Jing-wang carried the fish and walked into the waiting room by the side hall. Ever since Jing-wang started raising fish, Wang Xi always carried some of Jing-wang’s clothes with him. At the moment, he took them out and was about to follow his master inside. However, Jing-wang only accepted the garments from his hands and ordered Wang Xi to stand guard outside to prevent anyone from coming nearby.
Wang Xi: ???
The crystal bottle from Jing Estate wasn’t actually the only one. There were several similar ones prepared just in case. Jing-wang quickly placed the little carp into another water filled crystal bottle and looked around.
Fortunately there was only him and Xiao Yu inside the waiting room in this side hall. No one would disturb them.
He remembered that when he brought the fish to meet the Emperor for the first time, the fish poured water all over him so he had no choice but to change clothes. As a result, he saw Qiu-shi and her son all messed up when he came out. At that time, he thought it was a coincidence. After discovering Xiao Yu was a carp demon, he recalled the memories from this time and felt that it was extremely likely Xiao Yu purposely sent him away to give Qiu-shi and her son a little punishment.
Now Xiao Yu got his clothes wet again. Was it because he wanted to let Jing-wang know something?
But how was he supposed to communicate with a fish?
Privately, Jing-wang still hoped that the carp demon could change form and tell him in person.
He waited for a while. Xiao Yu didn’t change shape. Jing-wang felt like maybe he misunderstood. Xiao Yu didn’t actually have anything to say to him. Jing-wang still hasn’t changed out of his wet clothes after coming into the waiting room. He decided to change his clothes first.
The little carp has been spinning in circles anxiously inside the crystal bottle this whole time. He knew that Jing-wang had been looking at him nonstop. It’s not that he didn’t want to say anything, but the answer was too complicated. It was really hard to express it as a fish.
Knocking over the crystal bottle was only an accident. Fish didn’t even prepare anything yet QQQ!
Li Yu continued to think hard, splashing the water agitatedly with his fish fins. He suddenly saw Jing-wang turning around, back facing him.
Li Yu’s concentration was instantly absorbed over there: Oh, what was the tyrant master about to do?
Swift and nimble, the little carp immediately plastered himself against the wall of the crystal bottle.
The bottom of Jing-wang’s clothes where the crystal bottle fell on was completely wet. He was currently changing clothes.
Because Jing-wang treated Xiao Yu as a person, he instinctively turned around to undo his buttons. Although he was changing clothes, he still paid attention to his fish from the corner of his eyes. With one look, he saw the originally swimming fish suddenly coming to a halt.
Jing-wang immediately turned back around. The little carp was plastered against the wall of the crystal bottle, black round fish eyes meeting his head on.
Jing-wang, Li Yu: “……”
The extremely experienced Li Yu hastily swam to the other side of the crystal bottle, pointing his tail at Jing-wang and pretending he was only passing by.
Was this fish looking……
Jing-wang suddenly realized something and gave a wicked smile towards the restlessly waving fish tail.
So what if he looked? It’s not like Jing-wang had anything to hide.
Jing-wang walked forward and forcibly tugged on the fish’s tail, turning the fish around and making the evasive little carp face himself.
Then, the fish watched in surprise as his tyrant master changed clothes right in front of him without any signs of embarrassment.
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The little carp who received quite a shock: Ao! Don’t do this. This fish’s eyes are going blind!
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But how was he supposed to change right in front of Jing-wang?
Li Yu was just thinking when Jing-wang suddenly walked over and lightly touched the fish on the head.
Li Yu: ???
The head touching almost seemed like some kind of secret signal. After he finished, Jing-wang left Li Yu behind and headed out of the waiting room.
Li Yu: “……”
Immediately after, Wang Xi said loudly outside: “Your highness wants tea? Please wait momentarily. This old servant will go fetch it right now.”
Jing-wang went out to drink tea?
Li Yu looked around inside the waiting room. There was already tea prepared on the table. However, this was inside the Imperial palace; Jing-wang usually wouldn’t casually drink outside tea. Therefore, whenever he wanted tea, he’d go find Wang Xi.
Li Yu knew Jing-wang usually drank tea, but this wasn’t the main point. The main point was that Jing-wang walked away. Didn’t this mean he could change form!
This was an opportune chance, but…… he had to consider it carefully!
The first issue after changing form was what to wear. There just happened to be some servant’s clothes hanging inside the waiting room. They were about the same size as him. Perhaps servants normally changed clothes here as well…… he could borrow them for a while.
The second issue was that changing form inside the Imperial Palace had too many unpredictable variables. He was someone who had no identity so he needed to be constantly careful. After changing, he needed to find Jing-wang as soon as possible and say whatever he needed to say. How to obtain Jing-wang’s trust in such a short time was another problem. However, he was pretty confident in this.
