Because of Jing-wang’s lack of response, the Emperor felt somewhat awkward.
“5th brother, father is asking you a question.” Mu TianZhao reminded him with a smile that’s not quite a smile.
Because of Jing-wang’s birth history, the 2nd Prince has always felt some fear towards Jing-wang. Once he became the crown prince, he definitely needed to make up for it.
Jing-wang raised his head but completely ignored the 2nd Prince. Instead, he looked towards the head manager of the palace servants, Luo RuiSheng. After Luo-gonggong learned that the Emperor only permitted Jing-wang to enter the hall by himself, he already got prepared. Since Jing-wang needed it, Luo-gonggong ordered some of his assistant servants to bring over a brush, ink, and paper to place in front of Jing-wang.
Unable to speak, writing worked. It was just not very convenient.
Jing-wang accepted the brush with his right hand, left hand still focusing on petting his fish. Without even looking, he swiftly finished writing some words and cast aside the brush afterwards.
Luo RuiSheng didn’t dare to look at what Jing-wang wrote. With his head lowered, he presented Jing-wang’s words to the Emperor.
The Emperor looked down at the powerful brush strokes, feeling a wave of sentimental ache.
But this wasn’t the time to appreciate Jing-wang’s writing, because what Jing-wang wrote was “Rightfully deserved.”
The Emperor: “……”
In the Emperor’s impression, Jing-wang has never lied before. This was also why he was willing to directly summon Jing-wang over for questioning. Even when Jing-wang hit other princes before, he admitted it frankly. The Emperor didn’t feel like Jing-wang would lie.
Since Jing-wang said that the cat deserved it, there must be some twist in this situation that the Emperor didn’t know about. He shouldn’t be too hasty with his ruling.
Expression grave, the Emperor looked towards Head Manager Luo: “Luo RuiSheng, go investigate if anyone saw this event that day.”
Qiu-Guifei’s complexion suddenly turned unsightly. She took so long to set all of this up, yet the Emperor only read two words that Jing-wang wrote carelessly and started to question her?
Nevertheless, so what if someone was sent to investigate? Jing-wang abusing her cat was the truth. She even had a witness…… If Jing-wang admitted it, that’d be good. But if Jing-wang refused to admit it and caused a ruckus, that would be even better.
Guifei used a silk handkerchief that was embroidered with crab-apple flowers to wipe the corner of her mouth. Her somewhat malevolent looking face returned to its beautiful appearance.
Xiao Linzi from the imperial kitchen was quickly brought over. Since this matter involved Jing-wang, the Emperor decided to inquire himself personally.
Xiao Linzi knelt and recounted what he saw that day in a trembling voice: “……This servant saw that as soon as Jing-wang, his highness, saw Guifei-niangniang’s cat, he just, just grabbed the cat.”
Actually, Qiu-shi already had her trusted aide bribe Xiao Linxi before the Emperor summoned him forth. That’s why she was certain the words of this witness were beneficial for her.
“Your majesty, looks like I didn’t make a mistake. Shouldn’t Jing-wang give me an explanation?” Qiu-shi smiled faintly.
“Jing-wang, your explanation.” So this was the result after all this questioning? The Emperor rubbed his brows, somewhat tired.
A flash of cold ruthlessness crossed Jing-wang’s eyes. Xiao Linzi didn’t speak the truth. Qiu-shi probably did something in secret. Jing-wang originally planned to ask the Emperor to summon the guard on duty at that time for questioning. Xiao Linzi can’t be the only witness available in this huge palace. However, thinking about it again, he wasn’t content with that anymore.
First of all, it’s uncertain if there were any other bystanders. However, even if there were, the two parties can insist on the validity of their own narration and nothing would result. Why be so troublesome. He might as well directly grab Xiao Linzi by the throat. Let’s see if this person will correct himself before his throat ruptures. This was the fastest and most efficient method to make someone tell the truth.
…… Don’t be like this!
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Li Yu was extremely worried. He read the original novel and can guess what kind of plan Jing-wang had in mind under this kind of mood. But acting like this in front of the Emperor, might fall right into Guifei’s plans and cause extreme damage to the father-son relationship between Jing-wang and the Emperor.
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The other witnesses present at the scene back then, not counting Xiao Linzi, were only the cat and Li Yu. Xiao Linzi has been bribed. Li Yu can’t speak human. How can he be a witness for Jing-wang? Was he supposed to depend on his nemesis, the cat!
Or perhaps, there’s some other evidence……
Li Yu even forgot to swim around. He quietly stopped at the bottom of the bowl, recalling how the white cat encountered Jing-wang and how it rammed into Jing-wang purposely.
In the end, he really did remember one thing. He remembered that when Jing-wang was changing clothes, he had peeked at Jing-wang before. He recalled that on Jing-wang’s leg, there was a bruise.
