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

"Hahaha..." Qi Ziyang chuckled a few times. "Princess Jinyu is truly kind; it's not enough to just make them itchy, is it?"

"It's so uncomfortable to be itchy all over." Nangong Xi accidentally touched the itching powder that Nangong Jue had prepared last time, and her arms were itchy for half a day. Fortunately, she took her mother's antidote and recovered quickly.

"Okay, when Daddy catches those bad guys, he'll put itching powder all over their bodies." Bei Chenyan took the bottle from his daughter.

My daughter is too young; I shouldn't let her know about anything too bloody too early.

"Don't worry, Princess, I will help those bad guys loosen up their bones," Qi Ziyang said with a smile.

"Your household is still hosting a banquet, so you should go back first!" Bei Chenyan waved his hand at him.

"Alright, send me a message when Jue'er wakes up." Qi Ziyang cupped his hands in greeting to the father and his two sons before leaving.

Two quarters of an hour later, Nangong Wu finished examining Nangong Jue's body and then let the three of them enter the space.

They found that Nangong Jue had woken up and was lying on a small bed.

"Jue'er!"

Nangong Yu and Nangong Xi were overjoyed to see him awake and rushed to his bedside.

"Jue'er is sick and needs to rest, so don't argue with him." Nangong Wu pulled the two children apart.

Upon hearing this, Nangong Yu and Nangong Xi immediately stood aside and remained silent.

"How is Jue'er?" Bei Chenyan asked Nangong Wu first.

"It's a minor concussion, nothing serious. A few days of rest will do the trick," Nangong Wu replied.

Upon hearing this, Bei Chenyan finally felt relieved.

He went to his son's bedside. "Jue'er, how are you feeling?"

"My head is a little dizzy and hurts a little..." Nangong Jue said, her face scrunched up.

"Then rest well and don't talk!" Bei Chenyan tenderly pulled the thin blanket up for his son.

"Yu'er, Xi'er, go and play with Luo Yushao. Your father and I have something to say," Nangong Wu said to the two children.

"Yes, Mother."

Nangong Yu and Nangong Xi kept looking back at Nangong Jue as they walked.

"Jue'er, you should rest well. Your mother is outside. If you feel unwell, just call out," Nangong Wu instructed her son.

"Mother, I feel a little nauseous." Nangong Jue felt dizzy all over.

"Yes, your head got caught in the door. Rest well and you'll be fine in a few days!" Nangong Wu comforted the child.

"Okay." Nangong Jue closed his eyes.

"Let's go outside and talk." Nangong Wu used her mind to bring Bei Chenyan out of the space.

"The assassin is inextricably linked to the Wan family and Ling Yangzi. You investigate here first, and I will lend you more weapons and ammunition."

"Are you leaving tonight...?" Bei Chenyan felt a pang of reluctance.

"You know, Runan City is still submerged in water, and everyone still lives on the mountain. I have to go back."

"I'll go check on His Majesty again later. If there's nothing serious, I'll leave tonight and return in four days at the latest," Nangong Wu said calmly.

"I want to talk to you about Mother." Bei Chenyan hesitated, but still decided to tell her what had happened.

"That's a private matter between your royal family and the Wan family, you don't need to tell me that, but they laid a hand on my child today, and I will absolutely not let this go!"

"I'm leaving today's matter to you to investigate. If it turns out the Wan family was behind it, I won't show them any mercy. The Wu King's Mansion in the Eastern Jin Kingdom will be their final fate." Nangong Wu would absolutely not let those who wanted to harm her child live.

"I'm not doing this out of courtesy to the Wan family, but because I want to find out the truth about my mother." Bei Chenyan poured her a cup of tea. "Sit down and let's talk!"

"You've found out about your mother's affairs?" Nangong Wu asked疑惑地, hesitating for a moment before sitting down. "Could it be that your mother has some hidden story?"

The Wan family has already been deposed and banished to the cold palace, so what is there to investigate?

"The abbot of Longhua Temple casually told me that my mother actually had a twin sister." Bei Chenyan told her the reason for this:

"On the day the mother was born, Wansheng invited the abbot to tell the fates of the two children. In the end, the abbot calculated that the two children had very different fates."

It is said that the elder sister, who is also the mother, has a noble destiny and will surely become the empress, a woman of unparalleled honor and majesty; while the younger sister is said to be destined to be a cursed star, who will not only have a bad end but will also bring harm to the entire Wan family.

Wansheng was terrified and wanted to kill his youngest daughter that very day. However, his maternal grandmother couldn't bear to part with her and begged Wansheng to spare her life. In the end, she sent her away to be raised by a family.

I found some elderly people who had cared for my maternal grandmother, and they have confirmed this.

Nangong Wu understood. "You suspect that the current deposed empress is not your real mother? How did you figure that out?"

"It's her personality." Bei Chenyan pointed out the suspicious point: "My mother has a gentle personality and is the one who loves me the most, unlike this one who is so domineering. There is not a trace of affection in her eyes when she looks at me."

When I was eight years old, I went to Kunlun Mountain to learn martial arts. Until I was seventeen, several foreign tribes in the southern border region were always harassing the people on the border and attacking the soldiers stationed at the border with evil Gu worms. They were vicious.

After receiving the Emperor's letter, my master gave me a good method to suppress the Gu worms and asked me to go down the mountain to relieve the crisis of the people in the southern border.

Six months later, after I quelled the rebellion in the southern border and returned to the capital, my mother wanted to betroth Shi Peiqiong to me as the Crown Princess.

I didn't agree, and she scolded me for being extremely unfilial. From that day on, I realized that my gentle and loving mother had changed!

Upon hearing this, Nangong Wu interjected, "Don't you mention that Shi Peiqiong was raised by your mother from the age of three, with the intention of grooming her to be your future crown princess?"

"It was Wan Shuhua who insisted on sending Shi Peiqiong into the palace. The Empress Dowager also had this idea and wanted the Emperor to grant us a marriage, but the Emperor did not agree on the grounds that the child was still too young."

But my mother loved me the most. She was gentle and never forced me to do anything I didn't want to do.

She forced me to marry Shi Peiqiong and stopped speaking to me gently. I thought that my mother had changed after more than ten years and did not suspect that she was a fake.

She conspired with Shi Peiqiong to bring me to Chunfeng Ferry. I was extremely disappointed in her and left Yulong City in despair.

When the jade Buddha enshrined at Longhua Temple went missing, I happened to intercept a secret letter between Nangong Chengkun and Beichen Zhan, so I went to Longhua Temple to investigate. The abbot then told me this secret.

The abbot of Longhua Temple must have known something to reveal these secrets to me.

I later went to several elderly people who had taken care of my grandmother, but they only knew that the child had been secretly sent away, and didn't know where he had been sent.

"So, you suspect that your mother was replaced during the years you were gone?" Nangong Wu asked.

"Yes, now it's certain that the woman in the Cold Palace is definitely not my mother," Bei Chenyan said with certainty. "I just don't know if my mother is still alive?"