When Li Yu woke up, he was sleeping perfectly on the white stone bed inside the fish tank with the water grass blanket on top of him. Li Yu rolled around comfortably and then suddenly remembered what happened before he lost consciousness.
He changed into a human in order to eat the green plums. The green plums were too tasty so he couldn’t resist eating a whole bunch. Unknowingly, he also drank a lot of the liquor held inside the green plums. At first he didn’t notice anything. Then his head started getting fuzzy and dizzy. And then nothing.
Startled, Li Yu jumped up from the white stone bed. He couldn’t remember anything that happened after his head got dizzy. So how did he turn back into a fish?
Don’t tell him, someone– or Jing-wang saw him?
However, Li Yu looked at the grass blanket that was covering him perfectly and very quickly rejected his previous notion. To be able to lay steadily and be covered up in the blanket, it must have been he who did it after turning back into a fish, not anyone else.
If Jing-wang saw him change forms, he’d definitely be captured. How could Jing-wang still let him sleep comfortably inside the fish tank?
Therefore, he must have turned back into a fish before Jing-wang returned, jumped back into the fish tank himself, and fell asleep.
Li Yu started to swim. Maybe because he got drunk, his fish body was a bit tired. After swimming a while, he felt better.
Li Yu hovered near the wall of the crystal tank, observing the movement in the room. The mess on the floor was already cleaned up. Jing-wang was quietly sleeping on the bed. The fact that he ate the green plums and became intoxicated seemed to have never happened.
Li Yu took a deep breath. Alright. No news was good news. He probably didn’t cause any trouble.
Still stressed and hard-pressed over the main mission, he immediately entered the System after waking up to examine if there were any other hints for the “intimate encounter.” Actually, he didn’t need to pick face. He can pick neck or ear. According to Jing-wang’s favor towards him, worse comes to worse, fish can always bite first and then deal with the aftermath. He was only a bit indecisive on which one to choose.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the System, he was greeted by the notification of mission completion.
Li Yu: ???
Wasn’t he only doing the main mission lately?
Li Yu clicked open the “Tyrant’s Guppy Pet Fish” mission and surprisingly discovered that this main mission that tormented him for a long time was already in a completed state.
Li Yu’s current surprise wasn’t any less than when he woke up just now. He swiftly looked at the description under the mission and confirmed that the last step “An Intimate Encounter”– was indeed completed.
When did he finish it? How did he finish it? Li Yu was dumbstruck.
System: “When you were intoxicated.”
Li Yu: “…….”
Li Yu trembled a bit: What did he do while he was drunk? Where did he end up biting Jing-wang?
He definitely bit Jing-wang or this step wouldn’t have completed. He just didn’t know if it was a neck or ear. At least let him die knowing this.
System: “You bit the tyrant’s Adam’s apple.”
Li Yu: “……”
Li Yu felt like from today onward, his face can’t be called a face anymore.
As for if the bite was in human form or fish form, the System didn’t mention. Li Yu didn’t suspect either. He thought it was definitely in fish form. Or he wouldn’t have even lived, much less enter the system.
What fortune in the midst of misfortune.
The system asked him if he wanted to receive the reward. Because the “intimate encounter” was the last step, the reward this time was actually the main reward for the main mission “The Tyrant’s Guppy Pet Fish.”
Li Yu pulled himself together from his depression and got ready to accept it. The main mission’s reward was…… doubling all attributes.
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At first glance, this “all” range was somewhat unclear. However, Li Yu had already experienced increasing his tail’s strength, healing abilities, etc. These were all attributes belonging to this transmigrated fish. Li Yu guessed that it should be related to these.
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Li Yu separately checked on his interdimensional space and shapeshift abilities. This was indeed the case. In his excitement, Li Yu already completely forgot his utter embarrassment just now.
“The Tyrant’s Guppy Pet Fish” was completely finished; however, the next main mission hasn’t started yet.
System said: “Next, the cute pet system will adjust the upcoming main mission tasks according to the host and the tyrant master’s relationship. After the adjustment, the new main mission will be announced.”
Li Yu nodded his head. Because there was a result previously that was determined by his and Jing-wang’s relationship, Li Yu didn’t find this strange. He thought generously: if the system doesn’t refresh the main mission for a while, it was like giving him a vacation. That’s not bad.
System: “The branch mission ‘Become a Koi’ has reached its requirement. Would you like to start it, Host?”
Did this mean he could do a branch mission first?
Li Yu was smarter this time and asked vigilantly: Does this mission have a time limit?
System: “No time limit. You only need to complete it, host. Like the other branch missions, there is no punishment for failure.”
The attractiveness of branch missions were usually very enticing. Li Yu, who was just thinking about taking a vacation, immediately accepted it: Okay, please start the branch mission for me!
