[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-overthrowing-han":3,"chapter-overthrowing-han-overthrowing-han-chapter-122":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Overthrowing Han",{"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},1222881,1620,"Chapter 122: Parading Through the City","overthrowing-han-chapter-122",122,"\u003Cp>Cao Mengde appeared magnanimous, but in truth his heart was deeply gloomy and troubled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And no wonder — just a month ago, your family was still basking in boundless glory, still counted among the prominent and powerful in Luoyang, and you yourself were serving as a thousand-bushel county magistrate with a brilliant future ahead! Then suddenly, your brother-in-law’s entire family was wiped out, and after that your whole family, yourself included, lost every official post. You rushed to Luoyang in a panic, only to find you couldn’t even collect your own cousin’s corpse…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At a time like this, managing to put on a show of magnanimity was already remarkable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But perhaps because the quality of the wine in Gongsun Xun’s home was truly not bad, after a few words of conversation, even that surface magnanimity of the gloomy Cao Mengde vanished. He kept clutching Gongsun Xun’s hand, going on about how deeply, deeply he envied the other man’s freedom to do as he pleased, and then inevitably spoke of his own return to his ancestral home in Qiaoxian, his prospects uncertain and all the rest… It left Gongsun Xun both sighing with feeling and truly helpless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two drank from the afternoon straight into the evening. Cao Mengde had originally planned to go outside the city that night to bid farewell to his childhood friend Yuan Shao, but by then he was already hopelessly drunk, unable to walk steadily. Gongsun Xun could hardly let him go out, so he forcibly pulled him back and kept him there — not only eating and drinking, but also arranging for him to stay the night there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who would have guessed that, just before bed, the other man would suddenly start a drunken fit, grabbing Gongsun Xun and insisting they sleep foot-to-foot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So be it, sleep it is — a drunkard, no fear of him doing anything, and besides, he was in Gongsun Xun’s own house; presumably he wouldn’t dare play that trick of killing someone in his dreams… But what did it mean that, while saying he wanted to sleep foot-to-foot with him, he was at the same time hugging that fat cat so tightly?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two men and one cat?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, fortunately Cao Cao had truly drunk far too much, and before long he was hugging the cat and sleeping like the dead. Only then did Gongsun Xun manage to squeeze onto the edge of the bed and close his eyes… Slipping away was impossible, absolutely impossible — if he really crawled back into his own wife’s bed, people would surely say that to him a wife was like a limb and a brother like clothing, or some such thing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he could forget about getting anywhere among the scholar-officials!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The night passed without a word. Early the next morning, seeing that Cao Mengde was still sleeping as steady as a mountain and as loud as thunder, Gongsun Xun had no choice but to arrange for two maidservants to attend to him, and also instructed Lu Fan to deal with the man carefully and prudently. Then he hastily finished washing and dressing and headed to the office of the Colonel Director of Retainers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wenqi, you’re late!” No sooner had he stepped into the imperial prison subordinate to the Colonel Director of Retainers’ office than Yang Qiu appeared before him, his face ferocious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Grand Han Colonel Director of Retainers was not only covered in bloodstains, but his eyes were completely red — clearly he had not slept all night and had even personally taken part in the torture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what did he mean, “late”?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What does Lord Yang mean?” Gongsun Xun asked, barely keeping his composure. “I came first thing in the morning — how can you speak of me being late?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That Wang Fu and his son have already been beaten to death by my own hand!” Yang Qiu replied with a savage grin. “Earth stuffed in their mouths, directly bludgeoned with clubs — they wailed half the night before they died!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gongsun Xun was speechless for a moment, yet he could not suppress a flicker of satisfaction tinged with cruelty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I know you have a personal grudge against Duan Jiong, so I haven’t touched him,” Yang Qiu continued with a cold laugh, even patting Gongsun Xun on the arm and leaving quite a few bloodstains on the other man’s sleeve. “I’ll go wash and change, then rest my eyes a while. Wenqi, do as you please! Once the matter is settled, I have other instructions!