That glance was really too hurried. At that time, he was somewhat embarrassed and didn’t think about it too much. Not to mention, for a man, having injuries on their body wasn’t really anything strange. Li Yu didn’t think about it too much back then. Now that he was recalling it, that bruise just happened to be on the calf, around the same height as the cat. Could it be– that it was left over from when Piao Xue slammed into Jing-wang?
This kind of possibility, if true, can prove that Jing-wang was attacked by the cat and that his resulting actions to the cat were justified!
Finally remembering it, Li Yu felt a wave of excitement. Immediately after, he encountered the most difficult question. How was he supposed to remind Jing-wang of what he had remembered?
Words weren’t possible. He could only use a special method!
Reacting resourcefully, Li Yu gathered the strength in his tail and waved it with all of his strength.
Splish splash. Half of the water in the bowl actually spilled out because of the fish tail’s large movement. Originally, even the fall of a needle could be heard in Ganqing Palace. The sound of water landing on the gold surface was even more ear piercing. In the end, it attracted the Emperor’s attention.
“Jing-wang, what’s wrong with your fish?” The Emperor asked, flabbergasted.
Jing-wang was originally looking at Xiao Linzi like he was looking at a dead man. With the little carp’s sudden flailing, Jing-wang turned around to look at the fish. The little carp was just waiting for him.
Waiting for Jing-wang to lean close, taking advantage of the moment right now–!!!
Li Yu waved his tail quickly and viciously, swinging the water in the bowl completely towards Jing-wang.
In order to play with the little carp back then, Jing-wang had already rolled up his sleeve and didn’t get it wet at all. Now that he’s been caught off guard and splashed, his face was covered by water. His chest, clothes and accessories were completely wet. The worst area was his pants.
Jing-wang: “……”
Complexion increasingly gloomy, Jing-wang raised his palm to wipe away the drops of water on his face.
Li Yu didn’t care to look him in the eyes and hid at the bottom of the bowl in a jiffy.
QQQ, the tyrant was about to be furious!
But he didn’t have any other choice…… he didn’t expect he’d get Jing-wang that wet. What if the tyrant wanted to first deal with him, then deal with Xiao Linzi, before finally going to get changed?
Aiya, Jing-wang…… he was extending his hand towards Li Yu!!
Li Yu closed his eyes. He felt like the tyrant might…… kill this fish?!
But after waiting for a while, Jing-wang’s hand only lightly tapped him once on the head and then stroked his back.
Li Yu: ???
Jing-wang gave the troublemaking little carp a glare, then got up and gestured to the Emperor.
The Emperor understood and said: “Since it’s like this, I permit you to go change. We will continue our discussion in a little while.”
Wang Xi was anxiously waiting outside the hall. Seeing the chance, he immediately entered, bringing Jing-wang’s clothes, and helped Jing-wang go change in a side room.
Li Yu let out a breath of relief. Good thing Jing-wang didn’t get mad. He purposely got Jing-wang’s pants wet in hopes that Jing-wang could see the bruise on his leg while changing and remember to use that bruise as evidence. However, even if Jing-wang didn’t notice, it was okay. He managed to gain some time for Jing-wang to calm down. Wang Xi was also permitted to enter. Now there’s no worries about no one protecting Jing-wang or not speaking for him. Jing-wang and Wang-gonggong can definitely find a way to deal with Guifei……
Worse comes to worse, even if they couldn’t deal with her, it’s not a big deal. At most the Emperor would just tell Jing-wang to apologize to Guifei, but wouldn’t actually do anything to Jing-wang. It’d only make Guifei and her son feel complacent for a while, that’s all. Jing-wang can pay them back for this in the future.
Li Yu waved his tail happily at this situation he set up and waited for Jing-wang to finish changing his clothes.
Qiu-shi also saw the fish that Jing-wang brought. Qiu-shi resented and envied Jing-wang for a long time already. Since Jing-wang wasn’t present, Qiu-shi thought she’d ridicule Jing-wang a bit.
Getting up, Qiu-shi slowly walked over and looked at the fish in the bowl with some interest. Looking like she remembered something, she gave a light smile.
Mu TianZhao also followed over and said with a smile: “Mother, what kind of fish is this? How come this son has never seen it before.”
Mu TianZhao really has never seen this kind of live carp used for cooking. He saw the attitude of his birth mother, Qiu Guifei, and purposely asked this.
Qiu Guifei pressed her lips together and then smiled sweetly: “My son is the descendant of emperors. How could you have seen this kind of lowly creature before? It’s just the most common, ordinary fish that’s used to make soup and food, that’s all.”
Mu TianZhao: “……”
Mu TianZhao couldn’t resist smiling: “5th brother really has extraordinary tastes. But perhaps I should still ask father to bestow 5th brother with a more valuable fish.”
