Normal people wouldn’t dare to disturb the privacy of the bridal chamber on Jing-wang’s big day, other than Ye QingHuan. Ye-shizi wasn’t any normal person.
According to Wang Xi’s arrangements, the esteemed guests drank a few more cups of celebratory wine and said their farewells earlier. Only Ye QingHuan wandered himself outside of the bridal chamber.
“My lord, do you want to be dragged out by his highness again?” Wang Xi blocked him with a smile.
Jing-wang had ordered. No one was allowed to step even one foot near the bridal chamber. Even if Wang Xi wanted to prank as well, he couldn’t do anything.
“There’s a ‘Quan Jude’ in town. It’s a store that sells roasted duck, which his highness and wangfei had opened. Today is the big wedding. The roasted ducks inside the store are free to eat. If you feel bored, my lord, you can go take a walk that way.” Wang Xi even made arrangements for Ye-shizi already.
Ye QingHuan originally planned to eavesdrop to tease Jing-wang a bit some other day. Unexpectedly, he got stopped by Wang Xi; Wang-gonggong even helped Jing-wang flaunt his relationship once again. Ye QingHuan was too embarrassed to remain.
The red candles inside the room were already extinguished. There probably wasn’t anything fun to listen in on anyways. Roasted duck didn’t sound so bad~
Ye QingHuan was just thinking this when the door suddenly opened from the inside without any warning. Upper body nude, Jing-wang walked out hurriedly with something wrapped in a clothes bundle in his hands, running right into Ye QingHuan and Wang Xi.
Jing-wang calmly nodded his head, focused on protecting the thing in his arms, and walked into the neighboring room with large strides.
Ye QingHuan, Wang Xi: “…….”
Ye QingHuan’s eyesight was pretty good. He caught a glimpse of the small bit of fish tail exposed outside of the clothes bundle in Jing-wang’s arms.
It was– the tail of the fish that Jing-wang loved, silver with gold mix. Ye QingHuan had a good impression of it; he definitely wouldn’t have recognized wrong.
What exactly happened just now?
Ye QingHuan blanked. After quite a while, he asked Wang Xi while stammering: “Wang-gonggong, Jing-wang, he……”
Why would he be running out of the bridal chamber holding a fish on his wedding night, and in such a disheveled state?!
Wang Xi was also very shocked. However, Wang-gonggong was clearly a lot more experienced than Ye-shizi. In his eyes, his highness can do no wrong. Wang Xi very quickly responded and said calmly: “My lord, his highness likes it this way.”
Ye QingHuan: “……”
Likes what this way?
Jing-wang actually had… this type of special interest?!
For a second, Ye QingHuan didn’t know if he should sympathize with the newly wedded wangfei, or sympathize with the fish in Jing-wang’s hands.
Li Yu hid in Jing-wang’s arms, not daring to peek his head out. This wasn’t the first time Jing-wang needed to take care of him after he transformed back into a fish. Li Yu wasn’t worried at all. Because it was the wedding night, after the fish babies slept, the two of them didn’t pay much attention. It wasn’t until he turned back into a fish that they discovered that there was no fish tank placed inside the bridal chamber. Wang Xi meant well. When he arranged the room, he was afraid the two masters would get drunk and accidentally bump into the fish tank. Therefore, he temporarily moved the fish tank next door. Because it was the big day, Li Yu and Jing-wang’s attention was stuck on each other and they didn’t realize ahead of time…..
It wasn’t until after Li Yu transformed that they realized the turn of events. Jing-wang roughly guessed where the fish tank had been moved to and hastily brought Li Yu out of the bridal chamber in search of it. This kind of chaotic wedding night was definitely unprecedented and unique.
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Jing-wang settled Li Yu inside the fish tank and waited until he could transform back. Li Yu started to consider if he should take the lead to ask the System when can he finally end this life of changing back and forth.
The fish babies already turned into humans. They can maintain their form for several years without changing. It didn’t make sense that he, the fish dad, still had to be on the edge, terrified that his identity would be exposed, right?
Ever since the fish babies “grew up and became human,” the shitty System practically vanished without a trace. The continuation of the main mission still hasn’t appeared.
Li Yu was well taken care of by Jing-wang and passed his days comfortably. Sometimes, he inevitably thought passing time like this was also not bad. However, after experiencing such a heart palpitating event, he was starting to think about completely changing back to a human again.
