Chapter 62
This was probably the longest kiss. Li Yu regretted it halfway through. After all, he had just started to think that he liked Prince Jing. It was not like he had agreed to be with him. He could not kiss until he was out of breath at the first sign of affection.
But several times he wanted to stop, the man holding him would smile and kiss him. He had never seen him smile so happily before. It was because this was the first time that he did not push him away and accepted his kiss.
The other party closed his eyes and his eyelashes trembled slightly. It was as if there were little hooks that kept tickling his heart. After the kiss, it was as if the door of his heart had been knocked open. Countless throbbing and sweetness flowed out. He felt that he liked King Jing. Yes, this kind of passionate emotion, other than like, what else could it be?
Li Yu’s heart trembled for a moment and he suddenly thought it through.
It turned out that he liked him. He blamed himself for not realizing it and not understanding his own heart.
Li Yu’s eyes were a little wet. His fingers trembled as he touched King Jing’s lips.
The kiss stopped. King Jing turned around and kissed Chu Li’s finger sincerely. He then moved Chu Li’s hand to his neck. Previously, he was the one hugging him. Now, it was them hugging each other.
King Jing gently wrapped his arms around the thin waist of the person in his arms. After hesitating for a moment, he decided not to touch the beads on the youth’s waist for the time being.
The whole world quieted down. Only this small space in the carriage was enough for the two of them to kiss.
The galloping horse had unknowingly stopped. A moment of tenderness was not enough.
“Ah!” Li Yu suddenly let out a soft cry. The countdown timer for his transformation had exploded in his mind at this moment.
It was too late. Retreat immediately!
Li Yu was still pouting just now. He was reluctant to part with King Jing. In an instant, he pushed King Jing away and pulled away his hand that was holding the beads. He glared at King Jing angrily.
But the words that came out of his mouth were not very imposing.
“I, I still have something to do. I have to leave immediately. Next time, no, I will talk to you tomorrow!”
Li Yu panicked and wanted to jump out of the car. King Jing realized that Xiaoyu was about to transform, but …
King Jing quickly glanced at the crystal bottle beside him. The carp demon’s poison was quietly floating inside.
But with the crystal bottle here, where else could Xiao Yu go?
He could not let the Carp Spirit get dizzy and change back outside! King Jing decisively held Li Yu down. Seeing that the fish was still confused, King Jing knew that Li Yu was still not ready to confess. However, he was satisfied that he could get a kiss from Xiaoyu.
King Jing gently patted Li Yu’s shoulder, pointed at himself, and then pointed outside the carriage.
Soon after, he alighted from the carriage!
Eunuch Wang, who was waiting outside the carriage, received his master’s gaze and loudly explained on behalf of his master, “His Highness has urgent matters to attend to and must immediately return. The carriage and fish will be handed over to the young master to take care of.”
“… Okay.”
It turned out that King Jing also had to leave. In this way, he could stay in the carriage.
Time was of the essence. Li Yu did not have the time to think too much. He quickly responded. As he watched King Jing’s silhouette disappear into the distance, Li Yu paused for a moment. A courage that even he did not expect gathered in his chest. He shouted at King Jing, *Your Highness, I-I wasn’t angry just now!”
King Jing was shocked when he heard this. He turned around and smiled at him.
Li Yu waved his hand carelessly, lowered the curtain, and twisted the cap of the crystal bottle.
Almost in the next moment, he turned back into a fish.
It was too dangerous. He almost lost it!
Li Yu nimbly put the new clothes and fish pillow that had fallen on the ground into his portable space. After doing this, he was about to jump into the crystal bottle when a hairpin rolled to his side.
The hairpin that King Jing bought for him could not be lost!
This was a gift. Li Yu could not bear to accept it immediately. He held the hairpin in his mouth and jumped into the crystal bottle with the hairpin.
After entering the water, he wrapped the hairpin with his fish body and rubbed his fish mouth against it happily. There was also a fish at the end of the hairpin. It was as cute as him. When he got the hairpin, he did not have time to play with it. In fact, he missed it very much.
Li Yu played with the hairpin for a while before putting it into his portable space. Next, he should think about the matter between him and King Jing.
In this life, the most unexpected thing was that he liked King Jing. Although Li Yu’s reaction was a little slow, once he figured out his feelings, he felt as if a big stone that had been weighing on his heart for the past few days had been lifted.
