[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-national-guardian-s-gone-and-we-re-done":3,"chapter-national-guardian-s-gone-and-we-re-done-national-guardian-s-gone-and-we-re-done-chapter-224":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","National Guardian's Gone and We're Done",{"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},1743914,2228,"Chapter 224 - 223: Then Let This Knight Be Our Scapegoat","national-guardian-s-gone-and-we-re-done-chapter-224",224,"\u003Cp>\"What are you screaming about?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Haibo asked impatiently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was already on edge, and his wife’s strange cry made his temper flare, his brow furrowing deeply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His wife didn’t say another word, simply holding her phone up in front of his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Qiucheng and a briefly lucid Zhang Jiancheng also leaned in to look.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After seeing what was on the screen, all three of them wore expressions of pure shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The screen was filled with scathing attacks against Zhang Jiancheng, Huang Haibo, and their Martial Arts Academy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It struck right at the heart of their shadiest dealings, and what’s more, it was all backed by irrefutable proof.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Looks like you were right. Someone really might be out to get us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That fool who fancies himself a Knight couldn’t possibly have the means to investigate everything we and the Martial Arts Academy have done in such detail.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Haibo clenched his fists, his eyes blazing with killing intent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Haibo had handled these matters with the utmost secrecy. Even on the rare occasion that something was noticed,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>to the point of alerting local authorities, he had personally stepped in to make it all go away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To make these problems disappear, he had spent a fortune and even resorted to ruthless, underhanded tactics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyone who couldn’t be controlled was slowly \"taken care of\" after Huang Haibo had smoothed things over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those bastards have probably been reincarnated many times over by now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So why were all these secrets suddenly seeing the light of day, as if someone had been keeping a detailed ledger all this time?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Haibo couldn’t help but wonder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What do we do? What are we going to do?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this gets out, it’s bound to attract Chu He’s attention! We’ll all be finished!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman said, fraught with panic as she sat there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was in a total panic, completely at a loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The things they had done were simply too severe. As one of the perpetrators,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>she knew better than anyone just how serious the consequences would be if this all came out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you don’t want to die right now, shut your mouth. Otherwise, I’ll kill you myself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Haibo snarled, his patience gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman immediately fell silent, not daring to say another word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But her body, still trembling as she sat on the sofa, betrayed her inner terror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Afraid? Afraid my ass!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Haibo said coldly. \"You had no problem spending every last cent of the money we made.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So why are you panicking now? Did you think you’d be the only one to go down if this got out?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We’ll handle whatever comes our way.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In all my decades in Huamen City, what kind of storm haven’t I weathered?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But I’ve always understood one thing: the rougher the seas, the more valuable the fish.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This might even be our chance to rise higher than ever and solve all our problems once and for all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A flicker of panic had initially crossed Huang Haibo’s eyes,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but his temperament, honed over many years, allowed him to quickly calm down. He had even formulated a counter-plan already.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Father, do you have a plan?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Qiucheng asked quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Huang Haibo’s daughter, she knew her father’s style and methods better than anyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing him sitting there so calm and composed, she knew he must have a plan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as her father said, this was hardly the first major storm the family had faced over the years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And every time, her father had acted decisively to turn the situation around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, seeing that Huang Haibo was unfazed, Huang Qiucheng’s own heart began to calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wife looked at Huang Haibo, her eyes filled with expectation. Her husband was her only hope now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Zhang Jiancheng, he just sat there, his eyes glazing over once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If someone with enough power and a grudge wants to investigate our past deeds, it’s only a matter of time before they’re exposed. It’s a ticking time bomb.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Haibo glanced at the local forum where netizens were furiously cursing his family in the comments below the post.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A disdainful smile spread across his face. \"A bunch of idiotic rabble. All they can do is curse us from behind a keyboard.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If they dared to stand in front of me, I’d slap them to death with a single palm strike.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In fact, if I wanted to,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I could have my men find the home addresses of every netizen insulting my family in that comment section in minutes. We could go there and execute their entire families.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s the kind of power I, Huang Haibo, wield in this city. It’s something this common rabble could never even imagine.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jiancheng’s focus returned. He, along with Huang Qiucheng and her mother, remained silent, waiting for what Huang Haibo would say next.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Isn’t there someone out there who wants to play the righteous Knight, lurking in the shadows,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>trying to take down my family and wipe us out of Huamen City?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fine. We’ll pin everything on this ’Knight.’ Let him be the scapegoat.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Over eighty percent of the top brass in Huamen City are on my side,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"because our relationships are so intertwined that you can’t tell where one begins and the other ends.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I go down, they’ll be ruined, if not destroyed completely. That’s the last thing they want to see happen.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So, whether it’s for my sake or their own, they will never allow me to fall.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Whoever is trying to take me down from the shadows has seriously underestimated the situation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As long as we pin everything on him, our family will be in the clear for good.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Haibo said with complete confidence, \"However, I will find the person who posted this. I’ll drag them out of the woodwork.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That bastard actually claimed I wouldn’t even spare an eighty-year-old woman,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"he even made up a ridiculous story that I went to their village and inseminated over three hundred sows at a pig farm.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Haibo, who fancied himself a formidable figure, couldn’t tolerate having his name smeared with such rumors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jiancheng’s mouth twitched. ’Could my father-in-law have really done something like that?’ he thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Who would have thought!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that thought, his eyes unconsciously drifted down toward Huang Haibo’s crotch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What the hell are you looking at, you useless piece of trash!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You let some coward hiding in the shadows nearly kill you. If my daughter hadn’t been protecting you,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"and used the death-substitute doll I spent a fortune on to save you, you’d be long dead by now, you hear me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Zhang Jiancheng sizing him up with that strange look, Huang Haibo was instantly enraged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Haibo raised his hand and slapped him hard across the face, nearly knocking him unconscious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his current state, Zhang Jiancheng was extremely frail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jiancheng clutched his face, an expression of pure grievance on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, due to his body’s condition, the area he was struck was covered in lividity spots and was almost numb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So while he nearly fainted, he didn’t feel much pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The main thing was, he knew the earlier accusations in that exposé post were all true.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’He had personally handled many of those matters, so of course he knew they were real.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’So, since the person behind it had such solid proof for the other claims, was there any need to mix in lies?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jiancheng felt there was only one possibility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’The part about \"not even sparing an eighty-year-old woman\" and \"inseminating over three hundred sows at a pig farm\" must also be true.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’That was over three hundred sows!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’My father-in-law is truly on another level... terrifyingly so!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It seems the problems in Huamen City are even worse than we imagined. I doubt Bi Hongda will be the only one to fall.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing the strange looks from Chu He and Yumizakura, Qi Chaoyu awkwardly tried to change the subject.\u003C\u002Fp>",1327,"2026-06-06T16:46:32.086Z",1,"novelbin.me","892e5e831df335150dc9881b52dfbd594bf16f54f26e145e03ed847627c7d291","national-guardian-s-gone-and-we-re-done-chapter-175","national-guardian-s-gone-and-we-re-done-chapter-174",274,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fnational-guardian-s-gone-and-we-re-done-cover.jpg"]