[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-simultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m":3,"chapter-simultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m-simultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m-chapter-72":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Simultaneously Transmigrated: My Cheat Skill Is Myself",{"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},2315327,4528,"Chapter 72: The Coward","simultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m-chapter-72",72,"\u003Cp>The next day, Zhang Jie woke up to wash up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Good morning, Brother Chen.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie greeted Chen Wen, who had come to wash up as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Morning.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Wen, with dark circles under his eyes, replied weakly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tsk tsk. At thirty, a man is like a wolf; at forty, like a tiger. Indeed, the old saying holds true.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Chen Wen’s exhausted, drained appearance, Zhang Jie clucked in amazement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t even muster the energy to avoid Zhang Jie anymore, not even from yesterday’s incident.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One can only say: a woman in her prime is terrifying indeed~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If Jin Lian turns out like this someday, won’t Chen’s today be my tomorrow?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie shuddered at Chen Wen’s pitiful state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Children say they want everything; adults know they can’t handle it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Zhang Jie remembered his cheat ability—he shrugged:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So I’m a cheater! No problem then.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Last night, he had once again killed Pan Jinlian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie felt as if Zhao Zilong himself had taken over his body:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Last night, in Chen’s side chamber, I regarded the lustful Pan Jinlian as mere grass and weeds!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What is there left to fear henceforth?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Come eat breakfast.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After washing up, Wang Lady called out, having prepared the morning meal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother Chen, let’s go,” Zhang Jie called to Chen Wen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Renjie, let’s go.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Wen forced a faint smile and marched ahead toward the parlor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind him, Zhang Jie wondered if it was his imagination,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but it seemed Chen Wen’s legs were trembling…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Young master.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Zhang Jie and Chen Wen sat down, Pan Jinlian, radiant as if freshly watered,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and Wang Lady brought steaming porridge to them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie and Chen Wen raised their bowls and exchanged glances—each understood the other’s thought:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s hard to be a person! Harder still to be a man!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother Chen, Lady Wang, until we meet again.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After breakfast, Zhang Jie took his leave of Chen Wen and Wang Lady.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuncheng County had been explored for days; the Song Yasi he was interested in had been met,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and a small gift given—there was no point in lingering further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Uncle, take care.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Goodbye, Uncle Zhang.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Lady and the two children also bid farewell to Zhang Jie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Renjie…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only Chen Wen’s gaze was complex.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, after replenishing his strength with food, he had regained some vitality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now he remembered Zhang Jie’s blasphemous words again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Young master, the carriage is here.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Song arrived at the Chen household in his carriage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother Chen, Lady Wang, take care.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie bid farewell once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Next time, Uncle will buy you candy figures.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie ruffled the heads of Chen Li and Chen Yun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh no, you’ve messed up my hair! I spent forever styling it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yun, now aware of beauty and beginning to care for her appearance, pouted so hard she could hang a soy sauce bottle from her lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Li, still too young to care, only had eyes for snacks:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Uncle Zhang, I want a candy figure of the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, Sun Wukong!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Alright.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie agreed at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over the past two days, he had shared part of “Journey to the West” with the two children.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Song dynasty, folk ballads already circulated about the historical journey of the Tang monk Xuanzang to the West for sutras.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unsurprisingly, the two children were captivated by the monkey, who possessed boundless magic and could ascend to heaven or descend to earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Me too! Me too!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the mention of Sun Wukong, Chen Yun instantly forgot her hair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Both, both.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie, itching to play, ruffled their hair again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Younger brother, take care.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Zhang Jie departed, Chen Wen solemnly bade him farewell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Goodbye.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After bidding farewell again, Zhang Jie boarded the carriage with Pan Jinlian and Yan Poqi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clip-clop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the clip-clop of hooves and the creak of wheels,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie, who had been away from Yanggu County for nearly two months, finally set out on his journey home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the carriage disappear into the distance, Chen Wen could not shake his unease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master, Uncle Zhang left you a letter.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Lady pulled a letter from her bosom and handed it to Chen Wen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A letter? Renjie left me a letter?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Wen startled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why are you pulling it out now?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Wen snatched the envelope and marched straight to his study without looking back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s just a letter. What’s the big deal?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Lady was baffled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She felt Chen Wen had become strangely odd since yesterday.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What exactly did Renjie talk to Master about?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Lady zeroed in on the key: Zhang Jie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, she had no intention of digging deeper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if Chen Wen and Zhang Jie planned something major, she could only follow her husband’s lead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Renjie, how could he be so careless?