ADWMCES Chapter37

The wounds on his body made Li Yu gasp for air. “Damn it! If I knew which son of a b*tch provoked the tiger, I would definitely make him experience the feeling of being in the tiger’s den.”

He endured the pain and turned to find Ji Yujin, wanting to ask him what to do next—whether to send someone to aid Lin Ying or escorting the emperor back to camp to await reinforcements, yet if they chose the latter, Lin Ying would be as good as doomed.

But the life of a eunuch seems so insignificant at this time.

When he turned around, he found that Ji Yujin was gone. He was stunned. When he looked up again, he saw Ji Yujin rushing in the direction where Lin Ying left.

Li Yu: “??”

He didn’t react at first, but when he did, his complexion changed. “Damn! Ji Yujin, are you trying to kill yourself? Why are you running over there?”

When did Ji Yujin become so kind that he chased after a little eunuch to save him at this time? Li Yu couldn’t figure it out. He gritted his teeth and thought, Damn it, what the hell is going on!

Hearing Li Yu’s shout, Zhao Lin finally came back to his senses. He held his injured legs with both hands, staring in the direction where Lin Ying ran away. His face was pale, and he murmured, “Lin Ying…”

Li Yu took a deep breath and said to the squad leader beside him in a low voice, “Your governor of Xichang has run away, why don’t you go and help? I’ll take care of this side and will go back to the camp to report later.”

“Yes, thank you, Lord Qianhu.”

The Xichang subordinates moved in unison, following closely behind Ji Yujin.

Ji Yujin ran away, but Li Yu couldn’t. He cursed a few dirty words under his breath. He already ran away, and the rest of the task was left to him.

He walked up to the frightened emperor and bowed, saying, “Li Yu, the Commander of the Jinyiwei, did not perform well in escorting. Please forgive me, Your Majesty.”

The old emperor was supported by a group of people. His already pale face turned even paler. The armor seemed to be unable to support him. He looked a little embarrassed. He closed his eyes because of the headache. His cloudy eyes were still majestic. “Get up first. Go find out who provoked the beast.”

Li Yu’s eyes flickered: “This subordinate complies with Your Majesty’s order.”

He paused and continued, “In order to prevent a second attack by wild beasts, this subordinate begged Your Majesty to quickly move the camp.”

The emperor nodded. Frightened by this, he no longer had the mood to go hunting. He just asked, “Who was the one who led the white tiger away just now?”

The eunuch beside the emperor had some white hair. He glanced in that direction and spoke in a thinner voice than an ordinary man, “Answer Your Majesty, it should be a eunuch from Qilin Palace. It seems to be someone close to His Highness the Seventh Prince.”

The old emperor narrowed his eyes slightly, turned his head, and looked at the Seventh Prince, Zhao Lin, who was sitting in the snow. A group of people had gathered around Zhao Lin, and the blood on his feet dripping into the snow was particularly glaring. He waved his hand and said, “Let the imperial physician take a look at him. If he is seriously injured, send him back to the palace directly.”

The eunuch beside the emperor bowed his head and replied, “Yes.”

The old emperor looked around and suddenly asked, “Where is Ji Yujin?”

There were so many people and it was so noisy just now that the emperor did not hear Li Yu’s voice, nor did he notice Ji Yujin chasing after the beast.

Li Yu frowned and blurted out, “The Governor of Xichang, Ji Yujin, tried to prevent the beast from coming down the mountain to hurt the people and leave disasters behind. He went to subdue the beast. This subordinate dares to ask Your Majesty to send reinforcements to support him.”

After hearing his words, the old emperor was silent for a moment, without saying a word. No one knew what he was thinking. The originally noisy place instantly became quiet. Li Yu knelt on the ground, a drop of cold sweat sliding down his forehead.

Dog Ji ah, Dog Ji, you have really caused this lord so much trouble this time.

To put it mildly, this is just an excuse; to put it more seriously, it is a crime of deceiving the emperor.

After a long while, the emperor slowly said, “Fine, call General Zuo Yi to assist Ji Yujin in strangling the tiger. If he succeeds, it will be a great achievement.”

“Thank My Lord for the honor.”

Li Yu stood up and wiped the sweat from his forehead. In fact, he had never understood how Ji Yujin dared to be so presumptuous in front of the old emperor. This man was an old fox whose bottom was unfathomable. Every time he dealt with him, he had no idea what he was thinking. However, the Jinyiwei and Xichang only listened to the emperor. In other words, they were the emperor’s people and did not need to bother dealing with him.

