In order to gather some more clues, Li Yu stuck close to the wall of the crystal bottle and listened carefully. However, the Emperor only mentioned that one sentence. Next, he continued to talk about many of Empress Xiao Hui’s other interests.
Li Yu understood that because of his memory of Empress Xiao Hui, the Emperor has always felt pity for Jing-wang. Recently, he even started to let Jing-wang take assignments, like he planned to place Jing-wang in an important position. Li Yu couldn’t figure out the secret completely; perhaps it still wasn’t the right time yet. Jing-wang was spending alone time with the Emperor right now; it was the perfect time for Jing-wang to make a good impression in front of the Emperor.
Therefore, Li Yu didn’t do anything else. He also accompanied Jing-wang and listened attentively and quietly.
The Emperor unconsciously talked for quite a while. Finally refocusing, he said with a smile: “TianChi, do you think perhaps I’m too long-winded?” Although the Emperor’s lips were curved, his eyes held a lot of sorrow.
As a father and a ruler, he rarely revealed such a sad expression in front of his sons.
Jing-wang shook his head. Hesitating briefly, he reached out and patted the Emperor on the back of his hand faintly.
This was also extremely rare for Jing-wang to reveal the inner concern he had towards the Emperor. This mere action was enough to make the Emperor feel extremely comforted.
“TianChi, you’re really… really very good. I know everything. The official at the Ministry of Works, Zheng Jing, already told me everything. You did very well.”
The Emperor patted Jing-wang’s shoulder and was just about to speak some more when an imperial guard leader came to report: “Your highness, the 6th Prince arrived to give his congratulations.”
The Emperor gave a glance at Jing-wang who was standing beside him. ChengEn Palace Estate was Jing-wang’s maternal relatives. It was appropriate for Jing-wang to be here during the wedding of the heir of ChengEn Gong and the JinJue Princess. However, what did this wedding have anything to do with the 6th Prince? The 6th Prince wasn’t a close friend or important government official, What right did he have to come to congratulate?
In addition, if the 6th Prince really came to congratulate, why didn’t he arrive early with the other esteemed guests, only arriving when the wedding was almost done. The Emperor came late because he didn’t want to startle too many people. Why did Mu TianXiao(6) arrive even later than him?
The excuse to congratulate was probably fake. Showing face in front of the Emperor was his real intent.
The Emperor saw through the 6th Prince and said indifferently: “Since he has arrived, ChengEn Gong will naturally look after him. Let him do as he pleases.”
The Emperor didn’t have any intentions to go see the 6th Prince and speak with him.
The Emperor conversed some more with Ye Qian and decided to head back to the palace. The 6th Prince sent a message over again, saying he wanted to escort the Emperor back to the palace personally.
This time the Emperor acknowledged it.
The Emperor headed over with Jing-wang. Seeing that it was Jing-wang accompanying the Emperor prior, Mu TianXiao(6) was slightly stunned and surprised.
Li Yu had been carried by Jing-wang all this time. Seeing the 6th Prince taking a silent loss here, Li Yu was so happy he wagged his tail nonstop. How does it feel! Definitely not giving the Emperor over to you!
Attentive, Li Yu discovered that next to the 6th Prince stood a graceful, beautiful woman in a pleated pomegranate dress. This woman wore a cone shaped hat with a long veil that covered her face. Through the veil, one can still catch a glimpse of her water like eyes. The pair of jade like hands that were exposed outside of her sleeves had skin like cream. Although it was impossible to see her true appearance, it was enough to attract the guests’ curiosity and make them privately imagine just what kind of beauty would be under the veil.
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Li Yu didn’t know who this woman was. However, the 6th Prince had a previous history of urging the 3rd Prince to gift people to others. Clearly, this was the wedding of the heir of ChengEn Gong, yet the 6th Prince brought over a peerless beauty. Not to mention, of all the times he chose to appear, it just had to be after the Emperor arrived. It was clear that he came targeting the Emperor.
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Now that the plot had been completely messed up, perhaps the 6th Prince decided to present the beauty at this time?
…… Li Yu needed to find a way to disrupt this! Fish was best at this kind of stuff!
As Li Yu thought of a countermeasure, he heard Mu TianXiao(6) say: “Father, the journey back to the palace is wearisome. I just happened to bring a maid who’s good at massage, willing to serve you.”
