Our Binding Love: My Gentle Tyrant
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Schemes from All Sides

That time, he was bound in the carriage. Seeing the mountain growing further and further away, tears of blood* stayed in his eyes. From then on, he vaguely could see something others couldn’t see.

*to show extreme suffering

When Lin Zhizhao finished talking, Ye Mu’s heart felt a little heavy. Having met such a man, she really married to a bad husband.

Lin Zhizhao knelt before the corpse, performing three loud kowtows.

“Mother, I’m an unfilial son, I’m a useless son. I couldn’t save you.”

The corpse rolled up in the corner, unmoving. It tightly curled up into a ball, maintaining the position even if it had turned into bones. Who knew what she felt prior to her death, alone in the dark by herself, walking from the map’s first half section to the last half. She must have thought to find the way out herself.

But she failed, and was tired and hungry. Maybe she was also sleepy, and then suffered in despair, sleeping here for a long time, never opening her eyes again.

After Lin Zhizhao had recomposed himself, Ye Mu took off her robe. “Here, we have to hurry. Bring your mother’s remains, since you’ve met her now, she can be buried in peace after we go out.”

Lin Zhizhao suddenly looked at Ye Mu, his eyes red. He didn’t reject her kindness and gathered the bones.

Afterward, they continued walking.

Seeing Lin Zhizhao’s mood was almost sorted, Ye Mu asked, “So what happened after that? You didn’t come back here?”

Lin Zhizhao’s smile was wry. “I did, of course. I came down more than once, but because I was afraid that the tunnels would change and I can’t go out, every time I’d use different doors and go down for one shichen. Besides the main door here, which is the door we came in, I’ve gone to the other six doors.”

Ye Mu pursed her lips. No wonder there was no trace of anyone stepping into the main door.

“Then, right now you’re still working for your father, and he wants to be the emperor, so he made you come here and lie to Mo Linyuan?”

Lin Zhizhao coldly smiled. “All his life he couldn’t have the life of an emperor, how could he be one?”

He hugged the corpse, gnashing his teeth. “That time, the feng shui master pointed to the wrong direction. My father lost hope, but he still thought, by using feng shui, there would be a day when the real treasure is found, so he made me study with the feng shui master.

“Although I felt grateful he saved me, I also hated him for not saving my mother, even though I knew he also couldn’t help. After all, he was just an old man, and even my mother’s kung fu couldn’t break that wall.

“I really hated it, and I also hated my father. I refused to learn feng shui, so I actually don’t understand it.”

“Then who are you working for now?”

Lin Zhizhao said with a faint smile, “After my father got a Qi deficiency, soon after, I was expelled from my teacher’s home. Later, it was the people of Yan Country who found me.”

“Yan Country?” Ye Mu thought it was strange. “I remember Yan Country is far from here, and is Zhao Country’s neighbor. How did they find you?”

She vaguely felt this matter was quite big. It originally was only a competition between the two neighboring countries. Now that Yan Country was involved, it became more complicated.

Lin Zhizhao faintly smiled. “It’s not hard to understand. A friend who’s far attacks close. Yan Country has always wanted to attack Zhao Country, but his strength is not a match for Zhao Country. So he hopes the more powerful Mo Country can go to war against Zhao Country first.

“I can clarify for you, Zhao Country’s people have already come. This time, Yan Country’s purpose is very clear. They want you dead, and then place the blame on Zhao Country.”

For a while, Ye Mu was unable to fathom the complicated relations between the countries. In the end, she frowned.

“Is Yan Country not worried that Mo Country will find the treasure first? Until then, Zhao Country will not dare to fight against Mo Country.”

Lin Zhizhao scoffed. “Treasure? Who’s seen it? Yan Country doesn’t believe in the treasure. What they’re pursuing is only the benefits in front of their eyes, that’s all.”

Ye Mu couldn’t help but ask, “Then what about you? What will you gain being involved?

Lin Zhizhao faintly smiled, shrugging. “I don’t gain anything. It’s just that my father is in Zhao Country and was granted a high position, and I don’t like it. I want him to die and accompany my mother.”

When he said these words, his eyes glinted with malice. Ye Mu was prejudiced against his expression, shaking her head.

“Your evil tendencies are overwhelming you. Look at your face now. If your mother were still here, she might not recognize you.”

Saying this, Ye Mu effortlessly lifted the mirror hanging from Lin Zhizhao’s neck, letting him see himself. Who would have thought, when Lin Zhizhao saw his reflection in the mirror, he became dumbfounded.

“What’s the matter?” Ye Mu turned the mirror over and found that there was nothing at all, only the very clear glass of the colored glaze mirror.

Lin Zhizhao pressed his lips together, and suddenly said, “Let’s hurry and go out, I don’t want to stay here any longer!”

His sudden eagerness made Ye Mu befuddled, but going out earlier is also good, and she also didn’t want to stay here.

But before they could walk far, suddenly, a barely discernible singing came out from the darkness.

Ye Mu was still processing what this sound was, but Lin Zhizhao suddenly widened his eyes!

This is—this is—!

He looked down at the skeletal remains he was embracing. It was his mother’s voice.

Mother, she’s still here?

Seeing Lin Zhizhao start running toward the voice, Ye Mu immediately reached out to grab him but only grabbed empty air!

“It’s her voice, it’s her voice, she’s still here!”

Although Lin Zhizhao knew his mother had died many years ago, the many years of remorse made him chase the sound with no second thoughts. Even if it was a ghost, he still wanted to see her and tell her he was sorry! That day, he shouldn’t have left. He should’ve stayed and accompanied her, so that her last moments were not crammed in darkness, and so that she wouldn’t die alone and hopeless.

“Mum?!”

“Wait!” Ye Mu grabbed him. “You’re out of your mind! You’re holding your mother’s remains in your arms, where are you trying to find her?”

Lin Zhizhao was stirred up. “Let go of me! It’s definitely because she couldn’t leave me. I want to find her, tell her that I’m looking for her, I’m seriously looking for her, that I’m not abandoning her!”

“Wake up!” Ye Mu held a tight grip on him. “There’s an echo of stone, the mechanism might be able to record sound, don’t get deceived by it! It’s definitely a trap over there!”

“Even if it’s a trap I still want to go!” Lin Zhizhao said and bit Ye Mu hard. Ye Mu gasped and loosened her hold, and Lin Zhizhao was already out of sight.

At the thought of the path behind her, Ye Mu gritted her teeth and gave chase. After a second, a rotten smell floated over. She hurriedly halted her steps, and unexpectedly found a swamp in front of her.

And Lin Zhizhao was dumbstruck, stuck in the middle of the swamp, carefully holding the skeletal remains. He brazenly looked at her. There wasn’t any leverage here, how could she save him?

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