Depressed, Li Yu didn’t want to move at all. It wasn’t because of the after effects of being poked by the iron pole. Fish’s healing ability was really very good. Quickly, the dull ache all over his body lessened by a lot. He can already swim around as he wished. The reason why he didn’t want to move was because he still couldn’t accept the fact that he had to give birth.
Oh. It was also giving birth in fish form. Li Yu remembered that before he transmigrated into a book and became a fish, he had seen other fishes with fish eggs. Was he about to give birth to a pile of fish eggs?
QQ, it just seemed rather…… frightening.
Plus, he was a guy who had just lost his virginity. They didn’t even do it that many times, yet… he was going to give birth already?
My god, no. The shitty system really screwed him over.
Dispirited and melancholic, Li Yu was so shocked by the news of giving birth that he didn’t even seem like a bashful fish who had just done it.
Jing-wang sensed fish’s depression and temporarily put down all of his affairs to keep Li Yu company. If fish even moved slightly, Jing-wang came over to pamper him.
Li Yu ate the red fish food that Jing-wang fed him. Even the tiniest bit of resentment he had for Jing-wang disappeared into thin air.
Forget it. Jing-wang didn’t know he would…… get pregnant or whatever, Even he, himself, didn’t know. It’s not like he could blame others?
Jing-wang has always been very respectful towards him and very self-restrained. Between the two of them, it was Li Yu who wanted to do it really badly. Jing-wang was only following his wishes. If there wasn’t such shocking news regarding the pregnancy, they’d be so good right now.
Meanwhile, even though he was dodging and evading Jing-wang, Jing-wang still took care of him attentively. Li Yu felt really apologetic.
The System was so cold and indifferent. Only his boyfriend’s embrace was warm.
Fish, who was incapable of evading Jing-wang for even one second, started to interact intimately with Jing-wang again.
Jing-wang didn’t know fish’s thoughts and stroked fish carefully. Although Li Yu enjoyed it, he also unconsciously covered his stomach.
He was just afraid his boyfriend would see something, not because of anything else.
In order to make fish happy and also to express his own delight, Jing-wang ordered people to make a new stone swing and placed it inside the fish tank.
When Li Yu saw there was something he could play with, his fish instinct took over and he went up there to swing wildly for quite a while.
Li Yu, who finished swinging and discovered that something wasn’t quite right: ahhhh not like this. He totally didn’t want to play at all!
Li Yu quickly swam off the swing. A pregnant fish can’t participate in such violent activities, right?
In terms of human pregnancy, Li Yu knew so little it was pitiful. In terms of fish pregnancy, he knew even less.
What was he going to do?
Li Yu wanted to rub his belly, but his fish fins couldn’t even reach. Sulking, he wondered if he should tell Jing-wang?
But it was already incredulous enough that he was a carp demon. Can Jing-wang accept the fact that he suddenly became pregnant as well?
What was he pregnant with? He didn’t know. How long was he going to be pregnant for? He also didn’t know. Right now, he couldn’t prove it at all either.
Would Jing-wang believe him? Would he think that Li Yu was just joking? Who let Li Yu have too much fun before and randomly claim to be pregnant?
So the story of “the boy who cried wolf” really was true. Joking around too much did lead to retribution.
How about waiting a bit longer until fish’s stomach was a bit bigger……
Li Yu rolled around back and forth in frustration, unable to make a decision. He thought about many things, but the only thing he didn’t think about was getting rid of the babies in his stomach.
Li Yu, who didn’t know anything about pregnancy, knew at least one thing. This was a little life. The little life that he created with the person he liked.
Although he really hated that the System screwed him over like this, he couldn’t possibly hate the little life.
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Fish’s belly was protruding a bit. He didn’t know if it’s because he was full of food or because of the pregnancy. Li Yu was very worried that if he turned into a human, his stomach might directly grow big.
However, since Li Yu refused to change, Jing-wang couldn’t help but become suspicious.
The two of them experienced a huge event that only occurred once in a lifetime. Jing-wang’s expectation of seeing fish’s human form and enjoying some cuddling time with him was all dashed. The carp demon that pledged eternal love with him didn’t even want to talk after everything was said and done.
Jing-wang definitely didn’t want to acknowledge the fact that he might have been spurned after absorbing essence for the first time or something. Perhaps, something went wrong with the essence absorbing process instead?
However, even though the fish living in the fish tank refused to transform, he still ate and slept pretty well. Jing-wang couldn’t see any problems. Fish refused to transform, he couldn’t do anything about it. He can only silently stand guard at fish’s side, waiting for fish to change his mind.
