Nobody told me this wasn't a game.

Zuo Chang had a stunningly beautiful female attendant with a curvaceous figure, nicknamed "Blood Rose".

Her stats aren't strong enough to make the main team.

But her talent is quite interesting; she is Zuo Chang's most valued and favorite attendant, and his favor towards her has long been maxed out.

"Gestapo": Blood Rose excels at fabricating evidence and creating false accusations, capable of framing anyone as a reactionary. Once this skill is successfully activated, you can choose to activate the skill 'Public Execution'.

"Public Execution": Blood Rose publicly tortures and kills her target, instilling fear in the entire nation. This skill has a chance of failure (depending on the situation, the failure probability fluctuates between 0% and 50%).

"Public Execution - Success": Your community's stability increases, ministers' obedience improves, and public discontent decreases; you gain a 'Tyrant' badge.

"Public execution - failure": You will face impeachment.

Chapter 2 Now that things have come to this, can I still count my sins?

Public executions have a minimum success rate of 50%, and the success rate can be artificially increased to 100%.

Success brings great benefits;

They can also frame anyone and easily bring down the leader of the opposition party within the community!

Is there any reason not to use such an entourage?

Since obtaining Blood Rose, Zuo Chang has treated her as his right-hand woman, carefully nurturing her even though her stats are low, and using her from the early game to the late game.

He recalled that when his community reached "1555", it was beset by internal and external troubles, with extremely low stability and extremely high discontent. Government orders could not be implemented, and there were daily demonstrations in the streets.

In order to break through the predicament, even though public executions had a 50% failure rate, he still sent Blood Rose to fabricate a wrongful conviction in an attempt to salvage the situation.

failure!

Just when things seemed hopeless, things took an unexpected turn for the better, and they were saved from the brink of disaster.

It is extremely difficult to bring a community from 99999 to 1555.

During the impeachment proceedings, his subordinates looked around and realized they didn't have the ability to lead him, so they decided to let "General King"—Zuo Chang's game ID—lead them.

However, some treacherous and sycophantic officials must be eliminated.

The first one to be affected is this Blood Rose!

Who is she?

Cruel and ruthless, arrogant and domineering, framing loyal and good people, and indiscriminately killing innocent people!

How many pillars of the nation were killed by a lowly secret policeman!

A deal was presented to Zuo Chang:

Your ministers are willing to restore your power and serve you again, but they have a condition: the Blood Rose must be hanged.

They sent a representative to negotiate with you, and you...

[1. Reject. Game over.]

[2. Kill Blood Rose. The more you rely on Blood Rose, the more your subjects hate her. Choosing this option will bring you unprecedented support and praise, with no opposition within the community and unprecedented unity among your subjects; however, your followers will be disheartened, and the loyalty of all your followers will decrease by 20 points.]

[3. Exile the Blood Rose. You have yielded; you choose to exile the Blood Rose, promising never to use it again. Choosing this option will return all community stats to normal levels.]

Zuo Chang chose the third option.

Reloading the save file wouldn't be very useful, as the situation was dire at the time, and it was difficult to bring the community's various stats back to normal levels using conventional methods.

As for why the second option wasn't chosen...

Zuo Chang did not think deeply about it.

He was just playing the game and wasn't thinking much about it.

now--

Will I run into her?

Zuo Chang had a strange thought, but quickly shook his head.

"What do my actions in the game have to do with what I'm doing now? If what I did in the game is 'real,' that's terrifying... I've probably directly ordered the execution of hundreds of people, haven't I?"

Moreover, Zuo Chang lost the final battle against the gods.

If those are true, how come he's still alive?

Pushing through the crowd and ignoring the touts, Zuo Chang stepped through the city gate and officially entered the city before him.

Behind the city gate is a large square carefully paved with square bricks.

White doves perched around the circular fountain, and a ten-meter-tall black stone sculpture stood in front of it. Zuo Chang squinted at it, feeling that the sculpture looked somewhat familiar.

"Mommy, Mommy, look at that older brother."

A childish voice rang out not far away. Zuo Chang looked down and saw a little girl with pigtails pointing at him and saying to a woman beside her, "That brother looks just like the statue of the Heavenly King General!"

wait wait wait……

A statue of the Heavenly King General?!

Zuo Chang looked up again, staring intently at the scene.

