The Disabled Tyrant’s Pet Palm Fish [Transmigration] - Chap 10
Chap 10
After being the favored concubine for many years, Qiu-shi was very clear of the place Jing-wang
had in the Emperor’s heart all this time. This made her even more resentful of Jing-wang. What
if the Emperor got angry at her over this matter and it implicated the 2nd Prince who was about
to become the crown prince, then what!
Qiu-shi couldn’t just watch idle as she and the 2nd prince encountered calamity. Therefore, she
thought up a rather brilliant (according to her) idea !
“Zhao-er, come, don’t make a sound. We need to……quickly hide this fish.”
Mu TianZhao: ???
Qiu-shi didn’t want others to get involved. Ganqing Palace wasn’t her territory. The Emperor
was sitting not far away on his dragon throne. Suddenly summoning a personal aide to deal with
this would most likely attract the Emperor’s attention. The less people who knew about the death
of Jing-wang’s fish the better.
Qiu-shi and the 2nd Prince blocked the view of the ocean bowl together and discussed quietly.
Qiu-shi’s plan was to first hide the dead fish, then pretend they discovered that the fish
disappeared. The Emperor would definitely send people to search for it all over. She just needed
a little time to quietly get another live one prepared and find a good location to ‘coincidentally’
find the fish again to perform this secret substitution.
“Would it be seen through?” Mu TianZhao was somewhat hesitant. He was almost the crown
prince. He didn’t want there to be any kind of slip-up.
“What are you afraid of?” Qiu-shi scolded: “Isn’t it just a regular soup fish? They all look the
same. Jing-wang probably won’t even notice the difference.”
Qiu-shi was capable of implementing this plan because she was confident about this. Even if that
weren’t the case, what was she supposed to do! Wait for Jing-wang to cause trouble for her?
Qiu-shi glanced at the fish that was floating belly up on the surface of the water again. She
needed to hide the fish well so people definitely couldn’t find it. The safest place was hiding it in
her sleeve. No one would dare to search the body of the favored concubine!
Qiu-shi suppressed her disgust and covered her fingers with a handkerchief to grab the fish. Just
as she placed the fish in her hand, the originally motionless fish started to flail and struggled with
all of its might.
Qiu-shi and the 2nd Prince: !!!
Mu TianZhao was dumbfounded: “Mother, wasn’t this fish dead!”
How can a fish revive after death? This was really too strange!
Qiu-shi didn’t have time to consider that. She also didn’t have time to talk with the 2nd Prince.
Although this fish was wrapped up in the handkerchief, it was still very slippery and also moving
vigorously. If she messed up and dropped the fish on the floor, it would be right in front of the
Emperor in his Ganqing palace……
Since she had already taken this step, it’s impossible to turn back now!
Sweat poured down Qiu-shi’s head. As a woman who lived a life of luxury, she didn’t have
much hand strength. Meanwhile, Li Yu was pretty experienced with flopping about. This time,
he really did his best to be as excessive as possible. Adding in a very powerful tail, he easily
struggled free of Qiu-shi’s control.
This was the moment when the little carp was closest to Qiu-shi!
Li Yu had swung his fishtail several times before so he had some experience already. Calculating
the approximate distance, he waved his tail nimbly once. Originally, he planned to jump on
Guifei’s body and scare her a bit, then could grab the iridescent pearl in the chaos. Of course, if
he missed l and landed on the ground, he just needed to swing his tail and hop a few more times
to return to the ocean bowl. The ocean bowl was very close to him. Leaving the water briefly
shouldn’t be a big issue. Not to mention, he had saved enough fresh water inside his dimensional
space.
However, he didn’t anticipate that he’d use too much strength, breaking a new record for the first
time and directly leaping onto Guifei’s face.
Li Yu: !!!
Qiu-shi suddenly felt coldness on her face as Jing-wang’s fish jumped at her.
View going black, Guifei let out a loud scream: “Ah–”
With this yell of hers, Li Yu also panicked. This was the first time he climbed onto someone’s
body… face as a fish after all. He unconsciously whipped his tail randomly and ended up
slapping Guifei several times across the face!
The 2nd Prince watched, stupefied. After hearing the series of sharp, crisp slapping sounds, he
returned from his daze and yelled hastily: “Mother, mother. Quick, someone come. Save my
mother, quickly.”
“Quick, Zhao-er, help me get it off. It’s on my face, it’s on my face!!” Qiu-shi’s eyes were
blocked. Scared and surprised, she screeched nonstop.
Mu TianZhao wanted to help. However, after extending his hand halfway, he paused. If this fish
flew on him, he wouldn’t be able to explain clearly either!
