The Disabled Tyrant’s Pet Palm Fish [Transmigration] - Chap 75

Chap 75
The Emperor was very satisfied with Jing-wang. During the banquet he thought about many
things, frequently looking over in Jing-wang’s direction.

After the birthday banquet finished, the Emperor summoned Jing-wang for a private
conversation.

Li Yu just returned to the crystal bottle from Taiye pond and didn’t have a chance to follow. He
could only wait outside of Ganqing Palace together with Wang Xi.

While they waited, Wang Xi pulled out a lot of red colored fish food and peach blossom cookies.
Jing-wang’s birthday presents were successful; Wang-gonggong felt like Master Xiao Yu was
the main contributor here and really deserved to be rewarded.

Just now, Li Yu didn’t eat any of the fish food that the 6th Prince tossed into the water. The
prideful fish didn’t even give them a single glance and focused wholeheartedly on swimming
around vigorously in front of the Emperor, not even feeling tired at all. Now that Wang-
gonggong was feeding him, Li Yu finally felt the hunger and swiftly gobbled everything up with
large gulps, stuffing both of his cheeks full.

“Master fish, you can slow down.” Wang Xi said with a smile.

Li Yu was just devouring food ravenously when he suddenly heard footsteps.

Excited, Li Yu looked over with food in his mouth. However, he immediately realized that the
footsteps came from outside of the palace, so it shouldn’t be Jing-wang.

Li Yu very quickly caught sight of Mu TianXiao(6)’s cultured, friendly face.

…… it was actually the 6th Prince?

Li Yu was somewhat disappointed. Why hasn’t this guy left yet?

He probably came over to wait for an audience with the Emperor, yet unexpectedly encountered
Wang Xi and fish.
Mu TianXiao(6) also saw fish. The 6th Prince had been wanting to take a closer look at this fish
for a long time. Immediately, he walked closer.

“6th Prince, please stop!” Brows furrowed, Wang Xi warned him.

“As his younger brother, can’t I take a look at the fish that 5th elder brother raised?” The 6th
Prince said with a smile that’s not quite a smile.

What was he planning to do?

Li Yu was so nervous he forgot to swallow the food in his mouth. He secretly gathered plenty of
force in the tip of his tail. If the 6th Prince dared to do anything to him, then Li Yu dared slap
him back!

“6th Prince.” Wang Xi protected the crystal bottle securely in his arms and warned again: “This
is my prince’s fish. Without his highness’s permission, you may not come any closer.”

Mu TianXiao(6)’s expression turned somewhat cold: “What, are you treating me with disdain as
well?”

Wang Xi said neutrally: “This servant is not treating you with disdain. However, even though I
am only a servant, I also know that to take something without asking first is called stealing. 6th
Prince, you insist on coming over to look at fish when my prince is not here, why’s that?”

After Wang Xi finished talking, Li Yu almost applauded for him– if his two fins could actually
reach, that is.

QQQ. Wang-gonggong actually rebuked the 6th Prince for fish. Fish feels really touched!

Wang Xi refused to back down. Mu TianXiao(6) was very embarrassed. Probably figuring that
starting an argument in front of Ganqing Palace with Jing-wang’s personal servant would be hard
to explain, Mu TianXiao(6) very quickly smoothed out his expression and said voluntarily: “No
need to be nervous. I only wanted to take a brief look. If it’s not allowed, then forget it.”

Mu TianXiao(6) entered the palace without consulting anyone. However, he was very quickly
invited back out politely by the inner servants guarding the palace.
Mu TianXiao(6) gave Wang Xi a sideways glance, turned around and left.

Looks like the 6th Prince’s request to see the Emperor was not successful. The Emperor didn’t
want to see the 6th Prince at all.

Finally, he left. Li Yu could relax somewhat.

Luo RuiSheng brought Jing-wang out of the palace. Wang Xi hastily carried Li Yu over to greet
him.

“Your highness, you are finally out!” All smiles, Wang Xi handed over the crystal bottle. Jing-
wang’s habit was to always immediately look at fish first thing.

Jing-wang accepted the crystal bottle himself and stroked fish’s smooth back.

Li Yu immediately nuzzled back against him happily.

