Our Binding Love: My Gentle Tyrant
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Live or Die

After Lin Zhizhao ran for a good many steps, he finally snapped back and found himself here. The barely discernible singing vanished, and there was only the ring of swamp.

Lin Zhizhao was sinking quickly. He held the corpse and wanted to turn around, but couldn’t.

“Don’t move!” Ye Mu hurriedly stopped him. This kind of swamp, the more one moved, the faster they sank. “I can save you, don’t panic!”

This cave looked very humid, Ye Mu went to the side and brushed it, and she could feel the water seepage. It was clear that this area was not far from the groundwater. What the hell was down here was still hard to say.

She thought of something, and her eyes suddenly brightened. She said, “Throw the corpse here, quick!”

But Lin Zhizhao didn’t move as he hugged it.

“It’s useless, I can’t get out. Ye-xiaojie, thank you for saving me several times. I might just die here now with my mother.”

At the thought of his mother in his arms, even if he was stuck in the swamp, Lin Zhizhao felt very safe. This feeling was like that year, the same when he heard his mother’s singing for him behind the stone wall. He was scared of the dark, and then he wasn’t.

Ye Mu was irritated. “If I said I can save you then I can. Listen to me, throw the corpse here. I assure you it’ll be okay.”

“No.” Lin Zhizhao tightly hugged the bundle. “Ye-xiaojie, you don’t have to waste your strength. Being stuck in the swamp, I can’t get out alive. Besides, I lied to you. I can’t see purple qi, I can only see death qi. And just a while ago in the mirror, my face lingered with death qi. This is my ending, I can finally die together with my mother.”

Ye Mu was so angered to death!

“Fuck death qi! What won’t die? Try doing as I say and you won’t be at a loss! I said I can save you, so I definitely can! Hurry up!”

Lin Zhizhao was startled by her fury, and then subconsciously held the corpse tightly in his embrace. But at this moment, his lower legs already sank below the swamp. In this situation, can he still be saved?

Ye Mu said, “Don’t worry, if I can’t save you, I’ll definitely place your mother’s corpse together with you. Now, hurry up!”

Hearing this, Lin Zhizhao finally made up his mind and threw the corpse over. After Ye Mu caught it, she said very quickly, “Now, slowly lean back and lie down.”

Lin Zhizhao was dumbfounded. Wouldn’t that be a quicker death?

Seeing him not moving, Ye Mu was impatient. “Hurry, I’m seriously saving you!”

Lin Zhizhao thought in his heart, he was dying anyway, what was he scared of? And at this moment, he heard Ye Mu say, “Move slowly, a little lightly, and lie down.”

Her voice was very light, very calm, and also very earnest. “I hope you know, as long as you believe you can survive, you can do it. Your eyes may really be able to see the unusual, but maybe, showing you these is not to let you just be a bystander, but rather to let you try to change it!”

Lin Zhizhao’s heart trembled. He did as she said and reclined. Then, he asked, “Then what about you? Has your fate changed? I can see you’re not someone of this world, you might definitely die.”

Ye Mu was very tranquil. “Granted that I’ll die, it ought to be my decision. Granted that I’ll die, I will not have any remaining regret. I know my fate well. If it can’t change, it has to!”

Lin Zhizhao completely calmed down. He lied on the swamp, taking his legs out with effort. Hearing the silt slowly flowing under him, he said, “If I die, remember to let us be together*.”

*literally translated as “to be one meat”

But at this moment, Ye Mu said, “If you die, I’ll toss your mother’s corpse outside, exposed to the wilds!”

“You!”

Ye Mu cut him off, “Before your mother died, what she was most glad of should be that you’re alive. But right now, you keep thinking you’ll die. Having a son like this, I think your mother wouldn’t want to know you, so I’m not burying you together with her.”

Lin Zhizhao was originally irritated, but hearing Ye Mu’s words, he suddenly laughed. He laughed as he felt his own body slowly sinking, but he had never felt so light before.

He always thought, being able to see those darkness was maybe a curse because, at that time, he fled by himself, so God cursed him.

To let him see death and feel everyone’s despair.

But right now, he thought, maybe this was a granted by his mother? When she wasn’t at his side, she wished for him to avoid danger. After all, at that time, she kept urging him to live. She really wished for him to live.

“Thank you, Ye-xiaojie. Once we’re out, I’ll treat you to a drink.”

Hearing him say that, Ye Mu relaxed. “Alright, let’s see after we go out! Now use your hands to slowly swim, and then use your legs to pedal over to my side. Remember, move slowly. Keep your body straight as best as you can. Don’t be scared, if something happens, I’ll definitely save you before you drown.”

Lin Zhizhao did as he was told, but in the process, he couldn’t refrain from asking, “From the way I’ve treated you, you’re still helping me. Why?”

He thought Ye Mu would use the opportunity to say something pretentious, to gain his trust, but Ye Mu said instead with a smile, “Who told you to remember the map? So that I can escape as early as possible, I can only save you.”

She deliberately spoke with a pitiful tone, making Lin Zhizhao smile gloomily. “Alright, this master guarantees to bring you out for sure.”

He worked on his side, and Ye Mu undid her own belt, directly throwing it over. Lin Zhizhao struggled for a long time, slowly moving out. At last, he caught Ye Mu’s belt.

Ye Mu was pleased and directly pulled him out. Her strength was powerful, and her speed was quick. Lin Zhizhao watched as he was dragged out of the place he almost died at. The feeling was similar to being resurrected alive.

“How’s that? Didn’t lie to you, did I?!” Ye Mu smiled, patting his shoulder.

Lin Zhizhao looked behind him, sitting on the ground, and looked again at the squatting Ye Mu in front of him, then also smiled. When he wanted to speak, his mouth open, he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.

Seeing him like that, Ye Mu was also shocked. What’s going on? Why’s he suddenly spitting blood?!

Lin Zhizhao looked at his own hands, and saw bluish-purple color appearing on his hands. If he didn’t guess wrong, the swamp was poisonous!

And the poison was really strong. Lin Zhizhao only came into contact with it and the poison was already slowly seeping into his body. Ye Mu stretched out her hand, but was stopped by him!

“Don’t touch me! I’m poisoned, if you touch me you’ll also be poisoned!”

Ye Mu glanced at the swamp. She didn’t expect this trap to be so sinister.

Lin Zhizhao looked at his own hands, and there was a deep sense of defeat. So, he still couldn’t escape his fate? He was doomed to die here, unable to escape?

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