Chapter 169 - Bondmate

"He looks like a man who is about to kill someone." Zhang Yong chuckled as he stared at the screen that was plastered on the huge wall of the tech room on the third floor of the mansion.

Both Li Ming and he were sitting on leather chairs as they watched the old man on the large screen.

Prime Minister Zhu looked like he had aged almost ten years in the past six months. His white hair and wrinkled face cried out loudly about the state of his mind and health.

A satisfied smile appeared on Li Ming's face as she watched the old jerk shouting and beating his servants as he took his anger out on them.

They were receiving what they deserved. Actually, they deserved far much harsher punishment than what they were going through currently.

And Li Ming would make sure that they would receive exactly what they deserved.

Nearly every single person related to the surname Zhu was involved in some kind of illegal activities, and if not that then every person of that family was corrupted from their heart.

The Zhu family couldn't be called a family at all. Each person in that family could betray the other to save their own ass.

"Are you planning to do something?" Zhang Yong asked as he watched Li Ming in shutting the screen off along with the lights of the room as they left the tech room and headed downstairs.

It was time for them to prepare the dinner before they continued with their daily cultivation routine.

The huge screen on which they had just watched Prime Minister Zhu was one of Li Ming's new experiments.

She wanted to build something similar to CCTV's so that she could keep her eyes on the Prime Minister Zhu and his family member's movements.

It took long hours of research, at least dozens of failed and ruined attempts, and many drained nights before she finally came up with a perfect merge of technology, magic and spiritual qi that solved her problem perfectly.

Li Ming placed the little cameras all over the Zhu Manor one night and for the last five months, she had been keeping track of Prime Minster Zhu's movements.

That day, six and a half months ago when General Wei and his team raided Xi Qiu City and the Slave Market at the Emperor's order, the General went there with a fullproof plan.

His team had already sealed the teleportation array house and all the escape routes of Xi Qiu City.

No one was able to set their foot out of the boundary of Xi Qiu City that day.

The team of General Wei almost caught every single person in the Slave market and those shop owners of Xi Qiu City who were involved in the dark business.

That day nearly three hundred youths were rescued from the slave market and nearly dozens of lives were saved because there was going to be a human auction that day in the slave market.

The condition of those children was too much even for Li Ming to watch. She couldn't bring all those children under her wing, therefore with the help of General Wei, Wei Rong, Wei Min, and the rest of her friend circle, she arranged an entire hospital where those youths could be treated properly.

She knew that it was going to take a long time before those youths would be able to move forward and she did her best to be present there for them through these hard days of their lives.

She prepared healing pills and sleeping potions for them. She tried to make sure that they were not left with any physical scars and started working on the mental ones.

She brought a group of children who were training under her in the cooking section, to cook for these youths.

She had always made sure that the children who were officially employed in her businesses were of legal age, which meant officially eighteen or above.

Though, there was nothing like a legal age kind of thing in the Immortal world.

She also tried to find their interests, which was a very hard thing, and after two months of knowing them and spending a lot of time with them, she finally got to know what interested each of them.

For the last two months, she had been trying to train them in their interested fields. Though the speed was slow but at least, most of them were showing interest.

Li Ming had formed a few groups of the children of the orphanage who were assigned to train the youths.

The owner of the hospital was someone related to General Wei's family and because if that Li Ming wasn't worried about the behavior of the hospital's staff.

"I've enough footage and evidence now to make your father pass the decree which started the clearance of the entire Zhu Clan from the surface of this continent. I'm just going to pass these evidence to General Wei tomorrow morning. He will take care of the rest." Li Ming replied to Zhang Yong's question as he took out ingredients for the dinner.

"What about your plan of saving those thirteen young children of the Zhu family?" Zhang Yong asked as he took out a pan from the cabinet.

"I still want the Emperor to exempt them. They are so small and they don't deserve to pay a price for the crimes of their elders." Li Ming replied as she looked at Zhang Yong with her eyes filled with hurt.

She knew that one look at her sad eyes and the Fourth Prince would dissolve in a panicked mess.

Zhang Yong took Li Ming's hands in his own as he tried to explain his point to her.

"I know exactly how and what you are thinking and I completely agree with your points. Though there is one very important point that you are forgetting about, Ming'er."

Li Ming looked at Zhang Yong with puzzled eyes and at her confused reaction, the Shadow Lord continued.

"Though these children are innocent but we are talking about killing their entire family here. What do you think will happen to them? This society won't let them get away from the crimes of their elders."

"They would be trolled from left and right, taunted for their family background. You won't be able to hide their family's past and their end from them."

Zhang Yong started rubbing circles on the back of her hand as he continued, "What if even a single one of them grew up with layered and contempt filled in his/her heart? Do you know how dangerous it is? Every child supports his family no matter how wrong they actually were. There's one out of thousands who could actually go against their family to support righteousness."

"The hatred in his/her heart could take the form of revenge at any moment. And revenge is the most dangerous feeling, if not above love then neither below it. That revenge could kill hundreds of innocents."

Li Ming opened her mouth to say something but nothing came out of her mouth.

"I know that right now they are innocent and that they don't deserve to be killed without any crime. But this rule was formed so that we could save order hundreds of lives in the future." Zhang Yong said as he pushed a strand of her hair behind her ear.

"No. You can't take one life to save hundreds of other lives. That one innocent life is just as important as those hundred lives. I don't agree with this."

"Look, just give me a chance. I'll make sure that they will never stray from the right path. I'll do everything in my power to keep them away from the malicious comments of people. Just give me a chance." Li Ming looked at Zhang Yong with hopeful eyes.

Of course, Zhang Yong couldn't handle letting her down and deep down in his heart, he knew that she was right about her points.

The difference was that he had become cold-hearted in the thousands of years of his life and such killings didn't affect him as much as they should.

But his dear bondmate, his Ming'er, his best friend, was so different from him and his other cold-hearted brothers.

She was not cold-hearted, rather she carried the warmest and kindest heart inside her. She was born to see through the norms of the society.

And as her mate, it was his responsibility and his wish, that he should support her in her decisions, especially in such good ones.

"Fine. But remember that you are not alone. You have six people in your life who will always be there to support you. Leave this to me, I'll make sure the Emperor will exempt these children." The Shadow Lord said with an assuring smile.

Li Ming smiled brightly at her bondmate. She was happy to see him supporting her even though her demand was hard to complete.

"I still need to know what kind of thing you are keeping over the Emperor for him to agree with all your actions as the Fourth Prince of this Empire." She said as she once again started preparing for the dinner.

Zhang Yong just chuckled at her words but didn't reveal his secret.