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

By the time the Prefect of Jingzhao arrived, the entire Caimei Courtyard had been engulfed in flames. Even if the fire had been extinguished, there was absolutely no chance of survival for anyone still inside.

Shi Shengqing arrived in a hurry, and together with the Prefect of Jingzhao, he tearfully reported the case to him:

"My lord, thieves have broken into my Shi residence. They not only emptied my private treasury but also set fire to my daughter's room. My daughter has perished in the flames. I beg you, my lord, to help capture those despicable thieves."

He was the Minister of Justice, but even if a case occurred in his own household, he had to report it to the Jingzhao Prefecture in order to mobilize more people to investigate the case.

Upon hearing this, the Prefect of Jingzhao was greatly alarmed and immediately led his men to inspect the scene.

It was at this time that Nangong Wu and Bei Chenyan returned to the Shi family mansion.

They watched the commotion outside Cai Mei Courtyard for a while, and when they saw Shi Shengqing leading the Prefect of Jingzhao to the courtyard painted by Wan Shuhua, they quietly left.

A while later, the two arrived outside Shi Shengqing's study.

After listening to the surroundings for a while, Bei Chen Yan Jing whispered in Nan Gong Wu's ear, "There are twenty experts secretly guarding around Shi Sheng Qing's study. I'll go and take care of them."

"Okay, let's go together." Nangong Wu took a sniper rifle from her spatial storage and gave it to him.

With the Shi residence in such disarray and Shi Shengqing so busy, there shouldn't be any patrols coming soon, so we can eliminate these secret guards.

The Wan and Shi families should all die.

At that moment, Eileen said to them from within the space, "Master, please also give His Highness the Crown Prince an invisibility cloak!"

"An invisibility cloak? Is there another one?" Nangong Wu asked in confusion, as she didn't remember having an invisibility cloak.

"Yes, I saw that there was still this kind of fabric, so Aiqi and I made another spare one. Now His Highness can try it on," Eileen said.

"Okay." Nangong Wu took out the cloak and gave it to Bei Chenyan. "This cloak can conceal your figure. Clothes made of this material are not easy to be noticed when worn."

"An invisibility cloak?" Bei Chenyan asked in surprise. He had thought she had used some kind of magic to become invisible, but it turned out that the material of the cloak was invisible.

"Well, it's getting late, hurry up." Nangong Wu gave him another sniper rifle magazine and then moved forward.

Looking at the cloak in his hand, Bei Chenyan was in a good mood. He put on the cloak and left.

A little over fifteen minutes later, they stood together on the roof of Shi Shengqing's study.

"You stay here and keep watch, I'll go down first," Nangong Wu said to him.

Bei Chenyan couldn't help but laugh. "Don't we look a lot like the Bride and Goose right now?"

"What nonsense are you thinking about?" Nangong Wu rolled her eyes at him and leaped to the ground.

"Be careful," Bei Chenyan also warned her.

Nangong Wu walked to the study door and listened quietly for a while before unlocking it.

After entering the study, she called Aiqi and Erin out as well, "Help us scan any suspicious areas."

Aiqi and Erin immediately split up.

Nangong Wu then took out the metal detector and began scanning the room.

There is gold and silver, but not underground.

"This study has a secret room."

"Where there's a secret room, there's a mechanism. We'll definitely find it," Aiqi said.

They found the Wan family's underground palace, which was so well hidden, and they broke through all the traps. What is a small study of the Shi family compared to that?

Nangong Wu walked to the wall on the left. "The thing is over here."

Aiqi and Erin immediately went over, their eyes scanning the walls and floor.

"There might be something wrong with this bookshelf." Nangong Wu walked to a nearby bookshelf. "Let's move it and try."

Many people like to use bookshelves to block the door to the secret passage.

"The mechanism is here, we've found it," Eileen suddenly said.

She moved the books on the fifth shelf, revealing a small vase inside.

Eileen grabbed the small vase and spun it around forcefully.

The bookshelf moved as expected, slowly sliding away.

When the bookshelf was halfway moved, they saw that there was indeed a hidden door behind it.

"The dark room was indeed here."

After waiting for a while and seeing no arrows being fired, Nangong Wu said to Eileen, "Eiqi, come inside with me and take a look. You wait outside."

"Understood," Eileen nodded.

She took a flashlight, shone it inside, and went in.

Upon entering, the dark room was not large, narrow and less than ten square meters, separated from the study by a wall.

On the wall facing the study, there are ten large boxes. On the wall facing the outside, there are two bookshelves, one large and one small, and a cabinet.

"Let me see what's inside these boxes first?" Aiqi scanned the boxes with her eyes.

"Master, these boxes are filled with gold and silver jewelry."

"Then I'll take them all." Nangong Wu mentally stored the ten boxes into her spatial storage.

Shi Shengqing was afraid of Wan Shuhua's painting. These ten or so boxes of gold and silver were probably his own private savings that he had secretly hidden away.

She pulled out a book from that small bookshelf to read.

Aiqi glanced at the book. "Master, this book should be a unique copy."

"I'll take them all and read them properly when I get back." Nangong Wu mentally collected all the books on the bookshelf.

She then walked to the large bookshelf and saw that it was filled with account books.

She randomly picked up a book and opened it to read.

The account book was yellowed and the pages were curled at the edges, clearly indicating that it had been around for many years. After opening it and flipping through a few pages, I found that it was actually the Fan family's account book, dated more than twenty years ago.

This Shi Shengqing actually still has the Fan family's account books, excellent! Take them all!

Finally, they arrived at the cabinet and opened one of the drawers.

Inside were letters, sealed with wax, but no signatures were on the covers.

"Hiding the letter here means they must have done something shady."

She took the letter out of the envelope and read it.

Her gaze turned cold after reading it. "It's actually 200,000 taels of silver embezzled by colluding with officials in the court."

He collected all the secret letters, opened the second drawer, and poured everything out onto the floor, revealing land deeds and house deeds.

Nangong Wu didn't bother to look at them; she collected them all first and opened the third drawer, which contained some silver notes.

These cabinets have eight drawers in total, containing some people's indentures and even pawn tickets.

She packed everything up and left the dark room with Aiqi.

Seeing that Eileen was not idle outside either, but was flipping through the books on the bookshelf.

Nangong Wu thought for a moment, then went to rummage through the desk in the center, hoping to find something useful.

"Nangong Wu, are you done yet?" Bei Chenyan's voice came through the door.

Upon hearing this, Nangong Wu knew that someone was coming this way, so she sent Aiqi and Ailin into the space and left the study.

Seeing Bei Chenyan standing at the door, he said as she came out, "Shi Shengqing is coming this way!"

"Let's go then! Let's go back to the East Palace first."

You should read Shi Shengqing's works carefully.

The two leaped onto the roof and headed towards the East Palace.