The golden waist token in front of the hall not only gave Wen Yuesheng authority over the entire northern military but also allowed her to move freely within the palace. She didn’t bring many soldiers into the palace, just a few.

However, capturing Princess Furui and her palace attendants was more than enough to handle.

This was the first time Wen Yuesheng had used the golden waist token to arrest a princess.

Upon seeing it, the palace guards hesitated, unsure of what to do, causing a commotion in the Empress Dowager’s palace.

Wen Yuesheng directly took Princess Furui away without a word of explanation.

The Empress Dowager was so enraged that she nearly fainted.

Fortunately, the Empress, sitting beside her, was able to stabilize the situation.

However, the Empress couldn’t make a decisive decision on the matter either. She immediately sent word to the Taihe Hall.

What they didn’t know was that the Taihe Hall had already received a memorial sent by Zhang Yulin’s messenger.

The memorial clearly outlined Princess Furui’s actions, with both witnesses and physical evidence to back it up.

The Emperor’s face was extremely grim.

Since the envoys from the Kingdom of Haoxiu had arrived in the capital, this wasn’t the first time Princess Furui had committed a transgression.

Yet, every time, the Emperor had covered for her.

But now, she had grown increasingly audacious.

From sending people to assassinate key officials to attempting to assassinate Wen Yuesheng, she had even involved herself in military decisions already made by the Emperor.

She and Prince Hengguang were siblings, but who knew if this scheme was her idea or her elder brother Prince Heng Guang’s?

There was also another memorial in front of the Emperor, one from Prince Hengguang, requesting that Princess Furui replace Wen Yuesheng in marrying the Crown Prince of Haoxiu.

The siblings had quite a plan—military power, marriage alliances, taking all the good things. Did they think the Emperor’s throne was theirs to claim?

“Slap!” The Emperor threw the memorial aside, his face darkening.

The palace servants kneeling before him trembled, whispering, “…A few days ago, the princess indeed summoned someone from outside the palace, but she claimed it was because she missed her maternal grandfather and had the servants deliver some items to Duke Xu.”

“Preposterous!” The Emperor was furious.

After the outrageous incident from before, the Emperor had replaced the palace attendants around Princess Furui, but she had grown too reckless and showed no remorse.

Now, she had gone so far as to send people to assassinate her blood relatives.

The Emperor’s temples throbbed with pain, and then news arrived from the Empress Dowager’s palace, further aggravating him.

“Gao Gonggong, the Princess of Sinning has entered the inner palace with military officers and has taken Princess Furui away…”

Before the messenger could finish, there was a loud noise from Taihe Hall.

“Slap!” The Emperor smashed his teacup, shouting angrily, “Tell him to get out!”

The messenger flinched, looking at Gao Quan, who seemed even more displeased.

“The Princess has committed a crime, and the Emperor is furious,” Gao Quan replied, his voice grim.

The messenger, at a loss for words, hesitated.

A princess had been captured and taken back to the palace by Wen Yuesheng—what would the outside world think?

But clearly, what Wen Yuesheng had done was with the Emperor’s approval.

The palace attendants, unable to act, could only retreat back to the Empress Dowager’s palace.

Upon hearing the news, the Empress Dowager was incredulous. “What?”

The Empress, standing to one side, slightly raised her eyes and looked at her with a smile that didn’t quite reach her eyes. “Since you are here, why not discuss with Mother Empress what exactly Princess Furui has done to cause the Emperor to forbid even your attendants from entering?”

The Dowager’s face shifted slightly.

Meanwhile, Wen Yuesheng’s military officers, escorting Princess Furui and her attendants, arrived at Cui’an Palace.

For the first time, Princess Furui found herself in such a disheveled state. “Wen Yuesheng!” she shouted angrily. “I am a princess of Dahui! Are you mad?”

Wen Yuesheng ignored her.

Zhang Yulin, holding the golden waist token, led the group and locked Princess Furui inside the palace.

Wen Yuesheng stood outside the palace, coldly watching as Li Qingyuan brought in people, forcing all the attendants inside to kneel, including the bodyguard assigned to Princess Furui by the Emperor.

The bodyguard shouted loudly, “Princess! I am the Emperor’s personal guard! What are you doing?”

Wen Yuesheng’s gaze was chilling as she addressed him. “You’re the one who was passing messages outside the palace on the princess’s orders?”

The bodyguard stiffened, no longer daring to speak.

Earlier, when Princess Furui had planned to act, he had tried to dissuade her, but now he understood: Wen Yuesheng was a royal princess, not one of those servants who could be treated with such disrespect.

But the princess wouldn’t listen.

She even said, “That Prince of Haozhou is one who doesn’t listen to both soft and hard persuasion. My royal brother has hinted at him several times, but he insists on marrying Wen Yue Sheng.”

Furui, having suffered setbacks recently, was deeply frustrated.

