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

"No! What have you done to my son?"

Just then, Li Zhan and the others brought Xie Shi and Nangong Jing back. Xie Shi had just entered the door when she saw this scene and rushed over.

"He killed someone." Xiao Lin shoved the person away. "A poisonous and incompetent piece of trash."

Madam Xie hugged her son and roared angrily at Nangong Wu, "How dare you try to kill Huai'er?!"

As soon as the poison pill entered his stomach, Nangong Huai immediately felt a sharp pain in his abdomen and spat out a mouthful of blood.

The poison was developed by Nangong Wu; it is lethal upon contact with blood.

"Huai'er..." Xie screamed.

"Nangong Wu, you have such a vicious heart!" Nangong Qi collapsed there, his eyes filled with resentment as he looked at Nangong Wu.

"I've already told you everything. Huai'er and the others are innocent. Why do you still want to kill them all?"

"Innocent? To exterminate them all?" Nangong Wu sneered. "My brother was taken away by you right after he was born. How could he be innocent? My father had no grudge against you. How could you be innocent when you plotted to harm him?"

My mother guarded the border, protecting our homeland and ensuring the safety of all people! You incompetent cowards, yet you murdered her and tens of thousands of soldiers—how innocent are you?

Nangong Qi's face was ashen. He knelt down and kowtowed to her, "It's all my fault. I'm willing to die and go to hell to atone for their sins. Please spare the children. They really didn't know anything..."

"How can I rest easy if you don't die?" Nangong Wu thought of the day she returned to the palace and was harassed by this family. If it were the original owner of this body, she would have been devoured alive by these people long ago.

At this moment, Xiao Lin had finished feeding the group the medicine. Hearing her words, he said, "Your Highness, this bastard is too vicious. Giving them only one dose of poison is too lenient!"

"Then what do you think we should do?" Nangong Wu asked him.

"Let's drag them around the imperial city a few times with horses, so everyone knows the evil deeds they've committed and their ugly faces," Xiao Lin suggested.

"Hmm, that's a good suggestion." Nangong Wu pointed to Consort Min, Nangong Qi, and Xie Shi, "These three are the most vicious. Let's make them tour the imperial city for two hours."

Their bodies were then hung at the south gate and left to rot for three days.

"Alright!" Xiao Lin grabbed Nangong Qi and lifted him up. "I'm going to make this bastard wish he were dead, so that he won't answer when he calls for his father or his empress!"

Li Shuang also came up, released Consort Min's speech acupoint, grabbed her hair and dragged her out, making her scream in pain.

"Let me go! I am the old prince's concubine, Nangong Wu. You can't treat me like this! I need to go to the palace to see the emperor..."

"Let's go." Li Cheng grabbed Xie's hair and dragged her outside.

Nangong Wu looked at the old woman kneeling to one side, trembling with fear, and then gave the order:

"Li An, inspect the servants they employ. Those who have committed evil deeds for them should all be executed. The rest, return their contracts of servitude and release them!"

"Yes! We will never let a wicked person get away with it," Li An replied.

"Also, remember to finish them off later, and throw their bodies into the mass grave," Nangong Wu instructed before leaving.

Outside the Prince's Mansion, Consort Min's angry shouts attracted a crowd of onlookers, who discussed the matter at length.

Li Shuang opened the imperial edict in public and read out the evil deeds committed by Min Shi and Nangong Qi.

A commotion arose from the surrounding crowd.

"So it turns out that Prince Zhenyuan and his son were harmed by this mother and child. I heard that the child was only a month old when he was kidnapped. What a vicious heart they have!"

"That's not surprising. Nangong Qi is the old prince's eldest son, yet he passed the title to his son-in-law. No one could tolerate that!"

"That's because Nangong Qi is ignorant and incompetent, good for neither literature nor martial arts. That's why the old prince was disappointed in him. Otherwise, he wouldn't have entrusted hundreds of thousands of troops to his daughter..."

After Li Shuang finished reading the imperial edict, the Min family, mother and son, and Xie family had their hands bound by the guards and tied to the back of their horses with a rope.

"Go!" Li Shuang mounted her horse and cracked her whip.

"drive!"

The three horses started running at the same time.

The three people behind were suddenly pulled to the ground by the rope and dragged away.

The onlookers followed, and wherever they went, pedestrians made way and crowds gathered.

In less than half a day, the evil deeds committed by the Min mother and son became known throughout the capital.

More and more people gathered around and spat at the three people.

"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey..."

Rotten vegetable leaves, rotten eggs, and pebbles were thrown at the three of them.

Less than half an hour later, Lady Min breathed her last, but the guards did not stop. By the time they had walked through all the main streets of the imperial city, the sun had already set.

The three men were dragged for more than two hours, their bodies covered in blood and gore, and they were beyond dead.

They finally arrived at the south gate, where the guards put ropes around the necks of the three corpses and hoisted them onto the gate, where they remained exposed for three days.

The Zhou family mansion was draped in white mourning clothes, and the sound of weeping filled the air.

Inside the mourning hall, three coffins were placed, and Zhou Zheng had been kneeling there all night.

In just three days, he lost three children, and his hair turned completely white overnight.

He knew it was all Nangong Wuqian's doing; she wanted to destroy the entire Zhou family, but she had no evidence.

"My lord," an old man entered, "someone has died at the Zhenyuan Prince's residence."

"Someone's dead?" Zhou Zheng tried to stand up, but because he had been kneeling for too long, his legs went numb and he fell back to the ground.

But he didn't care about any of that. He excitedly grabbed the old man's hand and asked, "Uncle Fu, is Nangong Wu dead?"

If Nangong Wu dies, then the Zhou family will be saved.

"No," Uncle Fu shook his head. "It was Consort Min and Mr. and Mrs. Nangong Qi."

Their crime was murdering the former Prince Zhenyuan and his young heir. His Majesty has already decreed their execution. Prince Zhenyuan ordered them to be dragged through the streets on horseback for two hours. They just passed by our residence, and I heard their bodies will be left to rot for three days.

"What?" Zhou Zheng seemed to have all his strength drained away, and he slumped down there, his face deathly pale.

If Nangong Qi, her own uncle, could be so ruthless, then she would certainly not let the Zhou family off the hook.

The Zhou family has nothing left now. All the guards have been dismissed; and the hundreds of servants have been sold off for money.

Now there are only a dozen or so old men and women left who are too old to be sold. Even the money to buy coffins for their three children was borrowed from the Ming family.

"Pfft~~" Zhou Zheng suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood and collapsed unconscious.

Inside the Prince Zhenyuan's Mansion.

Nangong Wu, knowing that her children were almost a month old, invited Steward Fang over to discuss the banquet arrangements.

"We won't send invitations! You can spread the word, or post a notice outside the gate, saying that the child will be one month old in three days, and the Prince's Mansion will host a banquet with a one-day feast outside the mansion. Anyone can come to the Prince's Mansion to have a drink of the celebration wine."

"This old servant understands!" The old steward acknowledged the order and withdrew.

That evening, just as Nangong Wu finished washing up and was about to go to bed, Li Shuang, who had gone to see Young Master Qi, returned and gave her a stack of silver notes.

"Your Highness, this is the 300,000 taels of silver notes returned by the Wujian Pavilion."