[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday":3,"chapter-the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-416":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Imperial Hound on an Eight-Hour Shift",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2225474,4113,"Chapter 416: Hero","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-416",416,"\u003Cp>Li Miao said it lightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't say everything, didn't make it clear, he was taking care of Wu Mingxiao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was too young.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one knew better than Li Miao, who had been an Embroidered Uniform Guard for more than twenty years, that this world and human hearts were a piece of chaos. So-called order and justice were man-made products, extremely fragile, needing careful care and guidance to grow and strengthen, until one day they could face those real filth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Contacting such extreme human nature too early was no different from pouring poisonous water on a plant that hadn't fully grown. But if one didn't contact these at all, the so-called chivalrous heart would just be duckweed without roots, which could wither at any time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Li Miao just mentioned it shallowly, letting Wu Mingxiao guess and digest it himself, so as not to be unable to bear it when he saw the real thing later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for why Li Miao was so painstaking... it could only be said that bringing up a child was already a skill engraved in his instinct for Lord Li, he couldn't help it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bumps of the journey and the churning of Wu Mingxiao’s heart would not be mentioned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The carriage swayed for half an hour and stopped slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was noise outside the carriage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just this much?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn it, the mountain is about to run out of food! Just this little bit of oil and water isn't enough for us brothers to have a drink!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, they had already entered the bandit stronghold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao reached out and tapped Wu Mingxiao’s shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Time to get off the carriage.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that, he pushed open the carriage door and stepped down leisurely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Holy shit!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, you didn't search the carriage?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could the bandits surrounding the carriage have expected that a living person would run out of this carriage for no reason?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, they were on their own turf, so after the surprise, there was no other reaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao looked around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Speaking of which, ever since he started walking the martial arts world, he had played nothing but \"high-end games.\" He was really seeing a \"novice village\" like a bandit stronghold, which a young hero just starting out must pass through, for the first time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dirty, messy, filthy, foul-smelling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Skin and bones, rust and iron.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sewage flowed, torn clothes and garbage soaked in it. Not far away, several rotten carriages were piled up in an open space, and a dozen sallow and emaciated bandits with full mouths of yellow teeth were shouting some dirty words at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Mingxiao got off the carriage and was stunned for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Big Brother Li, this...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What, do you think a bandit stronghold should be the same as written in the storybooks, with justice halls, training grounds, eating meat from big bowls, and drinking wine from big jars?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bandit strongholds are mostly like this. Essentially, besides the fact that most of them are lazy and rotten people, they are actually poor people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How many of them took the step of becoming bandits because their hearts were bad, and how many because they couldn't live, it’s actually hard to tell.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Mingxiao choked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was not the scene he had expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he were facing a group of burly, fierce-looking villains, he could naturally kill them all. But if he were facing a group of sallow, emaciated, and scantily clad people... he really couldn't bring himself to kill them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao raised an eyebrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What, can't bring yourself to do it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Mingxiao was silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing him like this, Li Miao laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your Assistant Commissioner really taught you too little. Never mind, I’ll give you a make-up lesson today.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two were talking to each other here without anyone else around, completely ignoring the bandits around them, seeing their expressions becoming uglier and more ferocious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then came a roar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn thief, eat your grandpa’s blade!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A rusted long sword whistled and slashed toward Li Miao’s face. \u003C\u002Fp>",676,"2026-06-17T21:41:17.211Z","2026-06-18T03:13:38.468Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","a885e8ff3a06d43c7d29d0d4c8838c18f2f14d9d2b03e38ac2f99a8cde974799","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-417","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-415",647,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-imperial-hound-on-an-eight-hour-shift-cover.jpg"]