[{"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-44":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Told to Play a Warlord, You Say You Don't Eat Beef?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2203873,3829,"Chapter 44: Parricide! The final madness! [Please send flowers!!!]","you-were-told-to-play-a-warlord-why-are-you-refu-chapter-44",44,"\u003Cp>The wailing of a trombone accompanies the unsettling percussion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Chen walks through the cold hallway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The apartment corridor, which originally had warm yellow lights,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>is now, for some reason, covered in pale, sickly light on the walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the slightly heavy and eerie music,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>on Su Chen’s body,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>something seems different... like a metamorphosis, or perhaps a rebirth?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this wailing of the trombone is even more grand, like the foreshadowing of a movie villain’s entrance!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the empty home, Su Chen laughs like a maniac.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The laughter is filled with sorrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He holds a cigarette in his left hand, smoking it in the gaps between his loud laughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this time,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Chen laughs with extra force, even collapsing onto the coffee table at one point, his emaciated body becoming increasingly shocking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching Su Chen laugh hysterically, yet so much like he is crying,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>all the viewers fall into silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They cannot empathize with this feeling of being completely drowned by despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Friendship, career, ideals, love, family!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the spiritual pillars supporting Su Chen’s life have collapsed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he is forced to tear open his wounds again and again, making him face how pathetic he is.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one can endure a life like Su Chen’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is a tragic life capable of crushing and grinding anyone!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the silent, wordless atmosphere,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>all the viewers don’t know what to say.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or rather, their comfort cannot reach Su Chen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene shifts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next day, in the hospital room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Chen lights a cigarette with his left hand, sitting with his back against the blinds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today’s sunlight is exceptionally bright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire hospital room is filled with this warm sunlight!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It even dispels much of the gloom in the viewers’ hearts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this... is the first time all the viewers have seen such warm and bright sunlight in Gotham City!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hello, Penny.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amidst the swirling smoke, Su Chen’s expression is unclear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when he speaks,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>all the viewers are stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To his mother on the hospital bed... Su Chen’s address is... Penny?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Su Chen doesn’t feel anything is wrong, continuing to speak quietly, as if revealing his inner heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Penny Fleck.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ve always hated that name.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You once told me that my laughter was a disease, that it was my problem...”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“But actually, it’s not; that is the real me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Listening to Su Chen calmly yet coldly stating his thoughts,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Penny on the hospital bed is somewhat fearful, whispering Arthur’s nickname hoarsely,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Happy...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Happy? How ridiculous....”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Chen, hearing this, smiles, as if mocking his own pathetic life and pathetic nickname.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze toward Penny becomes increasingly cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He puts out the cigarette in his hand and slowly stands up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I have never been happy for a single second in my entire life.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you know what’s truly funny?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he speaks, Su Chen approaches the hospital bed under Penny’s terrified gaze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I used to think my life was a tragedy.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But now I realize it’s actually a comedy.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While stating his thoughts, he slowly pulls out the pillow from under Penny’s head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this scene\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>makes the pupils of the viewers in front of the screen tremble!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Chen... what is he doing?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling the extreme coldness in Su Chen’s words, an ominous premonition rises in everyone’s hearts!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A terrifying guess arises in their minds!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Chen wouldn’t....?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next second,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a chill rises from the bottom of all the viewers’ hearts, spreading uncontrollably....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On screen, Su Chen, while speaking, expressionlessly places the pillow over Penny’s face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The book should be officially released tomorrow during the day!! I just hope the readers can support the first subscription!! Please!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first subscription is incredibly important to any author!! Even if it’s just subscribing to one chapter!!! I will work my fingers to the bone writing whatever movies you want to see later!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As that terrifying guess in the viewers’ hearts is confirmed by Su Chen’s actions,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the camera moves upward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On screen, Penny’s struggle under the pillow cannot be seen; all that remains is Su Chen’s silent face and the bright sunlight behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Apart from the heavy music, the only things reaching the viewers’ ears are Su Chen’s heavy breathing and the suffocating, painful twitching sounds from the hospital bed under the pillow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In front of the screen,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>there is dead silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless timid viewers have even turned their heads, not daring to look at the screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What is happening on screen right now... is still too terrifying for ordinary people!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No viewer could have predicted this scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And they didn’t even dare to think in this direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After extreme repression and collapse, after losing all hope to rely on, the path Su Chen chooses is full of madness and extremity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Woooo....!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through the pillow, the dying struggle becomes increasingly intense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a patient who was already physically weak, Penny is unable to let out any louder whimpers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, it is just the instinctive struggle for survival before an animal dies!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even so,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>within Su Chen’s emaciated body... a terrifying, beast-like power erupts at this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Carrying hatred, carrying catharsis, carrying an indictment of his own tragic life!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pins her firmly to the hospital bed with the pillow!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As all the viewers watch with trembling hearts, unable to bear looking, counting the seconds,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the struggle on the hospital bed grows weaker and weaker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One second,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>two seconds.....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>three seconds......\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>until there is no sound left on the hospital bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He releases the pillow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her golden hair is somewhat disheveled, and Penny’s head is tilted slightly, her eyes closed as if she were asleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The soft sunlight shines on Penny’s profile, looking incredibly holy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is as if, at this moment, Penny has redeemed her sins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Chen turns around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walks to the window, looking at the incredibly bright and beautiful world outside, bathing in unprecedented, brilliant sunlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking a deep breath, Su Chen closes his eyes, feeling it carefully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, almost all the viewers can see the change in Su Chen!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The relief of having shed a thousand-pound burden and broken free from all shackles!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Su Chen abandons all the identities and connections this society has imposed on him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He is no longer someone’s employee, no longer someone’s colleague, no longer Penny’s son, no longer Sophie’s lover, no longer a comedian chasing an idol.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He is now just himself, Joker Arthur.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Returning home,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Chen puts on an exquisite, elegant red suit he has never worn before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A crisp white shirt, a bright red suit vest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A confident and calm smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pulling back the curtain, he steps into the stage of fantasy with light dance steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He has never been so high-spirited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bathing in the sunlight, Su Chen smiles very happily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Light background music plays.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in the still silent live stream room,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>all the viewers watch silently as Su Chen dances slowly to the music.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He begins to meticulously clean his body, dyeing his long, unkempt hair green strand by strand, and combing it back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Chen feels his complete transformation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From soul to skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He is no longer Arthur, who had a tragic life, lived for others, and was shackled by a man-eating society.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he is the Joker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The free Joker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing the makeup mirror, Su Chen applies white paint to his face stroke by stroke, incredibly seriously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, the world will witness his grand appearance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world is waiting for the arrival of the Joker!\u003C\u002Fp>",1256,"2026-06-17T06:33:32.085Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","6b0d629bad2b0e39807b5e452ebb3fa1fb57990a658ba1ed24ffe6bad17ef01c","you-were-told-to-play-a-warlord-why-are-you-refu-chapter-45","you-were-told-to-play-a-warlord-why-are-you-refu-chapter-43",250,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fyou-were-told-to-play-a-warlord-why-are-you-refu-cover.jpg"]