as the 2nd Prince started talking, servants took the chance to squeeze the 3rd Prince’s dance group to the side. The 3rd Prince was furious but didn’t dare to speak. The 3rd Prince didn’t dare to start an argument with the 2nd Prince in front of everyone in public, and could only swallow his anger, quietly observing for changes.

Since Mu TianZhao(2) mentioned Qiu-shi, Jing-wang sneered. Wang Xi immediately said for Jing-wang: “As long as Guifei-niangniang reflects on her actions according to the Emperor’s instructions, his highness naturally wouldn’t go against the Emperor’s words and persist on this matter.” ib1ykX

Mu TianZhao(2): “……”

Mu TianZhao(2) originally planned to beg for Jing-wang’s forgiveness, then plead leniency for Qiu-shi along the way to shorten Qiu-shi’s solitary confinement. Yet why did he feel like Jing-wang completely blocked all the words he planned to say.

“This elder brother has another related request.”

Unable to achieve one thing, Mu TianZhao(2) continued to say with a thick face: “My mother has an iridescent pearl that accidently fell. I heard one of 5th brother’s servants picked it up. Many thanks for keeping it all of these days. If it’s convenient for 5th brother, please grant its return.” g3Ud7L

Actually, although the iridescent pearl that Qiu-shi lost was precious, how she lost it was rather humiliating. Qiu-shi herself didn’t want to see this pearl ever again. Mu TianZhao(2) was only forcibly using this as an excuse. If Jing-wang returned this iridescent pearl, he could at least fabricate that their relationship was not bad. A false appearance of camaraderie was something the Emperor would be happy to see.

The 2nd Prince was asking for the iridescent pearl?

Jing-wang gave Wang Xi a glance. At the same time, the two people both thought about the pearl that was buried in the corner of who knew where inside the fish tank.

Jing-wang didn’t particularly like this pearl from Qiu-shi. Later on, he gave the little carp plenty of other gemstones. The little carp hasn’t rolled this iridescent pearl for a long time. Originally, he planned to quietly get rid of it. Now that the 2nd Prince was asking, might as well return it to him. 1qEVOw

Jing-wang gave Wang Xi a nod. Mu TianZhao(2) was secretly delighted. As long as Jing-wang offered up this iridescent pearl, then everything was settled. Yet unexpectedly, Wang-gonggong said: “2nd Prince, please come with this old servant to retrieve the pearl.”

Mu TianZhao(2): ???

Because the 2nd Prince had made the request, and Jing-wang didn’t oppose, with the other Princes all watching, the 2nd Prince couldn’t cower and could only follow Wang Xi on a winded path to the back of the hall.

The 2nd Prince felt somewhat nervous, terrified that Jing-wang’s subordinates were going to secretly take him out. Luckily, he was pretty safe this entire trip. w0nOKX

Wang Xi led Mu TianZhao(2) into a room and pointed at a rather large crystal tank and said with a smile: “There was an accident with the iridescent pearl. It sank over there. 2nd Prince, you can get it yourself.”

Mu TianZhao(2): !!!

Wang Xi was obviously purposely making things difficult. The 2nd Prince was startled. What was Jing-wang trying to do? Why would the iridescent pearl fall into a fish tank?

Such a huge fish tank, it was hard to take in the whole view with one look. Plus, the fish tank was full of precious gems. How was he supposed to find it? bhfC51

Mu TianZhao(2) braced himself and looked. He wanted to find it first and then summon someone to pull it out for him.

Suddenly, he discovered a fish laying on a white stone rock inside the fish tank. There was even water grass placed on top of the fish’s body, how strange.

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This fish– seemed to be the same one that Jing-wang brought over before. It was Jing-wang’s pet fish.

Mu TianZhao(2) and Qiu-shi both suffered because of this fish. The 2nd Prince immediately became vigilant and wanted to stay further away from this unlucky fish. W28iHg

Yet unexpectedly, he noticed with his keen eyes that this fish was lying really weirdly, completely stiff all over without any slight movement at all.

Jing-wang’s fish…seemed to have died again.

The 2nd Prince: “……”