The Phoenix Rules the World: Who Dares Touch My Deposed Empress?

She is honored as empress, yet her life is worth less than an ant’s. The emperor despises her, and on their wedding night, he cruelly tells her, “You are my humiliation!” His Consort repeatedly frames her, and he punishes her without hearing her side, subjecting her to the torturous silkworm-wire blade net, each cut carving into her heart and nearly killing her. Yet she keeps her pain hidden behind a smile and endures it all. Step by step, she plans her moves and plots her course, turning the blazing fire of revenge in her heart into a tender touch around his finger. She becomes a poison he cannot stop drinking, even knowing it will kill him. When he gives her his heart, when he entrusts his power to her, he tells her, “Le’er, no matter how many women I have, you will always be the one dearest to me!” A bloodthirsty smile curls her lips. “Thank you, but you are not the one dearest to me!”

“I will have your heart, even if it takes my entire life!”