Mu TianXiao(6) obtained Mu TianMing(3)’s command sigil, but he didn’t actually do what the 3rd Prince had imagined– rushing about and socializing with others for him. Instead, Mu TianXiao(6) did things for himself.
After receiving the beating before, Mu TianXiao(6)’s injuries have completely healed by now. Mu TianXiao entered the imperial palace to meet with the Emperor, showering the Emperor with an outpouring of gratitude. Even though the Emperor had punished him, he still gave thanks with a smile.
The Emperor saw the 6th Prince. According to the imperial guards’ investigations before, the 6th Prince was only used by the 3rd Prince, not the main culprit. Still, the Emperor still felt somewhat annoyed towards Mu TianXiao(6) and treated him with a cold and distant attitude.
Mu TianXiao has always been transparent before the Emperor. It’s only recently, through following the 3rd prince around everywhere, that he managed to appear before the Emperor more often. He has long been accustomed to the Emperor’s cold face and answered it respectfully.
After giving thanks, Mu TianXiao stated that he wanted to prepare some generous gifts for Jing-wang. The reason was because of what happened with the fake monks. He felt very apologetic to Jing-wang and wanted to give Jing-wang gifts as compensation.
Because the Emperor knew what happened, Mu TianXiao(6) wanted to ask the Emperor for his opinion and have the Emperor look over the list of gifts first.
Recalling that the 2nd Prince pretty much attempted the same thing before, the Emperor looked at the 6th Prince with an expression full of suspicion.
Still, the Emperor looked over the list of gifts. It’s some books, calligraphy, and paintings, all very famous.
The Emperor absentmindedly remembered that the 6th Prince’s birth mother, concubine Zhang, was originally a palace maid that served Empress Xiao Hui. After Empress Xiao Hui passed away, concubine Zhang still guarded ChangChun palace. Because the Emperor got drunk one day, concubine Zhang was fortunate enough to obtain an opportunity. With this once, concubine Zhang managed to become pregnant with the 6th Prince. Her position of concubine was only given to her after the 6th Prince became of age. Concubine Zhang had no family support; therefore, the 6th prince was the poorest of all of the Princes. Normally the gifts bestowed upon him were all routinely given during New Years. Only by following the 3rd Prince these last few years, did his situation get a little better.
The Emperor couldn’t put his current feelings into words, but at least he felt that the 6th Prince put some thought into this list of gifts. Finally, he nodded his head and permitted the 6th Prince to give these presents.
“If Jing-wang doesn’t want to see you, don’t disturb him.” After thinking for a while, the Emperor warned ahead. The main reason was that what the 6th Prince did before was really too terrible. The Emperor also didn’t want to make Jing-wang feel worse.
Mu TianXiao(6) said with a smile: “Please rest assured, father. I will just leave the gifts and go. I definitely won’t make 5th brother unhappy.”
Mu TianXiao(6) asked to be excused. The moment he turned and exited the palace, the smile on his face completely froze into ice.
Jing Estate.
In the last few days, Li Yu always went to work with Jing-wang during the day; at night, he still had to find time to date.
Although most of the time he was a fish, fish was also extremely tired.
Logically speaking, this should already be “attached at the hip,” but the system task still didn’t update.
Li Yu felt like the shitty system was screwing with him again. Clearly, he and Jing-wang even french kissed already. Jing-wang brought him to work everyday, and stroked him whenever there was free time. Didn’t this count as attached at the hip!
The System explained: “The task is judged according to the host and the tyrant’s relationship. The host and the tyrant’s relationship right now is not any deeper than during ‘wind, flower, snow, and moon’.”
Li Yu: He’s already my boyfriend and brings fish to work everyday. None of this counts as deeper?
The system explained: “This is the ancient era. The concept of boyfriends doesn’t exist. Plus the tyrant brought his pet fish around all over the place previously as well. Therefore, it doesn’t count.”
Li Yu: “……”
That sounds pretty reasonable. He can’t argue at all!
Jing-wang pampered fish a lot before. Did this cause the mission to have trouble advancing now?
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
But if even boyfriend didn’t count, what was he supposed to do? Marry Jing-wang?!
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Ol Te: “……”
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He originally hoped that by dating Jing-wang, the mission would complete itself naturally. But this shitty system refused to recognize boyfriend status. With the progress of the mission obstructed, he’s prevented from turning back to a human. Unable to change back to a human, he can’t date properly. How was his relationship with Jing-wang supposed to advance like this?
In other words, the mission was an obstruction. Fish seemed to have gotten into a deadlock……
Li Yu suddenly had an idea. He understood now. The System was covertly setting him up with Jing-wang again here.
But he hasn’t thought that far yet.
He and Jing-wang just started being like a normal couple, shyly holding each other’s hands. Kissing was enough to make his face red. To suddenly have to get married, Li Yu had some trouble imagining it. He was willing to get together with Jing-wang because he liked the other, not because the other was royalty or would definitely become the Emperor in the future.
