After feeling dizzy for a while, Li Yu very quickly realized that he had turned back into a fish.
His plan was supposed to be flawless. He was going to pretend to escape out of the window. Then people would naturally think he ‘disappeared’ after that, only leaving behind a fish. But the first issue was that Jing-wang actually crashed directly through the door. Alright. He felt pretty touched that Jing-wang would care about fish that much. But this immediately made everything perilous. Not only was his appearance seen by Jing-wang, he almost changed back in front of Jing-wang……
When he jumped out of the window, he was too anxious and almost fell. Luckily he changed back into a fish the instant he jumped out.
He thought he finally managed to muddle through everything. The 2nd issue that he didn’t consider was that, crashing through the door was not enough, Jing-wang even ordered people to hide outside in ambush. Even if he luckily ‘escaped’ out of the window, so what? A pile of people were guarding outside. They didn’t even see him. So how was he supposed to explain how a person disappeared into thin air while leaving behind a ground full of clothes?
Li Yu felt like sometimes Jing-wang was a bigger pit than the shitty system. At least when the shitty system screwed him over, he could think of something to salvage things. When Jing-wang screwed him, he pretty much…… couldn’t even get angry about it.
The imperial guards who were laying in ambush all unanimously stated that they didn’t see any youth at all. Seeing Jing-wang was about to inspect the clothes on the floor himself, Li Yu immediately waved his tail loudly, hoping to divert Jing-wang’s attention.
The clothes he left behind shouldn’t have anything. He was only afraid that Jing-wang might connect everything together; then his secret would be exposed.
But waving his tail to divert attention seemed somewhat like he was selling his fish body huh……
Li Yu: Ao, using his attractive fish charms a little is okay. Exposing his secret and being mistaken as a carp demon is not okay!
Jing-wang heard the sound of fish tail moving, stopped and bent down himself to pick up the teacup. Li Yu wagged his tail even more energetically.
Jing-wang was still somewhat angry and gave the fish a glare. Li Yu felt strangely guilty. He curled the tip of his tail around Jing-wang’s finger carefully to make him happy. He felt like Jing-wang should like this. Every time the tip of his tail swept lightly past, Jing-wang’s expression would relax some.
Sure enough, under his deliberate attempts to act cute, Jing-wang temporarily stopped showing interest in the clothes scattered on the floor. Instead, with lips pressed together, he started to lightly squeeze the little carp’s back. This meant that Jing-wang was willing to play with him.
Li Yu suppressed his feelings of embarrassment and continued to sell his fish charms.
“Your highness, there’s a pond near the room. Perhaps the thief caught the people in ambush off guard and swam away.” An imperial guard walked over to report. The rest of the imperial guards also assumed this because of all of the clothes on the ground. It’s not like someone could disappear into thin air. The imperial guards thought until they got headaches, but they only managed to come up with this one option.
Li Yu was stunned. So they could actually forcibly explain it like that?
But then again, why would normal people even imagine that a human could turn into fish, and fish could turn into human. The first response was naturally that the suspicious youth escaped somehow.
The imperial guards’ explanation wasn’t impossible. Nodding his head, Jing-wang wanted to head over to the pond himself to take a look and see if there were any suspicious footprints and stuff.
Li Yu immediately jumped into his palm. There’s nothing at the pond, he couldn’t let Jing-wang go there!
Interrupted several times by Li Yu, Jing-wang’s brows smoothed out as he lightly tapped the fish on the head.
Head taps– what did that mean exactly?
Li Yu wanted to ask this a long time ago, but there was no one to tell him.
Seeing Jing-wang relax, Li Yu let out a breath of relief. Finally, crisis averted.
Since everyone believed he escaped by swimming away, this was pretty good.
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Aunty Xu recalled that she even grabbed fish food for the youth and utterly regretted everything.
According to the words of Aunty Xu, the identity of the person who stole the fish was a male concubine who was chased out by the main wife of some nobleman.
Wang-gonggong: “……”
What kind of messed up logic was this? Because he was being bullied and suppressed by the main wife, he came over to steal his highness’s fish? None of this connected at all, okay?
Li Yu was listening in Jing-wang’s hand. He didn’t even understand himself. At most he was someone who got lost. Just how the heck did Aunty Xu imagine him to be a male concubine?
Aunty Xu kowtow’d nonstop. Li Yu couldn’t bear to watch and secretly looked at Jing-wang, afraid that Jing-wang might punish Aunty Xu in his fury.
Wang Xu guessed Jing-wang’s expression and said severely: “For concealing a thief, you are banished from the Prince’s Estate!”
Li Yu: !!!
No way! He wasn’t even a thief. Aunty Xu only thought he was pitiful so gave him a bite to eat. Why chase her out? He definitely didn’t want to implicate Aunty Xu who was kind enough to help him.
