Our Binding Love: My Gentle Tyrant

Arson

Ye Mu took advantage of the night to start action.

And then they divided into two groups: one went near Taihe Prison for ambush, the other went to a viewing platform not far from Taihe Prison. That viewing platform was the highest building in the entire Zhao Country that Zhao’s late emperor spent a lot of time building on. Everyone could go up to view.

At this moment, Ye Mu brought a group of people up to the viewing platform.

The night was a sheet of black. Although those great families lighted oil lamps, the flames were faint, it truly was testing out one’s eyesight. Luckily, they had familiarized themselves in the daytime; they weren’t afraid to make a mistake on their target.

Everyone skeptically looked at the object in Ye Mu’s hands. How should they describe this? It was like giant fireworks. Only, these fireworks were not the same as those they usually saw.

“Ye-xiaojie, this object can really burn the royal residence from such a long distance?”

How could he not be doubtful? This merely looked like fireworks. Even if it sparked, not a little while later it would die.

Ye Mu smiled as she said, “Just wait. It will be a little loud later, cover your ears.”

Everyone’s expression still looked doubtful, but covered their ears. Then, they looked at Ye Mu’s movements with wide attentive eyes. All of them wanted to know, is this person truly skilled? Or pretending to show off.

The night breeze lifted Ye Mu’s black robe*. Her complexion was as still as water. Under the moonlight, she did not look like a young child.

*chang pao – traditional Chinese men’s robe

She took out the fire stick, making everyone step back. After that, she lit the fuse.

The spurting sounded really clear at this moment. The next second, they only heard a piercing whistle. That object that looked like fireworks leaped up and looked like a fireball, an orbit in the night sky. The next second, it exploded above the royal residence!

The flames that were like scattering flowers dropped. Everyone watched. This act was no different from how others set off fireworks, but the dangerous part came. Those flames that dropped were not at all like fireworks, extinguished after falling to the ground—instead, many areas went ablaze!

What was going on?

Not only the royal residence’s people were caught off guard, even the people at Ye Mu’s side were also shocked. They weren’t at all afraid of the royal residence’s people to discover them. After all, they were very far away. At this moment, seeing that so much noise was happening in the royal residence, seeing the spark that burned even more and much fiercer, this matter actually was easily solved! Their expression when they looked at Ye Mu again was like looking at an immortal!

But Ye Mu’s expression was indifferent. “Let’s go. Let’s go down, else they will come and arrest us.”

Although Ye Mu felt the other party wouldn’t find out, that sound just now was very loud. Someone might notice this place.

This time, the people with Ye Mu listened to her, the shocking act still lingering in their minds, completely not understanding how she did it.

At this moment, an old man took a few steps forward to catch up to Ye Mu.

“Empress, since you can create such a powerful weapon, why not tell His Majesty about it? This way, no matter how many people come to attack us, His Majesty wouldn’t have to worry.”

Ye Mu didn’t wish to disrupt this world’s order, so she only said, “That thing can only be made by me and can’t be taught to others. Most importantly, this thing is too harmful. Forget about what you saw today, don’t tell other people.”

Ye Mu was not worried they would reproduce it because some of the key materials were secretly bought by herself. This kind of object would be best to appear once, flash in the pan, the province’s affected people remembered.

Seeing Ye Mu didn’t want to speak much about it, the others didn’t bring it up anymore. Once they were near enough, seeing the flames in the royal residence over there soaring and rising, they felt excited!

As soon as the people in the royal residence saw the fire, they hurriedly started putting it out, but that fire dispersed, burning ferociously. For a moment, it was difficult to extinguish. At this moment on that street, a lot of people ran outside adding to the trouble. Ye Mu also joined them, and heard a disheveled man beside her say with a smile.

“This maleficent royal residence, who knows who’s exterminating them!”

“Seems like you still don’t know, huh.” A person beside him moved closer. “I heard from the night watch, what he saw was a flame dropping from the sky, smashing into the residence’s courtyard. Their house then burned, so the royal residence is punished by the heavens!”

This kind of bizarre case was most loved by the common people. Ye Mu watched as the people from Taihe Prison had dispatched soldiers to extinguish the fire. She smiled, making the people beside her help the people breaking into prison. She stayed here alone, continuing to watch the ruckus.

Not long after, the fire still had not died, but the matter of the royal residence being punished by the heavens was already everywhere. People said it very detailedly, as though having seen it with their own eyes.

But at this time, Ye Mu suddenly heard an old man say:

“The heavens drop fire to give a warning. If a house is in peril, the nation is also in peril!”

His words, somehow, were heard by the soldiers who rushed over. One among them who was leading furiously shouted, “You actually have the audacity to spread false rumors here. Someone, seize him!”

Seeing the soldiers start arresting the person, everyone scattered like flocks of birds. Only Ye Mu was still in her original place, looking at that old person dragged away by the soldiers.

In her mind, she suddenly remembered Zhao Country’s final ending in the biographical records.

Before Zhao Country was destroyed, the heavens sparked fire. It was written that when the fire happened, an old Taoist priest warned the common people, but no one believed him, and he was even arrested.

And the words that the old man said continuously echoed in Ye Mu’s head.

The heavens descended fire. It turned out, she was the “heavens”?

After pushing down the shock in her heart, Ye Mu shook her head and smiled, then started to follow up on her plan. Seeing the large fire in the royal residence still needed some time to be stamped out, she didn’t feel worried about the people that broke into the prison. Eventually, some would come out.

She had wanted to follow inside, but those Mo people firmly rejected. They didn’t allow her to take risks with them. If she wanted to take risks, they gave frightening comments. This must be their limit.

So, after she arranged everything, she could only wait here for their news.

Soon, a bell sounded from Taihe Prison—someone had broken in.

This was doomed to be a noisy night. The soldiers currently putting out the fire in the royal residence worked hard to ingratiate themselves with the royal residence; they weren’t the least bit slow extinguishing the fire.

But after hearing the bell, they had to abandon the fire, rushing back.

But unfortunately, the head of the royal residence was recalcitrant. Seeing these soldiers about to leave, he quickly stopped them.

“What are you all doing, these fires haven’t died out!”

The head of the soldiers was full of sweat. “I’m sorry, but recently there are many important convicts locked up in the prison, nothing should happen to them!”

But the head was used to being arrogant as the empress was his daughter. He said in a loud voice, “No, you must extinguish the fire first before you can go! That’s my study, don’t you know how many valuable things are in there? Put out the fire quickly!”