Jing-wang’s current and future status indicated that his marriage definitely won’t be anything careless or sloppily done. Li Yu has seen in the novel, after Jing-wang took over the throne, he completely ignored all objections from the court officials and stubbornly insisted on making Chu YanYu the Empress. The imperial officials knelt all over the ground, but no one could persuade him. In the end, Chu YanYu appeared himself and expressed that he was willing to be a concubine for the rest of his life, never becoming the Empress; which won him the favor of the court officials. Meanwhile, for him, Jing-wang also refused to crown an Empress. Therefore, although Chu YanYu was nominally a concubine, he actually still enjoyed the special privilege of an Empress.
However, Jing-wang still needed an heir. Chu YanYu even generously helped Jing-wang accept concubines.
In the original novel, Jing-wang became extremely furious because of this, causing Chu YanYu to feel very unjust.
Before Li Yu had more or less felt that the little pampered wife pretty much screwed Jing-wang over for the rest of his life, and that finally, he was willing to think for Jing-wang’s sake for once. But now that Li Yu started dating Jing-wang himself, he no longer thought that way.
In the original novel, Chu YanYu was unwilling to become the Empress and even persuaded Jing-wang to accept concubines. This can be called magnanimous; but it can also be said that Chu YanYu didn’t actually care about who was by Jing-wang’s side. Or in other words, Chu YanYu didn’t love Jing-wang like Li Yu loved Jing-wang.
Meanwhile, Jing-wang became angry perhaps because he also realized that inside Chu YanYu’s heart, he could never compare to the deceased 6th Prince.
Love was just like this. Who falls in love first loses.
As a tyrant, Jing-wang could kill anyone he wanted in the entire world, but he couldn’t kill Chu YanYu to obtain his heart.
At the end of the original novel, after many years passed, Chu YanYu finally started to feel something for Jing-wang. In this manner, this sadomasochistic romance finally ended with an hurried and absurd period.
Just thinking about this conclusion made Li Yu feel uncomfortable.
He felt injustice for the Jing-wang in the novel.
After obtaining the throne, although the tyrant had the entire world, he still didn’t have anyone to truly love him. Even if the little pampered wife remained by his side, for a long time, Jing-wang was still unable to reach the other’s heart. As the high and mighty Emperor, Jing-wang was still very lonely the entire time.
However, now in this world, Chu YanYu and Jing-wang were already impossible. Although Li Yu felt bad for Jing-wang, was it now his turn to face all of this?
Would Jing-wang also make him wangfei and then after obtaining the throne, make him Empress?
Then he would be…… fish wangfei? Fish Empress??
Li Yu: “…….”
When Li Yu heard the title wangfei before, he was already feeling awkward. The title of Empress was even bigger than wangfei. Who knows if this hat can even fit on his fish head.
He was willing to help Jing-wang fight for the throne, but this was completely different from him becoming wangfei or the Empress. Li Yu only needed to think about being dressed just like Guifei-niangniang, staying by his lonesome in some palace somewhere, and waiting for Jing-wang to flip his name; immediately, Li Yu would feel goosebumps all over.
Forget it. It’s best not to consider all that right now. He just started dating Jing-wang. Who knows what the future will bring. Right now they were only dating, so it shouldn’t be too complicated between the two of them.
Such a major event like marriage will have to wait until both of them were capable of looking at this relationship maturely. It still needed much consideration. The only 18 year old Li Yu thought wisely.
However, in the end, Li Yu was still affected by this series of thoughts. When he transformed to meet Jing-wang, his mood was still somewhat downcast.
Jing-wang always had keen senses. Immediately, he discovered that Xiao Yu’s mood wasn’t the usual high spirits.
He actually looked forward to meeting with the human form Xiao yu everyday. Recently, he’s been busy with work during the day. Although Xiao Yu accompanied him all over, there were still outsiders present so he couldn’t be excessively intimate. It’s not that Jing-wang was afraid of Zheng Jing, but rather, he didn’t want Zheng Jing to discover the carp demon’s identity. His true time to interact with Xiao Yu didn’t start until after returning from the Ministry of Works.
In these two hours, Jing-wang didn’t want Xiao Yu to feel any unhappiness. If there were any, he’d resolve it himself.
What’s the matter?
Jing-wang held Li Yu’s hands gently, as if asking.
Li Yu made a face. The original book and crowning the Empress were both not things he could talk about. However, Jing-wang’s careful cautious expression made Li Yu experience how much the other treasured him.
It looks like with Li Yu, Jing-wang was also the first to fall in love.
Li Yu recalled the “like” carved all over the estate’s walls and started to feel bad for Jing-wang again.
No matter what happens in the future, I definitely won’t let him feel lonely again. Li Yu secretly decided.
Jing-wang agreed to the three basic rules. Therefore, he wouldn’t deliberately inquire about things that Li Yu chose not to talk about. Stepping forth to loop an arm around Li Yu, he let Xiao Yu lean against himself and slowly relax.
