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

Li Shuang led her people out as well, personally watching them leave.

Li Feng closed the door and stepped forward to apologize, "Princess, we are late."

"It's not too late. What can he do to me?" Nangong Wu raised her hand. "Since you're all here, eat here before you leave."

"Yes." Li Feng stood up, looking at the assassin and the child in his arms. "And this one is...?"

Is this person really the father of several children?

"He is the assassin that Nangong Xun is looking for," Nangong Wu told him the truth.

"What?" Li Feng's expression changed slightly, and he gripped the hilt of his sword.

"It's alright, the enemy of my enemy is my friend." Nangong Wu smiled slightly. "You may all go and have your meal! I'd like to have a good chat with this hero."

Li Feng hesitated for a moment, then left first.

Once the door was closed again, Nangong Wu was able to take a good look at the assassin. He was in his early twenties, with an average appearance, but he had a pair of extremely beautiful eyes that seemed out of place with his face, creating a sense of incongruity.

"You're injured, let me hold the baby!" She took the baby from her.

"I never expected you to be Princess Runing, the daughter of Princess Nangong Lan." The assassin's eyes were full of surprise.

"My mother is a great hero, while I have a bad reputation. Am I disgracing her?" Nangong Wu said with a hint of self-deprecation.

The assassin smiled. "You're a good person, but you don't have a very good eye for people."

"Indeed." Nangong Wu smiled as well. "Tell me about yourself! What's your name? Where are you from? How old are you? Why did you try to assassinate Nangong Xun?"

"My name is Xiao Lin, I am twenty-two years old, a wanderer of the martial world, and I did not attempt to assassinate Nangong Xun, but rather robbed him of one of his treasures," Xiao Lin explained.

"You stole one of his treasures?" Nangong Wu asked curiously. "Something that would make you risk your life to steal must be quite valuable."

"It's just some material possessions. I just couldn't stand his behavior and wanted to mess with him!" Xiao Lin shrugged.

Nangong Wu didn't believe it. Who would risk their life for something so insignificant?

But she didn't pursue the question further. "Young Master Xiao is a man of chivalry and righteousness, which I greatly admire. Would you be willing to stay and serve me?"

Xiao Lin was taken aback. "To be your bodyguard?"

Upon hearing this, Nangong Wu assumed he was being disdainful. After all, even guards are subject to rules, and people from the martial world are used to being free and unrestrained, so they are naturally not used to being bound by regulations everywhere.

"If you don't want to, then forget it."

Xiao Lin replied, "It's not that I can't, but I'm used to being lazy and I like to travel around. I don't like to stay in one place for too long."

"You can leave at any time." Considering his current situation, Nangong Wu thought it would be good if he could stay for half a year.

"Alright, I'm injured anyway, so I'll stay and rest for a while to see if I can adapt." Xiao Lin agreed to stay.

"Then it's settled." Nangong Wu always felt that he wasn't telling the truth and that he must have some purpose in getting close to Nangong Xun.

Otherwise! Nangong Xun wouldn't have gone to such great lengths to hunt him down.

But whoever he is, as long as he has a grudge against Nangong Xun, that's enough.

After finishing their meal, Nangong Wu didn't go to inspect any other shops. Instead, she took the injured Xiao Lin back to the palace.

"Your hemostatic medicine and anesthetic are very effective. Could you give me more?" Xiao Lin asked curiously about her medicine and treatment methods.

Holding a needle and thread, she stitched up his wound like sewing clothes, without feeling any pain at all.

"Okay." Nangong Wu gave him a bottle of special hemostatic medicine and a bottle of anesthetic, but it was a low-concentration anesthetic, so giving him a small bottle wouldn't hurt.

She instructed Li Feng to make arrangements for Xiao Lin, and then carried her daughter back to the Jade Courtyard.

"This is the young lady." Granny Feng felt heartbroken when she saw the thin baby in the swaddling clothes, who was about the size of a small fist.

Fortunately, all three children survived.