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gongsun Xun nodded with a hollow laugh. The words he had earlier intended to urge the other to strike swiftly were naturally tossed by him into the Bohai Sea. And as the two passed by each other, he went straight into the prison to find Duan Jiong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, the prison cell holding Duan Jiong was not some filthy, unbearable place. In fact, the cell where Duan Jiming resided was on the uppermost level — not only did it have light and ventilation, but the floor was clean and tidy… It was clear that this Grand Commandant Duan had indeed received preferential treatment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even with such preferential treatment, after just one night, Duan Jiong, sitting quietly in his cell, could not help but be utterly dispirited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So you didn’t deceive me after all,” Duan Jiong said despondently upon seeing his visitor. “From the Son of Heaven down to the scholar-officials, they all want me dead quickly, is that it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The commotion from Wang Fu and his son last night was quite loud?” Gongsun Xun immediately caught on. “Lord Duan could hear it clearly even from here?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Indeed!” Duan Jiong replied with closed eyes, his voice trembling slightly. “Yang Fangzheng was utterly without restraint — he simply wanted to torture Attendant-in-Ordinary Wang and his son to death… If they died so quickly, what chance do I have left? It’s just that I truly do not understand — it’s only natural for the scholar-officials to want me dead, but why must the Son of Heaven insist on putting both me and Attendant-in-Ordinary Wang to death?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In truth…” Seeing the other man’s demeanor, Gongsun Xun could not help but speak a word of honesty. “By the state’s system, among the eunuchs, there are only twelve positions for Regular Palace Attendants at the two-thousand-bushel rank, and no more than twenty positions for Junior Attendants of the Yellow Gate at the thousand-bushel rank. If the old men are not all killed off, how can the new men rise? Back when Lord Duan served as someone’s claw and fang, didn’t he also kill two Regular Attendants in succession on behalf of Wang Fu and Cao Jie? The Son of Heaven’s attitude like this — I fear it cannot be separated from those young Attendants and Yellow Gate attendants by his side.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Duan Jiong could not help but fall silent… At this point, how could he still not understand? It was just that he was unwilling to accept it. And once the other man had spoken it plainly, he also reached a certain realization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lord Duan!” After a long pause, Gongsun Xun finally forced himself to ask. “Now that things have come to this, do you have any last words?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If I commit suicide now, might my family be spared?” Duan Jiong raised his head and asked earnestly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hard to say,” Gongsun Xun answered solemnly. “After all, you’ve already been thrown into prison. Even if we report it as suicide, it may not be as easy to handle as it would have been at the very start. That said, I am willing to do my utmost for Lord Duan. Even if exile to the borderlands is unavoidable, I will exert influence from the Imperial Secretariat to ensure your family is exiled to your old territory in Liangzhou as far as possible…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“For that, Jiong here offers his deepest thanks,” Duan Jiong said, and from where he sat on the ground, he made a rare bow of deep respect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then how does Lord Duan wish to end it?” Seeing that the other man had come to terms with it, Gongsun Xun no longer stood on ceremony. “Poisoned wine, white silk, blade or axe… the prison lacks none of these.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I have no special request,” Duan Jiong said, sitting upright and motionless after rising. “I only do not wish to die a miserable death at the hands of prison officers like Wang Fu did, nor do I want the unpleasantness of poisoned wine or white silk… I ask Physician Gongsun to do it himself.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gongsun Xun nodded and directly drew his own broken blade. The blade gleamed like water, faintly brightening the prison cell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That broken knife of that kid Dong Zhuo,” Duan Jiong said, unable to suppress a laugh at the sight. “Who knows where he picked it up. Among all the famous scholars in Luoyang, only Cai Bojie thought anything of him, casually spouting some nonsense about a ‘Xiang Yu’s broken blade,’ and he believed it… When did King Xiang ever go to Xiliang?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Perhaps it is fake!” Gongsun Xun said dismissively as he walked around behind the other man. “But this blade, having passed through the words of Cai Bojie and the hands of Lord Dong and myself, in days to come, even if it is fake, will have to become real.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You, Dong Zhongying, and I are all the same — all men of wild ambition,” Duan Jiong said, watching as that broken blade was laid against his neck, his mouth still not stopping. “But in the end, we are all nothing but martial men, unable to cross that threshold! In twenty years, when they find the chance, they will still sweep people like you out! Take a word of advice from me — you are still young, you would do better to… No! What you said yesterday, ‘there won’t be twenty years’ — could it be you meant the dynasty has no twenty years left?! Is that what you meant?! When the time comes, the scholar-officials will be mere weeds again, and the martial men will be heroes once more?