Our Binding Love: My Gentle Tyrant

Chapter 127 Map on Skin (1)

Chapter 127 – Map on Skin (1)

When Ye Li thought of this, he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.

Ye Mu wasn’t able to think of anything else, but the bloody Ye Li before her, “What wrong with you? You actually suffered such heavy injuries?!”

“It’s not an injury–” Ye Li shook his head, a fierce expression plastered on his weary face, “It’s because…I absorbed too much inner Qi. Add to that, I was also heavily injured, which caused my own Qi to flow in reverse. My meridians ruptured from this abnormal flow…”

At this, Ye Mu couldn’t explicably be bothered to think about the disappearing map, so she hurriedly said, “Then let’s go now! Capture me—both Mo Linyuan and Yan Xu think favorably of me. Therefore, they won’t harm you.”

“It’s useless…” Ye Li said, “Very soon, when all my meridians become broken, I will become a cripple! I won’t be even able to break us out from this place.”

“Then what should we do?!” Ye Mu felt pure panic for the first time, but with her small arms and short legs, her strength was futile–much less breaking open a half-collapsed palace. Even the usually strong Ye Li would be unable to move her small frame in just a matter of time.

“Perhaps this is heaven’s will…” Ye Li, who had never believed in the supernatural—or fate, said this today for the second time. But after the words fell from his mouth, a cunning light flashed through his eyes.

While Ye Mu wasn’t paying attention, he suddenly sealed her acupoints!

It was easy to pinpoint a person’s meridians, but it required one’s inner Qi to be much higher than the victim. As her acupoints were abruptly sealed, Ye Mu suddenly felt as if her body was filled with immense lead and that it was difficult to even lift a single finger.

His tall figure looked like an oppressing giant in the dim-lit inner hall. He lifted his head from the ground and staggered towards the emperor’s dragon bed. Meanwhile, Ye Mu couldn’t help but close her eyes in weakness.

When he tore open to reveal the dead emperor’s backside, as expected, the treasure map was truly engraved on his flesh. Ye Li looked at the map with an indescribably complicated expression. For years, he had spent half of his life yearning for this treasure map, to seize the Yue country, and finally to rule over the entire world! And now that the map was right in front of his very hands, there was nothing he could already do at this point.

Now that he had fallen to such a lowly state, he discovered that no one was responsible for his demise—not even the second prince or crown prince, Mo Linyuan. If he had to blame someone, that person could only be himself. He was far too greedy, too reluctant to part with the treasure map that was to disappear any moment.

Even if the skin was cut away from the body, the engraved map would never fade away. He cut very slowly, carefully, not daring to mis the slightest bit of it. After cutting, he folded the skin into two, walked past the old emperor, and actually stuffed the skin map into Ye Mu’s arms.

“You–” Ye Mu stared at him with wide eyes. With her acupoint sealed, it was difficult for her to speak, lest even move. So she could only use her eyes to express her incredulity.

Ye Li squatted in front of her and fixed her with a deep look.

He had never scrutinized a person so carefully before. The little fellow in front of him was less than a meter tall, but for some reason, he couldn’t bear to look at it. For several times, he always had the urge to kill it, but he still couldn’t bear to do so.

“I am a bad person. Back in my youth, in order to become a general, I assassinated my master. Later on, to become the only general in this country with military power, I framed the other two generals for rebellion and killed them with the help of the emperor…”

Ye Mu stared at him incredulously. Before then, she had wanted to tell him that he really was a despicable person, but she never thought that his atrocious acts would be far worse than she thought!

Ye Li’s smile became even more serene, the more he poured out his revelation, “I want to be the Emperor. In order to cultivate my own dead men, I let the Emperor suppress the militia left behind by the two generals while I secretly assisted them. As expected, they became loyal to me and aren’t even afraid to go to the underworld for me…”

The evil deeds that he had done, even if he were to narrate inside this broken palace for three days and three nights, he would not be able to finish list them all.

At this point, there was nothing more to say.