In the middle of all of this chaos, Li Yu took the chance to find an appropriate position and
swung his tail once more at the iridescent pearl. This time, he very carefully controlled his
strength and hit the gold ornament. As he wished, the pearl rolled off.
Originally, Qiu-guifei wore this hair ornament in order to attract the attention of the Emperor
even at night. That’s why she used that extremely expensive iridescent pearl. However, at this
time, Guifei was terrified to death. Where would she get the time to care about the hair ornament
on her head.
Li Yu waved his fish fins with all of his strength, but it was not enough to catch the falling
iridescent pearl. He could only watch as it landed and rolled on the golden tiled floor.
If he had the pearl, he could obtain the medicine to turn back to a human. He threw caution to the
wind!
Li Yu jumped down as well to try to snatch the pearl with his mouth.
At this time, the Emperor was currently enjoying his tea as he waited for Jing-wang. He suddenly
heard Guifei and the 2nd Prince scream and yell loudly, and didn’t know what was going on. The
Emperor, as well as Head Manager Luo, hastily went over. What appeared before his eyes was
this scene. Hair completely in disarray and face ghastly white, Guifei was flailing her arms all
over, grabbing randomly at the air. The 2nd prince stood to the side, not knowing what to do.
The Emperor didn’t see Li Yu. The little carp was chasing the pearl on the floor. Under this kind
of circumstance, the first thing that the Emperor noticed must be Guifei and her son.
“What’s going on!” The Emperor was furious.
Li Yu didn’t manage to reach the iridescent pearl. Watching as it rolled away after landing on the
floor, he still wanted to try to grab it. But– he couldn’t reach. Above him, a hand appeared.
Just as he was about to grab the pearl, this hand appeared and pressed him down, causing him to
miss out on the iridescent pearl.
Who was disturbing him from completing his task?
Li Yu furiously raised his head and just happened to look directly at Jing-wang’s angry face.
F…fck. I’m done. Hopping around unrestrained, he ended up getting caught red-handed by Jing-
wang who just returned from changing his clothes.
Li Yu lifelessly blew a bubble, wishing he could hide away immediately and adamantly deny
everything. But he was already in Jing-wang’s hand, where could he hide?
Just now, he whipped Qiu-shi and attempted to snatch the iridescent pearl, who knows if Jing-
wang saw that or not. He– in Jing-wang’s eyes, probably caused big trouble, right? However, he
wasn’t recklessly playing around. Qiu-shi definitely would complain to the Emperor about this.
As long as he returned back into the bowl before the Emperor discovered him, the Emperor
wouldn’t be able to believe Qiu-shi’s words. After all, how can a fish escape out of a bowl, mess
with Qiu-shi, and then jump back?
That’s right. He must return. It was so uncomfortable without water. He needed to figure out
how to secretly return back to the bowl from Jing-wang’s hand. But this was an even harder task
than plotting against Qiu-shi. Jing-wang was hard to trick. He needed to be twice as careful……
Li Yu was still madly using his fish brains. The hard to trick Jing-wang already carried him and
gently placed him back in the water.
Li Yu who was suddenly moved back into the ocean bowl and surrounded by water: !!!
Aiya, the tyrant actually put him back!
Li Yu immediately twisted his body fawningly. Jing-wang gave the fish another glare. The
terrified, heart thumping little carp read the dangerous words below from the tyrant’s eye
gesture.
I’ll deal with you later.
Li Yu: “……”
No way. Did Jing-wang also not get angry before because he planned to settle the score with Li
Yu later?
He didn’t want to be fish soup. He didn’t want to die. He might as well let the tyrant squeeze him
a few more times. Li Yu bumped his back against Jing-wang’s hand, groveling. What if I
volunteer to be squeezed, is that enough payment?
Jing-wang: “……”
“Your majesty, please be the judge for me here. Jing-wang’s fish just randomly jumped on my
face……”
Still panicked and distraught, Qiu-shi weeped endlessly as she kneeled before the Emperor,
hating Jing-wang to death in her heart. Did she fall into Jing-wang’s trap? The fish’s death and
revival might have been planned to trick her so she’d lose face in front of the Emperor!
Experiencing the panic just now, Qiu-shi completely lost all of her composure, suspecting
everything to be deception.
The Emperor rubbed his temple, looking rather confused at Jing-wang. Jing-wang scoffed coldly
and with his chin, he gestured at the ocean bowl not far away.
When he placed the little carp back, he made certain that no one noticed him. Since Qiu-shi
bribed people to slander him, he should also let Qiu-shi have a taste of the feeling of being
unable to explain oneself.
Jing-wang glanced at the little carp. This fish was quite interesting. It actually managed to set up
this situation and bless him with this golden opportunity.
The Emperor ordered Luo RuiSheng to go investigate. Luo RuiSheng only saw Jing-wang’s fish
still swimming happily in the bowl.