Li Yu, who felt like he almost got mesmerized countless times by Jing-wang’s eyes: “…….”
Ao ao ao! He really missed his deeply affectionate boyfriend!
QQQ. But he had baby in his stomach and was too afraid.
Li Yu pretended he didn’t see anything and endured for a few days. Finally, he couldn’t take it anymore. Finding a good time, fish still transformed.
After transforming, he didn’t actually put on clothes immediately. First, he looked down at his own stomach.
Still flat.
Still worried, he poked it a bit. Still flat.
Oh good oh good. He was really afraid that he’d get a big belly in human form.
Jing-wang had been guarding Li Yu the entire time. However, because of something, he had to leave momentarily. When he came back, he unexpectedly bumped into Xiao Yu looking at his own stomach. Jing-wang: “……”
Why refuse to appear in person? Why evade at first?
Jing-wang quietly walked next to Li Yu’s side, countless questions in his heart. However, he was also afraid of scaring Xiao Yu and hesitated. Li Yu already finished looking at his stomach and planned to put on clothes. Turning around, he immediately saw the person behind him. Li Yu: “!!!”
Li Yu, who walked right into the situation himself, found himself being pressed against the wooden screen and kissed repeatedly.
Jing-wang wasn’t blaming him at all. He was only using this method to declare sovereignty.
Li Yu also missed Jing-wang immensely. Although they interacted while he was a fish from morning to night, it was still not the same.
After tasting the ultimate joy of being together, it was natural to feel a bit less enthusiastic for normal ordinary interactions.
Surrounded by burning hot breaths, Li Yu immediately lost his defenses. In the midst of repeated and consistent kisses, he absentmindedly thought, it’s just some kissing. That shouldn’t be a problem, right?
He can feel Jing-wang’s unease because he had been watching how the other spent these last few days.
He also impatiently replied with the same passion. It wasn’t because of dislike, nor dreariness……
After finishing another half-court battle, the finally clear-headed Li Yu felt extremely regretful.
Another ‘one shot into the soul.’ Was he going to get pregnant again?!
He can control his transformation into a human. But he couldn’t hold back his passionate feelings towards Jing-wang.
Oftentimes, with this kind of thing, if it happened once, there’d be a second time. With a second time, there’d be a third. Guys that entered the snares of love for the first time were young and vigorous. Absorbing essence without any discussion beforehand was extremely normal.
If he really got pregnant this time, Li Yu admitted that he’d have nothing to say. However, it’s not like he’d get pregnant every time they do it right? That would be too disastrous.
Since this was related to his future happiness and how many times he had to give birth in this lifetime, Li Yu can only reluctantly go find System for some more discussion.
System said: “Once ‘one shot into the soul’ gets triggered, it will disappear afterwards. Host, your probability of pregnancy is the same as normal people.”
Li Yu: “…….”
That sounded much better. He was just really unlucky the first time, and was preordained to become pregnant……
Pei! Pei! Pei! What sounded much better! He didn’t want to give birth at all! Why must the System insist that he needed to give birth?
To answer the question, the System very quickly showed Li Yu an illusion.
In this illusion, Jing-wang looked very different. He was wearing a dragon robe and sitting on the dragon throne by himself.
What is this?
Li Yu’s heart skipped a beat, feeling somewhat distressed.
The System didn’t actually explain. Li Yu continued to watch. Chu YanYu, who was wearing an elegant court outfit, walked over.
Huh? Didn’t Jing-wang stop paying attention to Chu YanYu a long time ago? Why……
Wait. Li Yu had a thought. Why did Jing-wang and Chu YanYu look like they were several years older……
This was– a middle-aged Jing-wang and Chu YanYu. It’s–
Li Yu suddenly remembered. This was the original novel. At the end of the novel, it talked about when Jing-wang was around 40 years old.
After almost half of his life had gone by, Chu YanYu finally started falling in love with Jing-wang.
Li Yu saw imperial concubine Chu cheerfully bantering by himself. Meanwhile Jing-wang, who was sitting on the dragon throne, maintained an indifferent expression the entire time.
Although the original novel didn’t describe in detail what happened to the two people in the end, the System allowed Li Yu to see it. In the end of the end, Jing-wang no longer cared about Chu YanYu. He became a completely coldhearted, grim expression, tyrant emperor.
Although Li Yu knew that his own boyfriend definitely wouldn’t become like this, Li Yu still couldn’t help but feel his heart ache for a moment.
However, why did the System make him see this?
The scene changed. Li Yu saw several young princes paying respects to the dragon-robed Jing-wang.
This is–!!
Li Yu was shocked. So in the original novel, Jing-wang had kids.
