Li Yu was only able to tell that Jing-wang wanted to help. So he said teasingly: “What can you help me with, your highness? Actually, it’s not busy at all. I can do it myself.”
He already unfathomably gave birth to fish eggs. Now he only needed to quiet down and incubate the little tiny fishes. It really wasn’t anything hard.
Pressing his lips together, Jing-wang shook his head softly. He made Li Yu explain again what needed to be noted during the incubation process. Then, he placed one hand into the fish tank and carefully held the fish eggs in his hand.
The fish eggs were very small. The hand of a grown adult was enough to hold all four of the eggs all at once. Jing-wang maintained this position and didn’t move at all. After a while, he very carefully and very slowly switched to the other hand, still keeping it soaked in the water while holding the fish eggs.
The hand that was switched out was somewhat white from being immersed in the water. Jing-wang wrapped it up in a towel until it was time to use this one again. He switched his hands like this repeatedly in cycles.
At first, Li Yu really didn’t understand what he was doing. After he repeated it many times, Li Yu shouted ‘ah’ softly.
He got it. Jing-wang was using the warmth of his palm to help incubate the little tiny fishes. He not only believed what Li Yu had said, he was even willing to help Li Yu incubate the fish eggs……
How can there be someone so considerate in this world? Li Yu felt so touched, it couldn’t possibly increase more.
You’re tired. Rest.
Without any complaints, Jing-wang smiled and looked towards the empty chair next to him.
“Your highness!!” With a shout, Li Yu pounced over. However, it wasn’t to sit in the chair. Instead, he tackled Jing-wang from behind and hugged the other tightly from the back.
Jing-wang was lightly bumped by the force of Li Yu’s tackle. He hastily went to protect the fish eggs in his hand while trying to use his free hand to hug Li Yu. However, this hand still hasn’t warmed up yet and was somewhat cold.
Jing-wang was often prudent, but right now, he also became rather flustered.
“Your highness, it’s alright. You’re so amazing……”
Li Yu pressed his cheek against Jing-wang’s wide, expansive back and nuzzled him happily, rubbing away the slight moisture at the corners of his eyes.
Ever since he learned that he was pregnant, had to give birth to the fish eggs by himself, and was incubating them alone, Li Yu endured plenty of grievances, shock, and fears.
However, when he saw what could be considered happiness blossom from the smile on Jing-wang’s lips, Li Yu also smiled as well, feeling like those were all worth it.
Regardless if he was human, or a carp demon; regardless if he can give birth or not, or what he can give birth to, at least Jing-wang would always believe in him and forever be his warm harbor.
Li Yu abandoned the empty chair to the side and boldly squeezed into the same seat with Jing-wang.
Jing-wang also didn’t hesitate and let Li Yu sit right in his arms. Kissing his lips, Jing-wang wrapped an arm around him and used one hand to incubate the eggs.
You rest.
Jing-wang made Li Yu lean against his shoulder and told him to sleep again.
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Li Yu hastily said: “Your highness, I’m not tired. Really!”
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However, no matter how he explained, Jing-wang still insisted for Li Yu to lean against himself.
Li Yu couldn’t convince him otherwise and can only agree. He rested against Jing-wang and watched him incubate the fishes. When Jing-wang switched hands, Li Yu took the initiative to help him wipe off the water, holding the chilled hand in his arms and placing it against his body to warm it up.
The fish eggs needed to be incubated for four days. Therefore, Jing-wang guarded here for four days. If there were urgent matters to deal with around this time, he’d let people place it outside the door. When the people left, he’d go bring the work inside and deal with it as he continued to incubate the eggs. After it’s done, he’d place it back outside the door.
Li Yu obtained the main mission’s rewards. His transformation duration doubled again. Right now he can maintain his human form for four hours. Originally, he wanted to rotate with Jing-wang, but Jing-wang continued to stress that he could do it himself. Li Yu urged him to rest, Jing-wang slept lightly for two hours before hurriedly waking up. The first thing he did after waking up was go back to incubating the fishes.
Li Yu had drunk vinegar towards himself before. For Jing-wang to be so concentrated now, Li Yu actually felt that even a few fish eggs were more pampered than himself and went to soak inside a vinegar jar again, causing plenty of amusement for Jing-wang.