This time, the Emperor really got angry: “Guifei, why are you lying without batting an eye? Jing-
wang’s fish is clearly still in the bowl!”
Qiu-shi felt hot blood rushing to her head and said angrily and urgently: “Your majesty, it’s real.
This fish flew out just now!”
The Emperor frowned: “What you mean is that it, a fish, can fly? And it flew out to bully you,
then it flew back inside?”
To Qiu-shi, this fish left a psychological shadow in her heart. She unconsciously nodded her
head repeatedly: “That’s what happened. Zhao-er saw it too.”
“Guifei, have you been possessed?” The Emperor sighed, clearly not believing her. Qiu-shi was
fine before, yet now she was causing a commotion and even speaking nonsense. A fish that flies?
How can this be possible?
If she wasn’t possessed, why would she rave like so and even mess up her hair like that?
“It’s fine if you want to speak nonsense yourself. Do you also want to drag TianZhao to speak
nonsense with you as well?”
Mu TianZhao originally planned to help Qiu-shi. Hearing these words, he instantly choked. Qiu-
shi wildly shot him eye gestures. Mu TianZhao pondered: right now the Emperor didn’t believe
this at all. If he stubbornly helped Qiu-shi, he’d make the Emperor unhappy. Why should he
flaunt courage at this moment?
For the crown prince position, Mu TianZhao was willing to do anything. Immediately, he said
sensibly: “Father, your words of wisdom are correct. This son…… didn’t see clearly.”
Qiu-shi looked incredulously at her own son. Mu TianZhao guiltily shifted his gaze away. He
was about to be the crown prince. What’s wrong with self-preservation?
The Emperor said unhappily: “Guifei, even TianZhao reported as such, what else do you have to
say for yourself.”
“Your majesty, it’s… It’s I who was possessed. I spoke wrongly, please forgive me.” Qiu-shi
resentfully bit her cherry lips. Since her own son won’t help her, what else can she say? She had
to admit that she was confused temporarily. The Emperor didn’t believe her, so it was pointless
to continue complaining. The best plan currently was to relent and sooth the Emperor’s anger
first. She couldn’t afford to fight to the death with a fish at a time like this.
Just as Qiu-shi admitted her mistake discontently, Jing-wang stepped on a handkerchief on the
floor with his cloud embroidered shoes. Wang Xi, who was closely following Jing-wang this
whole time, rushed forward, bent over and picked up the handkerchief.
Because he didn’t know who’s handkerchief this was, Wang Xi opened the handkerchief
specifically and shook it out, then ‘aiyo’d in surprise.
“Wang Xi, what’s wrong with you now?” The Emperor felt a headache from all of these events
happening one after the other.
Wang Xi said: “Reporting to your majesty, this servant seemed to have picked up…… Guifai-
niangniang’s handkerchief. How come there’s fish scales on it?”
As Wang Xi talked, he held up the handkerchief in order to let everyone see.
The handkerchief was embroidered with crab-apple flowers. Even the Emperor was able to
recognize that this was the one Guifei used. As Wang Xi said, the handkerchief did have some
fish scales sticking to it.
Why would there be fish scales on Guifei’s handkerchief? There just happened to be a fish in
Ganqing Palace at the moment!
Jing-wang sent a cold and sharp, dagger-like gaze towards Guifei. Wang Xi immediately
followed up and said in Jing-wang’s place: “Fish scales usually grow on the fish’s body. They
don’t fall off easily. Could it be that Guifei-niangniang saw his highness wasn’t present, so she
did something to our family’s Master-Fish?”
Pfft! Wang-gonggong was truly worthy of being Jing-wang’s spokesperson. His fighting strength
was excellent. Li Yu was delighted. Nevertheless, he was only a fish, when did he become a
master?
What master? The Emperor was stupefied when he heard this.
Wang Xi explained with a smile that reached ear to ear: “Your majesty, this servant heard Xiao
Linzi say before, that the cat that Guifei-niangniang raised was called Master-cat. Therefore, I
thought, the fish that his highness raised naturally should be Master-fish.”
The Emperor was the master of this entire world. He was the person most suitable to be given the
title Master. Yet Guifei actually dared to let people call the cat she raised ‘Master.’ Was she
trying to put a cat and the Emperor on the same level?
“Ridiculous. There will be no random nicknames in the future.” The Emperor gave Qiu-shi a
displeased glare: “Qiu-shi, what did you do to Jing-wang’s fish? Why did fish scales appear on
your handkerchief?”
Of course Qiu-guifei knew that it was because she used this handkerchief to catch the fish, but
she definitely couldn’t admit it.
Ever since she came over to look at the fish, the original advantageous situation for her has
turned. This fish definitely had animosity towards her. Where would she find the time to do
anything to this fish? Clearly it was this fish that was tormenting her!
