The Phoenix's Grand Design: The Empress Who Ruled the Realm

(Ambition and greed are the best cosmetics a woman can have. Only those who want everything can have it all.)

“Jun Wuyi, are you waiting for me to die?”

On the day of her coronation as empress, Feng Yuhuang asked him, dressed in a red-and-gold phoenix robe.

She and Jun Wuyi had been childhood sweethearts. He had once promised to offer her the whole realm as her bride price and take her as his wife. Today, he had made good on that promise.

Everyone said the current emperor was a hopeless romantic. When he was still a prince, he had defied an imperial decree and refused to marry anyone but Feng Yuhuang, causing an uproar that became known throughout the realm.

Today, by making her empress, he seemed to have given their love story a perfect ending.

Only Feng Yuhuang knew the truth: he had married her because of a prophecy made by an oracle, which foretold that she would die by self-immolation at the age of twenty.

The prophesied day was drawing near, and Feng Yuhuang now commanded six hundred thousand Feather Guard troops in the northern borderlands. She was also carrying his child.

Watching the Feather Guard troops storm the imperial city, Feng Yuhuang embraced Jun Wuyi and whispered in his ear, “You know what? They were right. You and I were made for each other.”

Looking at Jun Wuyi’s stunned expression, Feng Yuhuang sneered. “You want to kill the mother and keep the child, don’t you?” She tilted her head and gave him an innocent smile. “How convenient. I want to kill the father and keep the child.”