[{"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-429":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},2225487,4113,"Chapter 429: Tsukahara","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-429",429,"\u003Cp>Huangfu Hui ran with his light-body technique at full power, blood spilling from the wounds he had torn open himself, but he didn't care at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A short while later, he arrived at a courtyard in the deepest part of the Huang residence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two men in tight-fitting clothes were guarding the entrance. Seeing a blood-soaked person rushing over, they were startled and hurriedly raised their blades to shout questions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huangfu Hui shouted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Master! It’s the Master!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two men recognized his voice and, thinking he had been injured in a fight with someone, hurriedly stepped forward to help him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You—gurgle!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As they approached, Huangfu Hui took advantage of their lack of preparation and threw two punches at their throats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two fell to the ground with a thud, rolled around clutching their throats, and then went silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huangfu Hui stepped over the corpses and walked quickly into the courtyard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was an extremely spacious courtyard, furnished with great luxury. The courtyard was paved with blue stone slabs, a small pond had been dug into the ground, and a circle of flowers and plants grew by the pond, swaying gently in the wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if one shifted their perspective to the surrounding buildings, they would feel a chill run down their spine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The buildings on all four sides of this courtyard had no doors or windows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the walls were built of blue stone, neither letting in wind nor light, and dew had condensed on them, slowly sliding down the blue stone walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And at the bottom of these walls, near the ground, there was an opening one foot wide and one inch high every three feet or so, with a dirty empty plate placed outside each opening, some with dried food still on them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Huangfu Hui’s footsteps echoed in the courtyard, rustling sounds began to emerge from the sealed-off buildings on all four sides.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the opening closest to the door, a hand suddenly reached out slowly, trembling as it groped toward the empty plate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a petite hand, a woman’s hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet it had lost all the delicacy of a woman’s hand; the flesh was withered, the skin was covered in a thick layer of dust, the fingernails were all gone, leaving only ten bare fingers, with thick blood scabs at the wounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then came a second, a third, a fourth...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More and more hands reached out from the openings at the bottom of the buildings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All were equally withered and pale, all lacked fingernails, and all trembled involuntarily as they groped toward the empty plates on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon realizing there was no food on the plates, these hands were pulled back violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From these openings, low, weeping sounds of women emerged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And as the women’s weeping sounds emerged, another kind of crying gradually began to rise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wah—wah—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound of infants crying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huangfu Hui ignored them and walked quickly to a corner of the courtyard. After reaching it, he squatted down and pressed a button on an inconspicuous stone in the corner of the wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Click-clack-clack—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound of a mechanism turning rang out, revealing an entrance one foot square.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huangfu Hui jumped down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After descending ten feet, he reached the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked along the secret passage, and a few breaths later, he arrived at a door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A window on the door opened, revealing a pair of eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yamashita-kun, it’s me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huangfu Hui said in a deep voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Huangfu-kun?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The eyes narrowed, the window closed, and the main door opened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A man wearing a kimono reached out to support Huangfu Hui’s arm and led him inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who injured you like this! Where is Sato-kun?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huangfu Hui waved his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The situation is urgent, no time to explain. Sato-kun is holding off the enemy, but he can't hold for long... We cannot let Sato-kun’s sacrifice go to waste; we must destroy everything before the enemy finds us, it must not fall into the enemy’s hands!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man in the kimono frowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This serious... fine, I trust Huangfu-kun’s judgment, follow me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having said that, he led Huangfu Hui into a secret door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as he entered, Huangfu Hui couldn't help but frown, raising his hand to cover his nose and mouth. \u003C\u002Fp>",714,"2026-06-17T21:41:17.211Z","2026-06-18T03:13:38.468Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","246ad8f13b0d8f904e86bc6e079cb09c3f04ffd6840d0ec23066b202009ac7d6","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-430","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-428",647,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-imperial-hound-on-an-eight-hour-shift-cover.jpg"]