The Emperor had conversed with Jing-wang for this long. If his dragon heart was super delighted
and directly gave Jing-wang the title of crown prince, how great would that be? What 3rd Prince,
what 6th Prince? All of those scum would have to stand aside.

Li Yu almost made himself laugh from his own imagination. But how could fighting for the
throne be this easy. He knew he was just indulging in fantasies and was just amusing himself,
that’s all.

However, even if Jing-wang wasn’t directly given the crown prince title, he still received a
reward right?

Li Yu secretly glanced at Jing-wang’s face color. Jing-wang was not sad nor happy. Li Yu felt
like the reward was a bit different this time.

Jing-wang expressed to Wang Xi with his eye expression: To ChangChun Palace.

Wang Xi made a noise of acknowledgement and started to lead the way in the front. This was the
first time Li Yu was heading to Changchun Palace. It made him think about a certain unresolved
secret that was related to ChangChun Palace. He once attempted to ask Jing-wang about it, but
discovered that Jing-wang had no impression of this matter. If Li Yu wanted to completely
understand this secret, he can only think it over himself.

Actually Li Yu thought about whether he should ask Jing-wang to bring him to ChangChun
Palace or not before. However, he couldn’t think of a good excuse. ChangChun Palace was the
residence of the deceased Empress after all. For him to suddenly mention that he wanted to go
take a look was very impolite. Also if he entered the palace in human form, he’d have to pay
attention to the time. If he begged Jing-wang to take him and Jing-wang agreed, but then he ends
up “disappearing”, it’d be too inexcusable. However, there was no way for him to ask this
request to Jing-wang as a fish.

Li Yu originally planned to wait until Empress Xiao Hui’s birthday. In the original novel, it
mentioned that Jing-wang would definitely go to ChangChun Palace to make an offering. Li Yu
wanted to wait until that time. Jing-wang normally brought fish along everywhere. If he didn’t
plan to bring fish, then fish would have bothered Jing-wang until he did. In any case, Li Yu
would have successfully entered ChangChun Palace. By that time, perhaps he would have
automatically figured out the secret?

Unexpectedly, on the Emperor’s birthday, when Empress Xiao Hui’s birthday has not arrived
yet, Jing-wang decided to head over there for some unknown reason.

Because Jing-wang mentioned going to ChangChun Palace after conversing with the Emperor,
perhaps the Emperor had ordered it?

Li Yu carefully looked at Jing-wang’s face color. Jing-wang should have been rewarded. Why
would he look so serious……

The entourage of people soon reached ChangChun Palace.

After seeing the scenery around ChangChun Palace for the first time, Li Yu was even more
certain that the location shown inside the secret was ChangChun Palace. The roof tiles were
decorated extremely similar to what he saw in the System. Also from what he heard from Wang
Xi’s rambling, after the deceased Empress passed away, no other concubines moved into
ChangChun Palace; it hasn’t been renovated for a long time.

The main hall of Changchun Palace was all dark. Jing-wang ordered Wang Xi to light up a lamp.
Cloths used for memorial services hung everywhere inside the main hall. A square table
enshrined Empress Xiao Hui’s memorial tablet.
Jing-wang placed the crystal bottle on the table. Wang Xi took out three incense sticks. Jing-
wang lit them up himself, walked in front of the memorial tablet and respectfully kowtowed
three times.

When Li Yu entered the palace with Jing-wang, he immediately started to look all over for the
cloth tiger doll. However, he actually couldn’t manage to find it right now. Because fish form
was too inconvenient, he could only give up temporarily.

While Jing-wang was making the offering to Empress Xiao Hui, Li Yu looked at his figure in a
daze. He couldn’t help but recalled that Jing-wang already brought him to see the elders at
ChengEn Palace Estate. Now, he brought Li Yu to ChangChun Palace; Empress Xiao Hui was
Jing-wang’s birth mother.

Li Yu suddenly realized this and hastily followed Jing-wang to bow his fish body towards the
direction of the memorial tablet. Because everything happened so suddenly, fish didn’t have
anything prepared. He can only say sincerely in his heart: “Your majesty, if your spirit is still
present, please protect his highness Jing-wang……”

From the corner of his eyes, Jing-wang saw fish nodding its head and waving its tail. Thinking
briefly, he was able to guess Xiao Yu’s intent and smiled contently.

