[{"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-45":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},2203874,3829,"Chapter 45: Completely out of control! The Joker","you-were-told-to-play-a-warlord-why-are-you-refu-chapter-45",45,"\u003Cp>In the live stream room,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>all the viewers are slightly silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following Su Chen’s perspective, they have also tasted Su Chen’s life in this man-eating Gotham City.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>A life lived at the bottom, with mental illness, trampled by everyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since childhood, his mother Penny gave him the nickname Happy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it wasn’t because Penny hoped her child could be happy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was because she placed her hopes on Su Chen, hoping he could make the people around him happy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so, the tragedy began.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though Su Chen suffered from an intermittent laughing disorder due to brain damage, he was discriminated against since childhood and lived in oppression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he still carefully tried to make everyone around him happy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tried hard to share his kindness with everyone around him, even strangers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As an adult,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>because of his illness and personality, he could only work for a company that dispatched clown actors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here, most of his colleagues were his ‘compatriots,’ which is to say, freaks in the eyes of the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Su Chen still chose this profession.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he liked clowns, liked the clowns who could bring joy and happiness to others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While working, Su Chen could get the attention and applause he had craved since childhood! He could also use his performance to make people around him happy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in Su Chen’s heart,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>there was also a dream of being a comedian buried deep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He dreamed that one day he could become a comedian like his idol, bringing laughter to everyone on the biggest stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The days seemed to pass by plainly like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Su Chen himself didn’t realize\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>that he, who always wanted to bring joy and laughter to others,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was perhaps the unhappiest person in the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this Gotham City, society is filled with countless oppressions, discrimination, coldness, and tragedies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had long ago caused Su Chen to lose the ability to laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His heart was filled with sorrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From childhood to adulthood, he had never been happy for a single second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He also didn’t realize that under extreme repression, all his desires and negative emotions were suppressed deep in his heart!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nourished by these nutrients, the Joker appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An existence completely opposite to him, born of pure tragedy, filled with violence, freedom, and extreme madness!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And fate had long ago laid the groundwork in his tragic life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Starting with work and career.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Colleagues’ treacherous backstabbing, the boss’s exploitation and firing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The idol’s ugly face, the trampling of his dreams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His mother’s lies since childhood, and the childhood abuse that caused his life to become a tragedy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lover he thought he had was just a character existing in his fantasy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Friendship, family, dreams, love.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spiritual pillars in Su Chen’s heart were pulled away one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Joker hidden deep in his heart was also released bit by bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And as viewers in front of the screen,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>just following Su Chen’s perspective, two days of life made everyone’s hearts full of repression, once finding it hard to bear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They couldn’t even imagine\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>how Su Chen had persisted through these decades of tragic life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And under such repression,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>what kind of terrifying rebound would there be?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amidst the swirling smoke,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Chen holds a cigarette in his left hand, and with his right hand, he meticulously applies paint to his face stroke by stroke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His hair, dyed dark green, is all combed back, making him look more capable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding-dong...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the doorbell rings,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Chen’s movements pause, his expression unreadable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his hand silently puts down the paint brush, reaches into the drawer, and pulls out a long, sharp pair of scissors, hiding them in his pocket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he gets up to open the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His bare upper body looks incredibly emaciated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking a cautious look through the peephole, Arthur opens the door expressionlessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hey Arthur, are you okay?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the door, colleagues Randall and the dwarf Gary appear on screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gary is holding an unopened bottle of wine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Gary, a smile naturally appears on Su Chen’s face,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hello guys, come on in.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Turning sideways to invite them in, Su Chen calmly locks the security chain on the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This makes the viewers in front of the screen feel a slight jolt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at Su Chen’s makeup, Randall asks casually,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you have a new performance?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then why are you wearing makeup?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My mother passed away, and I’m celebrating.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is no emotional fluctuation on Su Chen’s white-painted face, as if he is just narrating something completely unrelated to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cold tone also makes countless viewers feel a slight chill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Su Chen in front of them... seems to have become a completely different person...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yeah, we heard... that’s why we came... we thought you might need some comfort.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No need, I feel great, I stopped taking my meds, and I feel much better now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Chen shrugs indifferently, smoking his cigarette and pointing toward the kitchen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, the medication he was prescribed had run out long ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Randall and the other might not know the purpose of Su Chen’s medication, but the viewers who have been following Su Chen’s perspective know it all too well...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless viewers’ brows twitch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Chen stopped taking his meds... doesn’t that mean there’s no medication left to suppress the emergence of the Joker personality....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, countless people dare not think any further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What happened in the hospital room just now is clearly still fresh in their minds....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’m afraid... the Joker has already started to spiral out of control....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That... that’s great.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Randall notices that Su Chen seems a bit off, his expression somewhat unnatural.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he bites the bullet and continues,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t know if you’ve heard, but investigators came to the shop and asked about the subway clown case...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now they’re investigating me, I just wanted to know what you said, to make sure our stories match...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You know, I’ve always had your back.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Randall smiles, pretending to be relaxed, trying to get close to Su Chen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even the viewers in front of the screen know by now that his purpose in coming is definitely not to comfort Su Chen... but because he is afraid that giving Su Chen the gun will lead to him being implicated!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other side,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>listening to all this, Su Chen silently draws a smiley face on the wall with his cigarette butt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Turning slightly, his other hand silently reaches into his pocket.\u003C\u002Fp>",1081,"2026-06-17T06:33:32.085Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","df043d31c07ffee233e83bdd852ef9a1194a810f278b1e58a475fb0e2e977c42","you-were-told-to-play-a-warlord-why-are-you-refu-chapter-46","you-were-told-to-play-a-warlord-why-are-you-refu-chapter-44",250,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fyou-were-told-to-play-a-warlord-why-are-you-refu-cover.jpg"]