Chapter 938 Controlling Xiao Shang

Seeing that he didn't speak, Jiang Fenghua said, "Prince Xiao is already this old, surely you haven't married yet! Or is it that no woman likes you, or perhaps you don't like women at all?"

The first time I saw him, he had disheveled hair and was wearing a plain white robe. He had a sinister and gloomy demeanor, like a Taoist priest.

Xiao Shang would never admit that no woman liked him. He pretended to be nonchalant and said, "There are plenty of women chasing after me, but the one who can catch my eye has not yet been born."

Jiang Fenghua suddenly laughed and said, "That's right. If you calculate the time when the Northern Prince will be born, it should be another twenty years. After the Northern Prince is born and grows up, it will be another twenty years before he can get married and have children. But Xiao Chuanyun should be thirty years old now. You should have gotten married ten years ago. Why hasn't any woman taken a fancy to Prince Xiao?"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Shang's expression turned somewhat unpleasant, because Xiao Chuanyun was not well-liked in the Northern Xiao Kingdom, and he, Xiao Shang, looked down upon the daughters of those self-important so-called great clans in the Northern Xiao Kingdom.

She added, "The Northern King in my dream was very young, probably only in his twenties. So I roughly estimated the time. Based on age, Xiao Shang is of the same generation as my grandson."

In her dream, Xie Shang's hair and beard were all white, yet he was still sitting on the throne, indicating that Xie Shang would live a long life. If she could live to Xie Shang's sixty or seventy years old, she would be fifty or sixty years old, and she would have grandchildren.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Shang suddenly pictured Jiang Fenghua with a full head of silver hair and a face full of wrinkles. He was speechless. "I am now older than Empress Jiang."

Xiao Shang realized, "Empress Jiang has finally admitted that you are a reborn person?"

Jiang Fenghua said calmly, "Didn't Prince Xiao want to go back to the past and become the Northern King? The Northern King in my dream was named Xiao Shang, so this is just my speculation. I don't understand what you mean by 'reborn person'."

Xiao Shang paused. If he really went back to several decades in the future from his previous life, Jiang Fenghua would not exist at that time; she would have died long ago.

Xiao Shang's heart suddenly tightened. If he found the secret technique of Yinchuan Kingdom and learned the method of rebirth, they would no longer be people of the same era.

He carefully observed Jiang Fenghua's expression. Her expression told him that she didn't seem to be lying, but the Empress Jiang he knew was definitely not that simple. "You know Su Tingwan. She said she was the Empress of the Great Zhou. You are not."

"She's just a concubine. The Su family is ambitious and plots to seize the throne of the Great Zhou. Would the Emperor really marry her as Empress? It seems that Prince Xiao hasn't investigated the Great Zhou thoroughly!" Jiang Fenghua said calmly, "Prince Xiao, don't just parrot what others say."

“You are not a reborn person, that’s impossible.” Xiao Shang stared at the red spider lily between her eyebrows. “The mark between your eyebrows is the symbol of the Yinchuan Kingdom that I found in ancient books.”

Jiang Fenghua wiped the floral decoration between her eyebrows with a handkerchief, and the decoration disappeared from Xiao Shang's sight. She said, "I can draw any shape of floral decoration. Prince Xiao, do you believe me now?"

Xiao Shang was stunned, muttering to himself, "How is this possible? Where is that flower?"

He wanted to go forward and see what was going on, but he was bound by chains and could not move.

Seeing him lost in thought, Jiang Fenghua continued, "Let's get back to the main topic! I came to see Prince Xiao to discuss cooperation with you."

Xiao Shang suppressed his displeasure. "Her Majesty the Empress has come to her senses and is finally willing to cooperate with me to search for traces of the ancient Yinchuan Kingdom. But didn't you say you weren't?"

"Although I have never had the experience of Prince Xiao, I have indeed dreamed about things that will happen in the future. The dream was very real, as if I had really seen it. I am very puzzled, so I want to know why I had such a dream."

Xiao Shang said, "Or perhaps you've simply forgotten that you were actually reborn, that you rewrote your destiny of not being Empress. I don't know about your grudges with Xie Shang's other women, but I can guess that it's nothing more than the drama of women in the harem fighting for power and favor. Think about it..."

“I don’t understand what Prince Xiao means. I just want to know if what happened in my dream is true. For example, the Northern King led his iron cavalry into the Great Zhou Kingdom, burning, killing, looting and committing all kinds of evil. Your name is exactly the same as the Northern King’s name in my dream, so I tested it. I have been having this dream repeatedly these days, which makes me restless.”

If what happened in my dream is true, and you are the Northern King, then it's something that will happen decades in the future. But you appeared decades in the past, and there's a huge age gap between you. Why are you here? Why did the Northern King appear in my dream? Why does all of this feel so real?

"I've been speculating that after the Northern King seized the throne of the Great Zhou, he probably didn't reign for long before passing away. That's why you ended up here. You keep pestering me about rebirth and resurrection. I really don't understand how such bizarre things can happen in this world."

Xiao Shang was stunned when he heard her speculation. He didn't know which of her words were true and which were false.

She had indeed never appeared in his life in his previous life, and they were indeed separated by a generation, but Jiang Fenghua's prediction was absolutely correct; he arrived at this place not long afterward.

Seeing his confusion, Jiang Fenghua said, "There must be a lot of internal power struggles in the Northern Owl Kingdom!"

"How did you know?" Xiao Shang blurted out almost without thinking.

Jiang Fenghua said, "Don't you men all like power struggles? Even now, I believe you are capable of conquering the Great Zhou Dynasty. You have been slow to send troops, and have even mistaken me for someone who possesses the secret art of resurrection. You want to obtain this secret art from me and go back because you are not capable of conquering the Great Zhou Dynasty right now. Your father doesn't completely listen to you, does he? There are even other rulers in the Northern Xiao Kingdom who want to seize power."

Xiao Shang laughed out loud, "I was right about her. Empress Jiang is no ordinary woman."

"You flatter me. What I said was told to me by His Majesty."

Mentioning Xie Shang, Xiao Shang became somewhat displeased, "Is he currently frowning with worry over the disasters plaguing various parts of the Great Zhou?"

Jiang Fenghua also became interested, "Prince Xiao knew long ago that Great Zhou would be affected by natural disasters. When did you find out?"

Xiao Shang didn't hide anything, "I learned from a book, at the time I was reading the history of the Great Zhou, that the Great Zhou would encounter a natural disaster that was once in a century..."