[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-you-were-told-to-play-a-warlord-why-are-you-refu":3,"chapter-you-were-told-to-play-a-warlord-why-are-you-refu-you-were-told-to-play-a-warlord-why-are-you-refu-chapter-42":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Told to Play a Warlord, You Say You Don't Eat Beef?",{"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},2203871,3829,"Chapter 42","you-were-told-to-play-a-warlord-why-are-you-refu-chapter-42",42,"\u003Cp>Within this ‘prison’ lies the truth he must investigate!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The archives window.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The young Black man managing the archives is helping Su Chen look for a file.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At the same time, Su Chen starts chatting with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Last time, I took my resentment out on someone else.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“I thought it would bother me, but it didn’t at all!”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The young Black man is a bit confused and asks,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“What are you talking about?”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“I messed up, I did something bad!”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Su Chen looks earnestly into the young man’s eyes as he speaks, his tone somewhat mysterious.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After the social services clinic had its budget cut, Su Chen lost the place where he could pour out his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And in this hospital, surrounded by all sorts of psychiatric patients, Su Chen feels a sense of familiarity.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Unconsciously, he wants to talk about some secrets hidden deep in his heart with the young Black man, who he finds easy to talk to.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“You know what I mean? Trying to be happy all the time is just... too hard!”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Listening to Su Chen’s words, the young Black man, clearly sensing something wrong with his mental state, immediately becomes uncomfortable.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Just then, he finds the file and waves it in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Across the window, he opens it and starts reading to Su Chen.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Fleck, Penny Fleck.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Diagnosing physician: Dr. Benjamin. The patient suffers from delusional disorder... and narcissistic personality disorder.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“The charge is endangering the safety of her own child...”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Upon reading this, the young Black man suddenly feels something is wrong; he looks up at Su Chen, hesitating.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He clearly realizes at this moment... that Su Chen is the child recorded in the file whose life was endangered by his mother?!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But at this very instant! Su Chen suddenly strikes!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He thrusts both hands into the window and snatches the file from the young man’s hand!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Then, without looking back, he sprints away into the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Hey!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The young Black man angrily slaps the window glass, but it is to no avail; Su Chen’s figure disappears around the corner in the blink of an eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Not until he dashes into the emergency stairwell and runs down several flights of stairs\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>does Su Chen stop in the hallway.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Gasping for air, he opens the file in his hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>His fingers, turning the pages, tremble slightly; clearly, Su Chen’s heart is not at peace!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As Su Chen moves, the audience in front of the screen also becomes tense.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This... likely contains the truth about Su Chen’s origins!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Gotham City Hospital Psychiatric Department, Psychiatric History and Diagnosis: Penny Fleck]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Behavior extremely bizarre....... committed physical abuse......]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Child Adoption Application Form: Adopted child’s full name unknown (abandoned infant), custody transferred to Penny Fleck]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Seeing this page, Su Chen’s fingers pause, his expression visibly becoming extremely heavy.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>His breathing grows slightly ragged; clearly, his mood is extremely complex!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At this moment, confirming Thomas Wayne’s words,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Su Chen’s heart sinks abruptly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>【Arthur... was he really adopted?!】\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>【My god... all of this was just a fantasy of Penny’s....】\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>【It’s too hard to imagine... Arthur’s mother has been lying to herself and Arthur all along....】\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>【And... she actually abused Arthur too?!】\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>【That’s too terrifying, even if he was adopted, she shouldn’t have done that!】\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>【The behavior of a mentally ill person, who could have predicted it....】\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The comments are filled with disbelief and sympathy!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Su Chen, with a gloomy face, continues to flip through the file.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Inside the file,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>there is even a detailed record of an interrogation.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Question: You also stood by and watched while one of your boyfriends repeatedly abused your adopted son.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Question: Penny, when we found your son in your filthy apartment, he was tied to a radiator, malnourished, with multiple bruises on his body and severe head trauma.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Answer: I never heard him cry, he was always a happy little boy.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Next to the interrogation record are countless old photos.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The little boy in the photos is covered in bruises on his body and even his face; he clearly suffered cruel, inhuman abuse!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Countless news clippings also confirm the authenticity of these contents from the side!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[A mother and her son suffer horrific domestic violence!]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Child’s adoptive mother lets him be abused!]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>When all the viewers see the content of this page,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>their hearts are suddenly shocked!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>A chill spreading from within their hearts...\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>How could there be such a mother...\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Even if he was just an adopted child... she actually let others abuse him?!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And it even caused severe brain trauma...\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Wait.... Su Chen’s illness of laughing for no reason... isn’t that caused by brain trauma?!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Hahaha....”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Hahahahahaha....”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But just as all the viewers feel a chill in their hearts, Su Chen, looking at these pages of records, suddenly starts to laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As if he has seen something extremely ridiculous.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The laughter grows from small to loud...\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In the laughter, there is sorrow and helplessness.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In the laughter, there is the madness of being about to be swallowed by darkness!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And this time,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>it is not Su Chen’s illness acting up!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It is not uncontrollable laughter!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It is just as his mother told him, always a happy little boy.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But at this moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Su Chen realizes\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>that his life for these past few decades has been a joke! And even more, a tragedy!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>From beginning to end, he has lived in a lie woven by someone else!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>From childhood to adulthood, he has been desperately trying to fulfill the hopes placed upon him by his mother!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>His nickname is Happy, and his goal as an adult is to bring joy and laughter to everyone!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Yet... he was the very person who had served as his life's guide and reliance for decades.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>was the culprit who let others abuse him since childhood, even causing his brain damage!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In other words,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>the culprit behind Su Chen suffering discrimination since childhood, being labeled a freak, and needing to take psychiatric medication as an adult....\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The culprit behind Su Chen’s tragic life for these past few decades....\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>is the mother he depended on for survival... Penny!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At this instant,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Su Chen’s mental world almost completely collapses!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Hahahahahaha!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Hahahahahaha!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In the hallway, the incredibly sorrowful laughter echoes repeatedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Wrapped in shadows and darkness,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Arthur seems to be falling into an abyss.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And the Joker is stirring.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Chr\u002F>\u003Cp>\u003Cem>— Author's Notes —\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Second update! Double the word count! Explosive updates for you brothers today!! Just asking for a few flowers!! Recommendation tickets!! Monthly tickets!!\u003C\u002Fp>",1078,"2026-06-17T06:33:32.085Z","2026-06-17T09:01:43.081Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","b3d35e22637a580afda95e88224d8819e5273e8b24c3ecc3712d26e6d18cb363","you-were-told-to-play-a-warlord-why-are-you-refu-chapter-43","you-were-told-to-play-a-warlord-why-are-you-refu-chapter-41",250,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fyou-were-told-to-play-a-warlord-why-are-you-refu-cover.jpg"]