After Li Yu finished reporting what he knew, Jing-wang would definitely expose Qiu-shi himself. Li Yu can just guard the crystal bottle and hide. As long as he didn’t randomly run around inside the imperial palace, he could change back to a fish after hiding successfully for two hours.
Inside the Jing Estate, when he changed forms to eat something, he felt the time was too short. Now he felt the duration was too long. Being incapable of canceling the transformation at will made him gloomy. Hiding inside the Imperial Palace was really not safe at all.
Nevertheless, there were no other ways for him to communicate with Jing-wang. After a few days, it may even be impossible to find evidence for Qiu-shi’s self-injury scheme. If the Emperor didn’t receive hardcore evidence promptly, turned around, and trusted Qiu-shi, then what?
Occasionally, Li Yu must change forms courageously for serious business!
Li Yu pretty much decided and pressed on the skill. After he changed form, he first touched his stomach. Crushing and knocking over the crystal bottle was really very humiliating. He needed to first make certain that only his fish body doubled in size; his human shape didn’t actually get fatter. After doing this, he finally could pick out a fitting servant’s outfit to wear with peace of mind.
Done changing, he gently pushed open the door to the waiting room. Jing-wang was standing directly outside, guarding the waiting room himself as he waited for Wang-gonggong’s tea.
“You– Your high, your highness!” Li Yu jumped in surprise. Good thing he didn’t make too much noise inside. However… Why didn’t Jing-wang sit next to the table while he waited?
Jing-wang looked at the servant before him with a smile.
Li Yu very quickly remembered that he was wearing a servant’s outfit. Since he was pretending to be a servant, normal servants usually gave their salutes when greeting royalty. But what kind of salute did they do? Did Li Yu need to make the Lan Hua gesture too?
Although he changed disguise, his face didn’t change. Jing-wang should be able to recognize him right?
“Your, your highness, hello!” Li Yu considered perhaps kowtowing and bumbling through this. When he was a fish, he often saw people kowtowing to Jing-wang anyways!
Li Yu was just about to kneel, but Jing-wang immediately helped him up as soon as his knees started to bend.
When the strong hands grabbed his arms, Li Yu knew immediately that the other had recognized him.
Strangely, Li Yu felt relieved. He quickly gathered his thoughts and said: “Your highness, I have something to tell you. Qiu-shi’s injury is real, but she wasn’t injured by the big fire at Zhongcui palace……. Her… Her injured arm has the fragrance of cypress wood. That injury was branded by a burning cypress tree branch.”
This cypress tree branch was the weapon that Qiu-shi used to burn herself; it was also the evidence of guilt.
It’s obvious that this fire was part of Qiu-shi’s plans. But how could Qiu-shi really be caught up with such a big fire? What if the fire accidentally burned her face or some else unexpected occurred? Then the price wouldn’t be worth it. In reality, when Zhongcui palace caught on fire, Qiu-shi and her trusted servant were already hiding far far away. When the fire was pretty much extinguished, she clenched her teeth and added some burns to her arm before quietly returning. When the time came, she just had to insist that she was injured by this big fire. No one would suspect anything!
Meanwhile, Huan Hua was the loyal servant that Qiu-shi placed in Zhongcui Palace to start the fire. After starting the fire, she was to disappear. As long as Qiu-shi didn’t say anything, no one would know.
It was written like this in the original book. Unfortunately, Qiu-shi made a few fatal mistakes. First was the branch that she used to burn herself. Unintentionally, she used the branch of a cypress tree. Cypress wood had a special aroma. Qiu-shi even used a rather thick smelling kind of cypress wood. This caused the cypress wood aroma to remain on her injury, not even dissipating after such a long time. The 6th Prince was able to notice this.
Qiu-shi stated that she was injured by the big fire inside Zhongcui Palace, but actually, Zhongcui Palace didn’t have any cypress trees planted. In other words, this proved that Qiu-shi didn’t get injured inside Zhongcui Palace but was instead injured somewhere that had cypress trees.
In the book, the 6th Prince was somewhat knowledgeable and helped the 3rd Prince find this location. It was the YaXin Terrance which was not far from Zhongcui palace. They even found some guards that saw Qiu-shi at that place; they became eye witnesses. The cypress branch that Qiu-shi carelessly left on the ground was also found. One end of the tree branch was already charred. The other side had a long handkerchief wrapped around it, making it easier to grab. On the handkerchief, Qiu-shi’s favorite crab-apple flowers were sewn onto it. This also became evidence along with the cypress branch.
Meanwhile, the crucial character, Huan Hua, was also found moments later. As it turned out, Huan Hua knew what happened and was afraid that Qiu-shi would kill her. Therefore, she ran away and hid inside the Imperial Garden where she was discovered by the 3rd Prince’s subordinates. The 3rd Prince tortured Huan Hua and made her tell the truth, exposing Qiu-shi.
