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

"Take her away and send her to the capital camp immediately. She must serve ten men today!" Nangong Wu shoved Liu Yue'er aside.

"yes!"

Two imperial guards dragged Liu Yue'er out of the mansion, tied her up with ropes, and then put her on a horse.

"Mother, what happened?" Zhou Shaorong looked at his parents who were holding him tightly and felt that something he didn't know had happened.

"Rong'er, the Liu family is finished," Madam Zhou told him painfully. "Our Zhou family has also been demoted..."

"What did you say?" Zhou Shaorong was dumbfounded.

"Zhou Shaorong, receive the imperial decree!" Li Shuang shouted.

Upon hearing the imperial decree, the Zhou family members knelt down again, and Madam Zhou pulled her stunned son down.

Li Shuang opened the imperial edict and began to read: "By the grace of Heaven, the Emperor decrees: The bond between husband and wife is formed through three lifetimes in the past, thus they are matched as husband and wife in this life. Princess Runing is hereby ordered to marry Zhou Shaorong, the heir of the Duke of Wei, hoping that the two will grow old together and share life and death."

However, after two years of marriage, Zhou Shaorong repeatedly violated human ethics and morality, forgot the original intention of the marriage, secretly had an affair with his cousin Liu Yue'er, plotted to kill his wife, demoted her to a concubine, causing the couple to break off their relationship and making it difficult to maintain the proper etiquette in the palace.

Zhou Shaorong has acted immorally, blinded by lust, and has failed to live up to my trust in him. Therefore, I hereby grant Runing's request to divorce him in accordance with ancestral rules, and the princess shall be restored to her esteemed position...

When Zhou Shaorong heard Li Shuang utter the words "divorce," he was stunned and incredulous.

Since ancient times, there has never been a precedent of a woman divorcing her husband. In order to humiliate him, Nangong Wu actually asked the emperor to issue an edict to divorce him.

"No! It is Nangong Wu who has lost her virtue. Why should I be divorced? I want to see His Majesty. I am the heir of the Duke of Wei. How can I be divorced?" Zhou Shaorong refused to accept the imperial decree and wanted to go to the palace to see the emperor.

If he gets divorced by a woman, how will he ever be able to face people again? Won't he be unable to hold his head up high for the rest of his life?

"Rong'er, you mustn't!" Madam Zhou grabbed him and shook her head.

The emperor's words are law, and what has been decreed cannot be changed. If the son continues to make trouble, he will only anger Emperor Mingde.

"Zhou Shaorong, are you refusing to accept the imperial decree because you intend to defy it?" Li Shuang asked coldly.

"Your humble servant receives the imperial decree." Zhou Zheng hurriedly took the imperial decree for his son.

"Zhou Zheng, Zhou Shaorong has already been divorced by this princess. Return this princess's dowry!" Nangong Wu said.

Madam Zhou was extremely unwilling, but Nangong Wu had come with an imperial edict, and they dared not disobey the order to return her dowry.

"Nangong Wu, you have too many things, and we can't find them all at once. Why don't you give us a few more days, and we'll deliver them to the Zhenyuan Prince's Mansion..."

"How dare you!" Li Shuang stepped forward and slapped Madam Zhou hard across the face. "Ming Shi, what are you, daring to address the Princess by her given name?"

"Mother..." Zhou Shaorong supported Madam Zhou, his face ashen. "Nangong... how dare you?"

Just then, Li Feng arrived, bringing with him more than a hundred people, including Flying Feather Guards and Royal Guards.

Luo Dayou and the old steward of the Prince's Mansion also arrived, along with countless carriages ready to transport the dowry, all parked outside the Zhou family's gate.

The old steward said, "Princess, your dowry was personally arranged by this old servant and Granny Feng according to the prince's instructions. Every piece of treasure has been carefully inspected. We are here today to check it out for you, so as to prevent anyone from trying to substitute fakes or pass off inferior goods as superior ones."