He already had impressive looking black and gold fish scales and secretly looked forward to becoming a koi for a long time now.
Inside the system, the “Become a Koi” branch mission lit up and allowed him to examine it.
This branch mission was the same as many of the other shitty tasks he’s done before. The explanation wasn’t much. It was only a small line of words.
–To become a Koi, you must first have the quality of a Koi.
The hint was all mysterious. Li Yu couldn’t understand it at the moment. However, he was very experienced by now; and knew to take the mission and put it to the side. There’s no need to rush. There will definitely be an opportunity to do this later.
Returning to reality, he was still basking in the happiness of completely finishing a main mission. He started to dash around speedily inside the water, swimming cheerfully back and forth.
Right now, there were plenty of things inside the crystal tank. Other than the white stone bed, water grass, and all sorts of pearls piled up. Jing-wang also designed a fake mountain for him and a stone made swing. Li Yu first swam to the swing and swung energetically there for a while. Perhaps because he was too excited, the swing somewhat couldn’t hold him today and shook terribly.
Li Yu then swiftly dove inside a cave in the fake mountain. For some reason, today the fake mountain looked especially attractive. Li Yu couldn’t help but swim through several tunnels. The system really increased a lot of attributes for him; he didn’t really keep track of what’s what in the end. In any case, he will experience the useful stuff in the future naturally when the time comes. For example, right now, he could clearly feel that his swimming speed has increased.
Li Yu played even more recklessly. He often dove between the caves inside the fake mountain in the fish tank. Logically speaking, there should be no danger at all. Yet unexpectedly this moment of extreme joy turned into sorrow. He swam swiftly into a narrow tunnel that he definitely could have squeezed through before and found himself stuck, unable to get out.
Li Yu: What’s going on? He was pretty nimble before while swimming around these caves??
Stuck, he carefully looked around the vicinity and embarrassingly discovered… his body seemed to have also doubled in size.
Before he was only a palm sized little carp, capable of being held in one hand. Now…… he was the size of two hands. No wonder the swing couldn’t hold him. The system had doubled his length and width as well.
Li Yu wiggled with all of his strength, but was unable to get free from the hole. Looks like not only length and width, even his height was changed.
Li Yu’s half a fish body was completely stuck in the tunnel, unable to get out and unable to use his tail’s strength. Even if he could use strength, there was no way to throw off the fake mountain. This crystal fish tank was the height of a person. The scale of the fake mountain placed inside wasn’t small. If it collapsed, not only would it hit the fish, it’d cause quite a commotion and disturb Jing-wang.
The little carp didn’t dare to move recklessly. He thought there would definitely be someone coming over to change water who would end up finding him. At wit’s end, the little carp waited and waited until he started to fall asleep soundly again.
Not long later, Jing-wang got up to look at the fish. Discovering that fish disappeared, Jing-wang was startled and immediately searched for the fish all over in the fish tank. In the end, he found the completely knocked out fish sleeping inside a cave in the fake mountain.
Jing-wang’s lips twitched. He used his finger to poke at this troublemaking fish. How come you gave up the nice white stone bed and ended up deciding to sleep inside a cave?
Yesterday, when Jing-wang was bitten on the throat by this carp demon, he couldn’t hold back his fire and was about to ruthlessly bite this drunk fish back. Who could have expected that after this carp demon finished biting him, he collapsed on Jing-wang’s chest and gave a live performance of transforming back to a fish; his clothes looked like they lost their supporting structure and slowly fell down.
Even well prepared mentally, Jing-wang received a great shock. Over here, Xiao Yu was already flailing uncomfortably because of dehydration. Thinking that the carp demon might have changed back to his original form because of intoxication, Jing-wang quickly placed the dehydrated Xiao Yu back inside the fish tank.
He remembered that Xiao Yu liked to lay on the bed and be covered by the water grass blanket. Therefore, he carefully set the fish on the white stone rock and covered the fish well with the plant leaf. If fish woke up and remembered what happened last night, he can follow the flow and come clean. Yet, unexpectedly, he woke up and found that this fish seemed to have run off inside the fake mountain.
Jing-wang recalled how last night, the little drunk fish called him fake mountain in his intoxication, and felt annoyed and amused at the same time.
Li Yu was poked awake. Seeing it was his tyrant master, he happily wagged his tail nonstop. He struggled a bit with his fish body but couldn’t get free. Unable to do anything, he could only pitifully stare at Jing-wang, begging for help with his eyes.
Jing-wang was originally a bit hopeful that the other would remember what happened last night. But it looked like Xiao Yu was still only giving a series of fish responses.
Jing-wang sighed. When Ye QingHuan got drunk, he almost crashed into a pillar. What can he expect out of a fish?
Since it’s like this, he could only wait for another opportunity in the future.