After fish finished ‘bowing,’ Jing-wang sat down and stroked him. Even through the crystal
bottle, Li Yu could feel Jing-wang’s heavy hearted mood.

What’s the matter? Did you not get rewarded just now, but instead got reprimanded?

“Your highness, what’s the matter?” Wang Xi also asked somewhat worriedly.

Jing-wang lightly shook his head, gaze shifting outside of the palace briefly. Wang Xi
understood he was saying: they were still inside the imperial palace; it’s not a good place to talk.

Jing-wang sat about a teacup of time and then brought Wang Xi and Li Yu out of the imperial
palace.

It wasn’t until after they returned to the Jing Estate that Wang Xi and Li Yu learned that the
Emperor didn’t actually reward Jing-wang for his birthday presents. Instead, he sent Jing-wang
away to the West Frontier for a period of time.
To say it another way, the Emperor’s ‘reward’ to Jing-wang was ordering Jing-wang to leave the
Imperial City.

What’s going on? Why did it get like this?

Li Yu couldn’t figure it out. The Emperor looked pretty happy when he was looking at the
‘longevity’ word that the fishes formed. He even mentioned wanting to hang Tang Yin’s painting
inside GanQing Palace. Why would he suddenly fall out with Jing-wang?

Li Yu thought his performance was perfect, but perhaps there was still an issue with the fish
formation, or perhaps he shouldn’t have overdone it and presented the lotus flower to the
Emperor?

But if he didn’t do that, after the fish formation scattered, the Emperor would have been
disappointed as well……

QQ. The heart of an emperor was too hard to fathom for a fish!

Li Yu self-reflected. Wang Xi also felt unfair for Jing-wang and rambled a bit. Jing-wang
gestured for Wang Xi to withdraw.

Wang-gonggong left. The more that Li Yu thought about it, the more he felt like it was his fault.
He couldn’t even eat the fish food and peach blossom cookies that Wang Xi gave him anymore.
Instead, he repeatedly thought about all of the events that happened during the birthday banquet.

He still couldn’t figure it out and was full of remorse. Li Yu saw that Jing-wang left a small light
and sat by the windows. The darkness of the night made the young man’s handsome face hard to
discern.

The sky was already dark. After toiling for an entire day, Jing-wang still didn’t go rest. Perhaps
he was just like Li Yu, thinking too much and unable to sleep.

It wouldn’t be good to continue like this.

Li Yu shook his head. At a place where Jing-wang couldn’t see, he changed to his human form,
walked to the window and regretfully called out: “Your highness.”
Raising his head and seeing Li Yu, Jing-wang had a smile in his eyes as he beckoned for Li Yu
to come over.

Li Yu suddenly realized. Perhaps Jing-wang wasn’t resting not because he couldn’t stop thinking
about what happened, but rather because he was waiting for Li Yu.

“Your highness, I’m sorry. I, I did my best. I didn’t know this would happen……”

Li Yu explained stammeringly, feeling very sulky inside. Didn’t the web novels all say that in
order to fight for the throne, one had to curry favor from the Emperor? How come even though
fish made the Emperor happy, it ended up causing harm? Did the Emperor think Jing-wang
harbored ill intentions now that he was trying to curry favor?

How come fish couldn’t share his random luck with Jing-wang?

Seeing Li Yu misunderstand, Jing-wang shook his head repeatedly. He held Li Yu’s hand and
patted him. Then, he pointed at the painting on the wall.

Li Yu guessed for a while and got the general gist of the other’s meaning. Jing-wang was saying:
It’s not his fault, Jing-wang also gifted the Emperor a painting himself.

Li Yu sniffled and asked with uncertainty: “You really don’t blame me, your highness?”

Jing-wang shook his head again and squeezed Li Yu’s hand tight.

It was hard to explain with only a few gestures. Jing-wang kissed Li Yu’s lips and then carried Li
Yu onto his lap.

Li Yu: ???

Li Yu was shocked. What kind of time was this? Jing-wang was still thinking about tofu?

