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

"You won't tell, huh? I'll speak for you." Nangong Wu walked up to the woman surnamed Du.

"Du Shi is your mistress. You spent 50,000 taels of silver to buy her virginity at Zuixiang Tower, then spent 200,000 taels of silver to redeem her, and then spent 5,000 taels of silver to buy her a two-courtyard house. Lu Rui, am I right?"

"What did you say?" A woman's scream suddenly rang out in the doorway, followed by a fat figure rushing in, grabbing Lu Rui's collar with both hands, his voice shrill:

"Lu Rui, you heartless bastard, how dare you keep a mistress behind my back? I've already taken six concubines for you, and you still dare to spend over two hundred thousand taels of silver to buy a courtesan? Have I been too kind to you?"

Upon seeing this woman, Nangong Wu and Beichen Yan realized that she must be Gao, Lu Rui's legal wife.

"Stop..." Wei Yang was about to pull Gao away when Nangong Wu pulled him back. "Wait, let's watch the show for a while first."

Letting these two bite each other might reveal some of their secrets.

Wei Yang glanced at Bei Chenyan and stepped aside.

"You old fool, you're such a womanizer! You're wasting my money going out and chasing after other women! I'll make you pay!"

"Gao, what are you doing?" Lu Rui suddenly pushed Gao away.

"Ah!" Gao was pushed so hard that she fell to the ground.

"Lu Rui, how dare you push me?" Gao pointed at him, her fat face contorted.

"All these years, I've managed the household affairs for you, borne your children, spent money to pave your way for an official career, and even taken six concubines for you. How dare you spend over two hundred thousand taels of silver to buy a prostitute?"

"Believe it or not, I'll make sure you lose your official hat."

At this moment, the guards brought in a dozen or so women, who knelt in the room. They were of all ages and presumably Lu Rui's concubines and children.

"Gao, that's enough!" Lu Rui roared at Gao, pointing at the six concubines, "Look at the trash you've given me!"

Upon hearing this, Nangong Wu took a closer look at the women and couldn't help but laugh when she saw their faces.

Because those six people were extremely ugly; they were either short or, like Gao, as fat as pigs.

Seeing her trying not to laugh, Bei Chenyan couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"

Nangong Wu suddenly felt playful and leaned close to his ear, saying, "If one day you want to take a concubine, I'll find some ugly women like these and send them to you."

"You don't believe me?" Bei Chenyan secretly grasped her hand.

"I was just kidding." Nangong Wu patted his hand.

"Waaaaah..." Du's little child was so frightened that he cried loudly.

"You shameless woman, you even gave birth to a bastard!" Gao suddenly lunged at Du, snatched the child, and was about to throw it to the ground.

"Stop!" Lu Rui rushed over and snatched the child away.

"Bao'er..." Madam Du picked up the child.

"Slap!" Lu Rui slapped Gao Shi hard across the face. "You bitch, you can't give me a son, so you refuse to have a mistress to bear one. Do you want my Lu family line to die out?"

"Lu Rui, you dare to hit me, my Gao family will not let you get away with this..." Gao rushed forward and grabbed Lu Rui's face.

The guards immediately pulled them apart and forced them to kneel down.

The trusted aide standing to the side said, "Lord Lu, now that things have come to this, every single thing you've done is a capital offense. You don't still think your child can be saved, do you?"

Lu Rui looked up at him. "Zhu Yi, did you betray me?"

"Lu Rui, back then you used the lives of my whole family to force me to do those heinous things for you. Did you ever think that this day would come?"

"Now that His Highness the Crown Prince has given me a chance to redeem myself, he will make public all the things you have done over the years." Zhu Yi sneered.

"Guards, lock all these women in the dungeon," Nangong Wu ordered.

Since Zhu Yi knows all of Lu Rui's secrets, then we won't interrogate these women for now.

"No!" Du suddenly knelt down before Nangong Wu, her face filled with terror. "My child is not Lu Rui's."

"What did you say?" Lu Rui looked at Madam Du and the child with an incredulous expression. "Bao'er isn't my son?"

"Hahaha..." Madam Gao burst into laughter. "Lu Rui, you deserve it! You spent so much money, only to raise someone else's son for nothing, thinking he was yours. You're so green with envy!"

"How could Bao'er not be my son?" Lu Rui shoved the guard away and snatched the child back, staring intently at the child's face.

"It's true. Before I married you, I was already pregnant with my lover's child. I couldn't bear to abort the child, so I set up a scheme to make you redeem me from my servitude." Madam Du grabbed his clothes and cried, her face streaked with tears.

Zhu Yi suddenly said again, "Du Shi, who are you trying to fool? Knowing that the Lu family is doomed, you claim the child isn't Lu's, thinking that will absolve you of your guilt?"

"It's true." Mrs. Du shook her head. "The child is mine and my former fiancé's. We still have contact. You can check if you don't believe me."

When Lu Rui heard Zhu Yi's words, he also felt that Du Shi was saying that in order to save her own life.

"In that case, I'll take a little blood from the child and Lu Rui, and we'll know the result immediately." Nangong Wu took out blood-drawing tools from her spatial storage.

"Okay, then let's do a blood test." Lu Rui knew he was doomed, but he also wanted to know if the child was his.

Nangong Wu collected blood samples from Lu Rui and the child, then sent them into her spatial dimension to have Eileen help with DNA testing.

"Go!" Li Xun led Lu Rui's female relatives away, amidst cries and shouts.

"My lord, spare us! We are just women, we know nothing, we have done nothing..."

Bei Chenyan finally stood up. "Lu Rui, you're doing quite well, acting like a local tyrant here?"

"Hahaha..." Lu Rui suddenly threw his head back and laughed a few times. "I just want to live, what's wrong with that?"

I was just a minor county magistrate back then. I was favored by the prefect and came here with him. The prefect was killed by the Snake Spirit Society with a curse in less than a year. Do you know how terrifying his death was?

His entire body was filled with Gu worms, which gnawed at his internal organs, causing him to die in excruciating pain. Finally, the Gu worms crawled out of his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose.

Lu Rui pointed at Bei Chenyan and said, "You are a high and mighty crown prince, an incompetent good-for-nothing who knows nothing of human suffering. You know perfectly well that every official you send will die, yet you still send us here to die. If I don't find a way to survive, I will end up like the prefect!"

"That's ridiculous. If you're afraid of death, you don't need to come here. You could just quit this job," Nangong Wu mocked.