Our Binding Love: My Gentle Tyrant
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He’s going to die? He’ll die just like this? He can’t believe it, how could he die?!

As the huge stone drew near, Lin Zhizhao had many thoughts. But in the end, it turned blank.

He had struggled for so long, yet he was still going to die. What were his previous efforts for?

He shut his eyes, but as he was waiting for his death, a figure suddenly came rushing in a flash, appearing in front of him. Then, the rolling stone that was close to crushing him to death was blocked by Ye Mu!

A muffled sound was heard! Ye Mu fell a few steps back from the force of the rolling stone. Her feet dug into the bluestone slab, and finally the rolling stone gradually stopped.

“Your expression is really interesting.” She panted. “You’re closing your eyes, do you think you’re dead?”

“Ye Mu?!”

Lin Zhizhao opened his eyes, stunned to see her! In the dim light, he could only make out a shadow, but this shadow suddenly made him feel at ease!

It’s really Ye Mu. He didn’t die, he survived!

He hurriedly got up and picked up the luminous pearl, tightly clutching it.

Ye Mu wasn’t in a comfortable position to move. She should be glad that although the ground was sloping here, it wasn’t too steep, so it wasn’t too strenuous to stop this rolling stone. She spoke to Lin Zhizhao who was on one side. “Why are you still not moving? Go down, and then go a few steps to the left. There are stones there, pick two of them up and bring them here to wedge them under this stone to resist it!”

At this moment, Lin Zhizhao had lost his own judgement. He hastily left after listening. He staggered downward, and then turned to the left. Sure enough, he saw there was one fork in front that was sealed by Ye Mu.

The stones rolled all over the ground from big to small.

No wonder she wantonly destroyed the place like this, it forced him to find her in the end. After all, it was hard for her to go out, but it was easy for her to keep him from going out. She just needed to use qinggong* to run until she was in front of him and block a few paths.

*Qing Gong (also spelled Ching Gung) is a qigong / martial arts technique for making the body extremely light in weight, by altering the distribution and flow of qi.

Retrieved from: https://www.learnreligions.com/qing-gong-3183115

So Lin Zhizhao gazed at the crushed stones before his eyes, not moving.

Ye Mu’s voice rang out, “Hurry, I don’t have any more strength.”

Lin Zhizhao listened, and in his heart thought, if he made Ye Mu hold up the huge stone, no one would be able to carry out the destruction, right? He remembered the whole map, so maybe, if there was no Ye Mu, he could go out!

Thinking like this, he ran away to the only path that wasn’t destroyed.

Ye Mu heard Lin Zhizhao’s footsteps that grew distant and heaved a sigh while shaking her head. He still didn’t learn.

She rescued Lin Zhizhao because she thought he could be useful. Who would have thought he would return her kindness with ingratitude?

Ye Mu had a headache looking at the rolling stone in front of her, and then pushed it step by step, slowly moving backward.

Beads of sweat glistened on her forehead. Every step under her feet would break the slabstone. Using this speed, after very carefully retreating more than ten meters, she suddenly roared a shout, pushed the huge stone with full strength, and then her whole person fell over to the left fork!

She pushed the huge stone to a halt, and when it rolled downward, Ye Mu was already in the other fork.

Ye Mu got up and patted the dust on her body. Hearing the rumbles of the rolling stone colliding against the wall, she went forward without looking back.

She came back to save Lin Zhizhao because after running toward the end of the map, she discovered it was only half of the map. The path behind was definitely even more complex. Even if she had a lifetime of internal energy, it would still be impossible to use brute force to break out. Maybe before she could even go out, she would have used up her internal energy and only could wait for death.

But Lin Zhizhao was different. Since he dared to run, he definitely knew the whole map. If he led the way, even if this underground constantly changed, there was no need to be afraid. After all, its changes were only the blocking and clearing of the path. The original underground terrain didn’t change. As long as she knew the whole map, then if she encountered a blocked path she could just instantly blast it away. So in order to save time, this Lin Zhizhao still couldn’t die.

After Lin Zhizhao ran out, he repeatedly looked back. Although he thought the huge stone could stop Ye Mu for a while, it surely wouldn’t hold her back for long. He ran away just like that, if he got caught by Ye Mu, she would definitely kill him!

So he ran very fast following the map in his mind. He ran until he arrived at a completely unfamiliar surroundings. Originally, he didn’t need to run until this deep! The deeper he went, the more dangerous it was. He was really scared to be killed by Ye Mu!

After a while, the way out in front was already blocked by the stone door. Angry, Lin Zhizhao hammered at the door. As long as he passed through here, he could arrive outside. Too bad, the changes of the underground wasn’t something he could control. He also didn’t have the strength to break open this door. So he had no choice but to continue downward.

He had memorized all the paths here, but never walked through them, so his forehead was covered with cold sweat, especially in the several following occasions, the way out from his memory kept being blocked by the mechanism! He gnashed his teeth and ran madly with full strength. Finally, he was out of the underground maze!

In front of him appeared a mountain cliff!

Lin Zhizhao didn’t think he had walked so far! This underground was divided into two sections. It looked like he had walked half of it already. Seeing the suspension bridge on the cliff, he hesitated.

Although he remembered the paths behind him, it was still even more mysterious to him. How could he be sure those mechanisms wouldn’t trap him inside forever because of a mistake?

But right now wasn’t the time to think too much, Ye Mu would catch up to him soon. If he didn’t want to be killed by her, he just needed to cross the bridge and destroy it!

No matter how good a person’s qing gong was, they still needed to use some strength. As long as he destroyed this bridge after going across, Ye Mu would not be able to catch him.

And the underground palace had almost been destroyed by Ye Mu. If she wanted to turn back, it was impossible!

So he still had a chance.

Lin Zhizhao thought so and directly went to that suspension bridge. He didn’t know how many years this suspension bridge had existed. He took a step and there was a creak, and what Lin Zhizhao didn’t tell anyone was, he was scared of heights.

Every time he was in a high place, his feet would go weak. And this time, he looked at the darkness below the overhanging cliff. Although he was obviously walking on the suspension bridge, he felt like he was walking on a tightrope.

The bridge kept on shaking, giving out “creak, creak*” sound. His feet trembled, and at this moment, he suddenly saw at the end of the suspension bridge, there was a woman in white sitting with her back toward him.

*onomatopoeia for creaking noise: ge zhi, ge zhi

When did that woman appear?! She definitely wasn’t there before!

His mouth suddenly dried, hands and feet even more sluggish. Standing on the bridge, he no longer dared to move!

Behind the bridge, there was Ye Mu who would most likely kill him. And in front, was the unmoving figure of someone’s back to him. With the sudden appearance of the woman’s back, what was he supposed to do?!

While he was hesitating, a cold wind blew, and, slowly, the sitting back view of the woman turned to his direction.