Li Yu hastily wrapped the tip of his tail around Jing-wang’s finger, rubbing back and forth pitifully.
Jing-wang: “……”
Jing-wang found the fish and the fish looked pretty well. In a rather pleasant mood, Jing-wang gave Wang Xi a glance.
Wang Xi immediately understood: “However, since you didn’t know anything, and the Master Fish didn’t have any accidents, you won’t be banished this time. You can go accept 30 hits yourself and keep this lesson in mind for the future.”
Aunty Xu shed tears of gratitude. She really was rather reckless before. She couldn’t lose her job in the Prince’s Estate. Her skin was rather thick. If the punishment was only corporal, that was much better than being banished from the estate.
Li Yu was still not very satisfied with the corporal punishment, however, seeing Aunty Xu give thanks and kowtow sincerely, he felt like at least he helped a little and his guilt was slightly relieved.
If he used his fish charms too much, it might not be effective in the future. Li Yu knew when to stop while he was ahead.
Jing-wang, who was originally enjoying the touches from his fish’s tail, but now suddenly felt nothing at all: “……”
Wang Xi dismissed Aunty Xu and said to Jing-wang: “Your highness, Xu-shi has been dealt with. This old servant still feels it is strange. Why would the thief steal the fish?”
Jing-wang remembered the sleeve corner that he had grabbed and ripped off before and gestured to Wang Xi to bring it over for inspection. He immediately saw on the cloth, wet patches here and there, as well as some silver colored fish scales.
Li Yu: !!!
Oh fck. How could he leave behind such incriminating evidence!
Would Jing-wang think he left it while changing into a fish?
“Your highness!” Wang Xi said in surprise: “Why would there be fish scales on the thief’s sleeve?”
Jing-wang’s eyes darkened.
Before when Guifei’s handkerchief had fish scales, it was because Guifei did something to the fish. If the thief’s sleeve also had it, that… that meant the thief also did something to the fish.
How dare he!
Wang Xi said for Jing-wang: “Your highness, the Master Fish must have really suffered.”
Jing-wang stroked Li Yu’s head, as if comforting him. Li Yu: ???
This was it? Should he rejoice that he messed with Guifei in the past?
Since Jing-wang already found the fish, Wang Xi reminded him that he still had a huge crowd of guests waiting for him at Ninghui Hall. Even if plenty of people wanted to leave, they still had to wait until Jing-wang came back to say their farewells properly. This was the banquet that the Emperor set up after all. Jing-wang, the host, only left temporarily because of an issue. And plus with his personality, they didn’t dare to leave randomly.
Jing-wang was too lazy to return to the backyard again. He just held the teacup in his hands and brought the fish to Ninghui Hall.
Li Yu who was originally planning to nap after his meal: ???
No way. He didn’t want to go see the 2nd master!
But a fish couldn’t change his master’s decision. Jing-wang brought him into Ninghui Hall and placed him on the main table. The guests in Ninghui Hall were stunned. They had heard that Jing-wang was raising a pet fish and treated it like a treasure. So this was it!
Not knowing who started it, all of the guests were in mutual agreement and started to praise the fish that Jing-wang raised one after the other.
Li Yu happily wagged his tail, feeling a bit floaty. Aiya, there’s no way he was that good. It’s fine to say he was clever and cute, but to say he was even better looking than a koi, they must be blind.
Suddenly, with his pitch black fish eyes, Li Yu caught sight of a young man wearing white dance clothes. This youth was very good looking, like he came out of a painting. He stood quietly in the clamorous crowd, looking very apparent from the masses.
That “I don’t need to attract anyone, they will naturally be attracted to me” kind of protagonist aura……
Li Yu jolted. Was this the rumored protagonist shou?
The protagonist shou’s name was Chu YanYu. Li Yu held onto the teacup and looked towards Chu YanYu’s direction. Although he didn’t really like the 2nd master, Chu YanYu was really too good-looking. The fish also couldn’t resist looking.
Jing-wang: “…..”
Jing-wang furrowed his brows. What was this fish randomly looking at?
With his long finger, Jing-wang nudged the little carp back into the teacup. Caught by surprise, Li Yu fell over staggering and then mischievously threw water at Jing-wang in retaliation. Unexpectedly, Jing-wang dodged it!
Jing-wang laughed soundlessly. Li Yu wagged his tail and thought cheerfully. His master was also very good-looking. Only looking at his master was fine too. Not looking at Chu YanYu anymore!
The 2nd Prince, Mu TianZhao, saw Jing-wang bringing over the fish. He moved his mouth but ultimately he didn’t say anything. He just knew this fish wouldn’t die so easily. This was probably Jing-wang’s plot again.