Xiao Yu paddled with its fish fins, unable to swim out. Jing-wang finally realized that it was stuck. Not knowing if he should laugh or cry, he hastily ordered people to come move the fake mountain.
The servants spent enough time to make a cup of tea to move the mountain. The playful little carp was finally rescued and swam out waving its tail. Jing-wang held the fish up with both hands and patiently examined it for any injuries– the fish was very well. He also discovered why the fish got stuck. It’s because his fish doubled in size.
Jing-wang: “……”
How did this…… happen?
Jing-wang was even capable of accepting that Xiao Yu was a carp demon. Getting larger wasn’t really anything. However, lately this fish has been switching scales and increasing in size. Ultimately, it raised his vigilance. Was the carp demon about to encounter trouble? For example, the heaven tribulations stuff that was described in those books? Was that why the fish needed to change shape nonstop?
It’s said that during a tribulation, snake demons and fox demons were very weak and required meticulous care.
Jing-wang really didn’t understand tribulations at all. However, he was confident in taking care of a carp demon.
Jing-wang ordered people to fix up the fake mountain, adjusting the caves, swing, white rock bed and everything according to Xiao Yu’s present size.
The crystal fish tank wasn’t too cramped. Xiao Yu can still live inside it for a while. When the new fish tank is completed, it can move into the new place.
The crystal bottle used to carry the fish and the teacups were no longer suitable now and also needed readjustments. A new setup needed to be prepared.
Jing-wang had everything all thought out and summoned Wang Xi over. Wang Xi abruptly saw the little carp that doubled in size and took a cold breath: “Your highness, this… how did it grow like this?”
For something like this to happen overnight, wasn’t it too quickly?
Jing-wang grabbed a handful of fish food and calmly gave Wang-gonggong a sideways glance.
Wang Xi understood somewhat. His highness meant–
I fed it, got a problem?
Since his highness claimed to have fed it, then that’s that. As long as there’s a reason. Wang Xi hastily shut his mouth and went back to following Jing-wang’s instructions.
Wait. Jing-wang shook the jade bell again, calling Wang Xi back and giving him another list.
Wang Xi gave it a look and felt slightly surprised inside. This list was an order for many different colored clothes, shoes and socks. Normally this wasn’t anything, but Wang Xi noticed that the sizes written down didn’t belong to his highness.
Wang Xu raised his eyes slightly and gave his highness a confused look. Jing-wang’s appearance was the usual. There was only a light red mark on his Adam’s apple area.
Wang Xi was extremely alarmed. As a personal servant, he was extremely clear what a red mark at such an area meant.
His highness probably took a fancy to someone and most likely, they’ve been intimate recently…… but Wang Xi managed everything inside the Prince’s Estate, big and small, and knew nothing about this. Jing-wang didn’t mention it himself. Were these clothes that he wanted as soon as possible for this person that he fancied?
This wasn’t completely impossible. In fact, this sense of mysteriousness actually made Wang Xi recall a person.
Ever since returning to the estate from the imperial palace, Wang-gonggong had a suspicion in his heart. Last time inside Jingtai Palace, he once saw a little temptress in disheveled clothes acting extremely familiar with his highness. Later he privately asked his highness. His highness told him, it was only because of that person’s help that his eyes were unharmed. Wang Xi felt very thankful. It wasn’t until later that he remembered that the little temptress seemed to be the thief that his highness had been searching for all this time, the one that stole fish and stole the clothes– the male concubine from some unknown family.
The male concubine’s whereabouts disappeared again after that. Wang Xi never saw this person again. However, after returning to the estate, his highness summoned back all of the subordinates dispatched in search of this male concubine.
Wang Xi felt this was reasonable since the male concubine helped his highness.
Yesterday night, after he returned from sending the completely intoxicated Ye-shizi back to ChengEn Palace Estate, he heard someone say that there was a youth with disheveled clothes inside his highness’s room.
Wang Xi immediately dismissed all of the servants. The following day, he saw the red mark on his highness’s throat. Wang Xi intuitively thought about a certain male concubine. This was the only person he’s seen being overly familiar with his highness. His highness wanted him to do work for Master Xiao Yu, Wang Xi was very happy. His highness wanted him to purchase clothes, Wang Xi couldn’t help but suspect that these clothes were for the male concubine.
His highness wasn’t only raising a fish, he was also hiding a spoiled pet; most likely hiding someone else’s male concubine and not even planning to disclose the truth. Wang Xi’s heart was completely chaotic, sour and pleased at the same time. However, because of his unconditional loyalty, he could only pretend to be blind to this. Forcing himself to purchase all of the clothing, he placed it in the designated wardrobe inside the room.
As for where the male concubine lived, Wang Xi still didn’t manage to see. He believed one day, his highness would order them to meet each other in person.
