15 The Xia Family

The silhouette was that of a beautiful young woman in her late twenties. Her facial features were soft: big round eyes, a small straight nose and rosy lips. Nevertheless, her delicate features were wasted as she didn't have the expression of a soft beauty; her eyes radiated laziness and her lips were drawn into a flat expressionless line. It couldn't be helped though. Even without her temperament showing on her mien, she couldn't appear to be a docile flower as she had uncommon white hair and red eyes, giving her a strong presence.

"What is it, Master?" asked Xia Feng Zi with doubt in her dark eyes.

"My dear little Feng Zi…"

"…"

"Are you really surnamed Xia?"

'In this world…' Xia Feng Zi thought before saying, "Yes, I am."

'Though in the past I was only Feng Zi,' she added in her mind; that's why she had only told her master she was called Feng Zi when they first met without bothering on saying later her surname of this life.

"The Xia from the Xia Royal Family of the fallen Yue Kingdom who are descendants of the Imperial Family of the fallen Xia Dynasty…?"

"… Is there something wrong?" Xia Feng Zi asked; at first, she had thought her master was asking because she hadn't told her her surname before but now she thought it might be due to something else.

"Just answer me…" her master said plainly.

"…" Xia Feng Zi didn't answer immediately and looked at her rare-to-see serious expression.

After having weighted her response for a couple of seconds in her mind, she finally said while adding extra information, "Yes, the Xia from the fallen Yue Kingdom who annexed themselves to the Shang Dynasty who were the ones that dethroned the Xia Dynasty."

"So it is like that…" her master nodded while holding her chin with her hand in a thinking gesture.

"…" Xia Feng Zi was confused; her master was looking at her from head to toe while nodding, 'What is this all about?'

Seeing her confused disciple, she said, "We will leave that for later. Let's first go to that ruined palace."