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

"I'm fine, I'm sorry to have worried you!" Nangong Wu nodded slightly to them.

At this moment, the Empress Dowager also saw Nangong Wu, and her eyes turned red with envy. She pounced on her like a madwoman.

"Nangong Wu, you vile woman, I will kill you to pay for Xun'er and Meng Qing's lives."

"Your Majesty, you mustn't."

A group of palace maids and eunuchs quickly followed and pulled her back.

Nangong Wu walked up to the Empress Dowager, a mocking expression on her face. "The victor is king, the loser is villain. This palace coup was initiated by you, and now you've lost! Death! Isn't this the price you deserve?"

"It's all because of you, you vixen! You used that otherworldly artifact to kill the Imperial Preceptor. Otherwise, how could we have lost?!" The Empress Dowager was furious, her bloodshot eyes seemingly spitting fire.

"You mean that evil Taoist Xuan Qingzi? Haha..." Bei Chenyan sneered.

"Didn't you all boast that he had the ability to foresee the future and was all-powerful? How come you didn't foresee that you would lose this palace coup, and that Xuan Qingzi himself, as well as Nangong Xun and his mother, would lose their lives?"

The Prime Minister, upon hearing his words, also felt they made sense. "People used to say that Xuan Qingzi was a diviner, but now it seems that his words are unreliable and are all just nonsense to mislead the public."

"You dog slaves, how dare you speak to me like that?" Seeing that she couldn't win the argument, the Empress Dowager turned her attention to Emperor Mingde.

"Your Majesty, I want you to kill Nangong Wu to pay for the Ming family's deaths. In return, I will not hold your killing of the Ming family a secret."

The Ming family is finished, and Ming Mengqing and her son are also dead. The dead cannot be brought back to life, but she wants this little bitch's life to be buried with the Ming family, only then can she vent her hatred.

"His Majesty……"

The prime minister and several other ministers couldn't help but look at Emperor Mingde.

Bei Chenyan stood beside Nangong Wu with his arms crossed, wondering if Emperor Mingde would listen to his mother.

The saying goes, "When the birds are all gone, the bow is put away." Now that the Ming family has been destroyed, and Xuan Qingzi and Nangong Xun are dead, the emperor might really discard them after they've served their purpose.

However, Emperor Mingde seemed not to hear the Empress Dowager's words, and looked at the corpses of Nangong Xun and Ming Mengqing being carried over.

He then issued another decree: "Guards, hang the corpses of these two men at the palace gate as a warning to others!"

"Emperor, how dare you? You're trying to humiliate me!" The Empress Dowager was furious!

The emperor not only ignored her advice and killed Nangong Wu, but also wanted to humiliate the corpses of Ming Mengqing and her son, showing absolutely no respect for her as their birth mother.

"If you dare to do that, I'll kill myself right here."

But no one paid any attention to her words. Several imperial guards stepped forward and dragged Ming Mengqing and Nangong Xun away.

"You are not allowed to touch them!" The Empress Dowager rushed over, trying to snatch the two corpses away.

Bei Chenyan flicked his finger, sending out a small iron bead.

"Ouch..." The Empress Dowager's calf went numb, and she tripped and fell like a dog snatching food.

The ministers and imperial guards were very pleased to see this. They had long disliked the Empress Dowager and would have chopped her into mincemeat if she weren't the emperor's mother.

Two Imperial Guards grabbed one of the corpses by the ankle and dragged them away like dead dogs.

Supported by a group of palace maids and nannies, the Empress Dowager stood up, her eyes flashing with malice, and suddenly pounced on Nangong Wu.

Holding a dagger she had just picked up from the ground, she viciously stabbed it into Nangong Wu's chest.

"careful……"

It happened so suddenly that it was too late for the people standing nearby to stop it.

Nangong Wu's eyes were icy cold. Just as she raised her foot to kick, Bei Chen Yan, who was standing next to her, struck first, kicking the Empress Dowager hard in the chest.

"Bang!" The Empress Dowager was kicked away and landed right on Nangong Xun's corpse, which had already been dragged some distance away.

"Pfft..." The Empress Dowager rolled over and spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Empress Dowager!" The palace maids and servants were shocked and rushed forward to pull the Empress Dowager up.

"The Empress Dowager is injured! Quickly, summon the imperial physician!"

The Empress Dowager shoved away the palace maid who was helping her, pointed at Emperor Mingde, and cursed, "Emperor, I am your birth mother! Are you just going to stand by and watch me be beaten by these two?"

The ministers and the imperial guards looked at her with disdain, seeing that she was like a madwoman.

Emperor Mingde didn't even glance at her, and issued an order to Nangong Wu: "These rebels are all under your control. Anyone who enters the palace must be killed!"

As for the soldiers outside the palace, if they were forced to come, spare them.

After Emperor Mingde finished speaking, he turned and returned to the Hall of State Affairs.

"You bastard, Emperor! You'll get your comeuppance sooner or later..." The Empress Dowager pointed at his back and cursed loudly.

The Prime Minister frowned as he looked at the Empress Dowager, who was behaving like a shrew, and walked over to Nangong Wu, asking, "Your Highness, what should we do about her?"

Emperor Mingde did not say how to deal with the Empress Dowager. They dared not do what she did, beating her at will, nor did they dare to imprison her.

"Send it to the Council Hall first!" Nangong Wu's lips curled into a playful smile.

She sensed that the mother and son hadn't finished arguing and seemed to have some secrets they hadn't revealed, so she put them together to continue arguing in order to dig out even more juicy gossip.

"Alright." The Prime Minister felt that this was the only option.

He said to the palace maids and servants, "Did you hear what His Highness said? Take the Empress Dowager to the Hall of State Affairs first."

"Yes." The palace maid and the palace nanny did not dare to hesitate for a moment and pulled the Empress Dowager away.

"Your Highness!" Li Cheng, disguised as an imperial guard, walked to Nangong Wu's side. "Outside the palace, can we close the net now?"

"You've come at the perfect time." Nangong Wu beckoned to him with her finger. "Come closer and whisper in my ear."

Li Cheng was puzzled, but still leaned closer to her ear.

"Go into the council hall with them and see what the emperor and empress dowager are arguing about," Nangong Wu whispered to him.

She could tell that Emperor Mingde hated the Empress Dowager and always felt that the mother and son had other secrets.

Li Cheng was taken aback. "You just heard them arguing?"

"Hmm." Nangong Wu nodded. "I just heard them arguing. As for what's happening outside the palace, with me here, the capital won't descend into chaos."

"Yes." Li Cheng had no choice but to follow Emperor Mingde into the council hall.

"Let's go to the palace gate."

Nangong Wu led Beichen Yan to the palace gate.

"Bang—bang—bang—"

A series of loud thuds echoed as the palace gates were struck.

The rebel leader was Yi Zhaoting, the former Minister of War, and he did not stop his attack because of the explosion.

Because they outnumbered the enemy, with 70,000 troops pressing in from outside the capital, and the city's garrison also under their control, he felt they couldn't possibly lose.

When the Imperial Guards hung up the bodies of Ming Mengqing and Nangong Xun, the rebels below the palace gates were dumbfounded!

"That's impossible! With the Imperial Advisor and the Empress Dowager protecting His Highness Prince Rui, our people will not lose." Yi Zhaoting didn't believe it.

"Don't believe it, everyone. They must be using fake corpses to deceive us and throw us into a panic."