Our Binding Love: My Gentle Tyrant

The Smell of Death

Seeing Ye Mu not speaking for a long while, Lin Zhizhao panicked.
He didn't dare to turn around even more, pulling Ye Mu's shirt.
“What happened? Tell me!”

He pulled a few times, but Ye Mu still didn't move.
Instead, with a shocked voice said, “Don't look back!”

Her voice scared Lin Zhizhao and he wanted to run away at once, but Ye Mu firmly clutched him.
He couldn't run!

“So—so what is it?”

The sound still continued in his ears, the hairs on his body stood, the luminous pearl in his hands was clutched even tighter!

“There's a person's shadow.” Ye Mu's trembling voice reached his ears.
“The shackles in his feet are in his hands, holding a chicken.”

“Chicken?!”

“Yes.
Speaking of it makes me hungry.”

Ye Mu's tone suddenly lightened.
Lin Zhizhao abruptly turned his head, and saw that there was nothing behind him.
There was only the sound of footsteps that continued.
Angry, he shoved Ye Mu hard.
“You purposely scared me!!”

Ye Mu faintly smiled.
“You don't have to be so agitated.
We just came in and you're already frightened, will you still go to the path at the back?”

Lin Zhizhao turned around to go.
“You go yourself! I want to go up!”

Ye Mu's faint voice rang out, “If you want to go up, then go up.
Anyway, we don't know what's the sound coming from behind us.
We'll part here.”

Lin Zhizhao suddenly became alarmed.
Even if he dies, he still doesn't want to go back alone, especially since that strange sound is still behind him.

“Wh-what's the matter with you?” Lin Zhizhao pulled Ye Mu's sleeve as he followed her to walk while looking back from time to time.
“That strange sound, where does it come from?”

Ye Mu calmly said, “Maybe it's some kind of a mechanism.
When it's touched, it gives out this sort of sound to scare certain cowards.”

Lin Zhizhao was both confident and doubtful, and as before kept looking behind.

Ye Mu suddenly laughed.
“You don't have to keep looking back.
You're not scared that when you look back there'll suddenly be the face of a female ghost in front of you?”

“Ah!”

Lin Zhizhao suddenly screamed and hugged Ye Mu tightly! And Ye Mu immediately lifted him away.
Looking at his pale round face, she was puzzled.
 “You're heavy! I'm only 14, do you not feel ashamed seeking protection from me?”

Lin Zhizhao indignantly said, “Then why did you have to scare me?!”

Ye Mu indifferently said, “It's only two of us here.
Who do I talk to if not you? And how would I know you're easily scared? Can't I even joke around?”

Lin Zhizhao suddenly became dumbfounded!

He grabbed Ye Mu's sleeve and continued to walk with her.
Not long after, the strange sound became further away, similar to what Ye Mu said.
Maybe it was a small mechanism specially to scare intruders.

At this moment, they arrived in a big stone chamber.
An enormous map was drawn on the stone chamber.
This map drawing was extremely complex, similar to a maze.
She scrutunized it for a while, and then Lin Zhizhao pulled Ye Mu a few times.
“Hurry, let's go back after you're done looking!”

Ye Mu only walked ahead.
“This place doesn't look like the treasure's place.”

Lin Zhizhao's complexion changed.
“Are you doubting my ability? Maybe the treasure is still way below?”

Ye Mu couldn't disagree.
“At this rate, in a few hours I can't be certain if there is a treasure below.”

Lin Zhizhao couldn't help but say, “Didn't you say Mo Linyuan really likes you? If you don't go up, he'll definitely come down to save you.”

Ye Mu didn't say a word.

But Lin Zhizhao seemed to get interested.
“Or are you worried that the people above will walk away for another important matter and Mo Linyuan won't come save you?”

Ye Mu frowned.
“You seem to really want to see my disappointment? Whether Mo Linyuan comes down to find me or not, you think I'll wait for the outcome?”

“I—I didn't say that?”

Ye Mu stepped closer to him.
“Or did something similar happen before and someone abandoned you and ran away, so you brought up this sort of embitterment?”

“Nonsense!” Lin Zhizhao's expression suddenly changed.
But at this moment, something was rolling and rumbling toward their path!

“Not good, it's a rolling stone!” Ye Mu instantly knew it was the common type of trap.
She hurriedly grabbed Lin Zhizhao and ran ahead, more and more forks appearing before them.
But the rumbles of the rolling stone were growing nearer and nearer!

In the end, Ye Mu pulled Lin Zhizhao into a fork.
Behind them, a gigantic stone ball rumbled away.

Ye Mu said once more, “The terrain here is so complex, but I've seen nothing after being inside for a long time.
So this place is definitely a trap, it's definitely not the treasure's place! What's more, this place is completely different from the one marked on the City Boundary Map!”

Lin Zhizhao panted heavily.
“Maybe it's the City Boundary Map that lied to you! Who'd specially leave a map after leaving behind a treasure!”

Ye Mu faintly smiled.
“What you're saying also sounds reasonable.
So you're saying, we should go on?”

Lin Zhizhao nodded.
“We've come this far.
Do we still have a way back?”

Ye Mu looked at him deeply, continuing forward with him.
Her appearance was as calm as before, and Lin Zhizhao's pace gradually became slower.

Ye Mu said with a smile, “If this is a trap, who do you think will be at an advantage in the end?”

Lin Zhizhao was dumbfounded.
“What do you mean?”

“I mean,” Ye Mu began, “I'm suspecting this place is definitely not for the treasure.
It's a very dangerous place.
Did you trick me to go down so Mo Linyuan will also be tricked to go down? Or a trap is also ready for Mo Linyuan over there, and until then, he still has a chance to choose?”

Lin Zhizhao's complexion changed, suddenly retreating a few steps and stopped.

He used the wall to support his hand, and after a silent while, he said in a low voice, “If you knew, why did you still want to come down? You've doubted me since the beginning, and now, why did you want to come down?”

Ye Mu sighed looking at him.
“If I start doubting then I doubt, but I was also hoping that what you're saying is true.
Unfortunately, you disappointed me.”

Lin Zhizhao's complexion changed, and then in a cold voice said, “No, you just think too highly of yourself.
You think you won't be scared of anything if you excel in martial arts? The path you took downward changed early, you can't go back, you'll be trapped here underground for all your life! And I—”

He exerted a strength in his hand.
“I'm not accompanying you here!”

After saying that, he pressed down a mechanism, and stone bars suddenly swooped down, separating Ye Mu and him.

“Take your time enjoying the smell of death in this maze.”

Lin Zhizhao suddenly opened a stone door beside him.
Before going in, he coldly smiled.
“Maybe Mo Linyuan won't really come down to save you?”