The 2nd Prince secretly resented. Jing-wang actually dared to threaten him over a fish. He’d definitely get his revenge for this once he inherited the throne.
The 3rd Prince, Mu TianMing, saw Jing-wang returning and stubbornly requested to present the dance for the 3rd time.
Jing-wang allowed it.
Despite being snubbed twice already, Chu YanYu didn’t worry. Shaking out his sleeves, he turned and looked behind himself briefly.
The 6th Prince was standing not far away and met his gaze. The 6th Prince nodded his head slightly. Chu Yan bit his lips, then turned around and gave a grand courtesy.
This time, Li Yu laid himself completely on the side of the teacup. As the others were all exclaiming in admiration at Chu YanYu’s beauty, Li Yu raised his head and paid attention to the moment Chu YanYu and the 6th Prince crossed gazes.
Jing-wang fell in love with Chu YanYu at first sight. Yet, Chu YanYu didn’t actually like Jing-wang. He liked the 6th Prince. The 6th Prince was unfavored from childhood. His days only got a little better when he got older. He became the 3rd Prince’s follower. The 3rd Prince needed someone who could sing and dance. Therefore, the 6th Prince nominated his own childhood friend and reciprocated love, Chu YanYu……
Although the 6th Prince also had an ambition hidden deep inside, he only had this one trusted and loyal confidant by his side.
For the great cause of the 6th Prince, Chu YanYu was happy and willing to sacrifice himself. On the surface, he was the dancer recommended to Jing-wang from the 3rd Prince. In actuality, his true loyalty was to the 6th Prince.
The fish lotus dance started. This was a song and dance that Chu YanYu created. Although it had been interrupted again and again before, the esteemed guests very quickly sank into the peerlessly refined dance movements and posture. After the group dance, what followed quickly was the main dance between Chu YanYu and another extraordinarily beautiful woman……
Sleeves and dresses swirling in the air as the lithe dancers danced gracefully, everything looked like a heavenly white lotus about to blossom.
Li Yu didn’t have any interest in dance. He wanted to deflate and sink to the bottom of the water. However, the teacup was too shallow so he couldn’t sink anywhere. Laying on the teacup, he used the corner of his eyes to look at Jing-wang attentively. Jing-wang…… was admiring Chu YanYu’s dance.
Li Yu softly blew a bubble and turned his head, not wanting to bother with this person anymore.
Chu YanYu finished dancing. According to the original novel, Jing-wang will ask for his name. However, after a long while, Jing-wang didn’t say anything at all.
The 2nd Prince felt a rare delight in seeing the 3rd Prince’s misfortunate. Although he couldn’t act out a respectful and brotherly scene with Jing-wang, the 3rd Prince didn’t get anything good out of this either.
The 3rd Prince couldn’t sit still and asked for Jing-wang’s opinion. With one hand propping himself up, Jing-wang gave Wang Xi an indifferent glance.
Wang Xi immediately said: “Not bad.”
And then… then nothing.
The 3rd Prince and the 6th Prince who failed in their plan to present a beauty: “……”
Li Yu: ???
What happened to the love at first sight and inextricable romance that was promised? Master, are you still sleeping? Wake up quickly, your wife is about to disappear!
Maybe he already saw a fish…haha!
Thank You for the chapter (´,,•ω•,,)♡
thanks for the chapter!
poor old lady she got beating bcs of this–😑
She got punished for letting an unidentified person wander around the estate. If it were an assassin instead, someone could have died.
OMG it’s ma firstime to get reply from admin!! 😍 thank you💓🙈…
but if he just kept quiet inside and didn’t wander outside, he wouldn’t have trouble that oldlady☹️.
anyway i just keep reading 😁 thank you for your hard work, for translation this💓💓💓God bless you 💓
That’s true! xD But there’d be no story if that happened haha
Spoiler the lady is okay and she will return in future chapters~
Thanks for the spoiler, I immediately liked her so I hoped she would appear more in the future hehehe
Though I’m reading this quite late but I just want to say thank you for the chapter!!!☺️
His wife is in a teacup, don’t worry
Yess. The real wife coming thru.
Already had his love-at-first-sight moment when you turned human, LiYu . Lol you’re the wife!
Well 3rd prince its not that the dancer isn’t pretty but a certain fish in his human form already caught Jing Wang’s attention •̀ᴗ•́
The wife has been secured already, so dont worry 😜
That’s because JW saw your human form first Li Yu.
he already saw a beauty before, so love at first sight already happened hahhahahahahaha
i mean he saw li yu
i’m guess the love at first sight was on you? little fish! his wife isn’t going anywhere! you’re by his side already!
jing wang had just seen someone even prettier~~