After the extreme struggle, he felt comfortable all over. It turned out that all his abnormalities were because he also liked King Jing.
Li Yu laughed foolishly when he realized that this fact was a little sweet. It was so sweet that the fish spat out a long string of bubbles. There was nothing else to play with in the crystal bottle, and there was no rockery for him to play with. The fish could only excitedly spin around a few times and almost break through the crystal bottle.
No, no, no, he should not think about this. Li Yu quickly stopped himself.
Now that he had fallen in love with King Jing, what should he do next?
Because he had been thinking about how King Jing could like him, he did not really think about it.
He just thought that the two of them were too different and that it was impossible for them to be together.
After all, he was a fish and King Jing was a human. He was a book transmigrator and King Jing was a character in the book.
Li Yu still remembered the various reasons that he had given himself. When he looked at them again, weren’t these the stumbling blocks in his love life?
He had originally used these reasons to convince himself that they were not suitable for each other and that there were countless risks involved.
If he really decided to be together with King Jing, he would no longer be a bystander in the book world, but a participant, a part of it.
This meant that he had to completely integrate into the world of the book and into King Jing’s life.
But deep down, he was a modern person. There were many things that he had a different view from King Jing. It was very likely that they would argue and perhaps even quarrel.
Most modern people understood that feelings were feelings, but liking someone did not necessarily mean that they would be together forever. Because of the human heart, environment, and society, whether a relationship was happy or miserable depended on too many factors. It was not something that could be completely overcome by liking someone.
When people in modern times were in a relationship, if they were not suitable for each other, they would break up at the right time. But if he integrated into King Jing’s life, it would no longer be up to him.
In the ancient world, the ruler was the one who meant what he said. His life would be handed over to King Jing and he would be branded with King Jing’s brand. They were in love now, but if there came a day when they were not suitable for each other, he would not be able to escape unscathed, and there would be no way out.
He knew and understood that these were all reasons to stop him. There were ten thousand reasons in front of him that wanted him to stop. But if he wanted to continue walking towards King Jing – just one reason was enough.
They were in love with each other and liked each other.
Li Yu remembered that in modern times, he had heard someone say that in one’s life, if you could meet someone who liked you and you liked them at the same time, you would be very lucky.
He was a teenager who had just experienced the first awakening of love. This was the first person he liked. He really could not give up when he had just realized and tasted love.
“Young Master Li, Young Master Li!”
Li Yu had transformed for quite a while. Wang Xi followed King Jing’s instructions and waited for the time it took to drink a cup of tea before coming to help Li Yu.
But it was obvious that Young Master Li would not respond.
Wang Xi lifted the curtain and saw the crystal bottle placed neatly in the carriage. Next to the crystal bottle was a letter.
Wang Xi picked it up and glanced at it. “Young Master Li, did you leave again?”
Li Yu always left after transforming. He was afraid that he would be suspected if he stayed for too long. This time, he specially prepared a leave of absence before he left.
It probably said that he had something urgent to do and had to leave first.
Wang Xi was not surprised. Young Master Li’s letter was also to be given to His Highness. Wang Xi put the letter away and picked up the crystal bottle. He smiled at the little carp in the bottle and said, “Master Little Fish, only this old servant is left. This old servant will take you back now.”
The carriage started moving again. Behind the carriage, only a few feet away, a tall figure rode a horse and followed the carriage, silently guarding the people in the carriage.
Li Yu immediately entered the system as soon as he returned to the residence.
He had not entered the Cute Pet System for a long time. The system was still on the interface when he checked the mission last time.
Li Yu faced the system with mixed feelings. After all, he was the one who did not want to do the mission, and now he was the one who came back to find the system.
System, how can I completely transform into a human? Li Yu asked.
The system replied, “Complete the ‘revitalization’ main mission. The reward for the following main missions is that the host can completely transform back into a human.”
I see.
On one hand, Li Yu was glad that the system was an emotionless system that did not understand awkwardness. It did not ignore him or laugh at him when he was angry. On the other hand, if it was not for the Cute Pet System, he might have become the Imperial Concubine’s Thousand Carp Soup.
Now that he had seen through his own heart, he could not help but admit that even though the various missions he had completed were all designed by the system, he liked King Jing’s feelings.
