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

"Okay." Nangong Wu felt sorry for him when she saw his pained expression and the changing looks on his face.

"Let Eunuch Hu in..." Emperor Mingde said with difficulty.

Nangong Wu hurriedly opened the door to the bedchamber and said to Eunuch Hu, "Eunuch Hu, the Emperor's uncle wants to see you."

Eunuch Hu, who had been waiting outside the palace gates for some time, rushed in upon hearing her words.

Seeing Emperor Mingde's pained expression, her voice trembled, "Your Majesty..."

Emperor Mingde looked up at him, his eyes bloodshot. "Quickly... I need to draft an edict..."

"Yes." Eunuch Hu walked to a table, unfolded a scroll of bright yellow blank imperial edict, and began to grind ink.

Nangong Wu helped Emperor Mingde up and led him to the table.

Once the ink was prepared, Emperor Mingde picked up his brush, his hand trembling slightly, and began to write on the imperial edict.

Nangong Wu stood to the side and watched as Emperor Mingde wrote on the imperial edict:

By the grace of Heaven, the Emperor decrees: Huo Jing shall continue to serve as Prince Zhenyuan, Nangong Wu shall be restored to the title of Princess Runing, and Nangong Yu shall remain in his position as Heir Apparent.

"My health is not good. Starting tomorrow, Huo Jing will oversee the state, with Nangong Wu, the Prince of Li, the Prince of Mu, and the Prime Minister assisting him..."

Emperor Mingde had just finished writing this when he suddenly dropped his pen, clutched his head, and cried out in pain, "Ah..."

"Your Majesty!" Eunuch Hu hurriedly helped him up, so anxious that he didn't know what to do.

"Princess Runing, please help His Majesty!"

Nangong Wu shook his head helplessly. It was the Gu worms in his body causing the trouble. Unless he knocked the person unconscious, there was no other way.

After a while, Emperor Mingde felt a little better, picked up his pen again, and finished writing the imperial edict.

Eunuch Hu hurriedly took the imperial seal.

Emperor Mingde accepted the edict and affixed his imperial seal to it.

"Ru Ning, she seems to know what I'm doing and wants to control me... Until the Gu worm is removed, the Western Yan Kingdom is in your hands..."

Blood trickled from the corner of Emperor Mingde's mouth. "Only by knocking me unconscious can I avoid being controlled by her..."

"I understand!" Nangong Wu felt sorry for him when she saw an emperor being treated so badly by his own mother.

Eunuch Hu blew on the imperial edict, and seeing that the ink was dry, he rolled it up and handed it to Emperor Mingde.

"Ru Ning, receive the imperial decree!"

Nangong Wu knelt down and raised her hands, "Ru Ning, receive the imperial decree."

Emperor Mingde placed the imperial edict in her hands, saying, "As for the medicine you are looking for, go to the Imperial Medical Academy and find the head of the academy."

Nangong Wu stood up with the imperial edict in her hand, took out a small bottle, and said, "Uncle Emperor, this medicine can make people fall asleep. If you feel unwell, take one pill, and I will prepare an antidote for you as soon as possible."

"Cough..." Emperor Mingde actually vomited a mouthful of blood.

Seeing him in so much pain, Nangong Wu poured out a pill and held it to his lips. "Uncle, take your medicine and get a good night's sleep!"

"Alright." Emperor Mingde opened his mouth and swallowed the pill.

Grandpa Hu hurriedly poured him a glass of water and told him to take the medicine.

Nangong Wu and Eunuch Hu helped Emperor Mingde to lie down on the dragon bed.

"Eunuch Hu, I'm entrusting my imperial uncle to your care. I'll go out of the palace to find medicine now."

"This old servant understands," said Eunuch Hu, his eyes reddening.

Seeing that Emperor Mingde had closed his eyes, Nangong Wu turned and left.

Upon returning to the palace, she went to find her father.

Huo Jing knew she had entered the palace and had been waiting for her.

"Wuwu, why did His Majesty summon you to the palace so late?"