During this plot inside the original novel, Qiu-shi pretty much suffered a one-sided defeat. Yet now the 3rd Prince and 6th Prince were both biding their time, not doing anything. Li Yu was afraid Qiu-shi’s scheme would prevail here. It wasn’t possible for him to warn the 3rd Prince or the 6th Prince. So he could only warn Jing-wang and let Jing-wang decide.
Li Yu did his best to mention the most important aspects, pointing out where Huan Hua was hiding and the secret behind Qiu-shi’s injury. Jing-wang: “……”
Afraid that he didn’t believe it, Li Yu said hastily: “It’s true. Please believe me, your highness. Although I can’t explain how I would know all of this, I can promise everything I told you was the truth. The secret letter that Ye-shizi received was also written by me. You–”
The fastest method to obtain Jing-wang’s trust that Li Yu came up with was to prove himself through something that had already happened– the letter that he once wrote to Ye QingHuan.
This letter already helped ChengEn Palace Estate escape a catastrophe. Jing-wang definitely trusted this letter right now.
Li Yu recited the content of the letter verbatim. To both Jing-wang and Ye-shizi, this letter was a secret. Other than a few faithful subordinates, only the letter writer would know it. Since Jing-wang chose to believe in this letter, then he definitely would trust in the letter writer as well!
Li Yu finished his fervent speech. Jing-wang calmly nodded his head and expressed that he understood. However, he still held on to Li Yu’s arm without letting go.
Li Yu swallowed his saliva. No way. Why would Jing-wang have this kind of response? It was practically the same last time they met as well.
Jing-wang pulled out the jade bell and shook it a few times. Before when Wang Xi went to get tea, Jing-wang stuffed him a note, wanting him to pretend to get tea and stay at a distance, not allowing him to come over and peep without permission. Receiving the order now, Wang Xi charged over hastily. Immediately, he saw his family’s highness grabbing on to a young servant, refusing to let go.
Wang Xi: “……”
This scene seemed like deja vu. Wang Xi felt his heart jump. Examining this servant again, sure enough, he found the servant looking very familiar. Wang Xi was shocked. Wasn’t this that male concubine from some family? Why would he appear inside the Imperial Palace again?
Jing-wang gave Li Yu a glance. Li Yu understood his meaning and quickly repeated what he just said to Wang Xi.
Wang Xi knew this was something serious and asked: “What do you plan to do, your highness?”
Li Yu thought, his highness will definitely deal with it himself.
Unexpectedly, Jing-wang gave him an ambiguous look and raised his hand to give a three.
Wang Xi said with a smile: “This old servant understands. I will secretly divulge the news to the 3rd Prince’s people. The 3rd Prince was just frustrating over how Marquis An refuses to give up. If we give him an opportunity, your highness won’t even have to do anything.”
Li Yu: “……”
So this worked as well?
Jing-wang sent an impatient glance at Wang Xi, expressing: hurry up and go. Wang Xi swiftly said his farewell and went to do his business. Li Yu was still caught by Jing-wang and engaged in a staring contest with Jing-wang, big eyes vs small eyes.
Jing-wang pulled Li Yu to a table in the waiting room and forced Li Yu to sit down together with him. Then he pulled out a brush and paper from his clothes.
Li Yu: “……”
Was Jing-wang specifically waiting for him here?
Li Yu felt like things weren’t going well here and said timidly: “Your highness, I still have important things to do, I think……”
Jing-wang quickly wrote: “Answer the questions.”
Li Yu pursed his mouth and gave Jing-wang a furtive look: “If I answer, will you let me leave?”
The words were already out of his mouth when Li Yu abruptly remembered that Wang Xi repeated not just once before, that Jing-wang really disliked discussing conditions with others. Yet he……he actually dared to speak like this to Jing-wang. If Jing-wang got mad and threw him out, actually… that would not be bad.
However the bastard Jing-wang only raised his eyebrow: “Answer truthfully, then I’ll let you go.”
Li Yu: “……”
No way. Not only did Jing-wang not get angry, he even agreed?
Jing-wang continued to write: “What’s your name. How old are you. Why did you come here.”
In order to leave early, Li Yu couldn’t refuse to answer again. If he put up a stubborn resistance here, he’d only be causing trouble for himself.
With a bitter face, Li Yu said in a low voice: “My name is Li Yu. I’m 18 years old. Why I came here……”
Li Yu thought about how System said it was to help the tyrant change his temperament; he definitely couldn’t say this. As for why he’d transmigrate……
Li Yu said: “I don’t know either.”
He also didn’t know why he would suddenly turn into a fish. QQQ.
Thank You for the chapter （*’∀’人）♥
thanks for the chapter!
Truthful! Thanks for the update ❤️🤣🐟
Thanks for the chapter!!☺️
awhhh! he now has a name! they are finally talking!!! :DDD