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

Chapter 1039 Li Shang Unravels the Mystery

Just then, Xie Shang felt himself suddenly emerge from Baili Shang's body. He floated into the air and looked at the competition scene below. He said, "What's going on? How did I get here? Ruan Ruan, can you see me?"

Jiang Fenghua was completely absorbed in the competition and did not hear Xie Shang calling her.

He wanted to return to Baili Shang's figure to watch Jiang Fenghua's competition, but he couldn't go back; he had to stay and accompany Ruan Ruan.

But no matter how hard he tried, he was powerless.

"You are Xie Shang, you are her husband, it was always her all along." A man's voice also came to Xie Shang's ear.

Xie Shang asked in confusion, "Who's speaking? Come out."

"I am Baili Shang. I have been waiting for Aruan, but she is not the Aruan I knew. It turns out that the Aruan I loved was like this." Baili Shang's voice was filled with excitement. "She is back."

Xie Shang said, "You are Baili Shang. Who are you talking to me from? What do you mean by saying that Aruan is like this? Where did she go? From where did she come back? Explain yourself clearly."

Xie Shang was surprised that he could hear Baili Shang's voice.

Baili Shang smiled. "I'm in your mind. I've always been there."

"You've been in my mind all this time?" Xie Shang was also dumbfounded.

Baili Shang continued, "I should say that you are now in my mind. I have finally met the real her. She is not Aruan. I had already guessed that she was not Aruan. What is her name?"

“She’s so strong-willed, she’d rather jump into the icy pool to cure her love poison than let me help her. She’s so ruthless to herself too. Danji Aruan would never do that,” Baili Shang added.

Xie Shang finally understood. "You're referring to Baili Chuan colluding with the First Madam to drug Danji Aruan. You saved her, and you took advantage of her vulnerability to possess her. That's why she was forced to marry you. You married Danji Aruan, who was originally supposed to be your nephew's wife."

Baili Shang smiled bitterly: "In my memory, I did not possess Danji Aruan. Nothing happened between us from beginning to end, but she suddenly wanted to marry me, and her personality was very different before and after marrying me."

Xie Shang listened quietly. Baili Shang seemed helpless. He asked, "Do you love Danji Aruan?"

Baili Shang said, "At first, I thought I was just grateful to Danji Aruan for saving my life. I knew that the person she liked was Ayu. I never thought of taking her away. So where did the love come from? I thought I just pitied her situation in the Danji family and knew that the First Madam would not want her as a daughter-in-law. I wanted to remind her."

But then something happened, and I changed my mind. I found myself falling in love with Danji Aruan in an instant—to put it another way, I fell in love with Danji Aruan in the valley.

Xie Shang felt completely overwhelmed. He finally understood why he had fallen in love with Jiang Fenghua, who was in Ashina Xue's dream world, instead of Danji Aruan.

But they look the same, so how can he tell that he doesn't love Danji Aruan but loves Jiang Fenghua?

“A person’s inherent character will not change. If it were Danji Aruan, she would never touch the clothes and jewelry I bought for her until she died. But she is different; she will choose what she likes to wear,” Baili Shang said.

Xie Shang was speechless. "She is my empress. There is no future for you two. Give up on that idea!"

He never expected that there would be a love rival a thousand years ago. Jiang Fenghua really seems to attract a lot of romantic troubles wherever she goes. First there was Xiao Yu, and now there's Baili Shang.

He wanted to retract his sympathy for Baili Shang; if his wife liked someone else, then he deserved it—who told him to like someone else's wife?

Baili Shang said, "I am the real Baili Shang, and you are not, so I am here by her side. It's been so long since we last met, I wonder if she still remembers me?"

"What do you mean?" Xie Shang's head throbbed even more; he wanted to return to Baili Shang's body.

“She is not Danji Aruan, but another woman from a thousand years in the future. I have been in a daze for so many years, waiting for her to reappear. I never expected that she would actually appear.” Baili Shang added, “In Xichuan, she was trapped in a dream by Ashina Xue and could not get out. I helped her.”

Xie Shang asked, "Are you a human or a ghost? How do you know about the affairs of Xichuan?"

“I not only know about Xichuan, but also about the secrets of the Ashina tribe,” Baili Shang continued. “It was Queen Ashina who was plotting all this behind the scenes. She wanted to use the rebirth technique to strengthen the Yinchuan Kingdom, but she failed, and her mother also failed, so they turned to Danji Aruan.”

The Queen took a liking to Aruan's medical skills, and Danji Mai shared the same idea as the Queen, wanting to use the rebirth secret technique to strengthen the Danji family. So they joined forces to deceive Aruan.

I originally wanted to take her away from Yinchuan, but she refused to leave because A Yu had died and come back to life, but he had become neither human nor ghost. She wanted to save A Yu and eventually chose to become their accomplice. In the end, things got out of control, and then a natural disaster struck, and they finally got their comeuppance.

I truly regret not stopping Aruan from coming to the capital. Ayu was clearly not dead, but everyone thought he had died on the spot, coughing up blood.

Xie Shang said, "You're saying that Baili Ayu didn't actually die."

“If he were truly dead, how could he be resurrected? There is no way to be reborn in this world. He was controlled by drugs and turned into a monster. The Queen’s mother was also turned into a monster and imprisoned in Jingyuan. They are not actually dead,” Baili Shang said.

"Does Danji Aruan know the truth?" Xie Shang asked.

“I know, she knows, but it’s too late.” Baili Shang added, “It was Aruan who secretly released me, and I left Yinchuan Kingdom.”

"You didn't die in the natural disaster in Yinchuan." Xie Shang hadn't expected him to survive. "Where did you go afterward?"

"Central Plains." Baili Shang continued, "But I am ultimately just a person. Everyone is born, grows old, gets sick, and dies. This is the law of nature. I only left a few decades later than Yinchuan Kingdom, but what's the use? Yinchuan Kingdom has already disappeared and can never reappear. That's fine too. They almost turned the people of Yinchuan Kingdom into monsters. This is a disgrace to Yinchuan Kingdom, and there should be no records of Yinchuan Kingdom in the world."

Xie Shang finally understood that after having so many historical records checked, there was indeed no trace of the existence of the Yinchuan Kingdom, and the rumor of the female ruler's reincarnation was deliberately revealed by Danji Mai.

He said, "How come you didn't have Danjimai's luck to actually be reborn? He was even reborn into a woman's body and wanted to restore the Yinchuan Kingdom and become its own king."

Baili Shang had no interest in power; he was willing to leave this place of sorrow if he could not see Aruan, the woman in his heart.

He finally saw him again, and he looked just like he had before.

Xie Shang said, "One last question: how can we leave your dream and return to the Great Zhou Dynasty?"

Once they've all left the dream, these ghostly events will no longer concern them.