"Something has happened." Nangong Wu showed him the imperial edict she had brought back. "This is an imperial edict that my uncle just issued to us."

"You're appointing your father as regent?" Huo Jing was surprised and puzzled after reading the imperial edict. "Why is Your Majesty doing this?"

"My uncle has been bewitched by the Empress Dowager. He's afraid of being controlled by her, so he only trusts us now," Nangong Wu told him about what had happened that night.

Emperor Mingde was actually poisoned by the Empress Dowager? Huo Jing's expression also turned serious. "Do you have a solution?"

"We need to lure out the Gu worms," ​​Nangong Wu said. "But we'll need special medicinal herbs, and it might not even work."

In her previous life, she received special agent training and learned almost everything. She also studied Gu worms and later went to the deep mountains to find a Gu master and spent a lot of money to learn from him.

Gu worms are mostly made by killing each other among various poisonous insects. The strongest one that survives is the original Gu worm, which is then refined through hybridization, Gu testing, and other processes.

The process of raising Gu requires nourishment from human essence and blood, which can control the will or behavior of others.

When she left, the Gu master gave her a pair of love Gu and a kind of bewitching grass, an herb that can attract Gu worms.

Unfortunately, she raised those love-cursing worms for several years without success, and they eventually died. The bewitching grass seemed to be kept in her spatial dimension.

Later, as more and more things accumulated in the space, she cleaned out and threw away a lot of useless items. She wondered if the Bewitching Grass was still there.

"Then you go ahead and get busy! Leave the imperial edict here; I'll go to court tomorrow," Huo Jing said to her.

"Alright." Nangong Wu left the Zhenyuan King's token with him. "Tomorrow, have Li Cheng accompany you to the palace."

Then she saw a wheelchair in the room.

"Father, when did you buy this wheelchair?" She went over to check it.

The wheelchair is made of wood and is fairly well-made. The wheels are carefully wrapped with thick cloth to reduce bumps when a person sits on them.

"We sell them in our shop. I had Li Zhan fetch one for us. We'll need it tomorrow," Huo Jing said.

"Father, wait until I make you a better wheelchair so you can sit more comfortably." Nangong Wu thought of the huge supermarket in her space, which also had wheelchairs.

"Alright, then I'll wait to sit in the wheelchair that Wuwu made for me." Huo Jing smiled indulgently at his beloved daughter for showing her such concern for him.

"Wait, my daughter will be brought to you in a couple of days." Nangong Wu bid him farewell and returned to her Zuimei Courtyard.

Li Shuang and Li An were both waiting for her in the courtyard.

"It's alright, you can all go and rest!" Nangong Wu told them to go and rest.

"Yes."

Nangong Wu entered the room and closed the door. She then focused her mind on the space around her, first searching for the Bewitching Grass.

Looking at the space filled with all sorts of things, she couldn't remember where she had put the Bewitching Grass.

She stretched out her hand and uttered a phrase, "Bewitching Grass."

"It's gone!" Nangong Wu looked at her empty hands, realizing that she had lost the Bewitching Grass at some point.

Things in the space can be retrieved with a thought; if you can't recall them with your thoughts, they're gone.

She thought for a moment, turned on her computer, found a picture of the Bewitching Grass, and then printed it out.

She didn't know if there was any Bewitching Grass here, or if it was called that, so she printed out a picture to ask for everyone's help in finding it.

Then he left the room to find Feng Wushang.

She had never been to the courtyard where Feng Wushang and Xiao Lin lived, but she knew where they lived.

To get to Feng Wushang's courtyard, you have to pass by Bei Chenyan's courtyard.

She glanced at it, wondering if the guy had returned yet.

With that thought in mind, I decided to go in and see him.

The courtyard gate was ajar. As soon as she opened it, she saw that the door to the main house had been opened.

Bei Chenyan came out and was quite surprised to see her. He crossed his arms, leaned against the door frame, and spoke in a lazy voice.

"Your Highness, did you come to see me in the middle of the night to offer me your favor?"