[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-you-drove-me-out-with-your-hypocrisy-and-now-cry":3,"chapter-you-drove-me-out-with-your-hypocrisy-and-now-cry-you-drove-me-out-with-your-hypocrisy-and-now-cry-chapter-73":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","You Drove Me Out with Your Hypocrisy and now Crying When I Come to Take It All?",{"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},858335,1122,"Chapter 73 : Chapter 73","you-drove-me-out-with-your-hypocrisy-and-now-cry-chapter-73",73,"\u003Cp>Chapter 73: This Humble One Has a Small Personal Hobby; I Hope Lord Gao Will Indulge Me\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Prince Qing was not some other Prince Qing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was precisely the same Prince Qing whom the Cheng Family’s ancestors had once helped in rebellion a century ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Prince Qing had joined forces with the great clans to rebel and seize the throne, but he failed. The force he sent to assassinate the Emperor was brutally ambushed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From that point on, the rebel army never recovered and showed no further signs of revival.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Prince Qing himself was captured and beheaded, while his descendants escaped with their lives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the past several centuries, those descendants had inherited his ambition and devoted themselves wholeheartedly to rebellion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus they became the Prince Qing remnants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every few decades, they would surface again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only, each time they were more pathetic than the last.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were not even rebelling as fast as Great Qian was weakening, and in the jianghu, they had become little more than a subject of idle talk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then, when the case of Prince Qing’s rebellion erupted, the Great Qian Emperor had flown into a rage and ordered every family involved to be wiped out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although in the end, there had been no way to exterminate towering millennium-old clans like the Cheng Family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, if one called people like Cheng Yu descendants of rebel remnants, that would not exactly be wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the time came for executions by association, no one had cared about severing ties.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bloodline was all that mattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So the identity of being descendants of rebels could not truly be called false.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Yu merely shook his head calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He rather wanted to see how Cheng Zhenjiang would answer such a matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If someone really reported the Cheng Family as Prince Qing remnants, then even if you gave the Emperor three extra measures of courage, he still would not dare say much.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Prince Qing remnants he had been ordered to investigate in Jiannan Circuit were those descendants of Prince Qing who surfaced from time to time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ordinarily speaking, it was a troublesome assignment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Great Qian was weak now, and the Jinyiwei’s intelligence-gathering function had weakened greatly as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was no longer like the old days, when they could simply arrest people in a case and interrogate them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If an investigation led into the jianghu, no one would cooperate. One could only beg high and low while probing bit by bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he happened to run into martial artists hostile to the Jinyiwei, it would be even more troublesome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Cheng Yu had also heard that Jiannan Circuit, being in Jiangnan, occupied a rather ambiguous position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The jianghu regarded it as part of Sword-Forging Manor’s sphere of control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet it was not like Dragon Abyss Path or Qingjiang Prefecture, which lay right beside Sword-Forging Mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the sort of place far from the Emperor’s reach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some jianghu forces had grown there unchecked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several major powers had also infiltrated Jiannan Circuit and supported quite a few smaller forces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, the Army-Breaking Sect, one of the Nine Great Sects, had ties with many local powers there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiannan Circuit was also the wealthiest region in Jiangnan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the various powers fought one another there, both openly and in secret.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Jinyiwei did not even have the chance to get a word in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If one wanted to investigate a case in a place like that, it would absolutely be troublesome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Cheng Yu did not care much about that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Some people make a habit of swaggering and throwing their weight around. In the end, they are simply the sort who only understand fear. Kill until they are afraid, and they will naturally become obedient.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, how could his purpose in taking up the post of Thousand-Household Commander there possibly be limited to merely investigating rebels?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had to trample the local jianghu under hoof and suppress its forces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those who refused to submit would have their households confiscated and their entire families exterminated!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if they later agreed to negotiate peace, he still would not be willing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he did not make them thoroughly fear and submit to the Jinyiwei, where were his system rewards supposed to come from?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Those unwilling to submit have no need to continue existing.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They might as well turn into system rewards and help me become the Nightmare of the Jianghu.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiannan Circuit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its main city, Jiannan City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside a lavishly furnished room in the Gao Residence, a middle-aged man with a great belly lay half-reclined in a rattan chair, calmly flipping through an ancient book.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wisps of incense curled upward, while several lovely young women attended at his side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such was the pleasure of an immortal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the mood was shattered by someone barging in in great haste.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Father, something has happened!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gao Song, the nominal chief official of Jiannan Circuit and its Circuit Intendant, put down the book in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frowning, he looked at his rash and flustered son, Gao Guobang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What is it? Has what we did to that Thousand-Household Commander been discovered?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Uh, no, that’s not it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he heard his son deny it, Gao Song merely shook his head indifferently. “Then why are you panicking? In this Jiannan Circuit, could there really be some world-shattering affair that even I cannot handle?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tossed aside the ancient book, rose to his feet with imposing bearing, and clasped his hands behind his back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Jiannan Circuit, where jianghu conflicts ran especially fierce, even a Jinyiwei Thousand-Household Commander was not someone of any real consequence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Gao Song, relying entirely on a wife at the Seventh Rank while plotting and maneuvering from behind the scenes, had turned the ignored and nominally powerless office of Circuit Intendant into one that wielded real authority.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few months ago, that blind fool of a Jinyiwei Thousand-Household Commander had actually dared show dissatisfaction toward him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swaggering arrogantly on the strength of being nothing more than one of the Emperor’s personal guards, he had offended Gao Song.