Qiu-shi said with a sob: “Your majesty, why don’t you ask Jing-wang? Jing-wang was the one
who abused my Piao Xue first……”
“Your majesty!” Wang Xi knelt down, disregarding possible danger to himself, and stated
loudly: “His highness can’t speak, and yet he has to face slander for no reason. You know, since
his highness was young, the injuries he obtained are not easily healed. All of the imperial
physicians know this. Just now when he was changing clothes, this servant saw there was a
bruise on his highness’s leg. The position matched the level of a cat. That day, it was Guifei-
niangniang’s cat who first ran into his highness. That’s why his highness would punish it a little.
I beg your majesty please give his highness justice!”
A bruise caused by the cat?
Qiu-shi’s pupils constricted abruptly. Why didn’t she know Jing-wang would actually have this
kind of loophole on his body?
After the Emperor learned that Jing-wang ‘was injured’, he felt very upset. Immediately, he
summoned the imperial physician over to ‘treat’ Jing-wang’s injury. Hearing from the imperial
physician that there really was a bruise, the emperor burst into rage: “Just a mere cat and it dares
to run into my son? Being punished was really ‘rightfully deserved.’”
Since the cat was the one who first hurt Jing-wang, it indicated that Xiao Linzi didn’t tell the
truth. Later, investigation revealed that Xiao Linzi was bribed by Guifei, a rain of blood poured
over Ganqing Palace.
The Emperor burned with a vengeance. He didn’t even officially title the 2nd Prince crown
prince yet, and Qiu-shi was already bold enough to frame Jing-wang. If she became the Empress
Dowager in the future, how was Jing-wang supposed to survive in the future?
The Emperor punished Qiu-shi to seclusion in Zhongcui Palace, not permitting her to leave
without being summoned. Originally, he planned to promote Qiu-shi to Huang-Guifei soon after
her birthday. Now he was no longer in the mood. The Emperor didn’t even feel too pleased with
the future crown prince, the 2nd Prince.
There was no way Qiu-shi could have imagined that the scheme she concocted meticulously
would be so messed up and end in such a conclusion all because of a mere fish.
This time, Li Yu made quite the contribution. Outside was full of cacophony and noise. He felt
somewhat tired listening to it. Remembering the two grains of fish food at the bottom of the
bowl, Li Yu pulled himself together and swam over to gobble up the fish food. He was just about
to take a nap when he felt like he seemed to have forgotten something.
……wait. The iridescent pearl. He almost forgot!
Li Yu quickly scurried to the surface of the water, looking all over.
Found it. The pearl was currently laying by its lonesome at the corner of the palace hall. At this
moment, no one noticed that the iridescent pearl was missing from Guifei’s forehead.
Li Yu kind of wanted to give a try to secretly run out again to take the pearl with him. Even if he
couldn’t take the pearl with him, if he could just touch it, maybe the task would count as
completed.
Wang Xi came over this time, picking up the ocean bowl that Li Yu was in with a wide grin and
started to head outside.
Li Yu: ???
So the Emperor was still reprimanding Qiu-shi, but Jing-wang wasn’t patient enough to continue
listening and asked to be excused early. Li Yu, who came with Jing-wang to meet the Emperor,
naturally had to leave together with him.
Li Yu: “Oi. Is there a mistake here or something? I didn’t get the iridescent pearl yet……”
As Wang Xi carried the bowl out of the palace, he saw the little carp clinging to the side of the
bowl, as if staring reluctantly towards a certain direction.
Wang Xi almost laughed out loud. Shaking his head, he thought perhaps he was thinking too
much.
Li Yu saw himself depart farther and farther away from the pearl and assumed he probably
wouldn’t be able to complete this task. Li Yu couldn’t help but wilt a little.
To the side, Jing-wang also saw the little carp looking dispirited. Jing-wang looked towards that
direction, pondering for a moment. Then he pointed at an attendant to investigate over there. The
attendant very quickly brought back a pearl.
Jing-wang recognized that this was the iridescent pearl worn on Qiu-guifei’s head. He was very
certain that the little carp was looking at this pearl. After he finished changing clothes and came
out of the side hall, he saw the little carp chasing after this pearl on the ground after all.
So it wanted this pearl that much?
“Master, master. Please give me the pearl!” Li Yu immediately became vigorous and came over
fawningly, waving nonstop. He swam circles after circles around Jing-wang’s fingers, as
flatteringly as possible.
Jing-wang: “……”
We didn’t even settle the previous score yet. You think you can just twist a few times to get the
pearl you wanted? It’s not that easy.
Lips curling upward, Jing-wang placed the iridescent pearl inside his sleeve.
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