When it was the fourth day, despite saying he wanted to see the little tiny fishes hatch with his own eyes, Li Yu ended up accidentally falling asleep.
In his dreams, he felt like there was something scratching his face. Li Yu rubbed his eyes and immediately sat up straight.
Jing-wang was standing in front of him, both hands suddenly hidden behind his back, face full of a child-like self-satisfaction.
Li Yu froze for a moment and then became delighted: “Did they finally come out?”
Jing-wang nodded his head. With a light cough and under Li Yu’s expectant gaze, he slowly moved his hands from behind him.
The faintly cupped fingers slightly opened. Inside his palms, surprisingly, were four transparent baby fishes swimming around!
Li Yu yelled in excitement. Jing-wang placed the baby fishes into his palms and let Li Yu look at them for a while.
Although Li Yu was their birth father, he still couldn’t tell any difference between these four baby fishes. The other father, Jing-wang, however insisted that these four fish babies all looked just like him.
Li Yu: “……”
Please wake up quickly, your highness! How can a fish look like a human? If you’re going to brag, at least wait until the fish babies change into humans first before bragging??
Jing-wang found a teacup that was prepared for Li Yu and put the four baby fishes inside. Although the fish tank was much bigger, he was afraid if he put them inside, they’d get lost.
Currently, Li Yu can transform and also cancel the transformation. He mischievously winked towards Jing-wang.
Being a fish wasn’t without its benefits. In the blink of an eye, he returned to his fish form and jumped into the teacup.
Will the fish babies recognize him? Will they– talk to him?
Li Yu slowly swam towards the four baby fishes.
The little fishes very quickly noticed him and also swam towards Li Yu. Li Yu used his fish mouth to affectionately nuzzle each of the little fish babies.
He was still very young. If he didn’t transmigrate into a novel and become a fish, he probably would have never experienced something like this. He didn’t really know how to interact with the little fish babies. However, the instant that Li Yu saw the little babies, he knew that he loved them. No matter if they were fish or human, he would still do his best to protect them.
At this time, the baby fishes still couldn’t communicate. They were all pretty much transparent with tiny pitch black eyes. They swam around Li Yu back and forth, very lively.
Li Yu already learned how to feed and raise these small fishes from the System ahead of time. Jing-wang followed his words and wrapped cooked chicken egg yoke inside a piece of cloth. Placing it inside the water, he swayed the cloth softly and then sprinkled some soy milk into the water.
Three of the baby fishes were instantly attracted over and started eating competitively. The last remaining one remained foolishly circling around Li Yu. Pushed and nudged by Li Yu’s mouth gently, it fell head first into the soy milk.
The System notified: “Congratulations, host. Your current status has changed into squad mode. Your little fish children have been added to your party.”
Li Yu: “…….”
It worked like this? He can bring the fish babies to complete tasks in a party!?
Li Yu remembered the System said before that ‘one shot into the soul’ only worked once. In the future, it’d all be normal pregnancies. Nevertheless, he already got four at once. All together, will he give birth to many in the future?
After the baby fishes grow up, they will also have their progeny. Who knows, maybe in the future, he’ll have a fish tank full of fish children and fish grandchildren. Ze ze, raising a fish really does revitalize a family clan.
This squad might become an entire group.
When other families revitalized, there’s only one or two.
His family was one tank full or two tanks full.
Jing-wang should be able to raise all of these fish babies, right?
After experiencing giving birth once, Li Yu was already very used to it. He even thought it was pretty interesting. If he wanted more in the future, then he’d just have Jing-wang plow diligently.
Although the pregnancy period in his fish form wasn’t long, the young fish babies still needed to pass nine months before changing into infants. All together, it was about the same duration as human pregnancy. In the following days, the fish babies had to grow and become humans so this period was especially important.
Jing-wang specifically invited professionals to come check and confirmed that the four fish babies were all little male fishes. In other words, in the future, they will grow into boys.
After confirming their biological gender, Jing-wang also started to work on picking names for the fish babies. The royal family’s next generation name followed the word xin(心). Therefore, Jing-wang gave the babies the names of Kai (恺), Xin(忻), Wei(惟), and Heng (恒). For the moment, Li Yu couldn’t tell the difference between the fish babies. However, Jing-wang was extremely clear. He even knew the sequence the little fish babies hatched in and thus, was able to determine their age from oldest to youngest.