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Gao Song had directly lured him into a trap and gotten him killed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And had anything come of it afterward? Had anyone blamed him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this Jiannan Circuit, so long as he did not provoke the people of the jianghu, who could possibly bring him trouble?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even seeing his father so calm, Gao Guobang did not feel the slightest reassurance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sweat covered his forehead as he said, “The court has transferred another Jinyiwei Thousand-Household Commander here. He says he wants to see you!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A new Thousand-Household Commander?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gao Song raised a brow. “Then have him come see me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No, Father. He is the one telling you to go to the Thousand-Household Office to see him...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gao Song slapped the table in towering fury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is outrageous! I only just dealt with one disobedient fool. How has another appeared?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Jinyiwei might have the name of the Son of Heaven’s personal guard, and they might bear the title of Execute First and Report Later, with the Throne’s Special Authorization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But a mere Thousand-Household Commander was only of the full fourth rank. How was he worthy of making Gao Song, a full third-rank Circuit Intendant, go see him in person?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He is probably just like the last Thousand-Household Commander—arrogant because he has a bit of brute martial strength.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As attendants helped him into his official robes, Gao Song grew more and more enraged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ll show him who truly rules Jiannan City, and whether the Jinyiwei has the standing to act so arrogantly here!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing his father in such a temper, Gao Guobang did not dare say anything for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once Gao Song had put on his official robes, he strode toward the door in a rage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Father, don’t be hasty. That Thousand-Household Commander, he is...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who he is does not matter. He is only a Thousand-Household Commander. Handle things here for your father. Do not let your mother find out.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Gao Song left, Gao Guobang had originally intended to say that the newly arrived Thousand-Household Commander was Cheng Yu, the ruthless man who had destroyed Sword-Forging Manor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But seeing his father so disdainful, he no longer cared much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His father surely had everything under control and knew exactly what he was doing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Better to take care of matters here first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If his mother returned and saw these women, that would be the truly terrifying disaster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at the household servants behind him. “Handle it cleanly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that, he turned and left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Waves of terrified screams rang out, then gradually faded away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiannan City Jinyiwei Thousand-Household Office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What exalted lord is so arrogant that, while only of the fourth rank, he dares summon a third-rank high official to pay him a call? If he ever reaches the third rank, will he not march straight into the imperial palace and smash the Dragon Throne?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gao Song strode into the hall with an indignant expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the disappearance of the previous Jinyiwei Thousand-Household Commander had not had something to do with him, he would never have been willing to come here of his own accord.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he stepped inside, he saw a handsome young Jinyiwei sitting in the seat of honor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wore an exquisite purplish-red Flying Fish Uniform, and at his waist hung a Xiuchun Saber wreathed faintly in thunderlight and cold mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before he had even offered a greeting, the newcomer had already begun with barbed sarcasm at his expense. Cheng Yu sneered inwardly, rose to his feet, and cupped his hands in greeting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So this would be Lord Gao Song, Circuit Intendant Gao?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mm.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gao Song nodded with his hands behind his back, not even sparing Cheng Yu a glance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sat down directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once tea had been poured for him, he picked up the cup, sniffed it once, then set it down again with open disdain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You must be the newly arrived Jinyiwei Thousand-Household Commander. Why were you looking for me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Gao Song put on such airs, Cheng Yu found it rather amusing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Jinyiwei confidants who had followed Cheng Yu from Dragon Abyss Path also raised their brows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What sort of ruthless figure was this, daring to posture in front of Lord Cheng?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was his estate simply too large and overdue for confiscation?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Yu rose with a smile and walked closer to Gao Song.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I had originally heard that Lord Gao had been diligent and conscientious in Jiannan Circuit, so I wished to pay my respects in person. I never expected my subordinates to relay the message wrongly and have Lord Gao come first.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So this one at least knew how to behave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did Gao Song nod.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A mere member of the Jinyiwei still wanted to put on airs before him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did he think he was that ruthless man who had destroyed Sword-Forging Manor?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At last, a trace of a smile appeared on Gao Song’s face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And this Thousand-Household Commander—what is your honorable surname?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Yu drew closer and closer, smiling as he said, “My surname is Cheng, and my given name is Yu. The yu from ‘meeting the wrong sort of people.’”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gao Song nodded, then suddenly thought of something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Cheng Yu... That name of yours is the same as that man who destroyed Sword-Forg—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The words cut off halfway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gao Song suddenly froze, his face stiffening as he muttered to himself, “Cheng Yu...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the next instant, a chill ran through his whole body, and he looked up at Cheng Yu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You are—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before he could finish speaking, a gleaming blade had already come to rest against his neck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That would indeed be me,” Cheng Yu said coldly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This humble one happens to have a small personal hobby. I hope Lord Gao will indulge me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fat on Gao Song’s face trembled. “Say it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A smile spread across Cheng Yu’s face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where exactly is your residence, my lord?”\u003C\u002Fp>",1990,"2026-06-03T04:54:42.394Z","2026-06-03T04:54:48.224Z",1,"novelbin.me","493164d96aa725fe9d38eb995ac65570e2050c0eabf9cf8ac0ea879a9a999e9e","you-drove-me-out-with-your-hypocrisy-and-now-cry-chapter-20","you-drove-me-out-with-your-hypocrisy-and-now-cry-chapter-19",126,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fyou-drove-me-out-with-your-hypocrisy-and-now-cry-cover.jpg"]