Chapter 17
When Li Yu woke up, he was already in King Jing’s residence. He had no idea that a large group of people in the palace had been criticizing him.
But even if he knew, he didn’t care. He was quite self-aware as a fish. In short, he was just spitting his own bubbles and letting those boring humans gossip.
Because he lived in a fish tank, it didn’t make much of a difference to him whether the fish tank was in the palace or the prince’s residence. To his relief, Eunuch Wang took the initiative to move him into King Jing’s bedroom in the prince’s residence. He was stil living with King Jing. His fear of King Jing disappeared as quickly as it came. Now, he was even more shameless than before when he acted cute. He also had more sincerity and trust in King Jing.
He had been conscientiously working as a fish pet since he transmigrated into the book. Every day, he had to worry about his mission. The plot of the original book was very far away from the life of a fish. He ate and slept well by King Jing’s side and didn’t care about the plot. After all, what could he do as a fish?
But King Jing’s assassination finally pulled the plot of the original book back to him.
Ever since the Second Prince, Mu Tianzhao, learned that King Jing had left the palace, he sent a letter to him. The letter sincerely expressed his concern for King Jing’s health on behalf of the Second Prince. He also said that in three days, the Second Prince would specially host a banquet for King Jing at the prince’s residence and invited King Jing to attend.
Wang Xi presented the letter to King Jing with a cold face. King Jing sneered and threw the letter aside without even opening it.
Li Yu stared at the letter from the other side of the fish tank, deep in thought.
Although the Second Prince was a cannon fodder, he was still a popular candidate for the crown prince. He probably wanted to make up for it after being humiliated in the Palace of Heavenly Purity.
King Jing’s family looked down on the Second Prince. Although Mu Tianzhao was the oldest among all the Emperor’s princes, he was used to putting on airs. In front of the Emperor, he pretended to dote on his younger brother. In front of the other princes, he pretended to be a good elder brother. In fact, it was this elder brother who had caused trouble for several princes.
As a plot cheat, Li Yu more or less knew what the Second Prince was thinking. Among the Emperor’s princes, Mu Tianzhao was most afraid of the Third Prince, who was about the same age as him and always competed with him. However, the one he disliked the most was King Jing.
Although Mu Tianzhao was older, the Imperial Family did not follow the order of seniority. The first wife was always ranked before the eldest. King Jing was born by Empress Xiaohui. In terms of status, he was far more honorable than King Jing. If King Jing was not mute, the Emperor would never think of giving the crown prince position to the Second Prince. Because of this, Mu Tianzhao regarded King Jing as a thorn in his side. However, in front of the Emperor, he could not show it.
He knew that the Emperor hoped that the future crown prince would be virtuous and virtuous. No matter how much he disliked the King Jing, he had to be cordial to the King Jing. Last time, because of Lady Qiu, the Emperor was already dissatisfied with him. Mu Tianzhao realized that as long as his crown prince position was not confirmed, he could not be happy too early. Taking advantage of the assassination attempt on King Jing, he used it as an excuse to show concern for the King Jing. He wanted to make up for his previous offense. In the Emperor’s eyes, he knew that he was wrong and changed.
The Second Prince planned well, but unfortunately, King Jing did not give him any face and did not agree to attend the banquet.
The Second Prince did not give up and ran to the Emperor to beg for his help. The Emperor hoped that King Jing and the future crown prince would coexist peacefully. Since the Second Prince was willing to show goodwill, the Emperor agreed from the bottom of his heart. In order to make King Jing cooperate and give the Second Prince a way out, the Emperor simply acted as the middleman. He ordered for all the princes to attend the banquet and for King Jing to be in charge of entertaining them. In this way, it was logical for the Second Prince and King Jing to reconcile at the banquet.
The Second Prince achieved his goal through the Emperor. When King Jing received the imperial edict, his face darkened.
The Emperor knew that King Jing had a cold temperament. Not to mention entertaining other princes, King Jing would get angry even if there were more guests in his residence. The Emperor specially sent Head Steward Luo to explain that when the banquet was held, he would even bestow the servants and cooks. There was no need for King Jing to prepare anything extra. He only needed to show his face as the host.
The Emperor went through all this trouble for the sake of the thin brotherly relationship between his sons. King Jing looked at this series of arrangements and sat alone in his room for a long time. He did not have any objections.
Wang Xi knew everything about King Jing’s residence, and Li Yu would know as well. King Jing had just rejected the Second Prince, and the Emperor suddenly wanted to hold a banquet at King Jing’s residence. It was obvious that the Second Prince had hit a snag and used the Emperor to do this. Li Yu was speechless.
