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

"What...what did you say?" Bei Chenyan was taken aback at first, then shocked. "Mother, are you saying that I once had a younger brother?"

"Yes..." Empress Wan said, overcome with grief, her frail body swaying precariously.

"Mother!" Bei Chenyan quickly supported her. "Please tell me slowly, what exactly happened?"

"They killed my son..." Empress Wan pointed at Wan Sheng and Wan Wenting, her emotions running high.

"When they drugged me and secretly took me out of the palace, I was already more than two months pregnant."

They called me an ungrateful wretch and locked me in a dark, sunless dungeon. I was in the womb for over five months until my belly got bigger and I couldn't hide it anymore. Eventually, the person who brought me food discovered it. It was those two old beasts who had someone force-feed me a bowl of abortion pills.

I pity that child, a newly formed male fetus, your own brother, who was cruelly killed by them...

"Damn it! How dare you?" Bei Chenyan was furious and kicked the two men hard, one foot each.

"Ahhh..."

Wan Sheng and Wan Wenting were kicked so hard they rolled twice on the ground and vomited blood.

"Pfft!!"

"Guards!" Bei Chenyan ordered, "The Wan family deserves to die a thousand deaths! Execute their entire clan!"

"You can't kill me!" Wan Wenting struggled to his feet, "Sister, I was a fool for doing such a stupid thing. I'm willing to die, please don't implicate those innocent people."

"Innocent people? Not a single member of the Wan family is innocent!" Empress Wan trembled with rage.

"The entire Wan family, including their nine clans, resides in Jade Dragon City. Anyone even remotely related to the Wan family comes knocking to beg for favors. And who among them doesn't use the Wan family's name to bully and oppress others in the capital?"

"Wan Shuli, don't try to make yourself sound so innocent! Don't forget that if it weren't for the Wan family, would you be sitting on the throne of Empress, so high and mighty?" Wan Wenting knew he was doomed, so he gave up and stood up.

"You are the eldest daughter of the Wan family. Your father used the resources of the entire Wan family to raise you and spent a lot of money to hire many famous teachers to teach you music, chess, calligraphy and painting, so that you can master all of them and become the most talented woman in the capital."

They also spend a fortune to buy the best medicinal herbs from Medicine King Valley, grind them into a paste to nourish your entire body's skin, and only then will the emperor take notice of you and make you empress.

But what about you? You've forgotten your maternal family now that you've become Empress. If you had obediently listened to your father, why would we have treated you like that? Your father poured his heart and soul into you, elevating you to the position of Empress. Shouldn't he have sacrificed for the sake of countless families?

"Wan Wenting, you are just as shameless and greedy as Wan Sheng..." Empress Wan gasped for breath in anger.

Bei Chenyan, fearing that she would upset herself, quickly advised, "Mother, the Wan family has committed a capital crime, and they will surely pay the price for their evil deeds. You don't need to waste your breath arguing with them and make yourself angry."

"Rest assured! Your son will avenge your unborn brother for your sake!"

"Yan'er! Your mother knows, but I want to put an end to this with them. You should hear how shameless and greedy they are." Empress Wan shook her head sadly.

"Alright, Your Majesty, I'm listening." Bei Chenyan nodded.

The Empress Dowager was imprisoned by the Wan family for more than ten years, and there was also the fate of her unborn younger brother between them. That was a knot in her heart for more than ten years. If she was not allowed to vent, it would probably become a mental illness for the rest of her life.

Otherwise, if the Wan family is all dead after today, she will have nowhere to turn for help!

He also wanted to hear what Wan Sheng and his son wanted their mother to do that led them to commit such cruel acts against her.

"That was twenty years ago. There was a flood in the south, and His Majesty wanted to send an imperial envoy to provide disaster relief. When Wan Sheng heard about it, he came to the palace to find me, wanting Wan Wenting to take on the job, and asked me to talk to His Majesty."

I thought he was going to do something good, so I went happily and asked His Majesty for that job for Wan Wenting.

What I never expected was that Wan Wenting took hundreds of thousands of taels of silver for disaster relief and traveled all the way from the capital to the south with several beautiful concubines. He used the court's money to eat, drink, have fun, and travel around, completely disregarding the lives of the hundreds of thousands of disaster victims.

Later, the disaster victims did not receive timely resettlement from the imperial court. They had no food, no clothes, and no place to live. Some starved to death, and others died of disease. Tens of thousands of people died.

The local disaster victims were enraged, saying that the imperial court did not care about their lives and launched a riot in the area, smashing and looting the government office. Wan Wenting was so frightened that he fled back to the capital overnight.

To prevent His Majesty from finding out, Wan Sheng secretly sent people to bribe officials with silver to suppress the matter and dispatched troops to quell the rioters.

By the time I learned the news, the Wan family had already suppressed the matter. I regretted it very much, so I secretly sent people to the area to investigate and collect evidence. However, the Wan family found out and sent people to secretly hunt down the people I sent. Fortunately, the evidence eventually reached my hands.

That flood, a combination of natural disaster and man-made calamity, killed 170,000 people, and hundreds of thousands of yuan in relief funds all went to countless households…

"I didn't!" Wan Wenting suddenly roared angrily, "My father and I had already suppressed the matter, but it was all because you sided with outsiders that those hundreds of thousands of taels of silver went down the drain and were all used to bribe people."

"The emperor and I had already kept it a secret, but you were the one who interfered and sent people to investigate. I am your own brother, and you actually want to investigate me..."

"You're asking for it!" Bei Chenyan kicked him.

"Bang!" Wan Wenting was thrown back several feet away.

"Wan Wenting, if it weren't for the fact that you are my brother, the evidence I have would have been on His Majesty's desk long ago."

"But you still don't know when to stop, and you still want to take on lucrative positions in the court. I simply stopped seeking personal gain for you, and you drugged me, kidnapped me from the palace, and even murdered the child in my womb! Wan Sheng, Wan Wenting, you both deserve to die!"

Wan Sheng, having recovered from the kick, was enraged by her words. "Wan Shuli, our Wan family spent a fortune to train you and make you empress in the palace, all to protect the Wan family. You dared to disobey and replace me with someone else. I only regret that I didn't strangle you then."

"You didn't kill me, you just wanted to use me to threaten Yan'er..." Empress Wan was so angry that she vomited blood.

"Mother!" Bei Chenyan exclaimed in surprise and quickly helped her sit down on a chair.

"Let me see." Nangong Wu came over to examine Empress Wan.

"Where is Commander Deng!" Bei Chenyan shouted at the gate.

Commander Deng immediately strode in, cupped his hands, and asked for orders: "Your Highness, I am here. Please give your instructions."

"Strip Wan Wenchen of all his official titles and honors, and exile him, his mother, and his children, three thousand miles away, with no possibility of pardon! Execute the entire Wan family, including nine generations! Give them poisoned wine, and take Wan Sheng and Wan Wenting away to witness their execution, so that they can see the complete annihilation of the entire Wan family, including nine generations."

Wan Sheng, Wan Wenting, take them to the execution ground and have them executed by slow slicing for three days! Remember this well, make sure they live to see the third day.