The Disabled Tyrant’s Pet Palm Fish [Transmigration] - Chap 21

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Chap 21
After feeling dizzy for a while, Li Yu very quickly realized that he had turned back into a fish.

His plan was supposed to be flawless. He was going to pretend to escape out of the window.
Then people would naturally think he ‘disappeared’ after that, only leaving behind a fish. But the
first issue was that Jing-wang actually crashed directly through the door. Alright. He felt pretty
touched that Jing-wang would care about fish that much. But this immediately made everything
perilous. Not only was his appearance seen by Jing-wang, he almost changed back in front of
Jing-wang……

When he jumped out of the window, he was too anxious and almost fell. Luckily he changed
back into a fish the instant he jumped out.

He thought he finally managed to muddle through everything. The 2nd issue that he didn’t
consider was that, crashing through the door was not enough, Jing-wang even ordered people to
hide outside in ambush. Even if he luckily ‘escaped’ out of the window, so what? A pile of
people were guarding outside. They didn’t even see him. So how was he supposed to explain
how a person disappeared into thin air while leaving behind a ground full of clothes?

Li Yu felt like sometimes Jing-wang was a bigger pit than the shitty system. At least when the
shitty system screwed him over, he could think of something to salvage things. When Jing-wang
screwed him, he pretty much…… couldn’t even get angry about it.

The imperial guards who were laying in ambush all unanimously stated that they didn’t see any
youth at all. Seeing Jing-wang was about to inspect the clothes on the floor himself, Li Yu
immediately waved his tail loudly, hoping to divert Jing-wang’s attention.

The clothes he left behind shouldn’t have anything. He was only afraid that Jing-wang might
connect everything together; then his secret would be exposed.

But waving his tail to divert attention seemed somewhat like he was selling his fish body
huh……

Li Yu: Ao, using his attractive fish charms a little is okay. Exposing his secret and being
mistaken as a carp demon is not okay!
Jing-wang heard the sound of fish tail moving, stopped and bent down himself to pick up the
teacup. Li Yu wagged his tail even more energetically.

Jing-wang was still somewhat angry and gave the fish a glare. Li Yu felt strangely guilty. He
curled the tip of his tail around Jing-wang’s finger carefully to make him happy. He felt like
Jing-wang should like this. Everytime the tip of his tail swept lightly past, Jing-wang’s
expression would relax some.

Sure enough, under his deliberate attempts to act cute, Jing-wang temporarily stopped showing
interest in the clothes scattered on the floor. Instead, with lips pressed together, he started to
lightly squeeze the little carp’s back. This meant that Jing-wang was willing to play with him.

Li Yu suppressed his feelings of embarrassment and continued to sell his fish charms.

“Your highness, there’s a pond near the room. Perhaps the thief caught the people in ambush off
guard and swam away.” An imperial guard walked over to report. The rest of the imperial guards
also assumed this because of all of the clothes on the ground. It’s not like someone could
disappear into thin air. The imperial guards thought until they got headaches, but they only
managed to come up with this one option.

Li Yu was stunned. So they could actually forcibly explain it like that?

But then again, why would normal people even imagine that a human could turn into fish, and
fish could turn into human. The first response was naturally that the suspicious youth escaped
somehow.

The imperial guards’ explanation wasn’t impossible. Nodding his head, Jing-wang wanted to
head over to the pond himself to take a look and see if there were any suspicious footprints and
stuff.

Li Yu immediately jumped into his palm. There’s nothing at the pond, he couldn’t let Jing-wang
go there!

Interrupted several times by Li Yu, Jing-wang’s brows smoothed out as he lightly tapped the fish
on the head.

Head taps– what did that mean exactly?
Li Yu wanted to ask this a long time ago, but there was no one to tell him.

Seeing Jing-wang relax, Li Yu let out a breath of relief. Finally, a crisis averted.

Since everyone believed he escaped by swimming away, this was pretty good.

The imperial guards finished inspecting the clothes on the ground. Wang Xi already ran over to
confirm that the inner robe and underpants belonged to Jing-wang. The outer robe was normal
old clothes. And there was also a pair of old cloth shoes.

Aunty Xu was very quickly brought over. Recognizing the old clothes that she gave the youth,
Aunty Xu felt quite grieved. Back then, she thought the youth was completely harmless. Who
could have thought that person actually stole his highness’s fish?

Aunty Xu recalled that she even grabbed fish food for the youth and utterly regretted everything.

According to the words of Aunty Xu, the identity of the person who stole the fish was a male
concubine who was chased out by the main wife of some nobleman.