The banquet had nothing to do with him. In any case, the Second Prince would not get what he wanted. He was just accompanying King Jing.
Speaking of the banquet, he remembered a banquet held by King Jing’s residence not long after the start of the novel. It was at the banquet that King Jing met the other male protagonist in the novel, the Little Concubine in the novel, The Tyrant and the Little Concubine. In the novel’s sappy description, the two people’s fates were entwined from then on.
Although Li Yu was a book crossing fish, after so long, the system had never asked him to participate in the plot of the novel except for giving him strange tasks. After all, the range of activities and the people and things that a pet fish could interact with were very limited. Even if it wanted to do something else, it would not be easy. According to the system, his existence was to change the tyrant’s personality. If he could really do this, the plot would not be too important.
Li Yu did not care much about the plot. It was just that when the Second Prince suddenly did this, he suddenly had a strange thought in his mind. Could it be that the banquet in the novel was the one that the Second Prince was holding now?
According to King Jing’s temper, he would never hold a banquet like this again. The novel also did not mention the reason for the banquet held by King Jing’s residence. In other words, there was no contradiction, and it could be roughly matched.
Li Yu’s fish scales were about to stand up. Could it be that King Jing was going to meet his destined lover — the Little Concubine?
This … was inevitable. After all, this was the world of the novel. One of the protagonists was on top, while the other was on the bottom. No matter how entangled the process was, they should be together. This book was about King Jing and the Little Concubine. Didn’t he already know about it?
It was just a pet fish. There was no need to think too much about it.
Li Yu shook his head and tried to make himself not care. He went to play with the pearls in the fish tank. Perhaps he had played with too many pearls, so he was a little uninterested.
The Emperor’s imperial edict had already been sent out.
The younger Seventh Prince and Eighth Prince were still young and were still being raised in the palace. When they heard that King Jing was holding a banquet, they couldn’t wait to leave the palace to play.
The other two adult princes were much calmer. The Third Prince and the Sixth Prince both said that since it was rare for brothers to gather, they would prepare a big gift. The Third Prince, Mu Tianming, even took the initiative to suggest bringing some servants who were good at singing and dancing to King Jing’s residence. He wanted to have more fun.
The Emperor was happy to see his sons being friendly and respectful to each other, so he agreed on behalf of King Jing.
Although King Jing did not need to worry about the banquet, Wang Xi still kept an eye on it for his master. Li Yu listened to the talkative Eunuch Wang’s incessant nagging. After a moment of silence, he sank to the bottom of the fish tank and did not want to swim.
The Third Prince’s suggestion was basically the plot of the original novel. This was because the Concubine Xiao was one of the “servants who were good at singing and dancing” that the Third Prince had brought along. She was exceptionally graceful. King Jing had seen the Concubine Xiao perform before, and he had taken a fancy to her after catching a glimpse of her.
However, Concubine Xiao was actually one of the Third Prince’s people. Most of the book did not like King Jing. King Jing had only fallen in love once in his life. He was a high and mighty tyrant who couldn’t get what he wanted. He was thwarted everywhere and almost lost his life.
It was really an old-fashioned “I love you, but you don’t love me. Even so, I still love you.” It was said that many readers liked this type of novel.
How could it be like this? Why did it always want to abuse King Jing?
When he read the novel, he didn’t think much of it because he was just a character in the novel.
Now, King Jing was a real person. He was very familiar with King Jing and had seen many unknown sides of King Jing. He probably thought that King Jing was his real master. Li Yu was very angry. He was even angrier than when he was abused.
The unhappy little carp viciously threw a tantrum at the pearl in the fish tank. In the end, he thought dejectedly, even if he was angry, what could he do? After all, the one who liked Concubine Xiao was King Jing, and he was just a pet fish …
Maybe one day, Concubine Xiao would become his second master. He would also need to please his second master just like how he fawned on King Jing. Then, he would live with his second master.
This …. Just thinking about it made him somewhat unable to bear it. He suddenly understood the sense of loss that other pets felt when their owners fell in love.
In the past, the owners loved their pets very much. Later on, they ignored their pets. If the second master and the pet got along well, then it was fine. But if the second master and the pet did not get along well, would the master do anything to the second master?
No, the master would definitely only get rid of the pet.
Li Yu laughed coldly. He would never fall to such a state. If King Jing wanted to go through the plot, then go through the plot. Anyway, he, a fish, couldn’t resist the wheels of the plot. Then, he should do something that he could, right?
King Jing’s mansion held a banquet and people came and went. King Jing was busy meeting Concubine Xiao and did not care about him. Then, he didn’t have to worry. He transformed into his human form and did everything that he wanted to do!