Li Yu: “……”
Looks like Mu TianXiao(6) wasn’t completely shameless. He didn’t directly say in front of the crowd that he was giving his father a beauty here and was requesting the Emperor to accept her. He only said that the maid was good at massage. Accepting her all depended on the Emperor. This was much superior than the stupid 3rd Prince.
Accompanying Jing-wang, Li Yu was right next to the Emperor. Under the eyes of the Emperor, he was somewhat apprehensive and didn’t dare to break out of the crystal bottle. Therefore, Li Yu only wanted to flip on to his belly a little. Jing-wang would definitely ask the Emperor for someone to come check him out. Busy, the Emperor would have no time to care about the beauty that the 6th Prince brought.
After thinking it through, Li Yu executed his plan. Unexpectedly, because his body shape changed into a Koi, it was no longer like before. Lately, he’s also been fed too well. Flipping onto his stomach was much harder than just swimming around.
Over here, Li Yu just held his breath and slightly tilted his fish body. He didn’t even have the chance to completely flip over when the Emperor immediately said in surprise: “TianChi, why’s your fish slightly tilted?”
Jing-wang: “…….”
Actually once the fish had moved, Jing-wang already noticed.
However, Xiao Yu didn’t drink any wine and also didn’t come in contact with anyone; he shouldn’t be feeling unwell. Jing-wang suspected that Xiao Yu was purposely doing it, just like how just now, when they were in the room that Empress Xiao Hui once lived in, fish bumped into the wall of the crystal bottle nonstop, as if trying to get Jing-wang’s attention. Jing-wang also felt like Xiao Yu was trying to warn him of something again.
However, he never expected that the Emperor was also looking at his fish.
Without waiting for Jing-wang to respond, the Emperor already rushed to say: “Jing-wang’s fish might be unwell, someone come–”
The Emperor ordered the leader of the imperial guards to immediately call over the physicians that accompanied him over.
Li Yu: ???
Why did he feel like, the Emperor was even more worried than Jing-wang here?
It made fish so intimidated that he didn’t dare to flip back over again. Fish did his best to maintain his tilted angle. This was even harder than being belly up.
Two accompanying imperial physicians hastily rushed over. It didn’t matter if they knew how to diagnose and treat a fish or not; in front of the Emperor, they must know. Shaking their heads, the physicians assessed fish for quite some time and then privately discussed for a while longer.
After the 6th Prince finished his request, he maintained his smile. Although he was much more capable than the 3rd Prince, he was also experiencing the cold shoulder and awkwardness that the 3rd Prince had experienced before.
The physicians finally stated that fish might have eaten too much, but didn’t have any big issues. Li Yu collaborated and carefully straightened himself out again. Splashing the water slowly with his fish fins and puffing out his cheeks, Li Yu made himself look like he was really stuffed with food to verify the physicians’ words.
The Emperor said: “Since the fish is fine, I should be heading back to the palace. Jing-wang can send me off.”
What 6th prince, what maid who was good at massage. The Emperor’s face color was unsightly and only mentioned Jing-wang without saying anything else.
For some reason, Li Yu felt like the Emperor was mad right now. However, who was he angry at?
Li Yu felt a bit worried. While no one was looking, Jing-wang reached his fingers into the bottle and stroked the fish’s back, almost like he was comforting fish.
…… oh right. Li Yu thought. Jing-wang was right beside him, what’s there to worry about?
The Emperor sat on the dragon carriage and headed back to the palace. Jing-wang followed behind on horseback. Before entering the palace, the Emperor specifically stopped and exclaimed while looking at Jing-wang’s crystal bottle: “TianChi, many thanks to your fish today.”
Li Yu, who’s been eavesdropping: What did this mean? Why would the Emperor want to thank fish?
Did the Emperor really get angry? Not towards anyone else, but– angry at the 6th Prince?
Why?
The 6th Prince only did one thing when he came over– present a beauty. Thinking about the time and location that the 6th Prince presented this beauty, Li Yu suddenly had a thought!
If the 6th Prince was bootlicking at a normal time, the Emperor might not have been angry. If the 6th Prince presented the Emperor with a beauty at a normal time, perhaps the Emperor would have accepted her. However, what the 6th Prince should never have done was to come to ChengEn Palace Estate, Empress Xiao Hui’s family clan, to present the beauty. Even more so, he shouldn’t have tried to give the Emperor the woman right after the Emperor just reminisced about Empress Xiao Hui with Jing-wang. Wasn’t this practically like hitting the Emperor in the face?
