"Once Zhou Xiong is dead, the Duke's difficulty in taking Pukou City will be reduced by ten thousand times."
"No, more than ten thousand times."
"But you all supported Zhou Xiong before. Didn't that hinder the Duke?"
"Now you must turn over a new leaf."
"Coordinate with the Pukou City Love Mutual Aid Alliance to deal with Zhou Xiong together. Drive Zhou Xiong mad, and Pukou City will be the Duke's."
"Then our good days will come."
The train of thought Song Shaoyi provided was too clear, practical, and hit everyone right in the heart, almost instantly igniting their enthusiasm the moment his words fell.
"Shaoyi is right. Let's hypocritically join the Love Mutual Aid Alliance, unite against Zhou Xiong, and take Pukou City!"
"Yes, exactly, let's do it!"
"What are we waiting for? Let's go join the Love Mutual Aid Alliance now!"
...
Their passion surged, and they took action immediately.
They returned to where they had come from.
Watching these people, Song Shaoyi couldn't help but breathe a faint sigh of relief.
He had won over one group, but that was far from enough. He had to keep going, win over others, build up a bigger momentum, and make it easier for the Duke to attack Pukou City!
Pukou City, facing the capital Yun Jing across the river, was its gateway. If Pukou City fell, Yun Jing would be hard pressed to survive.
So he had to crack this hard nut!
Take it down with determination!
...
In front of the stage, Chen Liang paced like a leader, checking that everything was fine, even chatting with some Pukou City officials along the way to deepen relations.
Just as he was feeling satisfied, a member of the Love Mutual Aid Alliance came to report.
"Master Chen, so many people want to join our Love Mutual Aid Alliance—an overwhelming number, wave after wave..."
The man's voice trembled as he spoke.
The Love Mutual Aid Alliance in Pukou City had always been as an extraordinary presence throughout the city, but its numbers had remained small. On one hand, the alliance itself exercised restraint; on the other, most people didn’t have much fondness for it.
But now...
That majority had suddenly come.
How could that not be a surprise?
Chen Liang instantly understood what was happening and said immediately, "People are coming—that's a good thing."
"This is a time of crisis, so we must adopt extraordinary measures. We can absolutely bring these people in and strengthen ourselves."
"Together, we will denounce Zhou Xiong!"
"Here's what we'll do: set up an auxiliary detachment of the Love Mutual Aid Alliance and absorb these people."
...
The Pukou City Love Mutual Aid Alliance's influence grew rapidly. In just one night, its size multiplied several times over.
And people kept joining without pause.
This delighted the founding members of the Pukou City Love Mutual Aid Alliance.
"Haha, I always said love is great. No matter how stubborn, anyone can be moved."
"Look how these people would never give us the time of day before, and now they're rushing to join. It seems that under Master Chen's leadership, our Pukou City Love Mutual Aid Alliance has truly become a benchmark."
"Yes, we're no longer inferior to the Love Mutual Aid Alliance in Yun Jing."
The Pukou City Love Mutual Aid Alliance was reveling in celebration. At the same time, General Zhou Xiong finally got a good night's sleep.
He even went home to sleep.
In his dreams, he saw the millions of people in Pukou City supporting him.
So what if the Love Mutual Aid Alliance was surging?
With such popular support, he would surely defend Pukou City as solid as a rock!
He slept until broad daylight before waking up groggily.
The fatigue of recent days had completely vanished.
Now, his body was in fine shape, and his spirits were unbelievably high.
Just as he was about to head out, he heard a faint noise. Frowning slightly, he got out of bed, put on his clothes, and pushed open the door. The noise swelled into a wave of sound, rushing toward him.
"What's going on?"
Zhou Xiong asked instinctively. The two guards standing by his side looked pale and dared not answer.
He walked straight out. The farther he went, the louder the noise grew. Gradually, he could make it out clearly.
"Zhou Xiong, you scumbag!"
"Zhou Xiong, give us back Miss Wanqing!"
"Zhou Xiong, you should kill yourself!"
...
These curses were much like the ones aimed at him the night before, so Zhou Xiong didn’t care.
What he cared about was...
How loud it was?
It sounded like thousands, even tens of thousands, shouting in unison.
No, it seemed like even more.
But the Love Mutual Aid Alliance in Pukou City only had a few thousand people total. Even if every one of them came, plus the people called up by the city lord, it shouldn’t be this many!
The noise was enough to shake Pukou City to pieces!
Puzzled, Zhou Xiong quickened his pace. Soon, he reached the front of his mansion. Opening the door, he was dumbfounded!
Holy cow!
People!
People!
People!
Everywhere he looked—people!
So many people!
A sea of humanity!
They packed his courtyard, crowding every inch.
"Is this half of Pukou City here?"
"What are they trying to do?"
"Raise a rebellion?"
Zhou Xiong thought.
Then his eyes happened to glance sideways.
He saw that the wall of his mansion had changed color.
It had become garish and messy.
Looking closer, he nearly went crazy.
"What the hell is this stuff? Smeared all over my wall?"
"And why..."
"Does it stink so bad?"
"Damn it, who smeared feces on my wall?"
Zhou Xiong was furious, but what made him nearly lose his mind was that, in those few moments he stood at the door, some scoundrel started throwing things at him.
The aim was poor and nothing hit him.
But Zhou Xiong saw clearly.
It was...
Rotten vegetable leaves!
Moldy leaves!
That already enraged him, but he knew what rotten leaves meant—they were thrown at prisoners in carts!
So was he being treated like a criminal now?
Clearly, Zhou Xiong overestimated his standing with the people of Pukou City.
The moldy rotten leaves were just the beginning!
As Zhou Xiong stood in a daze, more stuff came flying at him without mercy.
Fruit peels, useless vegetable roots,
Rocks, clods of dirt,
Trash, dirty grass,
And, of course, excrement again!
Not only had it smeared his wall, but now it was coming after him too?
The worst was the rotten eggs thrown at him—
Each one was devastating!
But this barrage made Zhou Xiong realize something.
Someone was pulling the strings—definitely!
After all, eggs were nothing like moldy leaves; they were precious commodities.
Even though large amounts of sweet potatoes had flooded into Pukou City in recent years, and people's lives had somewhat stabilized, they were still far from wealthy enough to just throw away something as valuable as eggs.
So...
There was only one truth!
Someone had hired these people to throw eggs at him!
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ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
