[{"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-8":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},2315263,4528,"Chapter 8: The Immoral Ximen Daguanren","simultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m-chapter-8",8,"\u003Cp>“Who?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ximen Daguanren, who had just been about to enjoy some private-room play with his personal servant, sprang to his feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dai’an, thoroughly familiar with the situation and already half-naked, frantically grabbed his clothes and pulled them back on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though male love was common and everyone knew it, word of it getting out would still bring shame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who are you? What business do you have breaking into my Ximen household at this hour?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ximen Qing narrowed his eyes, sizing up the black-clad figure before him,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>whose entire body—face and hair included—was shrouded in black cloth, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His muscles were taut, ready to shove Dai’an forward as a shield at the slightest sign of trouble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surely Dai’an, as his personal servant, would feel honored?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dai’an: I shit NM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Heh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ve long heard that Ximen Daguanren is wealthy beyond measure in Yanggu, with countless rare treasures,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>your fortune counted in tens of thousands of strings of cash. I’ve come simply to take some silver for my expenses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You, Ximen Daguanren, are known for your refinement—surely you won’t let me leave empty-handed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie, seized by a wicked urge, shut the window,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>then couldn’t resist teasing Ximen Daguanren in the tone of Chu Xiangshuai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, as a lifelong playboy, Ximen Daguanren had always been his idol before he crossed over—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>no, his object of revulsion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, Zhang Jie, knowing his identity must not be revealed, didn’t use his real voice,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but instead channeled his internal Qi into his throat, making his voice deeper, rougher, and more powerful than his natural youthful tone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Since you have a request, how could I refuse?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ximen Qing, sensing the black-clad man’s profound depth, spoke soothingly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Dai’an, hurry to the vault and bring a hundred taels of gold for this warrior.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ximen Qing ordered Dai’an.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, Father.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Faced with this mysterious black-clad man, Dai’an was equally panicked,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but years of habit made him instinctively obey Ximen Qing’s command.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saying this, Dai’an, barely dressed, moved to leave the private room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Stop!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie halted Dai’an.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What if Dai’an ran out and raised the alarm?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he wasn’t afraid of being surrounded by Ximen’s servants, he wasn’t a murderous psychopath either,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and couldn’t possibly kill every single servant in the Ximen household.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most of Ximen’s servants, aside from a few like Dai’an,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>were nothing more than hired hands doing a job for pay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even more tragic was Laiwang, whose wife was stolen by Ximen Daguanren for her beauty,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and who was then falsely accused and sentenced to exile by Ximen himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How utterly miserable!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie, once a wage slave himself in his past life, had no intention of harming these workers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why make life harder for your fellow worker?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So you’re a seasoned bandit!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ximen Qing silently cursed the failure of his plan to summon help.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was certain that with Dai’an’s wit, once outside, he’d immediately rally the other servants,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and then this black-clad thief would be at his mercy—whether to kill or spare, it would be his word alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he knew such a trick only fooled greenhorn thieves;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>any experienced bandit wouldn’t fall for it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then perhaps you’d be willing to accompany my servant and me somewhere?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ximen Qing, his first plan foiled, devised another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this black-clad man agreed to come with him, he’d lead him to a completely sealed room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, no matter how seasoned a thief or how ruthless a killer he was,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he’d be left screaming for heaven to hear, for earth to answer—no help coming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ximen Daguanren is indeed generous, but I have no desire to move.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie chuckled lightly, declining Ximen Daguanren’s proposal again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he couldn’t read minds and didn’t know what scheme Ximen Daguanren was hatching,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>having studied the Great Man’s theories, he knew:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When facing an enemy, never follow their line of thought,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>for your enemy will gladly exploit any information gap to bury you alive!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I have some ornaments here—perhaps they might please you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ximen Qing said, unfastening a jade pendant from his belt and holding it before Zhang Jie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ximen Daguanren truly has great wealth!