[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-doted-by-the-regent-king":3,"chapter-doted-by-the-regent-king-doted-by-the-regent-king-chapter-13":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Doted By The Regent King",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1324854,1760,"Chapter 13 - 13 13 Punish the Wicked and Eliminate the Evil","doted-by-the-regent-king-chapter-13",13,"\u003Cp>13: Chapter 13: Punish the Wicked and Eliminate the Evil 13: Chapter 13: Punish the Wicked and Eliminate the Evil After watching the excitement, Wufu hummed a tune as she descended the mountain, paying no mind to the talks of the Mountain Demon amongst the villagers behind her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Madam Zhou had been waiting for her, and when she saw An Ran return safely, she breathed a sigh of relief but couldn’t help her curiosity as she asked what had happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu smiled faintly and simply narrated the events, then dropped her eyes and slowly sipped her porridge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everybody believed it was the work of the Mountain Demon, which was good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even if they knew it was a person’s doing, surely nobody would suspect them, mother and daughter, would they?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, they were but women, powerless to even truss a chicken!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu glanced at her own slender hands and remembered the effort it took to drag that thing last night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, her wrists felt sore again; she needed to train the strength of her wrists more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had had only half a bowl of porridge, yet had not heard Madam Zhou utter a single word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Puzzled, Wufu looked up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Madam Zhou was holding her bowl with furrowed brows, lost in thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s wrong?” Wufu waved her hand in front of her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Madam Zhou came back to her senses and spoke with a worried frown, “Wufu, if there really is a Mountain Demon causing trouble, what will the two of us do?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu paused and then said, “There’s no such thing as a Mountain Demon, it’s just that someone saw that scoundrel’s misdeeds and decided to punish evil and promote good.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Punish evil and promote good?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes!” Wufu added a spoonful of pickles to her porridge and said, “Aren’t there some heroes of Green Forest?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Haven’t they appeared in the tavern in town?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that person do evil and secretly doing good deeds, what’s so strange about that?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This explanation was indeed reasonable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But, in fact, in the past, there really was a Mountain Demon on Maofeng Mountain,” said Madam Zhou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Have you seen it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Madam Zhou’s face heated up as she shook her head and chided, “If I had seen it, could I be sitting here safe and sound?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’d have been eaten by the Mountain Demon long ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s just something that some elders mentioned, something that happened deep in the forest when I was a child.” Thinking about her daughter’s frequent trips up the mountain, she added, “So you, my girl, don’t always go up the mountain, it’s dangerous.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu dismissed the concern with indifference, “That’s even less credible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the elders had seen it, why haven’t they been caught and eaten?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There have been hunters who entered the mountain and never returned.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu silently scoffed to herself, if that was the case, then they were either eaten by wild beasts or had accidents; it wasn’t the doing of a Mountain Demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the ancients were superstitious, and so was her mother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu didn’t want to forcefully change her mother’s mind and said, “That Mountain Demon must have its good and its evil, just as people do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Scum like Ma Dan get taught a lesson.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Good people and good girls like me, I imagine the Mountain Demon wouldn’t blame us!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Madam Zhou gave a rueful smile and pinched her daughter’s face, her gaze becoming dreamy as she said, “You have such a way with words, much like your father…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu shuddered all over, not good, her mother was about to fall into melancholy again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mother…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wufu, my girl, you’re all I have, you’re my life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I can’t have anything happening to you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just be good and wait a little longer, your father will soon come to get us,” Madam Zhou murmured as she caressed her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu sighed, put down her bowl of porridge, and looked her in the eye as she spoke word by word, “What if he doesn’t come?” Would you wait for a lifetime?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Madam Zhou’s expression changed abruptly, her eyes quickly reddening, tears swirling in them, her slightly pale lips pressed tightly together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu looked at her mother’s hands on the table, tightly clenched into fists and trembling slightly, and changed the subject with a smile, “Mother, let’s go to town later.”\u003C\u002Fp>",719,"2026-06-05T19:25:17.491Z",1,"novelbin.me","64550d5a5bc560a0d49311a1f06e05f53134c2a16574e61c3a72d7283a2b9982","doted-by-the-regent-king-chapter-14","doted-by-the-regent-king-chapter-12",1685,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fdoted-by-the-regent-king-cover.jpg"]