强制欢宠：我的温柔暴君

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"As you can imagine, my mother agreed. But I still thought it was very dangerous. I had a feeling that if she goes down, she won't ever come up again. But father refused to listen to me, so not long after she went down, I followed her when they weren't paying attention."

Ye Mu finally understood Lin Zhizhao's identity. "So, you're the descendant of the imperial crown prince?"

Lin Zhizhao listened and smiled derisively.

"Right. I'm the younger brother of the empire's last emperor, Jing emperor's great-grandson. If you say I'm in the upper-class status, then that's true, because I have the blood of the imperial family."

Ye Mu was suddenly surprised. Although she had lightly guessed before, she was still shocked when Lin Zhizhao said it himself.

"What happened after?" she asked.

Lin Zhizhao said with a sigh, "In the end, I couldn't find her. I was stranded in the maze with her. The underground path keeps changing every shichen. Although I memorized the map, my mother and I didn't have the strength to break the stone wall."

He smiled. "In the end, I finally met her. She heard my crying and came running, but we were separated by a wall. She didn't dare to run recklessly, afraid that the more she ran, the further I'd be. She kept asking why I came down, and I said I was worried about her. Then, she cried behind the wall. After hearing me cry too, she sat there and comforted me."

When Lin Zhizhao spoke until here, it was as if he could still hear his mother's voice coming through that wall.

That time she was also really scared, because although her mechanism skill was good, she couldn't break the mechanism here, so besides waiting for someone to come save them, she couldn't do anything else.

She could only tell him calmly, "Zhao-er, don't be scared." The slight trembling voice, separated by a wall, dispiritedly came out.

"Your father will come down to save us in a while, don't be scared."

At that age, the small Lin Zhizhao who was scared kept on crying. The torch he took from the entrance had died out early. He sat on the ground with the endless darkness all around him. He could only rely on his mother on the other side of the wall.

"Mum, I'm scared! Will Dad really come down?" Although he was still small, he had a faint gut feeling that if his mother didn't go up, his father might not dare to come down. Since even his mother couldn't go out, it clearly explained that this was the emperor's imperial tomb. In that case, if father knew very well that it was dangerous, would he still come to save them?

He was very doubtful and scared!

But his mother said with certainty, "Don't be scared! Your father hates to part with us, we're his dearest family. He will definitely come save us!"

"Mum, I'm still scared. I spoke with Dad before not to send you down and he ignored me."

His mother listened, turning silent for a long time. In the end, she didn't know if she was telling him or herself, "He will come down. Don't be scared. Zhao-er, I'll sing for you. Don't be scared."

Saying this, his mother began to sing. To be a little closer to her, Lin Zhizhao firmly pressed himself against the wall, hoping it would open up. And the woman on the other side also did the same, her trembling voice singing for him.