The group moved quickly and was on the road back to the camp in a few breaths. However, they took a long detour to avoid encountering the white tiger again. Everyone almost lost their lives and fled at a very fast speed.

On the other side, Lin Ying nearly fell off the horse several times. He was cut off from his roots when he was young and thrown into the deep palace, where people were eaten without leaving any bones. He had never learned to ride a horse. He just ran here, relying on the string stretched tight at the critical moment of life and death. His hands throbbed from gripping the reins, and his thighs were chafed raw, leaving him unable to endure any longer.

No, it’s not enough. He has to run farther so that his master can escape.

Lin Ying bit down on his lip and lashed the horse’s hindquarters with the whip. Startled by the pain, the horse bolted forward at full speed. He did everything he could to stay on, yet he still couldn’t sit steadily, and even so, the horse’s pace still wasn’t fast enough. He could even smell the fishy stench coming from the mouth of the white tiger chasing him from behind, and he could hear the white tiger’s angry roar in his ears.

He will die.

The little white tiger in his arms let out soft infantile cries and gnawed at his sleeve, but with its teeth not yet grown, all it accomplished after a long while was leaving his sleeve soaked with saliva.

He entered the palace when he was young and grew up in the palace. He was too young when he entered the palace, and he was often bullied. Not only was he not well fed and clothed, but all the dirty and tiring work also fell on him. He was weak to begin with and soon fell seriously ill.

While lying in bed in a daze, he vaguely heard the eunuch who was leading him say that they would wrap him up in a mat and throw him into a mass grave. He was so scared that he cried out in his dream. He heard that people who were thrown into the mass grave would be eaten by wild dogs, their bodies would be completely destroyed, and they would never be able to be reborn.

He doesn’t want that. He wants to be reborn as a royal noble in his next life. He doesn’t want to be trapped in eternal damnation, where he’ll always be a slave.

So he forced himself to get up the next day. His whole body was terribly hot. Even the eunuch looked at him strangely, as if they didn’t expect him to be able to get up in this state.

This is nothing… He sneered. No one knew how much he wanted to survive, it’s to survive and then live the life he wanted, to trample those who had bullied him one by one, to make them regret having looked down on him so much and regret having ever attacked him.

When he had a fever and became unconscious, he would wash his face with cold water and then continue working with his slightly clearer mind. Whenever he was on the verge of fainting, he would sit down on the ground for a moment, and once he regained his senses, he would press on again.

Summer afternoons were always sweltering and humid. His soiled eunuch uniform clung to him, drenched with sweat. He reeked of sweat and knelt there, shivering. Although he didn’t know why they had to kneel there, he was not shaking because he was afraid, but because his body could not support itself.

It was at that time that he saw Zhao Lin. Zhao Lin walked up to him and squatted down, covering his nose with his hands. A trace of disgust flashed in his eyes. He pointed at him and said, “He’s the only one who looks a little more handsome, so let’s pick him.”

All of a sudden, envious cries were heard all around. He looked around, and everyone was looking at him with envy. Even the eunuch who said he would throw him into the mass grave had a flash of panic in his eyes. Although he didn’t know what was going on, he knew it must be a good thing. He couldn’t stop his hands from trembling, and his eyes brimmed with ecstasy.

Live on, and then become a superior person! Look, isn’t the turning point coming?

He slowly lifted his gaze, and before him stood a noble youth even more stunning than the young noble girl. The afternoon sun was as warm as ever, its rays filtering through the pomegranate tree and scattering lightly across the little prince’s hair. He seemed to be bathed in the light. He was stunned for a moment, staring at him blankly. At this time, he had just entered the palace for three months, and it was the first time he met his master after staying in the Qilin Palace for three months.

Zhao Lin frowned and said in a soft but domineering voice, “How dare you keep staring at this prince? Are you unwilling to be this prince’s eunuch?”

Lin Ying panicked and lowered his head quickly. “This… this servant is willing.”

He shrank back somewhat embarrassedly. When staying with such a beautiful person, he always felt that his presence would defile this noble person. He thought that such a beautiful noble person should be locked in a cage so that no one could touch him and he should remain holy forever.

At that time, he had not yet discovered what kind of seed he had planted. He just felt that his anger had been released, and he experienced the feeling of being envied for the first time. All of this was brought to him by the beautiful noble youth in front of him.

