[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-three-kingdoms-tenfold-speed-diaochan-says-i-m-t":3,"chapter-three-kingdoms-tenfold-speed-diaochan-says-i-m-t-three-kingdoms-tenfold-speed-diaochan-says-i-m-t-chapter-4":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Three Kingdoms: Tenfold Speed, Diaochan Says I'm Too Fast",{"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},1936068,2666,"Chapter 4: The Vicious Uncle, the Pitiable Diao Chan","three-kingdoms-tenfold-speed-diaochan-says-i-m-t-chapter-4",4,"\u003Cp>The cursing behind her made Diao Chan's delicate body tremble involuntarily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the slightly better and largest mud-and-thatch hut in the middle of the courtyard, a middle-aged man emerged with a red nose, dark face, and furrowed brows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The middle-aged man, barely over one meter sixty, walked with unsteady steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes were also quite cloudy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sheepskin wineskin hung at his waist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Diao Chan stood in place, her hands clasped tightly behind her back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like a child who had done something wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Today.....today.....today there's only one,\" Diao Chan said, head lowered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bullshit.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment Diao Chan finished speaking, the middle-aged man let out a fierce shout: \"It was always two before, how come there's only one today?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Also, I'm asking you, why is there less rice in the jar?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where did the clothes I told you to take down yesterday go?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Faced with so many accusations, Diao Chan grew even more flustered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The middle-aged man pointed at Diao Chan, his eyes full of anger as he said, \"Fine, fine, I know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You damn girl, still playing tough!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You must have given them to that wild man!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I.....I didn't.....\" Diao Chan protested.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The middle-aged man completely ignored Diao Chan's protest, turning to pick up a rattan cane from the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he looked at her with vicious intent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come here, kneel down!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The middle-aged man roared, \"I've raised you all these years.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yet you bite the hand that feeds you, giving things to some wild man.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'll deal with you first, then go deal with that wild man of yours!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come here, kneel down!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The middle-aged man shouted furiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tears of grievance swirled in Diao Chan's eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Raised her all these years?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was it really like that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If not for her aunt, would she have stayed in this household at all?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which of the food, supplies, and clothes in this house didn't come from her hard work?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The water they drank, she carried from the river.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rice they ate, she traded for with firewood and charcoal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The clothes they wore, she washed for wealthy families and picked from their castoffs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even those two chickens, she had raised from chicks.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The middle-aged man watched as Diao Chan didn't move, the fury in his eyes burning hotter, and he walked toward her with a rattan switch in hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fine, fine. After seeing some wild man, you won't obey anymore, will you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Watch me beat you to death today, so I won't have to wonder which wild man you'll cheapen yourself with later.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chan'er.....\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A woman's voice called out from within the thatched hut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aunt.....\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Diao Chan raised her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chan'er, come, come.....\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman's voice was weak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Diao Chan's uncle by marriage, Li Gouer, glanced back at the thatched hut and resentfully threw down the rattan switch in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he glared viciously at Diao Chan and said, \"You wait for me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After leaving those words, Li Gouer picked up his wine pouch and walked toward the courtyard gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Diao Chan took a deep breath, then wiped away her tears and walked toward the middle room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Entering the room, Diao Chan furrowed her delicate brows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All because of the smell inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stench of wine mixed with a harsh, pungent odor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An emaciated woman lay on the bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aunt.....\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Diao Chan walked closer, then knelt beside the bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The middle-aged woman's gaze was cloudy as she looked toward the ceiling, her pupils unfocused—clearly, she was already blind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stretching out a withered arm, the woman groped tentatively toward Diao Chan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her voice full of guilt, she said, \"Chan'er......\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It was your aunt who harmed you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aunt.....\" Diao Chan quickly shook her head and said, \"Aunt, don't speak so. Chan'er is doing well.