She couldn’t get Yan Ling, but surely she could get a mere prince from Haozhou, right?

“I want to see how he will marry Wen Yue Sheng if she dies.” Furui sneered, “How dare she, a mere woman, try to take my brother’s military power?”

As a royal princess, her status was not that of an ordinary woman.

She and her full-blooded brother, King Hengguang, rose and fell together.

Only if they both gained, could her brother win the throne. In turn, Furui could remain the proud and domineering princess.

Therefore, she didn’t think there was anything wrong with her actions.

She was a princess, holding the power to decide life and death, and Wen Yue Sheng was no different.

“By killing her, I would gain much. Even if Father knows, what will he do to me? I’m about to marry Haozhou anyway.”

Furui had always acted without restraint. As a princess, she saw the people beneath her as mere tools.

Not just the ordinary palace servants, but even noblewomen of high status were treated this way.

So whenever a noblewoman attended a banquet in the capital, they would always avoid her.

At this moment, she was full of confidence, thinking that once she married Haozhou, she would have no worries.

Before the marriage, she needed to clear the obstacles for herself and her brother. Even if the Emperor knew, he wouldn’t do anything to her.

Of course, Prince Hengguang might have silently approved of this.

The assassins and the private house were gifts from King Hengguang to Furui. He couldn’t have been unaware of the princess’s movements.

But his inaction was a silent approval.

None of them had expected that Wen Yue Sheng would investigate Furui so quickly and take direct action within the palace!

This was the imperial palace! Furui was the Emperor’s most beloved princess!

“Take him away and beat him to death.” Wen Yuesheng said calmly.

Upon hearing this, the guard’s expression changed drastically, and Furui, locked inside the palace, went mad.

“You dare! You dare! Wen Yuesheng, if you dare harm my people today, I will make you pay a hundredfold tomorrow!”

“He is a royal guard. You, a mere princess, have no right to give him death! You are courting death!”

Zhang Yulin, hearing her noisy yelling, frowned and asked, “Princess, do you want us to silence her?”

Inside the palace, Furui was even more furious and shouted wildly.

“No need.” Wen Yuesheng glanced over, coldly ordering, “Lock up everyone here and wait for punishment.”

She then stepped forward and walked into the hall.

“Open the door,” she coldly ordered.

The two military generals standing by the door immediately opened the palace doors.

Furui, still angrily pounding on the door, didn’t expect it to open suddenly.

She almost fell, and when she regained her balance, her fury grew even more intense.

She scrambled up from the ground, madly charging toward Wen Yue Sheng.

Years of living in luxury had made Furui unaccustomed to such treatment. Even when her previous plot to assassinate Yan Ling failed and the Emperor found out, she had not been treated this way!

Why was Wen Yuesheng doing this?!

Furui, already known for her temper and violent nature, felt humiliated beyond belief, and went into a frenzy.

But before she could even touch Wen Yuesheng, she was held back by someone.

Furui, even angrier, shouted, “I am Princess Furui! You dare!”

Then she looked at Wen Yuesheng and said, “Wen Yue Sheng, since you’re so capable, why don’t you just kill me directly? I want to see if you have the courage to harm me!”

After shouting, she finally calmed down slightly from her manic state.

Seeing that Wen Yuesheng was silent, she thought she had hit a nerve.

She was a royal princess, no matter what huge mistake she made, how could the Emperor allow someone to kill her?

Her expression became cold as she stared at Wen Yue Sheng.

But Wen Yue Sheng simply took out a silk handkerchief and gently wiped her hands.

She spoke coldly, “I would never kill a princess.”

Furui sneered when she heard this, thinking she had struck a nerve.

However, Wen Yue Sheng continued, “After all, your father still needs you to marry and make alliances.”

Furui’s face instantly twisted in anger.

She coldly replied, “I will marry the Prince of Haozhou. I’m not like you. Even if I make mistakes, I can still marry him. And you?”

“What can you do?”

Wen Yuesheng looked up, her expression emotionless, and met Furui’s gaze. “Do you think after this, you still have a chance to marry the Prince of Haozhou?”

Furui’s face immediately froze.

From the moment she first learned about the marriage alliance, she had sent someone to investigate the old emperor of Haozhou.

Not only was the emperor old, but he also had many consorts in his harem. In recent years, his temper had become even more violent due to illness.

Now, Wen Yuesheng had dealt with the royal guards sent by the emperor and sealed the private residence.

If Furui truly married into Haozhou, she would be isolated, with no one she could trust or use.

The Emperor would be completely disappointed in her, and the people accompanying her to Haozhou would become her shackles. She would be completely alone.

The once arrogant and domineering Princess Hui, who never cared for others, would not know what would happen to her.

“Haozhou is far away, and the mountains are high. We may never meet again,” Wen Yuesheng’s eyes were cold as she directly met Furui’s gaze. “Take care, princess.”