Wang-gonggong: “……”

What kind of messed up logic was this. Because he was being bullied and suppressed by the
main wife, he came over to steal his highness’s fish? None of this connected at all, okay?

Li Yu was listening in Jing-wang’s hand. He didn’t even understand himself. At most he was
someone who got lost. Just how the heck did Aunty Xu imagine him to be a male concubine?

Aunty Xu kowtow’d nonstop. Li Yu couldn’t bear to watch and secretly looked at Jing-wang,
afraid that Jing-wang might punish Aunty Xu in his fury.

Wang Xu guessed Jing-wang’s expression and said severely: “For concealing a thief, you are
banished from the Prince’s Estate!”

Li Yu: !!!
No way! He wasn’t even a thief. Aunty Xu only thought he was pitiful so gave him a bite to eat.
Why chase her out? He definitely didn’t want to implicate Aunty Xu who was kind enough to
help him.

Li Yu hastily wrapped the tip of his tail around Jing-wang’s finger, rubbing back and forth
pitifully.

Jing-wang: “……”

Jing-wang found the fish and the fish looked pretty well. In a rather pleasant mood, Jing-wang
gave Wang Xi a glance.

Wang Xi immediately understood: “However, since you didn’t know anything, and the Master
Fish didn’t have any accidents, you won’t be banished this time. You can go accept 30 hits
yourself and keep this lesson in mind for the future.”

Aunty Xu shed tears of gratitude. She really was rather reckless before. She couldn’t lose her job
in the Prince’s Estate. Her skin was rather thick. If the punishment was only corporal, that was
much better than being banished from the estate.

Li Yu was still not very satisfied with the corporal punishment, however, seeing Aunty Xu give
thanks and kowtow sincerely, he felt like at least he helped a little and his guilt was slightly
relieved.

If he used his fish charms too much, it might not be effective in the future. Li Yu knew when to
stop while he was ahead.

Jing-wang, who was originally enjoying the touches from his fish’s tail, but now suddenly felt
nothing at all: “……”

Wang Xi dismissed Aunty Xu and said to Jing-wang: “Your highness, Xu-shi has been dealt
with. This old servant still feels it is strange. Why would the thief steal the fish?”

Jing-wang remembered the sleeve corner that he had grabbed and ripped off before and gestured
to Wang Xi to bring it over for inspection. He immediately saw on the cloth, wet patches here
and there, as well as some silver colored fish scales.
Li Yu: !!!

Oh fck. How could he leave behind such incriminating evidence!

Would Jing-wang think he left it while changing into a fish?

“Your highness!” Wang Xi said in surprise: “Why would there be fish scales on the thief’s
sleeve?”

Jing-wang’s eyes darkened.

Before whenGuifei’s handkerchief had fish scales, it was because Guifei did something to the
fish. If the thief’s sleeve also had it, that… that meant the thief also did something to the fish.

How dare he!

Wang Xi said for Jing-wang: “Your highness, the Master Fish must have really suffered.”

Jing-wang stroked Li Yu’s head, as if comforting him. Li Yu: ???

This was it? Should he rejoice that he messed with Guifei in the past?

Since Jing-wang already found the fish, Wang Xi reminded him that he still had a huge crowd of
guests waiting for him at Ninghui Hall. Even if plenty of people wanted to leave, they still had to
wait until Jing-wang came back to say their farewells properly. This was the banquet that the
Emperor set up after all. Jing-wang, the host, only left temporarily because of an issue. And plus
with his personality, they didn’t dare to leave randomly.

Jing-wang was too lazy to return to the backyard again. He just held the teacup in his hands and
brought the fish to Ninghui Hall.

Li Yu who was originally planning to nap after his meal: ???

No way. He didn’t want to go see the 2nd master!
But a fish couldn’t change his master’s decision. Jing-wang brought him into Ninghui Hall and
placed him on the main table. The guests in Ninghui Hall were stunned. They had heard that
Jing-wang was raising a pet fish and treated it like a treasure. So this was it!

Not knowing who started it, all of the guests were in mutual agreement and started to praise the
fish that Jing-wang raised one after the other.

Li Yu happily wagged his tail, feeling a bit floaty. Aiya, there’s no way he was that good. It’s
fine to say he was clever and cute, but to say he was even better looking than a koi, they must be
blind.

Suddenly, with his pitch black fish eyes, Li Yu caught sight of a young man wearing white dance
clothes. This youth was very good looking, like he came out of a painting. He stood quietly in
the clamorous crowd, looking very apparent from masses.

That “I don’t need to attract anyone, they will naturally be attracted to me” kind of protagonist
aura……

Li Yu jolted. Was this the rumoured protagonist shou?