[{"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-450":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},2225508,4113,"Chapter 450: Torment, Lateness","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-450",450,"\u003Cp>After Li Miao departed, the mountain gate of the Wild Goose Hall fell into silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An hour later, birds and beasts caught the scent of blood. They tentatively entered the gate, and seeing no one around, lowered their heads to feast upon the corpses scattered everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten hours later, a great tiger paced into the mountain gate, startling the birds and beasts into scattering in a panic, throwing the interior into chaos. Some larger beasts, unwilling to abandon the corpses, lowered their bodies and growled at the tiger in warning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tiger did not even glance at them, walking straight over the corpses toward a side hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had no interest in dead things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It smelled a scent that interested it, a scent so rich it felt somewhat confused... By all logic, with such a strong smell of blood, the wounded prey should have died long ago. Yet the scent from the room ahead was fresh and scalding; hot steam drifted over, condensing into beads of water on its nose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tiger paws stepped into the side hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, a cry mixed with both pain and joy came from ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah! Come! Come eat me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come, hurry and eat me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tiger raised its head and saw a hairless monkey pinned to the wall, shouting at it incessantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It paid no mind to the hairless monkey’s shouting and provocation, only turning its gaze in confusion toward the open abdomen, which was where the scent was emanating from.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tiger stepped closer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qinyu’s face revealed wild ecstasy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Li Miao had only been gone for ten hours, he had fully grasped the terror of Li Miao’s methods. It was not merely the pain... but that as time passed, his internal organs slowly shifted, the pain gradually intensified, yet the speed was sometimes fast and sometimes slow... This made it impossible for him to predict his time of death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The increasingly severe pain, and the anxiety of not knowing to what extent the pain would reach or when it would end, was the true torment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the tiger walk beneath him, Lan Qinyu was not afraid; instead, his face was full of pleasant surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Pah! Pah!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He spat saliva at the tiger incessantly, trying to enrage it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the tiger, as he wished, bared its teeth, opened its blood-red maw, and reached into his open abdomen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Finally—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qinyu closed his eyes in satisfaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His final thought was, unexpectedly, one of slight complacency.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he had surpassed the two strongest people in the world, twice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Tianrui could not trap him, and Li Miao could not torment him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if the outcome was just death, he had surpassed the countless heroes who had fallen at the hands of those two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qinyu waited for that moment of sharp pain and release.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>*Ssh—*\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sticky tearing sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qinyu opened his eyes abruptly and looked at his own body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tiger narrowed its eyes, blissfully licking the blood within his abdomen. The barbs on its tongue licked against the delicate internal organs, bringing waves of sharp pain—yet it was not fatal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Eat me! Eat me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You beast! Eat me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qinyu shouted violently, but the tiger turned a deaf ear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once it had licked the blood in the abdominal cavity dry, it lay down of its own accord, eyes narrowed, staring at Lan Qinyu’s abdomen, waiting for the next filling of blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qinyu’s gaze, however, was locked onto his own abdomen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just now, when the tiger was licking the blood, he had vaguely seen a worm poke its head out from his internal organs, only to burrow back into the flesh and disappear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He finally understood why, with so many corpses outside, the tiger had come straight for him... It was precisely because this Gu worm had transformed his blood into sweet spring water in the tiger’s eyes. And watching the blood gradually fill his abdomen, this Gu worm seemed to have the effect of regenerating flesh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Li Miao’s method ended, the tiger would likely keep licking his internal organs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao should know Gu arts, but he shouldn't carry Gu worms on his person... Therefore, this Gu worm was planted on him by Ji Tianrui. And Li Miao had sensed this, pushing the boat with the current to seal Lan Qinyu’s fate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From beginning to end, he had never won against either of these two people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah! Ah! Ah!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qinyu’s screams echoed incessantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had gone mad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tiger rose again and began to lick his blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just at this moment, a noisy sound suddenly came from outside. The howling, screaming, and wailing of wild beasts erupted, only to return to silence within a few breaths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tiger turned abruptly and growled at the outside. \u003C\u002Fp>",804,"2026-06-17T21:41:17.211Z","2026-06-18T03:13:38.468Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","699fe263293ec1ffd9c4b325d15690bb363becb849f5b0be577d26b6e19ea608","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-451","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-449",647,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-imperial-hound-on-an-eight-hour-shift-cover.jpg"]