However, currently, that needed to wait until he finished spending his wedding night first.
The kids were still sleeping in the bridal chamber. This can be like a cicada that sheds its shell. Changing the location was also not bad……
In the end, Jing-wang and wangfei’s wedding night was spent in the room next door to the bridal chamber.
Bright and early the next morning, Li Yu laid on the silver stone bed, flat like a fish pancake. Jing-wang prepared foods that he loved to eat and then tucked him in the grass blanket before heading out energetically to check up on the fish babies.
As the man in charge of the West Frontier, Jing-wang not only gave himself a wedding vacation. He also gave all of the peasants vacations as celebration.
Who knew that as soon as he exited the room and turned, he saw Ye-shizi, who had black bags under his eyes.
Ye QingHuan had unintentionally discovered Jing-wang’s secret and felt extremely anxious. He went to Quan Jude and ate three roasted ducks, but it still didn’t calm him. When he returned and discovered that Jing-wang still didn’t return to the bridal chamber, Ye-shizi became even more worried.
Li Yu was his friend, while Jing-wang was his closely related cousin, as well as the person that ChengEn Palace Estate followed. Logically, of course Ye QingHuan knew whose side he should be standing on.
But emotionally, he couldn’t standby and brush it aside.
“You finally managed to get married to Li-gongzi. You definitely can’t treat him unfairly!” Ye QingHuan threw down these words, turned his head and walked off.
Jing-wang: ?
Jing-wang practically rubbed his head like a monk in confusion, not understanding what’s going on. He instinctively disregarded Ye QingHuan.
A while later, Wang Xi came over, looking at Jing-wang and saying hesitantly: “Your highness, this old servant…will just say one thing. You… you have to treat wangfei well in the future.”
Jing-wang: “.......”
The fish pancake Li Yu slept his fill. Then, after he woke up, he seized the moment and entered the system.
Yesterday night, in the end, when he was muddled and half asleep, he thought he heard the System’s voice, but he wasn’t too sure.
The System always liked to update notifications when he was ‘extremely busy’.
To be honest, it’s been awhile since he entered the System. Last time, he entered to receive the reward for the “grow up and become human” task. It was actually quite coincidental. At that time, he was just frustrating over the fact that the fish babies all changed into infants. How was he supposed to explain to Wang-gonggong and others where the little fishes went? The four little fishes ‘disappeared’ all at once and then he also ‘birthed’ four kids. Wouldn’t that make people suspicious?
Luckily, the reward that the System gave him was four fish pillows that corresponded to the four little fishes. This really helped him a lot.
The fish babies now had fish pillows as well. Li Yu thought about it and then with Jing-wang’s help, he placed magnets onto each of the little fish pillows’ mouths. Then, he stuck some on his own fish pillow’s tail area. Like this, all of the fishes can be connected in a chain, looking just like when he and the little fish babies were playing around.
Most of the time, the shitty System loved to screw him over, but in certain cases, it was still pretty reliable.
He transmigrated into a book, turned into a fish, and was forced to do all sorts of tasks all thanks to the System. However, he managed to find his other half inside a book because of the system as well.
Before, Li Yu was extremely annoyed with the System, but now, it was hard to describe what he felt.
As usual, he examined the main mission and discovered that a new task was lit up.
Looks like there really was a new notification yesterday night. After all, they had become a husband and husband, married couple recognized by the Emperor. Their relationship definitely advanced to another level. Finally the new mission updated. The next mission was–
“Postnatal care and protection for fish.”
The startled Li Yu: “……”
Li Yu had previously thought that the names of these missions were pretty eccentric. But now that he’d already given birth to fish babies, postnatal care was nothing in comparison.
Oh right. In other words, right now he counted as being “postnatal”?
Li Yu calmly examined the description of the main mission.
According to the System’s shitty nature, this definitely was divided into several steps again. You think there’s only one task, but actually, it’s a group of tasks under one name.
This main mission…… wait. Li Yu surprisingly discovered that two of the steps under the main mission was actually already completed!
Postnatal care and protection, step one: Incubate fish eggs, already completed. Reward ready.
Postnatal care and protection, step two: Feed and raise the young fishes, already completed. Reward ready.
