Chapter 36
King Jing did not know why he had such feelings for Xiaoyu. He had only met Xiaoyu a few times in the past, and their conversations were even rarer. In the beginning, he was only curious about the boy who had escaped from his clutches, but he did not care about him that much. However, after the boy saved him and he found out that he was Xiaoyu, the boy who had accompanied him day and night, he could not help but care about him.
Regardless of whether he was a human or a fish, he was willing to treat him with sincerity.
King Jing hid and secretly spied on Xiaoyu. Gradually, he discovered many of Xiaoyu’s secrets.
Xiaoyu loved to eat. He realized this from the peach blossom biscuits. He had been teasing Xiaoyu with delicious food over the past few days. He watched as Xiaoyu secretly transformed just for a bite of food. However, Xiaoyu could only transform once a day. No matter how much time he gave Xiaoyu, Xiaoyu would transform back into his original form after about two hours. Once he transformed back, he would not transform again no matter how delicious the food was. However, Xiaoyu seemed reluctant to part with him. It was not that he did not want to transform, but that he could not.
King Jing deduced that this fish could only transform once a day, and it could only transform for two hours at a time.
King Jing, who had come to this conclusion, was rather depressed. The carp spirit could transform for food, but he would never take the initiative to meet him. King Jing recalled the first time he had seen Xiaoyu in human form. It seemed that Xiaoyu had also wanted to go to the kitchen to eat. If his eyes had not been injured by thieves, Xiaoyu would not have transformed to save him. After all, even the letter he sent to Ye Qinghuan was delivered through Xiong Feng.
King Jing, who suddenly realized that in the fish’s eyes, he might not even be worth a piece of dessert or a bowl of rice.
However, this heartless fish had not realized that his true identity had been exposed. In order to hide it from him, he carefully cleaned up the mess.
Through the bronze mirror, King Jing saw the fish rearranging the desserts that he had messed up.
The peels and paper scraps were scattered in inconspicuous corners. The carp spirit was very smart and alert. He rarely ate fresh fruits that were difficult to clean up. Most of the time, he would eat small desserts that could be stuffed into his stomach.
Xiao Yu was obviously trying to hide it from him. She was still staying by his side. If she realized that he already knew about it, she might run away again. Thinking about the fish’s methods, although there were always loopholes, it was easy to be fooled if one was not careful. King Jing himself had been fooled by her before, and he felt sorry for her. He was glad that Xiaoyu did not remember anything after he woke up. If he remembered even a little, he might not be able to find him.
After much deliberation, King Jing still decided to suppress his desire to reunite with Xiaoyu. He continued to bide his time.
He and Xiaoyu needed an opportunity. It would be best if this opportunity could ensure that Xiaoyu would never leave. Otherwise, he could not act rashly and scare Xiaoyu away.
In the storybooks that Ye Qinghuan gave him, he always mentioned that humans and demons were different. King Jing did not like this sentence. People were different. He was not a weak scholar. Xiaoyu was also a fish that he had always kept by his side. He would not allow them to go their separate ways.
However, he still knew very little about demons and carp spirits.
King Jing had specially ordered his men to search for some books on spiritual monsters and cultivation.
He wanted to know more about the carp spirit. For example, he still did not know what kind of bucket Xiaoyu was playing with when he was drunk. Also, King Jing did not know whether the carp spirit was going to pass the tribulation or not. It was not enough to just look at the storybooks that Ye Qinghuan gave him.
Soon, his confidant found some ancient books that were said to be very useful for King Jing. King Jing decided to read them.
He had been “very busy” for the past few days. He left early and returned late. When he came back, he buried his head in books. His fish pet, who had not seen him for a long time, was dissatisfied.
Li Yu swam around in the crystal fish tank. He had a wicked idea. He wondered what book King Jing was reading this time. If he was reading a romantic novel, he wanted to read it too. Master’s good things should be shared. How could he leave out his fish pet?
After Li Yu’s fish body grew bigger, the teacup that was prepared for him to jump in was also a size bigger. When he jumped in, he would splash a lot of water.
He had just jumped out when King Jing noticed him. When he saw the Carp Spirit leaping over with a splash of water, he knew that Xiaoyu was in the mood. King Jing snickered to himself. He quickly held his book and pretended to be focused.
