Our Binding Love: My Gentle Tyrant

Fragrance to Repel Worms

“What way?” Ye Mu asked.

Ye Xiaolang said, “I’ve seen someone whose heart was attacked by poison, and the method other people used to suspend his life was to make a small opening in his upper heart tube and let the poisonous blood flow out. His life then can be suspended.”

Ye Xiaolang coughed at this point, thinking they were hurt too. “But, this method is very dangerous, because with just a tiny mistake, if he’s not killed because of poison, he can die from excessive loss of blood. People only use this method when desperate.”

Ye Mu thought in her heart, wasn’t she desperate now?

She was silent for a moment, then asked the imperial physicians on the side, “You don’t have any other way?”

The imperial physicians wanted to cry without tears, especially seeing Mo Linyuan unconscious, each one of them had been frantic, not to mention the others.

“Ye-xiaojie, this servant really does not have other methods, it’s also unknown what poisonous substance this is, other people would die once infected. We don’t even know any method to suspend his life, much less anything else.”

The people outside were currently injured, anguished wails were heard from time to time. They still didn’t know, Mo Linyuan had collapsed. If they knew, everyone might go into a frenzy. The only person who could take responsibility now was Ye Mu.

Ye Mu shut her eyes. Seeing everyone at a loss, she said in a low voice, “Don’t disclose this matter to anyone else. Two of the three of you attend to His Majesty, the other one go brew ginseng soup. Xiaolang.”

“Xiaojie.” Ye Xiaolang firmly looked at her.

“The method you mentioned to suspend life, can you do it?” Ye Mu looked at Mo Linyuan’s complexion that kept going green. If they had no other way, Mo Linyuan might die in a quarter of a shichen. It looked like they needed to take risks.

Ye Xiaolang said, “I know how to.”

“Good.” Determination appeared in Ye Mu’s eyes. “Come and start the operation.”

“Ye-xiaojie!” An imperial physician felt alarmed. “Once you do it, if something happens to His Majesty, your reputation will be at risk!”

Ye Mu waved her hand fearlessly. “If he dies, I will pay for his life. Xiaolang, go ahead.”

Ye Xiaolang listened, and without any hesitation, he took out a small knife. On Mo Linyuan’s left chest, he made a cut of one cun* deep. After an opening was made, suddenly, dark purple blood gushed out, soiling through his lapel.

*cun – tradional unit of length, equivalent to 3.33cm or 1.31in

But the strange thing was, the green color on his face had disappeared a lot.

Seeing that it was effective, Ye Mu faintly released a breath. She said, “Everyone guard this place, I want to go down once more. If Mo Linyuan can’t hold out, just give him the ginseng soup!”

Because they didn’t understand the medicinal properties of Mo Linyuan’s poison, Ye Mu also didn’t dare to recklessly use the ginseng soup. The imperial physicians only nodded. Seeing Ye Mu get up, Ye Xiaolang looked at her and suddenly asked.

“You’re going down? What if you don’t come up?”

This question made Ye Mu instantly freeze!

Mo Linyuan was infected with severe poison now, so Ye Mu was the pillar of these people. If Ye Mu also died below, without an imperial family member, Mo Country would definitely be in chaos!

But Ye Mu had no choice. She didn’t look back as she said, “Whether I live or not will have no effect. After all, even if Mo Linyuan dies, I can’t be Mo Country’s emperor. But he can’t die.”

Ye Xiaolang lowered his voice as he quickly said, “If His Majesty dies, though you’re a woman, you’re the most capable to convince Mo Country’s people. His Majesty is already like this now, even if you go down, he may not necessarily survive. Staying would be the best result. These words may be cruel, but you’ll let Mo Country sink into chaos for the sake of one person?”

Ye Mu lifted the curtains, her young face that was normally innocent and loveable, was now filled with coldness. “When he saved me, he didn’t think about Mo Country arising with problems. Besides, I’ve promised to marry him after we go back.”

Her face pale, she smiled. “I don’t want to be a widow before I get married.”

After that, she left without looking back. The porcelain bottle that she held between her fingers became her sole assurance.

It was not medicine in the porcelain bottle, merely shaking it for a while gave it away. After Ye Mu opened it, the porcelain bottle gave off a fragrance. She guessed this fragrance was related to those worms.

Hearing that Ye Mu wanted to go down again so soon, everyone was bewildered. The soldiers that went down before said, “Ye-xiaojie, don’t! Those worms are being held back by the boulder, once it opens, they might come out and cause a mess!”

And they also felt very strange, wasn’t Ye-xiaojie injured? Why does she look fine now, and what about His Majesty? Ye-xiaojie is about to do such a dangerous action, why is His Majesty not coming out to stop her?

Ye Mu didn’t have time to bother with them, she said in a flurry, “It opens now! This is an order!”

She added, “After I go down, send people to guard this place. If something is wrong, you can seal the place with a boulder.”

Although the effect wouldn’t be very big, if those creatures wanted to come out, they could drill themselves out from anywhere.

Seeing Ye Mu being persistent, they didn’t dare to go against her words, so they only pushed away the boulder.

Ye Mu opened the bottle of fragrance. Right now, she was only gambling, gambling that this fragrance was to repel worms.

If this fragrance drew in worms, then she, who didn’t have any internal energy now, could only have death waiting at the end, furthermore a tragic death.

Her steps were rather exaggerated, but she walked very fast because Mo Linyuan was constantly losing blood right now. Once there was an excessive loss of blood, even if she brought back an antidote, it would be useless. So she followed down the marks she previously left behind, and at the end, she sprinted with all her might. Very soon, she encountered the poisonous worms from before.

Those worms seemed to not have noticed her yet, but she still stopped at the only road. After all, Ye Mu definitely didn’t have time to find another way, she could only walk on these worms to pass.

Thinking this, she held the fragrance bottle, walking past those worms step by step. She prayed in her heart, this fragrance must be to repel worms, it must!

After she went in, when those worms smelled the rich fragrance on her, all of them lifted their heads. The looks of those red centipedes lifting their heads in uniform could be visualized! The next second, they crawled toward her!

At that moment, Ye Mu’s heartbeat was unbearably fast!

But she didn’t retreat. Even if her internal energy was sucked away, even if her body right now was still very weak, and that her hand that was holding the porcelain bottle was sweating, she still didn’t leave.

In the end, those worms didn’t attack her. Rather, they stopped a half meter away from her!

Seeing this sight, beads of sweat rolled down Ye Mu’s young, pale face. She loosened a long breath, and continued walking!

Looks like this really is to repel worms. Mo Linyuan, I’ll definitely save you!

Ye Mu had her reasons for being bent on coming down. After all, the poison was caught from here. If she wanted to find an antidote, the possibility would only be below here. She just needed to hope that the antidote really existed, and that it was not an incurable poison.

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