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gongsun Xun’s hand paused in its motion, but it was only a pause. The next instant, that broken blade slid gently along one side of the other man’s neck, and instantly blood shot out like an arrow… Blood loss at this speed was not actually enough to kill the man immediately, but it was enough to make him quickly faint, reducing the pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A famed general of his generation, illustrious for half a lifetime, destined to be remembered in history — yet because of fame, fortune, and wealth, he had thrown in his lot with the eunuchs and suppressed the innocent, and was also destined to be both praised and condemned… But no matter what, with this one stroke of the blade, having lost consciousness, he was finally destined to breathe his last!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gongsun Xun had easily dealt the killing blow. Adding in the earlier Xia Yu and Tian Yan, and Wang Fu, who had been tortured to death by Yang Qiu the previous night… then according to the grievances and fury in his heart after Gao Heng’s death, his personal grudges and enemies had in fact been resolved for the most part — or rather, only Cao Jie remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet, looking at Duan Jiong still bleeding ceaselessly on the ground, blade in hand and half his body spattered with blood, Gongsun Xun felt not the slightest sense of release… Not to compare with the utter relief he had felt after killing Xia Yu that day — he did not even feel that faint, secretly hidden satisfaction he had felt just moments ago upon hearing that Wang Fu had been tortured to death!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was because, at this very moment, Gongsun Xun felt that the Duan Jiong before his eyes and the Gao Heng of that day were in truth not the slightest bit different… They were even faintly one and the same person!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Men of pure integrity, who met with misfortune — you did not die because of me, yet you were killed by my hand!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stood there withered for a long time, watching the blood on the floor before his eyes spread more and more. Knowing full well that the other man was beyond any hope of survival, he flicked his blade, sheathed it, and then strode quickly out of the prison cell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wenqi.” Seeing the bloodstains on the other man’s body, Yang Qiu did not ask further about the matter, but instead said sternly at once: “That day you and I agreed — kill Wang Fu to intimidate all of Luoyang… But I believe that killing alone is not enough to make those wretches stay their hands!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Please speak plainly, Lord Yang!” Gongsun Xun replied with a cupped-hand salute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wang Fu’s nephew, the Chancellor of Pei, Wang Ji, is also already on the road to arrest…” Yang Qiu said with a cold laugh. “This man, after killing people, most enjoys dismembering the corpses, and he also writes out the names and crimes of those he kills, hanging them together on a cart for display! I intend to pay him back in his own coin — dismember Wang Fu’s corpse, then load it onto a cart, write out his name and crimes, and parade it through Luoyang!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gongsun Xun immediately saluted again with cupped hands: “Xun is unworthy, but I wish to borrow Wang Fu’s corpse and walk through Luoyang, to intimidate the petty villains!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Good!” Yang Qiu immediately struck the table. “I knew Wenqi’s courage was extraordinary. In Luoyang, though they speak of countless heroes, they are all cowardly dead dogs. The only one who dares to stand in the same rank as me is you, the White Horse Gentleman of the Household, and no one else! Once the parade is done, hang his corpse above the city gate for all under heaven to see! And I will go now to confiscate Wang Fu’s mansion and his ward residence!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gongsun Xun immediately accepted the order and went out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A short while later, right in front of the office of the Colonel Director of Retainers, he indeed saw a group of prison officers bring out several shapeless chunks of flesh along with Wang Fu’s severed head, and hang them upon an official cart. Then someone also fetched a wooden placard, inscribed it with “The Criminal Wang Fu” and so on, and tied it to the cart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gongsun Xun no longer hesitated. Leading Han Dang and the others, riding a white horse at the front, he had a single prison officer drive the cart behind him, and further back a squad of armored soldiers followed — and just like that, they headed straight onto the streets of Luoyang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, if there had still been some delay in the transmission of information regarding yesterday’s arrests, if arrests alone were not enough to make the people of Luoyang believe that Wang Fu, who had once dominated the court, had suddenly been cast down into the dust, if those scholar-officials and officials had still been somewhat dazed and at a loss yesterday… then today, when Gongsun Xun, covered in bloodstains, rode a white horse and brought Wang Fu’s corpse, dismembered into several pieces, onto the main street, the scholars and commoners of Luoyang had no more doubts!