The 6th Prince’s birth mother wasn’t favored at all. Therefore, he had been trying to give the Emperor a beauty for quite a while. He was afraid directing bringing the beauty into the palace would cause a lot of commotion; the Emperor also might not accept. Therefore, the 6th Prince attempted to give the Emperor a glimpse of the veiled beauty while the Emperor was outside incognito. Once the Emperor became interested, it’d make the task much easier. However, the 6th Prince never expected that the Emperor would reminisce about the Empress when he came over to attend the wedding. Otherwise, the 6th Prince definitely wouldn’t have rushed to present the beauty at this time.
The Emperor must have felt extremely annoyed inside, but couldn’t flat out reject the 6th Prince since the 6th Prince did it also without realizing. In front of the crowd, the Emperor urgently needed an excuse to avoid the 6th Prince’s request.
The only thing beside the Emperor that could make a fuss was Jing-wang’s fish. Therefore, as soon as the fish tilted, the Emperor immediately used it as a reason to call the imperial physicians and mess up everything.
Li Yu had thought he was the one who was successful in destroying the 6th Prince’s honey trap all this time, but in actuality, it was the Emperor himself who impatiently seized the opportunity to disrupt the 6th Prince’s plans.
Recalling his original plans, Li Yu felt that it wasn’t completely flawless. If fish flipped on his belly and Jing-wang didn’t discover promptly, or even if Jing-wang discovered but didn’t end up asking the Emperor to summon physicians, OR if Jing-wang asked, but the Emperor ignored him……
If the Emperor had the intention of accepting the beauty, Li Yu’s plan wouldn’t have been effective. It can be said that he was extremely lucky this time. For the Emperor to urgently need an excuse, was a once in a blue moon occurrence; yet Li Yu managed to encounter it.
Li Yu in the aftermath: Huh? Was this the luck that System increased for him?
Li Yu remembered that the system increased luck in three areas for him: face slapping the villain, clothes and food, and also a shot to the soul.
Li Yu has been working on the food aspect all this time, but the luck didn’t seem too apparent. Face slapping the villain was very understandable. It should be pointing to a time like this right?
Looks like the special quality of a Koi was somewhat useful after all.
Jing-wang finished bringing the Emperor back and then returned to ChengEn palace estate. It was already late. The newlyweds were already sent into the bridal room. The esteemed guests pretty much left, but the 6th Prince was actually still here.
“We meet again, 5th elder brother.” Mu TianXiao(6) never showed any ill temper when he was outside. He greeted Jing-wang with a smile.
Li Yu discovered that the veiled beauty was still present beside the 6th Prince. The 6th Prince shouldn’t have discovered why he was given the cold shoulder by the Emperor yet. The reason why he greeted Jing-wang was probably to get some clues from Jing-wang.
The little carp immediately transformed into a battle fish and waved his tail furiously towards the 6th Prince: Ao! Master! Husband! Ignore him!
Jing-wang nodded his head calmly at the 6th Prince as he walked close. The 6th Prince was just about to shift the topic onto the Emperor’s mood when Jing-wang walked past him without even turning his head.
Mu TianXiao(6): “……”
Mu TianXiao(6) didn’t manage to stop Jing-wang. His gaze landed on the crystal bottle that Jing-wang carried, on to the fish who was currently flailing nonstop.
Li Yu also discovered that Mu TianXiao(6)’s ice cold gaze was looking at fish.
Stiffening all over, Li Yu immediately turned to move to the side where Jing-wang’s sleeve could block him.
If fish can’t see the 6th Prince, then the 6th Prince shouldn’t be able to see fish either.
Keeping his calm, Li Yu waited for a while before peeking out secretly. The 6th Prince already turned around.
Li Yu was going to look more when the crystal bottle was suddenly covered.
Jing-wang specifically stopped walking and reached inside the bottle to turn fish around so fish could only look at himself.
Li Yu: “……”
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that’s right emperor! just don’t accept beauty anymore! looks what happened to ur sons! &harems🙄 they want to kill eo and maybe they will kill u too!🙄
I once read someone argue they the ancient China’s imperial families used harems to imitate the “Poison Gu” méthode to raise a strong heir.
I admit I can be convinced by that
true true …. anybody below average is gonna die in that situation
Did Jing Wang just get jealous over the fish looking at the 6th prince? I think so~~ 😳
No no no, being 18 yo isn’t an excuse to be so silly 😂
“If I can’t see you, you can’t see me!” 😂 😆 😂
muhahahaha!! take that 6th brother!!