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Holding the envelope, Chen Wen ran into his study and slammed the door shut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Believing the letter contained something horrifying, he paced frantically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huff. Huff.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Wen pulled out a fire starter, lit a candle, and prepared to burn the letter after reading.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“All is ready…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With trembling hands, Chen Wen opened the letter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Like a tiger lying dormant on a barren hill, biding its time, concealing its claws and fangs!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the first page, two lines of bold, swirling characters leapt into Chen Wen’s eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Renjie—he truly harbors great ambitions!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Wen’s hands trembled even more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suddenly felt his throat dry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could a mere juren like him possibly plan such a thing?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hurriedly turned to the second page—but it was a prescription!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Epimedium one qian, Eucommia one qian five fen, gecko and goji berry each three qian, others…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Wen read aloud each herb’s name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This… this is a kidney-tonifying prescription?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Wen’s face flushed red, understanding Zhang Jie’s meaning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Epimedium, Eucommia, Gejie, Goji berries—all are herbs that tonify the kidneys and boost Qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie has found out how difficult his bedroom affairs are!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How can I ever hold my head up in front of Renjie?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Wen felt deeply embarrassed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But according to Brother Wu, Renjie is vigorous and robust—could this prescription be the cause?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Recalling Zhang Jie’s frail and sickly childhood, Chen Wen pondered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This thing disgraces scholarly decorum; it must not be allowed to spread and harm others—I shall seal it away!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With righteous indignation, Chen Wen folded the prescription.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he carefully placed it inside the inner pocket of his undershirt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm, this thing must not be kept.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cautious as ever, Chen Wen lit the first sheet of letter paper with a candle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I wonder if Brother Chen has read my letter yet?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the carriage already beyond Yuncheng County, Zhang Jie mused softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just imagining Chen Wen’s expression upon receiving the prescription made him want to laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he knew that after the embarrassment, Chen Wen would surely keep it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Never underestimate a man’s obsession with kidney tonics!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A food, no matter how revolting, if claimed to tonify the kidneys, will be eagerly tried by men.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Take snake wine, which is nearly corpse-water,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>its key marketing pitch being: nourishes yin, replenishes yang…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was proven by research in a certain 21st-century peninsula nation:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Data showed the concentration of sildenafil (the main ingredient in Viagra) in the Han River’s Seoul stretch\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was three to four times that of Brussels in Europe, two to five times that of Copenhagen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The media joked that the fish swimming in the Han River weren’t fish—they were hormones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I hope the yang-boosting herbs in this martial world aren’t too potent.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie felt an inexplicable unease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This prescription he gave Chen Wen came from the “Medical Canon” written by Hu Qingniu, the Butterfly Valley’s Divine Physician, in the Yitian world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On one hand, Zhang Jie could only marvel that Hu Qingniu’s knowledge was truly vast—even this kind of thing was included.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other hand, Zhang Jie could only lament that, in any world,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>among any group of people, cowards were always everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Yitian world, some cowards couldn’t even be saved by internal energy, that extraordinary power!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They desperately needed a coward’s bane—like some Indian oil or something…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie himself had tested the prescription he gave Chen Wen,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>found no side effects, and no great enhancement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That night, Pan Jinlian, as always, could only beg for mercy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who cares—as long as there are no side effects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as it doesn’t kill my future strategist, one of them.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie immediately put the matter out of his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t care about the content of the first sheet of letter paper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if it spread, what harm could a single poem do?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn’t involve anyone like Huang Chao, the Great General Who Reaches the Heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What’s wrong with Zhang Jie, a top-ranked scholar, writing a few poems?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Young Master, have a grape.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yan Poqi, now fully in the role of a maid, brought a washed grape to Zhang Jie’s lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, the Great Song had already had grapes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The grape’s introduction can be traced to around the 2nd century BCE, during the Western Han.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Historical records state that Zhang Qian, after his mission to the Western Regions, brought back grape seeds from Dayuan (modern Central Asia).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this was merely the clear historical record of grapes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the 21st century, archaeological evidence suggests that before Zhang Qian’s mission,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>grapes may have already entered China’s Xinjiang region via the Western Regions,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>such as grape vines and seeds found in the Yanghai tombs of Turpan from the Warring States period.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie opened his mouth and happily swallowed the grape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How decadent.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie silently scolded himself for being so pampered—clothes handed to him, food brought to his mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the next second, he felt perfectly justified:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I waited for years to get my golden finger—why shouldn’t I enjoy it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the golden finger, I lived in hardship;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>now that I have it, if I still live in hardship, wasn’t the golden finger wasted?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his mental preparation complete, Zhang Jie immediately resumed the music and kept dancing…\u003C\u002Fp>",1680,"2026-06-20T14:22:35.989Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 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