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Fu, a powerful eunuch of his generation, still basking in boundless glory the day before yesterday, sending his disciples and subordinate officials to various places to openly extort money and goods — and then yesterday he was arrested at his door, and today, just like that, so suddenly, he had died without a burial place!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time Gongsun Xun had walked just one street, the onlookers and those riding to spread the news already numbered in the hundreds; when he had walked four or five streets, the Luoyang scholars and commoners following behind the cart, shouting and cheering, already numbered in the thousands; and by the time the cart carrying Wang Fu’s dismembered corpse turned onto Bronze Camel Street, Gongsun Xun even had to stop and have people clear the cart — along the way, the Luoyang scholars and commoners had pelted it with stones until it was already too heavy to bear!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I never imagined Wang Fu’s evil deeds had reached such an extent, that the common people hate him to the bone,” Han Dang said, his face turning pale as he looked at the surging crowd behind them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How would the common people know anything of Wang Fu’s evil deeds?” Gongsun Xun could not help but sneer. “Aside from a few victims, the rest are mostly just here for the spectacle! Today Wang Fu’s dismembered corpse hangs here, and they follow along the road, cheering and leaping, throwing stones — if one day Yang Fangzheng and I end up in such a state, they will do the same!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Han Dang could not help but change color: “If that is so, why did you, Young Master, still agree to this matter? And why personally ride at the front to clear the way?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Because Wang Fu’s corpse is not for them to see at all!” Gongsun Xun answered thus. Then, seeing that the cart had been cleared, he once more reined in his horse and moved forward, proceeding along Bronze Camel Street.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Han Dang then asked no further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bronze Camel Street — on one side was the Southern Palace, on the other the offices of the Three Excellencies and the many government bureaus of Luoyang. When the cart carrying Wang Fu’s dismembered corpse, leading over a thousand Luoyang commoners, arrived here, the Three Excellencies and Nine Ministers, the powerful noble families, the scholars, officials, and clerks — nearly everyone came out, one after another, to look!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some rejoiced, some grieved, some were startled, some were afraid, some sighed, some raged, some wailed, some kept silent… but no matter what, as these people watched Wang Fu’s dismembered corpse, they could not help casting complex glances at Gongsun Xun, who walked at the front, his body still stained with blood!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Gongsun Xun, staring straight ahead, sword at his side, rode his horse and strode forward under those complex gazes, neither speaking unnecessary words nor pausing deliberately to make a show of force… yet an indescribable feeling at that moment flooded his heart, and the hand gripping the reins was faintly trembling!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In truth, by this point, how could Gongsun Xun not understand that, after a thousand hardships, the political speculation he had so painstakingly pursued within this tide of political strife had finally succeeded!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After today, everyone under Heaven would know that Gongsun Xun from Liaoxi was one of the chief forces behind the execution of the eunuchs — that he had personally led the parade of Wang Fu’s corpse through Luoyang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After today, his name would thunder across the realm among the scholars; those partisans and Imperial Academy students suppressed by Wang Fu and Cao Jie would regard him as a comrade, and no one would ever again dismiss him as a mere warrior from the border commanderies!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After today, if he met Tian Feng again, perhaps that man would bow to him with sincere respect!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After today, if he could be promoted to a two-thousand-dan rank and then go summon renowned scholars, those partisans and literati, though they might still put on airs, would ultimately not look down on him from the marrow of their bones!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After today, even if the eunuchs struck back tomorrow and he had to flee as an outlaw across the land, he, Gongsun Xun, would at the very least receive half the treatment that Zhang Jian had!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this self-transcendence in status was only temporary, limited in degree, and carried both risk and a time limit!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why had Lu Zhi and Liu Kuan been unwilling at first to let Gongsun Xun take part in executing the eunuchs? Were they not among the very few elders who truly cared for Gongsun Xun?