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie, studying the pendant, couldn’t help but admire it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he had no expertise in jewels or jade,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he could tell that the piece Ximen Qing presented glowed with a soft luster in the candlelight,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>as if it were a rare treasure among jade ornaments—a glowing Guanyin pendant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If his guess was right, this pendant was carved from premium sheep-fat white jade,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and the Guanyin figure was clearly the work of a master jade carver,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>whose few brush-like strokes captured the Bodhisattva’s boundless compassion perfectly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was surely worth more than a thousand gold pieces, but a thousand taels of silver? Definitely worth it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I never expected Ximen Daguanren to harbor such ambitions.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie, studying the pendant closely, spoke with pointed meaning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Guanyin” sounds like “official seal”; among the people, it’s common to say, “Men wear Guanyin, women wear Buddha,”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>hoping boys will pass the imperial exams, enter officialdom, and seize power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ximen Qing wore this pendant constantly—his intentions were obvious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Just a trifle, nothing to impress you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ximen Qing’s smile remained unchanged, showing no irritation at being seen through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What man born in this land hadn’t dreamed of sleeping on a beauty’s lap and ruling the world awake?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Ximen Qing, having spent so long as a merchant,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>knew clearly: there are limits to being a merchant!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To truly enter the upper echelons of the Great Song,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>there was only one path—become an official!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why was he so afraid of Zhang Jie, a boy half his age?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Precisely because this boy was a prodigy of the imperial examinations!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only by passing the exams and earning the titles of juren or jinshi could one obtain the entry ticket to the upper class!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lacking any talent for the exams, he’d been forced to find another route—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>becoming a lapdog to Cai Jing, Liu Eunuch, Xue Eunuch, and others!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And even that, many men couldn’t even get the chance to do!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie: I think you’re subtly mocking me before I had access to the shared space…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Father, may I present this pendant to the gentleman?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the two seemed to have reached an agreement, Dai’an tried to show his usefulness and loyalty to Ximen Qing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No. I’ll present it myself.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ximen Qing directly refused Dai’an’s suggestion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Please, sir, take a look.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ximen Qing stepped slowly forward three paces and held the pendant before Zhang Jie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Truly an excellent piece,” Zhang Jie murmured, entranced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This pendant was the most valuable ornament he’d seen in over a decade in the Water Margin world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Yanggu, even a good acre of farmland cost no more than a dozen taels of silver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That meant this single pendant was worth over a hundred acres of prime land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even a penniless refugee who obtained this pendant\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>could instantly become a small landowner with a hundred acres!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, that bright future assumed he wouldn’t die from carrying gold through a crowded market.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Zhang family could be called a wealthy household, but its land amounted to no more than a thousand mu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This single jade pendant is worth one-tenth of the Zhang family’s land!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Master Ximen is carrying one-tenth of the Zhang family’s wealth on his person!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Perfect opportunity!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that Zhang Jie’s attention seemed entirely drawn to the jade pendant, Ximen Qing could not help but smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ever since he noticed that Zhang Jie neither sent Dai’an to fetch money,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>nor asked him to accompany Zhang Jie to retrieve it, he knew Zhang Jie had ill intent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, Zhang Jie had come uninvited in the dead of night—clearly not with good intentions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And since he was not after gold, silver, or jewels, then he must be after something more valuable than gold or silver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Does the Ximen household have anything more precious or important than Ximen Qing’s own life?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ximen Qing bent his knees slightly as if riding a horse, then twisted his waist and shifted his hips,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>clenched his right fist, and drove it straight toward Zhang Jie’s face with all his might!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie appeared to be caught off guard—he had not moved even as Ximen Qing’s fist drew within a foot of his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Ximen Qing’s face lit up with a triumphant smile:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This punch technique he had learned at great cost from a master of fist arts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The power of this punch was such that even a blue brick would be shattered into fragments,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>let alone the soft flesh of a man’s face?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his youth, when Ximen Qing traveled far and wide, he had relied on such skills,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>having personally slain several bandits and outlaws!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could already picture the black-clad man screaming in agony, collapsing to the ground!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie regarded Ximen Qing’s actions with disdain:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Master Ximen violates the code of martial virtue—he cheats and ambushes a mere teenager like me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is this right? It is not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie urges Master Ximen to abandon this behavior at once and mend his ways!\u003C\u002Fp>",1517,"2026-06-20T14:22:35.989Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","8bd3a16de54db01f5c3d7b905206ffd0f5ad8729f13a8d86e5474e3a08971de6","simultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m-chapter-9","simultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m-chapter-7",601,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsimultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m-cover.jpg"]