Was Jing-wang afraid he wouldn’t be able to come back; he wanted to enjoy a meal to the fullest
extent?
Just like how he suddenly went to Changchun Palace, was it also because it might not be
convenient for him to make offerings in the future anymore?

Li Yu felt extremely distressed. In anycase, fish didn’t have anything else, but he had plenty of
tofu. There’s no harm in making Jing-wang a bit happier.

Grinding his teeth, Li Yu wrapped his arms around Jing-wang’s neck.

Jing-wang was faintly stunned by Li Yu ‘s sudden boldness. Thinking about something, he
smiled and then straightened up the body that Li Yu leaned over. He held Li Yu’s hand and
spread open a piece of paper together with him.

Li Yu instantly flushed red. So they were sitting like this, not because Jing-wang wanted to eat
tofu, but because…… he wanted to write.

Holding Li Yu, Jing-wang wrote: “Thank you for your hard work. You’re very good. No need to
worry. Father wasn’t actually mad at me.”

“Really?” Li Yu didn’t really believe it: “Then why would the Emperor want you to leave, your
highness?”

In the original novel, it mentioned that the West Frontier was a barren, inhospitable environment
and not very well off. It’s not like the Emperor wanted Jing-wang to take a vacation there, right?

“Father didn’t take away my nobility status.” Jing-wang wrote heavily, with emphasis.

Li Yu chewed on this sentence repeatedly. His eyes lit up. Didn’t take away his nobility, what
did this mean?

When the Emperor spurned the 2nd Prince, he didn’t even give him the status of wang and only
gave the 2nd Prince the title of a marquis. The other princes didn’t even have any titles so far.

Meanwhile Jing-wang’s title of Wang was actually something that the Emperor gave him out of
guilt and compensation. If the Emperor really got angry and expelled Jing-wang out of the
Imperial City out of fury, he definitely wouldn’t have allowed Jing-wang to keep his nobility
status.
“Can it be– the Emperor ordered you to the West Frontier, not as a punishment, but……”

Li Yu was about to blurt out the answer, but Jing-wang quickly pressed a finger against his lips
and made a shush gesture.

The Emperor didn’t actually say anything clearly. He only told Jing-wang to go to the West
Frontier; when he arrived, there would be a more detailed imperial order waiting for him.

Jing-wang also couldn’t figure it out at first. Later, he faintly guessed the Emperor’s intent by the
fact that the Emperor had Luo RuiSheng bring him out. Jing-wang really felt like he figured it
out, but it definitely can’t be said out loud. The Emperor wanted him to go to the West Frontier,
so he can only follow the order and head over.

In accordance, Li Yu covered his own mouth with his hands. However, his insides instantly
started churning.

In ancient times when fathers kicked their sons out of the house, if it’s not a punishment, then it
was a test.

Another question should be asked then. Why would the Emperor test Jing-wang?

Because there’s hope now, so naturally, he’d want to put Jing-wang to the test. Before, the
Emperor rarely got involved in Jing-wang’s life; this was ultimately because the Emperor didn’t
have any expectations for Jing-wang. So naturally, he didn’t care how Jing-wang was.

Now that there’s hope, it meant that going to the West Frontier wasn’t actually a bad thing.

After Li Yu thought it through, his grief turned into happiness: “Your highness, when…when are
you leaving?”

Jing-wang wrote: “Immediately, in the next few days. You just stay and take good care of
yourself inside the estate. Wang Xi will take care of you.”

Although Jing-wang felt like he probably understood the Emperor’s intent, the West Frontier was
barren. Jing-wang didn’t want Xiao Yu to follow him over there. Plus, the journey itself was
exhausting. Jing-wang was also afraid Xiao Yu wouldn’t be able to handle it. Therefore, he
instinctively wanted Xiao Yu to remain in the Imperial City.
He hasn’t really treated Xiao Yu well yet, how can he let Xiao Yu follow him and suffer?

Li Yu, who learned that he was about to be left behind: ???

Oh fck, Jing-wang was about to go to the West Frontier. Wasn’t this “share happiness and
suffering, for better or for worse”?

“No, your highness. I’m staying where you’re staying. If you have to go, then we’re going
together!” Li Yu loudly declared the proper answer.

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