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The middle-aged woman shook her head, and two tears flowed from her cloudy eyes, trickling down the wrinkled, sunken cheekbones at the corners of her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chan'er, your aunt thought that since you had lost your parents, and I had no children of my own, I would have you come to this family as my adopted daughter.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But who would have thought that this body of mine would be so useless, falling ill for so many years.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not only did I burden the family, but I also dragged you down to suffer with me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chan'er, it is all your aunt's fault.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman said regretfully, \"Your uncle.....\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uncle is very good.\" Diao Chan interrupted her aunt's words and said, \"Aunt, life will get better, and your illness will get better too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The other day they said that the Way of Great Peace came to Jinyang City and was freely distributing talisman water.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tomorrow is the third day of the month. Chan'er will go into the city to beg for talisman water for you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Once you drink it, you'll be well when spring comes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman lying on the bed nodded, tears streaming down, and said, \"Good child, good child......\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aunt heard yesterday that you rescued a man from outside?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How is that man?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman held Diao Chan's hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Duan Yu mentioned, Diao Chan immediately grew shy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aunt..... Big Brother Duan..... Big Brother Duan is very good.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He went into the mountains to hunt, saying he would get furs and then exchange them for silver to buy medicine for you,\" Diao Chan said softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the woman had been ill for a long time and could not see, she could still tell from the tone of Diao Chan's voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chan'er,\" the woman said, gripping Diao Chan's hand tightly, \"your aunt has already burdened you for so many years.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I cannot burden you anymore.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you feel that that man is someone you can entrust yourself to, then go with him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she spoke, the woman fumbled around at the head of the bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From beneath the mattress, she felt out a dangling hairpin and said, \"Chan'er, this was given to me by your mother before she passed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is your dowry.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your aunt has no ability, cannot help you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Take this hairpin, go pawn it for some household money.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your aunt believes you would not misjudge someone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman pressed the hairpin into Diao Chan's hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Diao Chan took the hairpin, her white teeth biting her red lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In her mind, Duan Yu's figure kept surfacing again and again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the room, Li Gouer pressed himself against the window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He listened with his ear to the sounds inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn it, I knew I remembered there was a hairpin before, so that blind bitch had it hidden away.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Gouer's eyes were overcast with gloom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I've raised her for so many years, and now she wants to cheapen someone else?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If it's going to cheapen some wild man, it might as well cheapen me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Gouer let out a cold, mocking laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He listened to the footsteps approaching from inside the house.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Gouer crouched down and immediately walked toward the courtyard gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After leaving Wucun Township, Duan Yu headed toward the large mountain visible in the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wucun Township lay just over ten li outside Jinyang in Taiyuan, right against Jinyang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jinyang was the administrative seat of Bingzhou, and also lay within Taiyuan Commandery, the most fertile region of Bingzhou, so its population was considerable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Duan Yu had heard the name Diaochan yesterday, and also Taiyuan and Jinyang, why had he been so certain that the Diaochan who had picked him up was the Diaochan, the foremost beauty of the Three Kingdoms?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was because of the Wang clan of Taiyuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That's right—the very Wang clan of Taiyuan to which Wang Yun the Minister belonged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Legend had it that Diaochan was a dancing girl in the household of Wang Yun of the Wang clan of Taiyuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How Diaochan had ended up in the Wang household as a dancing girl, Duan Yu still didn't know.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But something must have happened later on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The timing basically matched, the location matched, and then there was Diaochan's appearance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was why he was so certain that the one in that dilapidated house was Diaochan, the foremost beauty of the Three Kingdoms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He reached the foot of the mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Duan Yu took the longbow from his back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's time to see what this system can do.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1374,"2026-06-15T02:56:25.579Z","2026-06-15T06:17:29.456Z",1,"GLM-5.1","4c67b456970ce57293d97ac806a2fd2b96f764460f4922ffba846ad5efec1d5f","three-kingdoms-tenfold-speed-diaochan-says-i-m-t-chapter-5","three-kingdoms-tenfold-speed-diaochan-says-i-m-t-chapter-3",13,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthree-kingdoms-tenfold-speed-diaochan-says-i-m-t-cover.jpg"]