With a warehouse full of supplies, I stood alone as king in this chaotic world, gun in hand.

"You want to stay by His Highness's side and do things?" Bei Chenyan couldn't help but glance at him again, really not wanting to discourage him.

"Didn't you see the people we killed last night? How many do you think you can kill? Don't end up having His Highness protecting you."

"I don't want to be Her Highness's bodyguard. I want to do some rough work by her side and learn some martial arts. I hope that in the future I can become as powerful as Her Highness and then I won't be afraid of being bullied."

"I've been missing for so long, my grandma must be very worried. If she knew I was working in the Prince's mansion, she would be very happy..." Fu Daniu's voice gradually lowered.

I also realized that I was being too delusional.

That was the Prince of Zhenyuan, second only to the emperor. Even the people he employed, like a groom, had to be carefully selected.

"Sure!" Nangong Wu nodded in agreement.

"You can go to the Prince's mansion to do some work and earn money. If you want to learn martial arts, you can practice with the guards in the mansion. When you grow up, if you have potential, I will promote you."

The Prince's mansion still needs some people to do manual labor, and the shops also need workers.

This Fu Daniu is a clever guy; if he wants to follow, then so be it!

"Thank you, Your Highness. I... I will certainly work hard to be a person of integrity." Fu Daniu was overjoyed and quickly knelt down to express his gratitude.

"Go back and see your grandmother first, settle things at home, then go to the Prince's Mansion in the capital and ask Steward Fang to arrange something for you." Nangong Wu gave him a hundred taels of silver.

Go!

"Thank you, Your Highness." Fu Daniu accepted the silver note and kowtowed three times.

"Arrange a horse for him," Nangong Wu instructed a yamen runner.

"Yes!" The constable led Fu Daniu away.

After having breakfast, they found several cars to return to Kyoto.

As for Nangong Heng, he will stay for a few more days to handle You Zhao's case and the aftermath of the events in Jinniu City and Qingfeng Village.

Inside the carriage, Huo Jing looked at his daughter and asked, "Wuwu, what is your relationship with that Young Master Xiao?"

He noticed that his daughter and Xiao Lin were behaving intimately, and their relationship must be unusual.

"He's a very good friend of mine. If it weren't for his help, I probably wouldn't have been able to rescue you so quickly," Nangong Wu said.

"A very good friend?" Huo Jing recalled the way Xiao Lin looked at his daughter and felt that it was more than just friendship.

"Now that you have inherited the title, is Zhou Shaorong willing to marry into the Prince's household?"

Zhou Shaorong was very proud and arrogant. When the marriage was arranged, he was unwilling to marry into the royal family. However, his daughter liked that man, so he had no choice but to let his daughter marry into the Zhou family.

However, he had also made an agreement with the Zhou family that once Nangong Wu gave birth to her first child, whether it was a boy or a girl, the child would take the royal surname and be registered under the Zhenyuan Prince's Mansion, so that the mansion would have a successor.

Nangong Wu hesitated for a moment, then told him, "Father, you don't know this, but I have divorced Zhou Shaorong and have nothing to do with the Zhou family anymore..."

"Good thing you're divorced!" Huo Jing perked up the moment he heard the word "divorce."

"I told you that Zhou Shaorong was not a good match for you, but it's not too late for you to realize it now."

"Once I've recovered a bit, I'll find you a good marriage. With the status of our Zhenyuan Prince's Mansion in the Western Yan Kingdom, what kind of fine young man can't we have? In my opinion, Xiao Lin is a thousand times better than Zhou Shaorong."

"Father, a lot has happened in the year since you disappeared. The Zhou family is gone. I was the one who sent them all to the guillotine." Nangong Wu gritted her teeth inwardly.

"What? You sent the entire Zhou family to the guillotine?" Huo Jing was stunned, puzzled. Didn't his daughter used to like Zhou Shaorong the most?

"Tell your father that this scar on your face was done by that bastard Zhou Shaorong, right?" He looked at the scar on his daughter's face, his eyes surging with anger.

For a daughter to be so heartless as to kill the Zhou family, it must be because the Zhou family did something to hurt her.

"The Zhou family deserves to die!" Nangong Wu told him everything the original owner had suffered in the Zhou family:

"I have been married to Zhou Shaorong for two years, and he has never touched me. The person he likes is Liu Yue'er."

Last year, on the anniversary of my mother's death, I went to Huguo Temple to pay my respects to her. Liu Yue'er secretly gave me aphrodisiac incense and had someone defile me.

Liu Yue'er brought Zhou Shaorong to catch me in the act of adultery, and used that as a pretext to lock me up. A little over a month ago, I gave birth to three children whose fathers are unknown…”

"How dare the Zhou family treat her daughter like this?!" Huo Jing was furious, finding it hard to believe that the Zhou family would dare to treat her daughter this way.

"Wuwu, it's all because your father failed to protect you!" He felt heartbroken and guilty for his daughter.

"Father, this is not your fault, because our whole family was tricked."

Seeing his remorseful expression, Nangong Wu took his hand and told him everything, "It all started when the Imperial Preceptor Xuan Qingzi used an evil spell on me, which made me uncontrollably fall in love with Zhou Shaorong..."

"Wuwu, is everything you're saying true? You fell in love with Zhou Shaorong because that scoundrel Xuan Qingzi used evil magic to bind your fate and destiny together with Zhou Shaorong's?" Huo Jing was shocked and furious after hearing this.

"Yes." Nangong Wu secretly pinched her thigh, her eyes reddening from the pain. "Fortunately, I received guidance from a master who helped me break the bond, freeing me from Xuan Qingzi's evil magic, and I am no longer manipulated by the Zhou family."

"They all deserve to die!" Huo Jing clenched his fists so tightly they cracked.

This is his daughter, whom he has pampered and spoiled since childhood, yet she has been so humiliated and trampled upon by the Zhou family. She deserves to die!

Nangong Wu comforted him, "Father, I sent most of those who bullied us to the guillotine."

As for the culprits Xuan Qingzi, Nangong Xun, the Empress Dowager, and Ming Mengqing, I will make them play their greatest role, let their ambitions swell, and ultimately watch helplessly as their dreams shatter and they die unwillingly.

Along the way, the father and daughter talked a lot, from their enemies who were plotting against them, to the current situation in the court, to Nangong Xun who was about to launch a rebellion, and his hidden forces.

Huo Jing never expected that so many changes would happen during the year he was taken away.

"Wuwu, how did you find out that Nangong Qi and Nangong Chen are not your grandfather's bloodline?" Huo Jing was curious about this.

"I started looking for you after I left the Zhou family. Our Prince's Mansion is short-handed and there aren't many people we can trust, so I don't want to sacrifice my own people for things that can be done with money."

I went to the underground organization, Wujian Pavilion, and got the information from them, and then captured that Ma De.

Father, no matter how secretive something is, if you're determined to investigate, you can always find a clue.