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

"Father Emperor." Nangong Xun stepped forward and bowed to the emperor.

"Nangong Wu is ruthless and cruel. She acts lawlessly because of her status as a princess. She has killed many people in the past few days and doesn't respect anyone. If you don't discipline her properly, she may cause public outrage and the consequences will be unimaginable."

"Oh? Then in your opinion, how should she be disciplined?" Mingde looked at his son, his gaze darkening.

Upon hearing this, Nangong Xun assumed that Emperor Mingde had taken his words to heart and revealed his purpose:

"Ru Ning is already married, yet she is promiscuous and has slept with another man, giving birth to an illegitimate child, bringing shame to the royal family. A person of such moral depravity should be sent to the Yeting Palace for proper discipline."

However, the Duke of Wei's mansion was magnanimous and did not hold her mistakes against her, nor did they despise the illegitimate child she had given birth to. As long as she reformed and returned to a good life, the Prince of Zhou was willing to treat that child as his own.

As long as Nangong Wu returns to the Duke of Wei's mansion and a cup of poison leaves her bedridden forever, then everything the Huo family owns will be theirs.

Zhou Zheng also seized the opportunity to speak, "Your Majesty, it is also my fault for not showing enough concern for the Princess! That's why so many things happened."

As Prince Rui said, as long as Princess Runing is willing to return to the Duke of Wei's mansion, I will definitely register that child under Rong'er's name, making him his eldest son and the eldest grandson of my Zhou family.

As for Liu Yue'er, since the princess doesn't like her, let her be a concubine, or else she won't be allowed to enter the Zhou family.

Now that things have come to this, we have no choice but to abandon Liu Yue'er and coax Nangong Wu back first.

"Well done! Duke Wei is truly magnanimous." Emperor Mingde's words were tinged with sarcasm as he suddenly picked up a few folding books and threw them at Zhou Zheng.

"Zhou Zheng, do you think I'm senile and can be fooled by your false words?"

All of Runing's maids have confessed. Ever since Runing married into your Duke of Wei's mansion, you have withheld her dowry.

"It was Zhou Shaorong and Liu Yue'er who defiled Runing. Now they're pretending to be kind, but they just don't want to return her dowry!"

He had already sent people to investigate what happened on the day Zhou Shaorong married Liu Yue'er, and with Qiao Yuan's testimony, he learned that Nangong Wu was living an inhuman life in the Duke of Wei's mansion.

Zhou Zheng was greatly alarmed. "Your Majesty, please investigate! I have been wronged!"

"Princess Ru'an has arrived!" came the eunuch's high-pitched announcement.

The ministers turned around and saw Nangong Wu slowly walking into the hall, carrying a large bag in her arms.

Looking up, she met Nangong Xun's sinister gaze.

A slight smile played on her lips as she walked up to Emperor Mingde and curtsied, saying, "Runing greets her Imperial Uncle!"

When Emperor Mingde saw her arrive, his expression softened considerably. "Get up!"

Nangong Wu stood up and asked, "I wonder why my imperial uncle summoned Runing to the palace today?"

"Ru Ning, I heard you cut off Liu Xiu and Ming Tianheng's arms yesterday, is that true?"

"It's true!" Nangong Wu glanced at Zhou Zheng and Liu Zhizhen and recounted what had happened yesterday:

"Liu Xiu and the Ming siblings came to my Treasure Pavilion to buy jewelry. They took a fancy to several sets of custom-made headdresses, worth nearly ten thousand taels of silver."

The three men not only forcibly took the jewelry, but also refused to pay, wanting to buy on credit. When Manager Hu refused, they beat him up…

"But you can't just kill someone!" Liu Zhizhen jumped up from the ground. "Nangong Wu, you're abusing your power! Don't you have any respect for the law...?"

"Well done!" Emperor Mingde suddenly exclaimed from his throne.

Liu Zhizhen was startled and knelt down again.

Nangong Wu: "..." The emperor just believed it like that? I thought I would have to explain it to him.

"Liu Zhizhen, Marquis of Wu'an! Many people witnessed what happened at the Treasure Pavilion yesterday!"

"The truth is just as Runing said. Your sons not only forcibly took away the jewelry that was ordered, but also injured the shopkeeper and refused to pay. How can you still have the nerve to accuse others of abusing their power?" Emperor Mingde questioned angrily.

The officials from the Marquis of Wu'an and Prince Rui's faction all lowered their heads, not daring to speak again!

It seems the emperor intends to favor Nangong Wu!

Nangong Wu felt secretly pleased to see these people get their comeuppance.

Nangong Xun was unwilling and said, "Father, even if Liu Xiu and Ming Tianheng are wrong, they cannot be executed just like that."

If everyone were like Nangong Wu, disregarding the law and killing people for the slightest mistake, wouldn't the world descend into chaos?

"Just a minor mistake?" Nangong Wu put down the bundle in her hand, untied it, and began rummaging through it.

There's no way around it, I have a lot of stuff, and if I keep taking things out of my spatial storage, people will get suspicious.

"Ru Ning, what are you holding?" Emperor Mingde stared at the bundle. Could it be silver notes?

The thought that it might be silver notes made him a little excited; it was worth getting so angry for her.

A lot of money is waiting for this money!

Eunuch Hu understood immediately and went down to wait so he could receive the silver notes.

However, Nangong Wu handed him a stack of letters, "Uncle, these are all evidence."

"Evidence?" Emperor Mingde asked, puzzled.

"This is evidence of Liu Xiu and Ming Tianheng abusing their power, bullying men and women. Take a look and see who is truly the lawless person that Prince Rui is referring to!"

Nangong Wu spoke to the emperor, but her gaze was fixed on Nangong Xun.

This evidence was collected by Li Feng before, along with witnesses gathered in the past few days. Now that we have both witnesses and physical evidence, even if we can't bring these families down, we can still make them suffer.

Nangong Xun felt a sense of unease when he saw the provocative look in her eyes.

Eunuch Hu took the evidence and delivered it to Emperor Mingde.

Emperor Mingde's face was already extremely ugly after he had just finished reading the first piece of evidence.

After reading a few more letters, he got so angry that he threw all the evidence at the kneeling people.

"You worthless bastards, look what your good son has done!"

He rode his horse recklessly through the street, trampling an old man to death and having his son beaten to death; he murdered a scholar on his way to the imperial examinations to seize a courtesan; he abducted a woman and beat her husband to death! How utterly despicable!

Upon seeing the emperor's anger, all the civil and military officials in the hall knelt down.

"Your Majesty, please calm your anger!"

"Calm down? How do you expect me to calm down?" Emperor Mingde roared in fury.

"Impossible! Tianheng is the most sensible boy; he would never do such a thing." Mingcheng, Tianheng's father, refused to believe it.

"Uncle, I have witnesses." Nangong Wu knew they wouldn't admit it, so she had Li Feng bring witnesses.

"Then declare it!" Emperor Mingde ordered.

"Summon the witnesses!" Eunuch Hu shouted.

"Father, this is fake." Nangong Xun pointed to the evidence on the ground. "These must all be forged by Nangong Wu."

"Shut up!" Emperor Mingde glared at him.

Nangong Xun dared not speak again and stood aside.

A short while later, Li Feng entered with five people.

The five witnesses knelt down and shouted "Long live the Emperor!" three times. "This humble subject kowtows to Your Majesty, long live the Emperor!"

Emperor Mingde looked at the five people: three old men and two middle-aged men, all dressed in patched coarse cloth clothes.

"What have Liu Xiu and Ming Tianheng done to you? In any case, if the situation is true, I will stand up for you."