Li Yu quickly jumped onto the table. The petal-shaped teacup that he usually squatted on had also been changed. It was now in the shape of a whole lotus. It was more than twice as big as before.
This lotus was carved out of red jade by King Jing’s craftsmen. Under the sunlight, it shone brightly and vividly. The little carp stayed in the lotus as if it was on a red lotus. Since King Jing realized that this fish had an inexplicable obsession with green leaves, he asked the craftsmen to embed a circle of lotus leaves at the bottom of the lotus. It was very lifelike. The little carp immediately fell in love with it.
Because it was not the first time that they had read a book together, Li Yu was not afraid of strangers. He swam to the side of the teacup and tried to stretch his fish head to look at the book that King Jing was flipping. This book looked very old. A few pages were about to fall off. Li Yu guessed that this book was probably older than King Jing. He wondered which thousand-year-old demon was writing about.
When the carp spirit stretched his head out to look, King Jing also noticed. He simply picked up the lotus with the fish and placed it in front of his eyes, facing the book. Just like that. The fish could easily see it.
And if he directly transformed from this position, he would definitely be surrounded.
King Jing couldn’t help but look forward to it. With a faint joy that no one else knew, he started to read with the fish again.
King Jing’s attitude this time was very straightforward. Li Yu was also very happy. He thought that he could finally see the glory of the ancient eighteen forbidden books. But after reading for a long time, Li Yu still couldn’t understand a single line of words. It was too hard to pronounce.
The flustered and exasperated little carp realized that he had been tricked! This was not a book at all. It wasn’t even a military book or a travelogue. This, this, this, this was actually a book about cultivation!
Didn’t the System say that the male protagonist’s halo would not be affected and King Jing could still be the emperor? Why was King Jing reading a book about cultivation? Could it be that King Jing didn’t want to be the emperor and wanted to become an immortal as the male protagonist of a court novel?
This was too difficult. After all, he had never read immortal novels!
Li Yu was a little anxious. He secretly glanced at King Jing. He was afraid that King Jing would really change his mind and become an immortal. King Jing’s expression was solemn. He was reading very seriously, unlike Li Yu who couldn’t understand anything. Although King Jing was mute, he was quite talented. He could read immortal novels very quickly and seemed to understand something.
If he continued reading, he was afraid that his Highness would ascend to heaven.
Li Yu secretly splashed some water on the book. He had to quickly dispel King Jing’s idea of becoming an immortal. Immortal cultivation was too difficult. It was tiring and there was nothing to eat. If things went wrong, he might even die. Tyrant Master, please don’t become an immortal cultivator.
The ancient book that he had bought with a lot of money was splashed with water. King Jing helplessly glanced at the angry fish. Was it that the fish, who had become a spirit for a long time, was unwilling to read books that were too simple?
King Jing then changed to a more profound book.
Li Yu was about to wag his tail proudly because he had defeated the immortal cultivation novel when he realized that King Jing had quickly changed to another book. This time, he was reading – A Collection of Pill Refinement?
Li Yu: You can’t eat pills casually. You can’t read books casually either!
Li Yu flopped around and almost wet all of King Jing’s ancient books.
King Jing’s face darkened and he showed the last book.
Li Yu took a look. It was a dual cultivation book!
Dual – dual cultivation??
Li Yu’s eyes widened. This was too much of a test for him. Even if he hadn’t read immortal cultivation novels, who didn’t know the meaning of dual cultivation?
The corners of this book were almost worn out. It must be very profound. But dual cultivation??
Little Carp was in a dilemma. In the end, he leaned his head over. Oh, there’s such a book? I want to read it too!
King Jing’s expression changed slightly. Little Carp really wanted to dual cultivate with him!
But why wasn’t he cultivating it yet?
“Your Highness,” Wang Xi called softly from outside the room.
Little Carp rolled the book into a jade scroll. King Jing let go of his hand that was fighting with the fish for the book and lightly shook the jade bell.
When Wang Xi pushed the door open and entered, little Carp had already slid back into the lotus cup. Wang Xi didn’t see anything.