"Thank you for your trouble, old butler!" Nangong Wu was worried about this, but unexpectedly the old butler arrived.

"My dowry consists entirely of imperial gifts. Everyone should keep their eyes peeled and examine it carefully later!"

The Zhou family members all looked unwell.

Zhou Shaorong was already in a bad mood, and upon hearing her words, he angrily retorted, "Nangong Wu, you are ruthless and bully others with your power. Don't assume everyone is like you..."

"Rong'er, don't talk nonsense..." Madam Zhou was so shocked that she quickly stopped him.

"Guards!" Nangong Wu ordered, "The Zhou family intends to refrain from returning my dowry. Search them immediately! If they find nothing, demolish this entire mansion!"

"yes!"

A hundred people behind her responded in unison, their voices deafening.

"No, you can't!" Zhou Zheng spread his arms to stop them. "Princess Runing, I will go and prepare your dowry right away."

"Alright! I'll wait here." Nangong Wu took out the dowry list and gave it to the old steward.

Zhou Zheng and his wife pulled Zhou Shaorong away.

Li Shuang found a chair and asked Nangong Wu to sit down. "Princess, Li Cheng has already gone to our teahouse to fetch tea and snacks."

Knowing that the dowry wouldn't be finished anytime soon, and fearing that the princess might be thirsty or hungry, she sent Li Cheng to find some food and drink.

"Okay." Nangong Wu sat down and waited.

Today, she intends to bankrupt this man surnamed Zhou.

The backyard of the Zhou residence.

After hearing what his parents had told him about what happened at the morning court session, Zhou Shaorong was completely stunned and lost his usual pride.

"Nangong Wu gave the emperor over 500,000 taels of silver just to divorce me?"

Wasn't that woman the one who loved him the most? How could she do this?

"She must be jealous of Yue'er..."

"Even now, you're still thinking about that Liu Yue'er? If it weren't for her, our family wouldn't be in this state now." Zhou Zheng was dissatisfied with his son's favoritism towards Liu Yue'er.

"I have told you many times that Nangong Wu is very important to you and that you must treat her well, but you just wouldn't listen and even let Liu Yue'er kill Nangong Wu. Now you've pushed her to the limit, haven't you?"

"Liu Yue'er is a jinx. If she had killed Nangong Wu, you would have been dead long ago!"

"But I had no idea about borrowing Nangong Wu's luck." Zhou Shaorong also began to regret it!

Without Nangong Wu, he wouldn't live long either.

"It's all because Liu Yue'er spoke ill of Nangong Wu to me that I don't like her." Even now, Zhou Shaorong is still shifting the blame onto others.

"What's the use of saying all this now? His Majesty has already issued an edict ordering Nangong Wu to divorce you!" Madam Zhou's face was full of worry.

"Now that woman wants our dowry back, what are we going to give her in return?"

"When Chu Chu got married, didn't you use Nangong Wu's dowry as part of her dowry?"

"The only thing we can do now is to ask her for it back and return Nangong Wu's dowry," Zhou Zheng said.

"So you knew that was part of the dowry? There's no reason to ask for something back that's part of the dowry!" Madam Zhou disagreed. "If we take the dowry back, how will Chuchu establish herself in her husband's family?"

"This won't work, that won't work. There's not a single tael of silver in the manor right now, and we still have to repay the 80,000 taels of silver to the Shangtong Company. What do you suggest we do?" Zhou Zheng was very frustrated.

He had never worried about money before, but ever since Liu Yue'er entered the family, a series of bad things have happened.

"It's all because of Liu Yue'er!" If Liu Yue'er hadn't done so many evil things to Nangong Wu, things wouldn't have turned out this way.

With Nangong Wu around, they have an inexhaustible supply of silver.

"We can only sell the shops and farms as compensation," Madam Zhou said through gritted teeth, her heart aching.

"Even if we wanted to sell the shops and estates, we wouldn't be able to sell them anytime soon." Zhou Zheng looked like he had aged ten years.