King Jing’s kindness to him was genuine. He could not deceive himself anymore.
Li Yu: .. Well, it’s fine as long as I can transform back into a human. I … I’d better continue with the main mission.
He liked King Jing, so he would not have any psychological barriers when doing these missions.
He could also completely transform back into a human. Why not?
He did not expect that from a different perspective, a bad thing would become a good thing.
The system asked, “Then does the host want to accept the reward of “Wind, Flower, Snow and Moon’?”
Li Yu was stunned. He immediately remembered that the reward of ‘Wind, Flower, Snow and Moon’ was to receive King Jing’s secret, the Fish Pillow.
He had already received the Fish Pillow in advance. As for King Jing’s secret – did this person have any secrets that he did not know?
When he changed his mindset, he could not help but want to know more about the person he liked.
Li Yu coughed lightly. It was a reward after all. It would be a waste if he did not accept it.
The system popped up an interface in front of him. Li Yu realized that this was actually a multiple choice question in disguise. There were a total of four secrets to choose from. They were all in the shape of small squares. Finally, they were no longer in the system’s usual color series. Instead, they were small and constantly changing scenes.
The first one was a palace. Li Yu found it unfamiliar, so he jumped over.
The second one was a house. Li Yu found it somewhat familiar.
As for the other two, one was a constantly rotating vortex. The last one was a person’s face.
Li Yu was shocked to recognize that it was himself.
King Jing’s secret was related to him?
Then, what else could it be?
Li Yu thought of the pile of Xinyue on the wall of King Jing’s residence. His head was about to explode. He thought to himself that the last secret was no longer a secret to him now.
He felt that this was a rare opportunity and should not waste it. It would be better to read a secret that he might have some impression of, so he chose the second option.
After confirming, Li Yu’s body was suddenly enveloped by a cloud of smoke.
Could it be that he had entered an illusion again?
Li Yu looked around and found that this illusion was different from the one the little fatty had been in before. In the illusion the little fatty had been in, he had the body of a fish. He could swim, and the scenery was very similar to reality. But this time, no matter how he swam, it did not work.
Li Yu understood. Since this was King Jing’s secret, of course he would be a complete bystander.
These were all memories.
The second option’s house was right in front of him. After carefully identifying it, Li Yu cried out involuntarily. Wasn’t this the house where the second prince was trapped?
No wonder he found it familiar!
Soon, he saw King Jing walking over with the crystal bottle.
Li Yu: “…”
Li Yu reacted. This should be when King Jing took him to teach the second prince a lesson. Could there be some secret that he did not know at that time?
Li Yu watched King Jing put the fish pillow into the second prince’s soup bowl again. He was still very happy to watch it again.
He remembered that after King Jing taught the second prince a lesson, he quickly took him away.
Could it be that something happened after that?
Li Yu continued watching. He noticed that King Jing held the crystal bottle in one hand and made a gesture to Wang Xi with the other hand. Then, after King Jing left, Wang Xi led his men and forced the second prince to drink a lot of wine. Taking advantage of the fact that the second prince was unconscious, they pushed the second prince into the pool.
Li Yu: “…”
It turned out that the second prince’s fall into the pool was not an accident. It was King Jing who ordered his men to do it.
The illusion in his memory came to an abrupt end at this point. Li Yu returned to the system again.
The secret was a secret because he did not know. He could understand why King Jing attacked the second prince. After all, the second prince and King Jing had a lot of personal grudges. The second prince even tried to harm the Duke Chengen Residence. However, he was just a fish. King Jing could deal with whoever he wanted. Why did he have to put the fish aside? He could understand that King Jing did not want the fish to see it.
But he clearly used the fish pillow to teach the second prince a lesson, and yet he saw it.
And he, he –
No!
Li Yu suddenly remembered that King Jing had not been a tyrant in front of the fish for a long time.
Thinking about it carefully, King Jing once killed a female assassin and scared the fish. Since then, there seemed to be no more fighting or killing.
Perhaps this was the true meaning of the secret.
He thought that King Jing’s temperament had changed for the better. But in fact, it was not that those things did not happen. King Jing lived in this ancient era and had his own principles and means of doing things. There were some things that he had to do. But because the fish was afraid, he would rather turn everything around underground and give the fish peace.
Li Yu did not know whether to be angry or touched.