It doesn't look like it.

It can only be said that it is vaguely similar, but there are significant differences in the details.

However, "Heavenly King General"—

That's his game ID!

Zuo Chang approached the woman and asked, "Excuse me, is this a statue of the Heavenly King General?"

The woman paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "Yes. The city lord of Tianwang City greatly admires General Tianwang. He wants to be like General Tianwang, leading the community to break through to single digits and fight against the gods! So, he built this statue for people to admire."

Zuo Chang was deeply moved upon hearing this.

He asked, "Even a cruel ruler like the Heavenly King General has people who worship him? I heard that he was warlike and, towards the end of his reign, converted farmland into medicinal herb fields, causing hundreds of thousands of people to starve to death."

The woman was somewhat uneasy.

She looked around and whispered, "You can't say that! Everyone knows that General Tianwang treats human life like dirt, but he is also a man of great courage. His reputation and infamy are equally illustrious. Many ambitious people regard him as an idol, and countless scholars praise his courage to rebel!"

"..."

孽 孽!

Zuo Chang recalled his various actions in the game, and his mind went blank.

Nobody told him it wasn't a game!

What should we do now?

He plays the tyrant role in the game, prioritizing efficiency above all else.

Under his brutal rule, nearly a million laborers died on construction sites just to build the "spectacles" necessary for upgrading the community!

One million dead souls...

Will I be able to sleep tonight?

Seeing Zuo Chang's deathly pale face, the woman asked, "Sir, what's wrong?"

"N-nothing, I'm just dizzy."

"Dizziness?"

Zuo Chang was flustered and didn't know what to do with his hands. "Um... Madam, what do you think of General Tianwang?"

The woman looked around again and whispered, "He's a tyrant! A demon! A complete serial killer, a butcher who deserves to be torn to pieces!"

Tyrant, demon...

A murderer...

Massacre of ten thousand people...

The woman's brief and forceful evaluation kept echoing in Zuo Chang's ears.

Zuo Changqiang composed himself and asked, "Is General Tianwang dead?"

"Some say he's dead, others say he's missing. The only thing that's certain is that the community that General Tianwang built has fallen apart. Even if he shows up now, it won't make a difference. He'll never be the 'Invincible General' or 'Butcher Emperor' he used to be."

"...How long ago was that? When did General Tianwang disappear?"

Don’t you know this either?

The woman glanced at Zuo Chang a few times, a hint of suspicion in her eyes: "What happened a year ago—uh!"

She exclaimed in surprise, interrupting herself.

Fear seeped into every pore of her skin. Her eyes widened in terror, and suddenly she grabbed the little girl at her feet and ran for her life!

Snap!

She was wearing short high heels and fell to the ground after running only a few steps.

He slammed his knees and elbows on the bricks, drawing blood.

The people in the square noticed the commotion, and one of them asked, "What's going on?"

The other man chuckled sinisterly, "What's wrong? Heh heh! Daring to speak ill of the Heavenly King General in Heavenly King City, she's got a death wish! She thinks she'll be fine if she speaks softly, but doesn't she know that the Heavenly King General's former favorite general, 'Blood Rose,' is monitoring the entire city? As long as a keyword is triggered, she'll catch it. This woman's whole family is going to die! I wonder which unlucky man is to marry such a jinx who will wipe out his entire family!"

The man who had asked the question earlier was taken aback and exclaimed in surprise, "No way?!"

The other person shook his head, turned around and said, "Let's go! Blood Rose is handling matters; bystanders should stay away to avoid unnecessary trouble!"

The once bustling square was instantly deserted, and even the white doves that had been lingering by the fountain fluttered their wings and flew away.

The little girl in the woman's arms seemed to sense something and burst into tears.

Ignoring the pain, the woman struggled to her feet and fled in panic, not forgetting to look back—

In her eyes, there was only despair.

Zuo Chang realized something and turned to look.

The dazzling sunlight fell, casting a hazy glow on the woman's long golden hair. She stood there, stunned, her blood-red eyes trembling slightly as she stared at Zuo Chang in disbelief.

Zuo Chang looked at the long, thorny black whip hanging at her waist and recognized it as a gift he had once given to Blood Rose.

The "Soul-Draining Whip" inflicts extreme pain when whipping the target, causing the soul to tremble.