When Li Yu was eating fish food, he also saw the red mark on Jing-wang’s Adam’s apple. The little carp felt his face heat up. What else could it be other than a fish bite?
The tyrant master’s body was special. Any little marks were extremely obvious. Although it was probably not as serious as it looked, Li Yu knew he was drunk and couldn’t remember anything. Even more so, he had no sense of propriety. Who knows, maybe he bit down really hard.
He bit Jing-wang, but it’s not like he could let Jing-wang bite him back.
Li Yu silently apologized and turned around to grab a piece of peach blossom cookie for Jing-wang.
Again, Jing-wang didn’t touch the fish’s cookie. With a smile, he tapped the fish on the head. The fish felt a little ticklish from being tapped. How come he still hasn’t been told what being tapped on the head means?
After Li Yu’s size doubled, even the amount of food he needed doubled. After eating the fish food, he secretly dragged back the peach blossom cookie that he gave away in apology. Can’t help it, if fish didn’t eat, it’d get hungry.
Jing-wang also noticed that Li Yu ate a lot more than before. Not only was he not angry over the stolen plate of green plums, he even started to place a lot of tasty and good looking desserts and snacks inside the room to tease the fish. Li Yu couldn’t stand the enticement and drooled over everything available. Jing-wang seemed to be pretty busy recently, always heading out and only returning hastily late at night. Encountering something he really wanted to eat, Li Yu would change into human form to eat it.
He had enough time to change into a human and change back. He didn’t need to worry at all. As he ate, he thought: he was on vacation anyways.
Once, after he finished changing and went to look through the wardrobe, he even discovered some new sets of clothes, shoes and socks. They were different from the inner robe and pants that Jing-wang usually wore. There was a brief note stuffed inside the clothes, stating that because the estate was checking clothing inventory, Jing-wang’s old outfits from his youth will be temporarily moved here.
Li Yu couldn’t tell why these clothes were old. However, as a Prince from ancient times, Jing-wang got a lot of new clothes made every season. There were more clothes made and never worn than clothes used. It’s hard to say, perhaps these were clothes that Jing-wang never wore in his youth. Not to mention, they were already dried and very clean. The size was pretty fitting for Li Yu. Li Yu picked out one that had embroidered gold leaves to wear. He even took out a snow white pair of shoes and socks. Whenever he changed into a human before, he was pretty much barefooted. It was hard to find a chance to wear shoes and socks. Li Yu happily put them on.
After changing clothes, Li Yu would sit down and pick out snacks that he liked to eat. Sometimes there would also be a well prepared pot of tea on the table. Jing-wang didn’t drink cold tea. If the tea got cold, servants would come change it. Li Yu thought that it’d be wasted not to drink anyways so secretly poured a cup to wash down the sweet taste of eating too much dessert.
Next to the wardrobe, someone had placed a bronze mirror. After Li Yu changed shape, the first thing he often did was find clothes to wear. With this mirror, everything was good. He often walked in front of this mirror, making silly faces at it. Last time, a chef at Jing Estate got punished for helping him. He still remembered that Aunty to this day. Without an identity, it was better for him not to wander around outside randomly. He was already satisfied enough with being able to eat a little and drink some tea.
Li Yu found amusement for himself, completely unaware that this bronze mirror casted his every move and action into the other room right next door.
In the other room, Jing-wang was separated from Li Yu by just a thin layer of wall, watching him with single minded focus.
After seeing the person transform into a fish, Jing-wang also wanted to experience seeing the fish transform into a human. Knowing that with himself present, Xiao Yu would definitely not transform. He came up with a plan to feign leaving. However, what he had discovered was that once his gaze landed on Xiao Yu, he became unable to look away……
Every time Xiao Yu changed clothes, Jing-wang had to force himself to lower his head.
He wanted to look, yet at the same time, he didn’t feel it was very appropriate.
Xiao Yu bit him. He also wanted to bite fish.
Thank you very much for the updates!! Love this story so much, Jing Wang and Xiao Yu are adorable
I’m squealing, this is so cute I’ll have a heart attack—
+1
+2 !! They’re too sweet for this single dog…😭😳
Thank You for the chapter ❤⃛ヾ(๑❛ ▿ ◠๑ )
thanks for the chapter!
Fish nibble time! Thanks for the update ❤️🐟
Thanks for the chapter ☺️.
Fish biting time let’s goooo
Nibble nibble nibble
Why are they so cute 🥺🥺🥺. His highness is a walking green flag ackkkk
oh~ Prince, what are you feeling?
that was a shock with the mirror!! ah!! so sneaky! but just image in watching him getting used to seeing his own human face
Yes, Jing-Wang. Please nibble the fishy too. Getting even is acceptable