Later on, he became his personal eunuch, attending to him daily with changing clothes and bathing. Each day he beheld a pair of well-shaped legs, and his fingertips brushed against a slender neck, a narrow waist, and lips tinted with rosy color.

His expression slowly changed.

He began to have the same dream day after day. In the dream, there was a person under him, sobbing softly, and the sound was exactly the same as that of the unattainable noble youth.

He felt that he was being unreasonable. How could a eunuch like him be worthy of a noble? He slapped himself twice and, in panic and confusion, hid the matter deep in his heart.

But the person he thought was the cleanest started to party every night, with women one after another in the bedchamber.

The things he had originally been hiding slowly resurfaced. Every time he went to make the bed after they made love, his eyes would darken little by little when he smelled the fishy sandalwood scent. Master ah, Master, since you don’t take care of yourself, can you also let this servant fulfill his long-cherished wish?

This servant is the one who loves you the most.

He prepared for nearly two years before finally getting the chance. Watching him weep in his arms, Lin Ying felt deranged, or perhaps he had been a madman from the very beginning.

This was the first time that he regrets cutting off his roots.

But as soon as the medicine took effect the next day, his master forgot about the matter, and everything returned to the way it was before. It was as if he had just had a dream—the most beautiful dream of his life.

Sometimes he really envied Ji Yujin. He could see the joy in Ji Yujin’s eyes, but he didn’t know if they had noticed it themselves. They were both eunuchs, so why was there such a big difference? How could he live so freely? How could he be with the person he loved?

God is so unfair.

Never mind. He was sorry for his master after all. But his life was worth it. If he could really die for his master, it would be the greatest honor. Lin Ying curled his lips and whispered his name on horseback: “Zhao Lin.”

This was the first time he called out the name.

Ji Yujin’s horse was left in the front by him, so he could only rely on his legs. He jumped onto the treetop to check the direction, and Lin Ying ran straight towards the road that Chu Fengqing took.

He nearly crushed his teeth from clenching them so hard. Though Chu Fengqing had Qing Niao by his side, the white tiger was not something a single person could handle. To protect Chu Fengqing, he might only end up being blasted away by a single strike of the beast’s paw.

Qing Niao also noticed something was wrong. He put his hand on the tree next to him. The slight vibration of the tree made him frown. “Madam, wait a moment.”

The two looked behind them and saw a man riding a horse galloping towards them.

The horse’s hoof stepped on a stone and suddenly slipped. Lin Ying lost his grip and was thrown off in an instant, falling heavily to the ground. The horse was also pulled by two forces and knelt down, falling to the ground on its side.

Lin Ying fell not far from Chu Fengqing, his body twitching, and he spat out a mouthful of blood. The pain in his chest made it impossible for him to straighten up. He touched his chest with his hand, and it seemed that several ribs were broken and his whole body was in great pain.

He raised his eyes to the sky. It should be far enough.

Chu Fengqing didn’t have any impression of his appearance, but when he saw that he was wearing eunuch’s clothes, he walked up to him, put his fingers on his neck, and found that he was still breathing.

He took out a bottle from his arms, poured out a pill from the bottle, and stuffed the pill into his mouth.

Before he could check his injuries, he noticed something moving in the man’s arms. He lifted the cloak, and a little white tiger staggered out.

The little white tiger was not hurt in his arms, so it cried and crawled out of it. After crawling out, it shook its fur to shake off the snow on it.

The pink nose twitched as if it smelled the scent of the big white tiger, and it started to cry, “Awoo, awoo”.

Chu Fengqing thought to himself that something was wrong. When he turned around, he saw a huge beast slowly approaching from behind.

White tiger?!

As soon as Chu Fengqing let go, the little white tiger followed the scent and ran to its side. The big white tiger licked its fur with its tongue and protected the little white tiger behind it. Only then did it notice the human in front of it and roar with its teeth bared.

Chu Fengqing frowned slightly. This was a bit tricky.

The white tiger had just given birth, and its maternal instinct was at its strongest. Not only was it was disturbed by humans, but only one cub was left out of the litter of five. Naturally, it was unhappy.

It approached Lin Ying and Chu Fengqing step by step.

Qing Niao was protecting Chu Fengqing in front. Even at this moment, his tone was still stable: “Madam, I’ll block, you run.”

The author has something to say:

Lin Ying is actually a very contradictory person. He is crazy at heart. He loves Zhao Lin very much, but his love is a bit selfish. Zhao Lin is the first turning point in his life, or even the first ray of light in his life, although this ray of light benefited him unintentionally.