This mother and son pair seemed to be looking at the fish, in fact, they were ridiculing Jing-wang one after the other. Li Yu didn’t even bother pretending and stopped before their eyes, listening openly. He was almost disgusted to death by these two people. They actually dared to say his master had bad taste right in front of him– wasn’t that equivalent to insulting Li Yu!
They even said he was a lowly creature. Even the Emperor didn’t talk about him like that.
Li Yu was so mad he splashed the water as he pondered how to counterattack.
For a moment, Qiu-shi was attracted over by this little carp. She’s never seen such a lively fish before.
Just now this fish splashed water all over Jing-wang. Qiu-shi didn’t think the fish did it purposely, after all– it was only an extremely ordinary fish. Not worthy of thought.
Yet Qiu-shi definitely didn’t expect that the nerve of this fish was far more than what she had imagined.
Li Yu originally planned to splash water in Guifei’s face. He already splashed Jing-wang. Why should a cannon fodder be exempted? However, when Guifei walked close to look at him, Li Yu suddenly caught a glimpse of a gold phoenix ornament hanging on Qiu-shi’s forehead. There was a thumb sized shiny pearl held between the phoenix’s beak, flashing past Li Yu’s sight.
Li Yu: “……”
Li Yu silently said, not good. A bad feeling gushed forth in his heart.
Don’t tell him…… this was the iridescent pearl required for the branch quest?
The system, who fell silent for a long time, stated softly: “Host, you guessed correctly.”
Li Yu: “……”
Shitty system, can you be even more senseless!
How was he, a fish, supposed to obtain the pearl hanging on the forehead of the Emperor’s favorite concubine!
Splashing water directly wasn’t good enough. Guifei was still a distance away from him. First he needed to trick Qiu-shi to come closer, much closer.
Then, Li Yu decisively flashed his fish tail. For the iridescent pearl and Jing-wang, fck her!
As for how to attract her closer……
Li Yu remembered that the Guifei in the book was extremely cunning so she was a very suspicious person.
Li Yu started to scheme. In order to deal with bad people, devious ideas are necessary–
How does a fish… flip onto its belly?
Li Yu mischievously rolled around, attempting to turn his stomach upward slowly. He held this pose and floated to the surface of the water, motionless.
This position wasn’t very comfortable for a fish. But if he managed to maintain it for a little while, there’d no doubt be results.
As the 2nd Prince conversed with Qiu-shi, he just happened to look in the direction of the ocean bowl. Unexpectedly, he saw Jing-wang’s fish twitch weirdly and then flipped over with its white belly facing up.
“Mother, what’s wrong with this fish?” The 2nd Prince blurted!
Qiu-shi, who was originally still complacent, followed his gaze. Instantly, she felt her heart sinking. Didn’t a fish only flip belly up when it’s dead? But this fish was clearly very lively just moments ago……
Qiu-shi didn’t care if a fish lived or died. However, this was the fish that Jing-wang brought over to see the Emperor. The Emperor was well aware of its presence. Now that Jing-wang went to change clothes, she and the 2nd Prince were the closest to the fish. The fish suddenly died, how can they explain this clearly??
Could this be a scheme that Jing-wang had planned because she was using Piao Xue to cause trouble for him. In retaliation, he brought a fish to cast blame on her and flip the situation?
This was extremely possible. Why else would Jing-wang bring a fish to see the Emperor? He was laying in the dark, waiting for her!
Qiu-shi, who was well experienced with the palace fights, suddenly came up with a conspiracy theory and started to panic.
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A small scene (Cause trouble):
Li Yu: Your highness, I managed to obtain time for you. Aren’t I very smart??
Jing-wang: …… yes.
(Actually had other plans to deal with Guifei, but unexpectedly got dropped out of the scene by the little carp!)
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I love when people are so caught up with their own schemes that they start projecting onto everyone else XD
Some people just wanna show off their cute fish—
Projecting and misconception is always so funny. Like he’s not even doing anything and his enemies are already scaring themselves witless. 😂
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thanks for the chapter!
maybe his two big brother and mother was killed by this bitch harems
See when your heart is black and evil everything around you seems like its out to get you even though its actually not. Even though its really not that deep. Scummy bitch
+1
Quick question. Since when can a cat leave a bruise after slamming at you? Was Jinwang that dainty and fragile?
If i remember it correctly the cat scratched JW after seeing him
Speak of having weird taste, isn’t the emperor the one that has the most weird taste? I mean, he favor this mother-son pair.
Can’t Li Yu just obtain the iridescent pearl with the help of his Magical storage space?Since he Just needs to think of putting it in.
I am aware of it’s small space,but a pearl is smaller than the size of a palm, right?!?
He probably forgot lmao
LY is very good at being a fish XD