Li Yu blinked a few times. These days he gradually figured out some tricks to interacting with Jing-wang. For example, when Jing-wang hugged him, he was normally asking for kisses.
Jing-wang really liked kissing him, meanwhile Li Yu liked waiting for Jing-wang to kiss him and then give a response.
He didn’t know if all budding romances were this sticky and affectionate, but the both of them enjoyed it a lot.
This time, Jing-wang didn’t kiss first. He lowered his head, pulled out a paper slip from his sleeve and gave it to Li Yu.
Jing-wang actually very rarely saved paper slips in order to communicate with others. Normally, he’d write on the spot. After getting together with Li Yu, Jing-wang treasured every moment of the two hours they spent together everyday. Therefore, he started to compromise in this manner in order to prevent their precious time from being wasted on writing things.
If he wanted to say something, he’d write it down on his own and give it to Xiao Yu to see later.
Li Yu accepted the paper slip and looked at it excitedly. The edges of this piece of paper had wear and tear already. What’s written on it was “like.” It was Jing-wang’s handwriting.
This wasn’t the first time Li Yu was confessed to, but he still felt happy seeing it: “Did your highness write this a long time ago?”
Why else would the edges be so worn down? And why hide it tucked away, only to pull it out specifically to make him happy? This person really treated him too painstakingly.
Jing-wang nodded his head, but didn’t mention that this was something he wrote down before when Xiao Yu was angry and avoiding him. Originally, he wanted to find a suitable time to give it to Xiao Yu to see, but he couldn’t at that time. Now it was finally a pretty appropriate time.
Because of Jing-wang’s coaxing, Li Yu’s mood no longer felt downed. Instead, he became rather curious. Jing-wang’s paper slips, other than ones used to make him happy, and ones used to specifically show off in front of Zheng Jing, were there– there should definitely be others, right?
Li Yu placed his hands on his hips like a bandit and smiled mischievously: “Your highness, do you have a lot of these kinds of paper slips hidden away?”
Jing-wang: “……”
For once, Jing-wang looked somewhat cautious. He glanced at Li Yu and then swiftly moved his gaze away.
Li Yu: Oh ho? This expression clearly meant ‘I have a secret, come search quickly’!
Li Yu was very familiar with Jing-wang and smiled naughtily. Two claws, one on each side, Li Yu separately dove into the other’s sleeves. Jing-wang was pretty much indirectly hugged by him and didn’t avoid or move away.
Li Yu suddenly recalled the bean he accidentally picked back then and thought: fortunately, good thing Jing-wang didn’t know he was fish.
Meanwhile, Jing-wang: “……”
Jing-wang also thought about the bean that fish bit before, and felt somewhat flustered.
The two people each had their own thoughts. Eyes lighting up, Li Yu already pulled his claws out of the sleeves, holding a string of paper strips. He said in surprise: “So your highness wrote this much?”
Jing-wang looked at him with a tender expression.
Li Yu randomly grabbed a piece. What’s written on it was: the food tastes very good. Don’t tire yourself too much.
Li Yu: “……”
Li Yu thought carefully for a moment. This should be what Jing-wang wanted to say when he gave Jing-wang the love bento.
However, because their interaction time was really too little, most of the time Jing-wang wouldn’t deliberately let Li Yu know what he was thinking internally and would record things afterwards.
Li Yu felt extremely touched and read all of the paper slips left, which made him recall many little things that happened during their time together.
So even though his highness always seemed cold, towards Li Yu, his heart has always been very warm.
In the end, Li Yu saw a piece of paper. The edges were so worn that it can be described as shabby.
Li Yu: ???
Jing-wang’s expression instantly became extremely complicated. After a moment of deliberation, he reached a hand over to snatch it away.
Li Yu instantly realized something wasn’t right. The curious fish baby of course chose to open it immediately for a look.
The paper slip– he thought it would be some kind of sappy romance words, but in actuality it was–
I want to absorb essence.
How old is Jing-Wang again? He’s around Li Yu’s age, right? Poor dude is horny as hell (well they both are) but sadly Li Yu isn’t a blowfish
Around 20
😁😁
A BLOWFISH— I can’t!! 😭😭
HELPPPP
Blow fish 😭😭
Omg!! Rofl
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
HELP MEEE!! BLOWFISH😭😭😭
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
LMFAOOAOA
Eh, I understand the main character, I’m also 18 and I would like to retire
Thank you very much for the translation 🤍🤍🤍
theyre so cute together ^^)b like like like
PFFT— The oldest note Jing-Wang has basically translates to “I wanna fuck.”?
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Thank You for the chapter (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤
thanks for the chapter!
LMAO…first thoughts…hahahaha! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣❤️🐟
Every chapter of this novel is full of feelings and emotions. I’m very happy! Thank you so much, translator. ❤☺
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The last note was unexpected 😭 thank you for the chapter ❤️
Even after getting so many setbacks mc thinks he is very smart , how confident
oh- 😳 should we leave you two be…?
you’re exposed jing wang xD