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

Drunken Plum Courtyard.

Li Cheng came to report, "Your Highness, the Seventh Prince has arrived and wishes to see you."

"Let him in!" Nangong Wu knew he was coming.

The Seventh Prince walked in and saw that Nangong Wu's eyes had reddened again. "Sister Prince Runing, I've come to seek refuge with you."

Nangong Wu looked up at him. "Hmm, have you thought it through?"

Emperor Mingde ordered him to go to Meizhou, but now he wants to go to Jianggang Prefecture with her. That would be disobeying the emperor's will and would result in being thrown into prison.

"Sister Prince Runing, I just want to live..." The Seventh Prince cried again as he spoke. "My mother died for me, and I want to live well for her sake. I can't let her die with regrets."

His maternal grandparents had resigned from their official posts and returned to their hometown, and his fiancée, with whom he had been engaged for only two months, had broken off their engagement. He now had no worries about the future.

"Okay, then I'll take you with me." Nangong Wu nodded.

Nan Qichengkun wanted to kill him, but if he really went to Meizhou, his hundred or so guards wouldn't be able to protect him at all.

Emperor Mingde has already given up on him. Even if no one wants to harm him, he can't get to Meizhou, a poor and remote place where there might be hundreds of bandits on a single mountain.

"Thank you, Princess Runing." The Seventh Prince wiped away his tears.

"I am no longer Princess Runing, so please call me by my name from now on!" Nangong Wu said.

She had already announced at the palace banquet that she no longer wanted the title of Princess Runing, as it was inappropriate for people to call her that anymore.

"Then I'll call you Sister Wang! This title has nothing to do with status. No matter who you are in the future, you will always be my Sister Wang," said the Seventh Prince.

"Whatever you want!" Nangong Wu didn't argue with him about it. "You go back and get some rest. We'll leave tomorrow morning."

"Alright." A smile finally appeared on the Seventh Prince's face.

The next day.

Nangong Wu and Nangong Xiao prepared to leave with their men.

Outside the main gate of the Prince's Mansion, a group of about 120 people and ten carriages were ready to depart.

Besides the master and the child, there were more than seventy people from the Zhenyuan Prince's Mansion and more than thirty guards from the Seventh Prince's Mansion.

The Seventh Prince originally had one hundred guards. When he was about to leave yesterday, he let these guards make their own choice: to stay or go with him.

Some guards, seeing that Emperor Mingde had abandoned him, felt that there was no future in following him and that they might even lose their lives, so most of them chose to leave.

The seventh prince walked out of the palace with the help of his guards.

"Your Highness, thank you for your care over the past few days." The Seventh Prince bowed to Huo Jing in gratitude.

"Seventh Prince, you're too kind." Huo Jing raised his hand to him.

"Seventh Prince, you're still not well. Get in the carriage and rest!" Nangong Wu shook her head secretly as she looked at his pale face and increasingly thin body.

To have survived is a blessing in disguise.

Just then, the sound of rapid hoofbeats came.

"Knock knock knock..."

The crowd at the main gate of the Prince's Mansion couldn't help but look up.

A dozen or so people came galloping towards them on tall horses.

Upon seeing this, Li Cheng turned to Nangong Wu and said, "Your Highness, the Deputy Commander of the Imperial Guards has arrived!"

"No rush, let's see what they want to do," Nangong Wu said.

No matter what tricks Emperor Mingde wanted to pull, it was all in vain.

The dozen or so men quickly arrived in front of them and dismounted.

The deputy commander ignored the people from the Zhenyuan Prince's Mansion and walked straight to the Seventh Prince, taking out a scroll of bright yellow imperial edict from his bosom.

Upon seeing the imperial edict, the Seventh Prince's already pale face turned even whiter, and he swayed.

Father is really trying to force him to his death!

"Your Highness, be careful!" Two guards quickly helped him up.

The deputy commander held up the imperial edict and said, "Seventh Prince, Your Majesty has ordered me to escort you to Meizhou."

"I will not go to Meizhou. Please return to the palace and tell my father," the Seventh Prince said.

"Your Highness, I am acting under orders, and I'm afraid you have no choice! Otherwise, I would have difficulty reporting back to His Majesty." The deputy commander waved his hand at the people behind him.

"Guards, help the Seventh Prince onto his horse!"

Two men came up and tried to take the seventh prince away.

Upon seeing this, Nangong Hong's guards immediately blocked his way, placing their hands on the hilts of the swords hanging at their waists.

"Let's see who dares to touch my prince!"

"How dare you! His Majesty's decree is right here! How dare you block the way? Are you trying to rebel?" the deputy commander shouted.

The guards stood still and didn't speak, only looking at him coldly, their meaning self-evident.

"Very well!" The deputy commander's face twisted into a ferocious grin. "Men, escort the Seventh Prince onto his horse. Anyone who dares to obstruct him will be killed without mercy!"

"Let's see who dares to touch him!" Nangong Wu's voice wasn't loud, but it made both Imperial Guards stop what they were doing.

If Nangong Wu wanted to kill them, they would only die in vain.

The deputy commander's expression darkened. "Miss Nangong, I am acting under orders. Please do not obstruct me."

Knowing that Nangong Wu was not someone to be trifled with, but unable to take the Seventh Prince away, Emperor Mingde would not treat him well even if he returned.

Nangong Wu walked over, looked at him with a cold smile, and said, "Where the Seventh Prince wants to go is his freedom. Did you ask him for permission before you wanted to take him away?"

The Seventh Prince immediately said, "Sister, I will not go with them."

"Did you hear that? The Seventh Prince doesn't want to go with you. If you dare to lay a finger on him, I'll have your heads rolled." Nangong Wu suddenly drew a guard's sword and pointed it at the deputy commander's throat.

"If you don't get out of here, your head will roll!"

The Imperial Guards were so startled that they took a few steps back.

"I'll only count to three! One..." Nangong Wu's eyes flashed with murderous intent.

"Two..." Her sword tip pressed against the deputy commander's throat, "The moment those three words are uttered, you'll be on the ground."

The deputy commander's hand trembled slightly, but he ultimately dared not risk his life, knowing that Nangong Wuzhen would dare to kill him.

"Let's retreat!"

"Hmph! Coward!" Nangong Wu snorted coldly and returned the sword to the guard.

"Prince Zhenyuan, I will report today's events to His Majesty truthfully!" the deputy commander said to Huo Jing, then mounted his horse and rode away with his men.

"Go back and tell Father that the Western Yan Kingdom will no longer have a Seventh Prince," Nangong Hong shouted at their retreating figures.

From this day forward, he is no longer the seventh prince.

"Father, we're leaving!" Nangong Xiao said goodbye to his father.

Goodbye, Grandfather!

The three children also waved goodbye to Huo Jing.

"Let's go, let's go!" Huo Jing waved to them.

People got into the carriages and onto the horses.

"Father, please take care of yourself." Nangong Wu said goodbye to her father before getting into the carriage.

Huo Jing nodded without saying anything.

"Giddy up!" The convoy headed towards the city gate.

Huo Jing stood there, watching them walk away until they disappeared from sight, before turning back to his residence and giving the order:

"From this day forward, the gates of the manor shall be closed. If anyone comes to visit, say that I am ill! I will not see anyone!"

"Yes!" All the guards returned to the mansion and closed the gate.

After leaving the city, Nangong Wu and her group transferred to the large helicopter and flew to Jinniu City, intending to take the seventy-odd women with them.