Jing-wang came up with their official names; Li Yu started thinking of their nicknames. He picked a few cute nicknames. Who knows, maybe there will be more fish babies in the future. In order to make things easy, Li Yu organized the nicknames into Bao#1, Bao#2, Bao#3, Bao#4. While the fishes were young, their nicknames were good enough. After they’ve grown and become human, they can use the formal names that Jing-wang gave them.
After giving them names and separating them in sequence, Li Yu thought all of this was done. Jing-wang, however, pulled out a heavy stack of papers from his sleeve and gave them to Li Yu.
Children of the royal family often started learning a lot of stuff at a young age. Currently, they reside in the West Frontier. The living conditions can’t compare to the imperial palace. However, Jing-wang wouldn’t deprive the fish babies of anything. When they can speak, Jing-wang plans to invite two of the best teachers from the Imperial City to educate them.
While Jing-wang was incubating the fish eggs, he thought about plenty of things and recorded them all one by one, making a stack of paper which he handed to Li Yu to examine.
Li Yu, who thought raising fish babies was just raising fish babies: !!!
So… babies needed to be raised like this?
Looking at Jing-wang who was in high fighting spirit like he was about to enter a battlefield, then looking at the four fish babies scrambling over each other, trying to eat the egg yolk, Li Yu can practically see the lives of miserable students under pressure.
With a fish father who had not so spectacular grades in school, will the fish babies be okay?
Ai… Should he start telling Jing-wang that the little fish babies have already arrived and can’t be returned?!
As Li Yu flipped through the papers, he pulled out a red piece of paper.
He was just curious why there would be a completely different looking, yet extremely eye-catching piece of paper here. Was there something that he needed to pay special attention to here?
Li Yu carefully glanced at it and froze. This piece of paper, which had Jing-wang’s official seal imprinted on it, was titled “Marriage Vows”.
“Your highness, what does this mean?” Li Yu looked towards Jing-wang. Meanwhile, Jing-wang was also looking expectantly at him, the deep love in his eyes about to sweep Li Yu away.
Jing-wang took out the jade figure and stone fish that he had given to Li Yu on the day of their consummation and placed them on top of the paper.
On the side of the jade figure was Jing-wang’s seal. On the side of the stone fish, it was still blank.
Li Yu: “…….”
Li Yu’s imagination has always been very good. Red paper and a pair of keepsake tokens, was this the same as what he was thinking?
“Your highness, you–”
With a fully red flushed face, Li Yu asked excitedly: “Are you proposing to me?”
He had thought he looked at matrimony in a pretty rational manner. However, after realizing that he might be facing a proposal, Li Yu couldn’t help but feel bursting with joy.
I am proposing. Jing-wang’s handsome face was serious.
Before he didn’t promptly give Xiao Yu a proper title in order to protect Xiao Yu. His plans no longer matched the changes that were occurring. They already had kids. He definitely won’t allow Xiao Yu and the kids to receive any criticism.
This marriage contract was something that he had written even before coming to the West Frontier. This was a decision that he had made as the head of his household. As for the official marriage edict, he will definitely fight and obtain it before the fish babies change form!
Translator’s note:
Thank You for the new chapter ( ꈍᴗꈍ) ❤️
thanks for the chapter!
AHHHH! This chapter is really testing the strength of my heart— hopefully I don’t implode from the cuteness!
Ka-boom! Too late, too late…
I think I’ve seen the Momma’s boy of the four kids
Just need to know his name
oh yeah! the children are out of wedlock OAO!!! quickly get married ba!!
but this is so cute!!! the four babies!! QAQ!!! grow up to be big and healthy QAQ!!! it seems there will be 3 smart ones and one… adorable one (: !!!! can’t wait!! i already know they’ll be cute!! they are adorable parents already!!!
wait- won’t others have so many questions— it’s not time to think of that now!
Li Yu is too stupid to raise a baby, so they are the perfect couple 😛
Smiling like an idiot in the middle of my coding class🫣🫣
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