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why, on the contrary, did scholar-officials of no personal connection to him, like Yang Biao, Qiao Xuan, and Wang Yun, urge him to act? Did they truly recognize and esteem Gongsun Xun so highly?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why did Wang Meng, knowing he was doomed beyond all hope, speak out in mockery? Why did Duan Wei dismiss Gongsun Xun’s actions with contempt? Were these two men fools?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quite the opposite! Even Gongsun Xun himself understood perfectly clearly: Lu Zhi and Liu Kuan truly had his best interests at heart; Yang Biao, Qiao Xuan, and Wang Yun merely wanted to use him; and Wang Meng and Duan Wei were, in fact, rare men of clear insight!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Gongsun Xun also knew that such excessively violent, even brutal methods, while they could make his name resound across the realm with a single strike, were also destined to make him the target of a myriad arrows!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Kuan, Lu Zhi, as well as his father-in-law Zhao Bao and his wife’s uncle Zhao Zhong — these people might protect his life for a time, but twenty years later, when a new crop of eunuchs took over, he would surely become a sacrificial victim in a new round of political struggle, just like Duan Wei!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But then again, as Gongsun Xun had said to the dying Duan Wei… how could there be a “twenty years later”?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This execution of the eunuchs was something even Gongsun Xun’s mother had wholeheartedly supported, even repeatedly encouraging him in her letters to act! Because in this world, this mother and son alone knew better than anyone that there was absolutely no twenty years left! After this wave of eunuchs under Zhao Zhong, it would be the time for heroes and mighty men to take up arms and scourge the realm! When that time came, there would be no more cycles of eunuchs, scholars, and consort kin starting all over again — the Great Han itself would be gone!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This speculation — or rather, this desperate gamble — seemed fraught with boundless risk and seemed to leave far-reaching calamity in its wake, but in truth, it was the most profitable transaction Gongsun Xun had made since entering official service!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hang this wretch’s dismembered parts on the Xiacheng Gate, and nail this wooden placard beside the corpse!” Beside the city gate, Gongsun Xun, his body still stained with blood, strove to suppress his trembling hands as he shouted fiercely. “Without the order of the Director of Retainers, no one is permitted to collect the corpse! Let all under Heaven know that Wang Fu, who once executed Dou Wu, confined the Empress Dowager, and renewed the Partisan Prohibitions, has been killed like a wild dog by Lord Yang and me, Gongsun Xun!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lord Cao…” On the official road outside the city gate, Lu Fan sat on horseback, watching all this from afar, and suddenly turned to ask Cao Cao beside him. “My lord will be finished shortly. Would Lord Cao like to wait for him before departing?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No need!” Cao Cao, as if just snapping back to his senses, could not help laughing wryly as he patted a wooden crate hanging from his own mount. “Who steals a rare beast raised in someone else’s home and then greets the owner to his face? Ziheng, send my regards to your lord. Tell him that our meeting in Luoyang was truly rare and precious, but the rivers and lakes stretch far — if there is a chance, we shall meet again!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Fan smiled faintly and immediately cupped his hands: “In that case, allow me to borrow an old verse of my lord’s to present to Lord Cao… Grieve not that on the road ahead you’ll find no kindred soul; under Heaven, who is there that does not know you, my lord?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Quite fitting to the occasion!” Cao Mengde sighed with emotion, then nodded slightly, and with two servants in tow, headed into the dense flow of people, making his way east toward his homeland.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>———————I am a dividing line split into several pieces———————\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“After the Grand Ancestor executed Wang Fu, he further had his corpse dismembered at the Xia City Gate and erected a large placard reading ‘The Treacherous Minister Wang Fu.’ All his property was confiscated, and his wife and children were exiled to Bijing. Those around him remonstrated: ‘My lord, your actions are harsh and severe; sooner or later you will surely suffer retaliation!’ The Grand Ancestor answered sternly: ‘The sun is eclipsed, the earth quakes, hens transform into roosters — if we do not carry out harsh and severe acts of punishment, how can the Great Han have any sooner or later? How can we cherish our private selves and turn a blind eye to the realm?’” — Old Book of Yan, Volume 1, Annals of the Grand Ancestor, Martial Emperor\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>PS: There is also a reader group 684558115, everyone can join.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",4169,"2026-06-04T19:42:03.441Z",1,"Novelzhen Translator","ac2dc784cda8ba738d6b9bde7273e475a163df9a726b8ed6917ca9551693f1df","overthrowing-han-chapter-123","overthrowing-han-chapter-121",548,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Foverthrowing-han-cover.jpg"]