"You rest well, this old servant will take the child downstairs to breastfeed."

"Okay." Nangong Wu handed her daughter over to her.

Granny Feng was better at taking care of children than she was, and since they lived in the same courtyard, she wasn't afraid of anything happening to them.

A day passed, and neither the Liu family nor the Ming family released any news.

But Nangong Wu knew that Liu Xiu and the Ming family would not let this go easily; they must be preparing some big move.

"Princess, those two families might complain to His Majesty during tomorrow's court assembly," Li Shuang said worriedly.

"Let them sue."

Nangong Wu was looking at the scar on her face in the mirror. It was about three inches long and needed to be removed with cosmetic surgery to restore her original appearance, which would be a little troublesome.

"Princess, that Liu Yue'er is too hateful. She actually dared to slash your face. I will finish her off with one stroke," Li Shuang said.

"It would be so pointless to just let her die now!" Nangong Wu's lips curled into a bloodthirsty sneer.

Liu Yue'er was the biggest culprit who killed the original owner, so we won't let her die easily.

The poison she put on that woman's face would, at most, cause her entire face to rot within six months, leaving her to die in constant fear.

That would be fun.

The next day.

Nangong Wu hadn't gotten out of bed yet when Li Shuang knocked on the door. "Princess, are you up?"

"What is it?" Nangong Wu knew she had nothing urgent and wouldn't bother her.

"Someone from the palace has arrived with His Majesty's decree, ordering you to enter the palace immediately," Li Shuang said.

"I know!" Nangong Wu sneered. It's finally here. She's been waiting for this moment.

Fifteen minutes later, Nangong Wu came out, having finished getting ready.

Li Feng was also there.

"Li Feng, take those witnesses away too," she ordered.

"Yes." Li Feng accepted the order and left.

"Let's go to the palace." Nangong Wu led Li Shuang out of the mansion.

After boarding the carriage, Li Shuang took out a bowl of bird's nest porridge. "Princess, this was brought by Granny Feng. Please eat it while it's hot."

"Okay." Nangong Wu ate a bowl of bird's nest porridge and some snacks.

A full stomach gives you the energy to fight those people.

Li Shuang then told her something else: "News has come from the death row that Qiao Yuan committed suicide by biting her tongue last night."

"So be it!" Several days have passed, and the emperor must have already found out what he wanted to know.

In the Zichen Hall.

This morning at court, officials from Prince Rui's faction, led by the Imperial Noble Consort's father, Marquis Wu'an, along with several censors, submitted a memorial accusing Nangong Wu of being ruthless and indiscriminately killing innocent people, demanding that the emperor severely punish her.

Another lawsuit against Nangong Wu!

Emperor Mingde looked at the officials kneeling in the main hall, thirty percent of whom were sent by Prince Qinrui, and his eyes were full of displeasure, but he still ordered someone to summon Nangong Wu.

That girl promised him 300,000 taels of silver, but several days have passed and there's still no news. It's time to ask her!

"Liu Zhizhen, it's you again? Tell me, how can an orphan like Runing be so ruthless?"

"Your Majesty, just yesterday, my son went to Huo's Jewelry Shop to buy jewelry, and had an argument with the shopkeeper over the quality issues."

"This wouldn't have been a big deal, but Nangong Wu went there and, without a word, drew her sword and cut off one of Liu Xiu's and Ming Tianheng's arms..." Liu Zhizhen recounted the events of yesterday, embellishing the story.

"Nonsense! Do I know what kind of person Runing is? It must be your sons who provoked her, otherwise she wouldn't have cut off Liu Xiu and Ming Tianheng's arms for no reason." Emperor Mingde didn't believe their words.

Marquis Wu'an knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, even if Liu Xiu and Ming Tianheng did something wrong, it doesn't mean they can just be beheaded. What's the point of the law then?"

Liu Xiu and Ming Tianheng are the eldest sons of my Liu and Ming families, on whom I placed high hopes, and now she has ruined them all!