Reborn to marry the emperor, I just want to confuse the emperor and seize the throne

Jiang Fenghua dismissed the guards after inquiring about the specific casualties. They hadn't even entered Xichuan before being ambushed. Yan Dinghai didn't pursue them, and Ge Ming didn't linger in the fight either; the two exchanged glances.

Back then, Night Shadow had Ao Xue bring back a topographical map of Xichuan and give it to Mr. Ge, but it was all useless. They had the map, but the crows over Xichuan were like their eyes and ears, with eyes sharper than a dog's nose. They were surrounded by fog before they even started fighting.

Fortunately, Ge Ming had taken precautions, otherwise his entire army would have been wiped out. The fog made it impossible to see the way, leaving them only able to stand and take hits.

Xie Shang still hasn't woken up, and she's very worried.

She noticed fine beads of sweat on Xie Shang's forehead. She wrung out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat away for him. Holding his hand, she sat on the edge of the bed and murmured to herself, "When will you wake up? I'm so worried about you."

"Mr. Ge has come here this time to settle his grudge with Yan Dinghai. I am really afraid that he will use the entire Shenyin Camp to fight Yan Dinghai. The Shenyin Camp is the Emperor's life's work."

“I often tell myself that the people and things in Yinchuan have nothing to do with us. Danji Aruan and Baili Ayu have nothing to do with me, but what about Baili Shang? Does he have anything to do with you?”

"Xie Shang, wake up and tell me, did you enter Ashina Xue's dream after you entered Xichuan?"

She slowly recounted what she had seen and heard in Yinchuan, even including things she hadn't told Xie Shang, though she didn't know if Xie Shang could hear her.

"How exactly did Baili Shang die? Aruan hates him so much. I really want the Queen to help me enter her dream again. This time, I don't want to make up for their regrets. Aruan's knot in her heart shouldn't be untied only by marrying Ayu..."

As Jiang Fenghua spoke, she became exhausted and fell asleep on Xie Shang's chest.

At the same time, Xie Shang wanted to wake up in his sleep, but no matter how much he wanted to open his eyes, he couldn't. He felt like he was floating in mid-air, light and airy. He thought he was really dead and that his soul had left his body.

He said, "Is this how everyone feels before they die? Am I really dead?"

He didn't want to die. He wanted to go back. The Great Zhou needed him, and Jiang Fenghua needed him too. No matter how much he struggled, even when he was panting heavily, it was no use. He wouldn't wake up.

For some reason, his floating body suddenly began to sink, falling into a pool of icy water. The water was freezing cold, and he was sneezing uncontrollably, muttering to himself, "This water is so cold!"

When he emerged from the water and saw that the surrounding environment was very deep and empty, he said, "Where have I arrived? It's so cold. Have I become a ghost and arrived in hell?"

He frowned deeply. "I am the Son of Heaven, the Emperor. All you demons and monsters, get out here!"

Since Jiang Fenghua died and was reborn, they have encountered a series of strange events in Xichuan. He has come to believe in the existence of ghosts. He has become a ghost. Are there no Ox-Head and Horse-Face guards to escort him?

As he shouted, countless echoes of himself came back and assaulted his eardrums, making them hurt.

Xie Shang didn't know if his soul leaving his body meant he was dead, but the bone-chilling coldness made him feel that he was still alive.

He tried pinching his own face. "I can feel it, I can feel pain. Can a ghost feel pain?"

After he got out of the cold pool, he tried to take a few steps. He was soaking wet, and his heavy clothes were still dripping with water. He felt extremely uncomfortable.

Suddenly, images that didn't belong to him flashed through his mind: a version of himself dressed in strange clothes getting married to a woman. When he saw the woman's face, he was startled; it was Ruan Ruan.

However, the woman's attitude soon made him realize her true identity. She was not Jiang Fenghua, but Danji Aruan, and he had become Baili Shang.

After Baili Shang and Danji Aruan got married, they never shared a room. The cave in front of them was the place where they first got together.

Danji Aruan became Baili Shang's woman before she married him.

No, she became Baili Shang's woman, but they never stayed together after their marriage. He lived a life of quiet contemplation, and when he had nothing to do, he would go to the cave to soak in cold water until his bones creaked before he would get up.

Baili Shang entered the cold pool to practice abstinence. He was the fifth master of the prestigious Baili family, with a large number of servants, but he didn't have a single woman.

Xie Shang walked towards the cave entrance and saw a chestnut-red Akhal-Teke horse. He went up and stroked the horse's head, saying, "Baili Shang's mount."

The horse suddenly spit at him, spraying his face with saliva.

Just then, a servant came over and said to him, "Fifth Master, I've been looking for you for a long time. Why have you come to the valley again? Fifth Madam has returned from Danji's house. Does Fifth Master want to go back?"

Xie Shang said, "I... what am I doing here if I don't go back? It's freezing! Bring me a cloak."

The servant was taken aback. "Ever since Fifth Master married Fifth Madam, he has come to the valley to bathe and spend the night here. You feel cold now. I used to always advise Fifth Master to take care of his health, but you just wouldn't listen to me!"

Xie Shang listened to the servants' incessant chatter and thought that this place might be the Yinchuan Kingdom from a thousand years ago, the place Ruan Ruan had dreamt of.

Jiang Fenghua had told him that although Danji Aruan loved Ayu, she eventually married Baili Shang.

Is this what their life is like after they get married?

Xie Shang despised women like Danji Aruan, who were promiscuous and fickle. She married Baili Shang but harbored feelings for another man. She even learned sorcery to harm people in order to revive her lover. This woman was utterly shameless.

In Xie Shang's view, a woman should be faithful to her husband, regardless of how they got married; the husband is the wife's heaven.

He rode his BMW back to the house and saw a woman who looked exactly like Jiang Fenghua walk past him with her eyes held high.

The woman completely ignored him. Although she had Jiang Fenghua's face, he knew in his heart that she was not Jiang Fenghua, and Jiang Fenghua would not be as unruly as she was.

Xie Shang decided to teach Danji Aruan a lesson for Baili Shang, and he strode forward to block her path: "Stop."

Danji Aruan's eyes were filled with hatred for Baili Shang. "Fifth Master is blocking my way. If we don't want things to get ugly, we should treat each other with respect."

After saying that she was leaving.

Xie Shang hated the phrase "treat each other with the utmost respect" because Jiang Fenghua had said it before. He said coldly, "Why don't you bow when you see...your husband?"

Danji Aruan sneered, "Fifth Master, do you also want to compete for the position of the Lord of Sincerity, or do you even want to seize the throne of the Queen? What makes you think you can do that?"

Xie Shang didn't react for a moment, he...

He wasn't emperor by any right, but now he isn't; he's just a powerless and insignificant fifth prince.