The person that he was willing to forsake children for was actually pushing him to marry more concubines after all. Since the other person didn’t care, then Jing-wang also stopped loving and started to do what an emperor should do.
The system stated: “With the tyrant’s protagonist aura, it’s ordained that he will have children in this world. However, because of you, host, he won’t have any; unless host is capable of giving the tyrant children.”
Li Yu: “…….”
This was really even more shocking than learning that he was pregnant. All of this was because of him??
The System was very ambiguous with its words. Li Yu froze for a moment before realizing. What the system was saying was that Jing-wang was also willing to forsake children for him?
Actually, Li Yu already knew the answer to this question.
When he was courting disaster and pretending to be pregnant, Jing-wang was very happy. After learning that Li Yu was pretending, Jing-wang was somewhat disappointed but never blamed or criticized Li Yu at all.
Ancient people viewed bloodlines with extreme importance. Li Yu shouldn’t even have joked about it. However, Jing-wang didn’t blame him, viewing Li Yu as more important than having children, promising that he’d never take any concubines. Then what about Li Yu?
Li Yu must admit, he felt somewhat touched. However, regardless, asking Li Yu to give birth to babies or whatever, fish still felt a bit scared.
Li Yu looked down: Let me…… think about it some more.
Li Yu wanted to exit the system. But because he saw the illusion, he recalled that he still hadn’t received the reward from last time yet. Per usual, it was one of Jing-wang’s secrets.
Since he was here, he might as well get it.
Li Yu looked at the four different choices that represented the four different secrets. He wanted to know just how important he was in Jing-wang’s heart. Therefore, for the first time, he picked the choice that had himself in it.
What he saw was the scene in Jingtai Palace where he changed into a human and helped Jing-wang wash limestone powder from his eyes.
What’s up with this?
Li Yu couldn’t tell why this was a secret, until Jing-wang discovered fish scales on the curtain that Li Yu had dropped and left on the floor.
Jing-wang asked Ye QingHuan: Have you ever raised a demon before?
Li Yu: ………. Oh fck. Such an important thing, how come I never knew!
So Jing-wang, he…… he already knew from that time.
Everything suddenly made a lot more sense to Li Yu. The events that he had felt weird about before all became clear now.
Why every time Jing-wang gave him stuff, it always had fish on them? Li Yu thought it was because his name had a fish word in it. In actuality, Jing-wang already knew that Li Yu himself was fish.
When Li Yu was unaware, Jing-wang did all of these things for him.
Helped him clean up the aftermath of charging and breaking out of the crystal bottle for a brief moment of satisfaction. Helped him cover up in front of all sorts of people and hold onto his disguise, which was always tottering on the verge of collapse. Helped him renovate the entire Jing Estate into a fish tank.
Even Jing-wang’s fish, which Li Yu often got jealous of before, was actually himself.
Heart heavy, Li Yu couldn’t tell if he should cry or laugh.
Li Yu thought he sacrificed a lot, yet in the end, he was forever the one being taken care of, the one being loved. It was this love that eventually touched him, and made his heart soften into a complete mess. But so what?
System.
Sniffling, Li Yu asked: would giving birth in fish form hurt?
Li Yu exited the system, feeling mentally refreshed.
They should be inside already.
The System said that giving birth in fish form doesn’t hurt. Then he’ll just do it. When he was unable to think it through, he felt horribly awkward and panicked. Now that he got passed it, he also wanted to know what kind of baby he was giving birth to.
The system said this was also new for the little lives. He and the tyrant were fortunate to have them.
A week, then two week passed by. The stomach on Li Yu’s human form remained flat. His fish form’s stomach also didn’t have too many changes.
A certain day after the 3rd week, Li Yu suddenly discovered that with his current fish belly, he already can no longer squeeze through the caves in the fake mountain.
Just as he was thinking that his stomach looked pretty much the same everyday, his stomach suddenly started growing visibly.
Jing-wang: For some reason, fish’s stomach seem bigger. Was he eating too much everyday?
Li Yu: No I didn’t, I haven’t. Don’t randomly touch my belly!
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…suddenly stomach balloons up… hahahahaha! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️
pokes the fishy belly with the baby fishies
gets bit by mommy fishy
awh, they really do love each other QAQ
Jing Wang loved him. He loved Li Yu too much, maybe even more than himself that he was willing to forsake anything just for him. 😭😭 Someday I wish I’ll also have that kind of love.
Seeing LY experiencing perinatal depression has me Ugly crying ☹️poor bby…but I’m excited to see fishy babeez🙈LY STILL hasn’t told JW about LY being 🧚🏻♀️pregante✨