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

"Hmm?" Emperor Mingde looked at her with suspicion. "Is there anything else you want to say?"

"The kidnapping of my brother at the full moon was orchestrated by Consort Min and Nangong Qi."

That mother and son spent a fortune hiring the underground assassination organization, the Nine Nether Gate, to steal my brother.

Nangong Wu then took out some secret letters and placed them on Emperor Mingde's imperial desk.

These are some secret letters that Xiao Lin found when he raided the Nine Nether Sect's lair.

"These are secret letters between Nangong Qi and the leader of the Nine Nether Sect. He paid someone to steal his brother, and he was also the mastermind behind his father's fall off the cliff."

Nangong Qi was also involved in the plot to kill her mother, but because her mother's case was too far-reaching, she has not revealed it yet.

But the crimes of kidnapping his brother and murdering his father alone are enough to make Nangong Qi's entire family die ten times over.

"Your brother's abduction and your father's disappearance were actually orchestrated by Nangong Qi? How dare he?" Emperor Mingde was both shocked and furious.

He picked up the secret letters and opened them one by one.

"If these secret letters are genuine, your brother is very likely still alive?"

"Yes." Nangong Wu nodded, "Because the small body that was pulled out of the artificial lake was not my brother."

That day, Nangong Qi had already sent men to hide in the artificial lake. After the assassin jumped into the lake, they used the lotus leaves as cover to get ashore. They even threw a child's corpse into the lake, making the father and mother believe the child was dead, so they didn't send anyone out to search for him.

Nangong Qi did not kill the child not because he had a change of heart, but because he wanted to use the child as a bargaining chip to threaten his parents in the future.

Nangong Qi resented that his grandfather had not passed the throne to him, so he wanted to kill his parents and two children so that the royal family would fall into his hands.

"Then where did you get these secret letters?" Emperor Mingde asked again, feeling that something was amiss. "Since it was Nangong Qi who kidnapped your brother, he must have known the child's whereabouts."

"I asked the Flying Feather Guards to investigate." Nangong Wu naturally wouldn't reveal the true source of these secret letters.

"My brother was kidnapped, my mother died in battle, my father fell off a cliff and disappeared, and I was defiled by someone hired by the Zhou family and then imprisoned in Hongyun Courtyard."

Even if I were stupid, I would know that someone was secretly targeting my family with these successive events.

As for his elder brother, he was taken back to the Nine Netherworld Sect by this person, and then his whereabouts became unknown.

"Damn it!" Emperor Mingde never expected that Nangong Qi would do anything for power.

"Xiao Lin, bring the person in." Nangong Wu called out to the door again after saying that.

The next moment, Xiao Lin brought in the assassins from the Nine Nether Sect, walked up to them, and forced them to kneel down.

"Uncle, this is the one who stole my brother." Nangong Wu walked over, grabbed the assassin's chin, and applied a little force.

With a "snap," his jaw was turned back into place.

Xiao Lin also made a move, tearing open the assassin's upper body clothing to reveal a black mark on his shoulder blade.

"Your Majesty, this is a mark unique to the Nine Netherworld Sect."

"Tell me, did you do these things?" Emperor Mingde asked the assassin.

The assassin didn't speak, but just looked at him with a sinister gaze.

Emperor Mingde's anger flared when he saw that the man dared to look at him like that. "If you don't speak, I will take that as your consent. No matter what country you are from, if you dare to harm my royal family, I will exterminate your entire clan!"

"Hahaha..." The assassin suddenly laughed, but the laughter was very unpleasant.

"You old emperor, I've lived a life of constant danger, do you think I'm afraid of death? Today I've fallen into your hands, kill me or do whatever you want!"

"You don't want to talk, huh?" Emperor Mingde was enraged by the assassin's provocative words. "Guards, drag him away and execute him by slow slicing!"

"Yes!" Two Imperial Guards entered and dragged the assassin out.

"What does death matter? Eighteen years from now, I'll be a hero again, hahaha..." The assassin finished speaking and burst into wild laughter.

Ma De was so frightened that his eyes rolled back and he fainted.

Emperor Mingde was furious. "And this one too! Drag him away and execute him!"

Two more Imperial Guards entered from outside the room and dragged Ma De away as well.

Emperor Mingde calmed his anger for a while before asking Nangong Wu, "Nangong Qi and Nangong Chen, what do you intend to do with them?"

"Consort Fang and Nangong Chen have done nothing wrong, so I won't make things difficult for them. But they have to move out of the palace, give him an official position, and leave the capital forever with a new identity." Nangong Wu thought of Consort Fang, who seemed to be a smart person.

Knowing that Nangong Chen was not his grandfather's child, he only wanted to save his life and live a quiet life.

"As for Nangong Qi's lineage, and Consort Min, they are doomed!"

Emperor Mingde's expression softened upon hearing that she intended to spare Nangong Chen and his son.

"Nangong Qi harbors treacherous intentions, plotting to seize the throne of the Prince of Zhenyuan. He kidnapped the heir of the Prince's residence and attempted to murder the former Prince of Zhenyuan. His crimes are heinous, and I will not let him off lightly."

"Eunuch Hu, immediately send men to imprison Consort Min and all members of Nangong Qi's faction in death row, and execute them on a chosen day!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Eunuch Hu bowed and accepted the order.

"Father-in-law, wait a moment." Nangong Wu called out to him.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for upholding justice for Runing!" Nangong Wu first thanked Emperor Mingde and then made a request, "I wish to personally send them on their way to avenge my brother and father."

"Then so be it!" Emperor Mingde thought it was good to let her take revenge herself, so he picked up his pen and wrote an imperial edict to punish Consort Min and Nangong Qi's family.

After finishing writing the imperial edict and handing it to her, he waved wearily at them, "I'm tired, you may all leave!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Nangong Wu accepted the imperial edict with both hands. "I take my leave!"

Sima Ji then stood up and said, "This humble subject takes his leave!"

After leaving the imperial study, the group headed out of the palace.

Nangong Wu opened the imperial edict and read it over. All of Nangong Qi's wives, concubines, and children were to be executed!

Xiao Lin leaned closer. "How was it? I did you a big favor this time, didn't I?"

Nangong Wu glanced at him. "Hmm, will I have to trouble you again in the future?"

"Of course, of course!" Xiao Lin suddenly smiled. "If I do well, could you perhaps elevate my status as a male concubine and give me the position of Dangdang?"

"You're so pathetic, all you want is to be a concubine?" Nangong Wu was speechless and pushed his head away.

"I'd rather find you an official position: the Court of Judicial Review, the Prefectural Governor's Office of the Capital, or the Ministry of Justice. You can choose one."

She should also place her own people in the court.

"No way!" Xiao Lin hurriedly shook his head. "I'm used to being lazy, I don't want to be a lowly official and be restricted. Being a concubine is fine, I have food and drink, and I can live a life of ease from now on."

Seeing that he was so hopeless, Nangong Wu didn't press him any further.

She thought of He Zhiyu and decided it was time to send one of her own people to replace him and properly purge the scum in the army.