Li Yu pondered briefly. Didn’t these two steps involve when he and Jing-wang just learned how to raise the fish babies? He remembered that at that time, the main mission was still pending judgment, without any activity.
The System explained: “After the big wedding, you and the tyrant’s relationship was already at an inseparable state and reached the requirement for the next main mission– ‘postnatal care and protection.’ This main mission is different from other main missions. The person in charge of executing this mission is the tyrant. Even though the main mission didn’t start while the first two steps were occurring, the influence that it created on the baby fishes is still present. Therefore, the system determined that they have been completed.”
Li Yu understood now. “Prenatal care and protection” was Jing-wang’s main venue. Li Yu was only responsible for laying around like a salted fish. Who let him and the fish babies be the ones who required care and protection.
As expected of Jing-wang, who had the protagonist aura. He already finished two.
Li Yu asked curiously: What are the rewards for these two steps? If the person doing it has changed to Jing-wang, would the reward also be given to Jing-wang accordingly?
But his hubby shouldn’t be lacking in anything– only lacking this fish.
System: “The reward will still be given to the host. Each step of the task rewards you with one of Jing-wang’s secrets.”
Li Yu: “……”
Secrets again? Li Yu wasn’t in a hurry to obtain them and stored them away again. What if he needed them in the future.
In comparison to Jing-wang’s secrets, he was more concerned with how to completely change back into a human. He asked directly: This is already the third main mission. How much longer before I can completely change back into a human?
A notification immediately jumped out from the System: “Postnatal care and protection, step three: ‘Protect the Pet Fish’ within the time limit. The reward is restoring human form. Host, do you wish to start?”
Li Yu was ecstatic. When he asked before, he never received a clear answer. This time, he immediately got it. The dawn of hope was right before his eyes!
Li Yu asked: What kind of task is this exactly?
He felt that ‘protect the pet fish’ sounded too general.
Since this pertained to the host’s complete recovery, in a rare moment, the System explained in detail: “The time limit for the task is three days. After clicking start, you will alternate in changing into a human fish (mermaid) or fish human. Unable to act on your own, you must have the tyrant protect you himself. If you were discovered by others during this time period, the task will fail. Please choose carefully.”
Li Yu: “…….”
So he was the one who required protection in this task?
Human fish (mermaid) he can understand. But what was a fish human?
The System said: “Human fish is upper body as human, lower body as fish. Fish human is the opposite. The upper body is fish, the lower body is human.”
Li Yu: “……”
In other words, in this mission, he will change into a half human half fish, not human and not fish thing.
Crap. Now he will seem even more like a carp demon.
If he only had to change into a fish, that’s fine. If he had to change into a human fish or a fish human, don’t even talk about letting Jing-Wang protect him; perhaps, he’d end up scaring Jing-wang first.
In the Chronicles of the White Snake, the half human and half snake, white snake demon had scared the scholar to death before.
Li Yu forced himself to calm down. What if his hands shook and he accidentally pressed start; he’d immediately start turning into something not quite human and not quite fish. There was only one chance at doing this task. He had to get Jing-wang mentally prepared first. Of course, he hoped this would be successful. Then he’d be able to live a happy life.
Li Yu exited the system. He found an opportunity to change into his human form and asked in a very tiny voice: “Your highness, I have a…… heavenly tribulation I have to face. Do you mind helping me?”
thanks for the chapter!
Mermaid tribulation sounds tough enough! Thanks for the update 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thank You for the new chapter ( ˘ ³˘)♥
immediately thought about that little mermaid parody with the guy in fish upper body costume 😭 (can’t find the link TAT)
FOUND IT HAHAHA https://youtu.be/xBCGVqyWrSQ?si=vTrVhcJRe6DEBuDu
WATCHED IT 😂 protip: don’t watch when everyone else in the house is sleeping 😂 i almost bust a gut holding the laughter in 😂
the artistic marvel of this fish-human! The incoherent gurgling, the bleh…. so expressive!
This made me cry, my God that was pure art.
wow lots of talk about li yu being treated poorly when, in fact, li yu is the homewrecker. fish was here first. where’s the xiao yu defense squad?
why do i feel like this won’t end well? QAQ
but can the babies see him like this?
I like that he can now ask jing-wang for help directly.