Our Binding Love: My Gentle Tyrant

Visiting Zhao Country Again

Qi Yan nodded. “I’ll plan very carefully, I won’t let you down!”

Ye Mu smiled. “Then I’ll take my leave now. I hope to hear your good news when I’m in Zhao Country!”

Qi Yan nodded. They exchanged a few more words before Ye Mu left.

After she left, she gave the brief to Wen Feng.

“Immediately get in touch with the prime minister about this matter. This time Wei Country will dispatch 150,000 people. When the time comes, Yue Country will send out 100,000 people. Our Mo Country ha to send out 80,000, so use the tiger tally to assemble the troops for immediate action!”

Seeing Wen Feng worried about her safety, she earnestly said, “We will win this war! The pressure over at Mo Linyuan’s will lessen a lot, it’ll then be easier for him to control the situation. There’s nothing more to say about the other matters, I’ll take care of myself, and this important matter is handed over to you. You must not let me down!”

Wen Feng listened, his eyes slightly reddened. He saluted with determination, and didn’t say more.

“Please don’t worry, Empress, this subordinate definitely won’t disappoint you!”

Ye Mu nodded, and no longer hesitated. She was by herself, and as she travelled more than half the country, finally after ten days, she arrived at the capital of Zhao Country.

Zhao Country still had many of Mo’s spies. The moment Ye Mu arrived, they quickly received the news and went over to welcome her!

“Let’s cut to the chase, what’s the situation right now with Zhao Country?”

In a secret room, Ye Mu sat at the head. The others completely didn’t expect the one who came would be Ye Mu, Mo Country’s empress. Everyone was utterly shocked.

Seeing her young age, many of them were discontented, but Ye Mu only sat there, and even if she didn’t bring anyone else, everyone felt an overwhelming momentum.

That momentum was very contrasting with her young face, making their backs cold, not daring to be rash.

An old man as the leader said, “Empress, Zhao’s people seem to have great opinions concerning Mo Country’s battle. Although there’s an alliance contract, the common people are still terrified; the courtiers too, who are divided into two groups. The majority demanded not to participate in this risky contract, but Zhao’s monarch insisted on war.”

“What about Zhao Mingyu?” Ye Mu asked in a cold voice. “How’s her situation now?”

Someone said, “royalss Zhao was thrown into the death cell half a month ago.”

Ye Mu asked, “How many people do we have now in Zhao Country?”

The old man replied, “500 people, ten among them are internal energy masters.”

Ye Mu suddenly stopped speaking. There were very few people. Being in another country, how could she save Zhao Mingyu?

Ye Mu pondered for a while. “Which cell is Zhao Mingyu in? The palace’s death cell or outside?”

The old man thought about it. “The biggest Taihe Prison outside the palace. Recently many officials who oppose the emperor have been confined there.”

Ye Mu quickly asked, “What’s near Taihe Prison? Important departments, residences, streets, say it all.”

Everyone discussed in a low voice, then someone said, “Yuanchang Street is not far from Taihe Prison, which is Zhao Country’s most flourishing street. Many residences of high officials and nobles are there, but I have to say, the most extravagant of them and the nearest is the empress’ parents’ house, the royal residence. Because the empress’ son died in Mo Country, this time, the empress is also in the pro-war faction!”

Ye Mu faintly smiled. “Then let’s go with the royal residence. Next, I need you to help me with something. I plan to burn down the royal residence!”

“Isn’t this not good?” someone hesitantly said. “The royal residence’s head has over a hundred internal energy masters. If we dare to get close to set fire, before we even can, we’ll be discovered by the residence’s people.”

Ye Mu chuckled. “No worries, I’ll let you prepare something. With those things, we don’t need to go near to set the fire.”

After she told the tools needed, everyone didn’t know what Ye Mu wanted to do with those things. No need to go near to set the fire, but why did they need to set fire? Wouldn’t this be alerting the enemy?

Ye Mu’s eyes were sharp. Smiling, she said, “The royal residence is close to Taihe Prison. We’ll set the fire to the royal residence near Taihe Prison. After those in Taihe Prison notice, they’ll definitely dispatch troops to put out the fire. When that happens, it will be easy for us to break into the prison.”

“What? You want to break into the prison?!”

“That’s right.” Ye Mu acted as usual, as if she wasn’t going to break into prison but rather strolling around the streets. “Princess Zhao is the key to my trip right now. I must bring her out so that it’ll work, and all of you just need to listen to my plans, understand?”

A faint warning came from her person, making everyone’s heart sink. This little empress’ imposing manner was truly terrifying! Moreover, she spoke the plans clearly, and her brain also moved fast, no wonder His Majesty liked her so much, insisting on making her empress!

The things that Ye Mu wanted were soon prepared. She looked at the niter, kerosene and more vicious things, slightly zoning out.

Originally, she didn’t plan to use any modern things, but right now she thought of Mo Linyuan who was fighting in the frontier, her eyes scared.

She wouldn’t use much, just a little, just this once.

So after she took the things, she entered the room. She didn’t go out for the whole night.

On the other side, Mo Linyuan had fought with Zhao’s and Yan’s generals twice. These two times were actually just probing. Mo Country, after all, had been in power for a long time. They didn’t dare to come up and immediately went with “you die, I live”, but Mo Linyuan felt this was only because the allied forces didn’t trust each other’s outcome, and it was in their distrust that was his best opening!

When he and his subordinates were discussing the manner to fight back, a letter written by the prime minister came.

Mo Linyuan was rather surprised.

He had been out for over a month, this was the first time receiving news from the palace. Mainly because of the war, delivering letters was very slow, so when he received the letter, Mo Linyuan’s hands slightly trembled.

He thought Ye Mu’s letters for him would be among them, but he didn’t expect, the moment he looked, there was only the prime minister’s letter.

Mo Linyuan frowned, but after seeing the prime minister’s letter, his expression changed drastically!

His Xiao Mu-er actually went to Yue Country!

Even if the prime minister explained in detail of the plan of Mo Country and Yue Country fighting back Wei Country, even if the prime minister assured that this plan was perfectly safe, even if the prime minister highly praised that Ye Mu had very, very high wisdom, solving such a difficult problem in one go—Mo Linyuan was still not happy!

His Xiao Mu-er should not be participating in this affair. She did it all for him, to not let him struggle alone, for him not to worry.

Although Mo Linyuan really wanted to rush to Ye Mu’s side right now, really wanted to chide her, he mostly felt wistful.

She was making such an effort, making such risks for him—he couldn’t admit defeat! This war, he must win!