The Phoenix Strategy

[A cool-on-the-outside, warm-on-the-inside female general vs. a two-faced crown prince and a black-lotus medical sage]

In the female-dominated kingdom of Tiancheng, the empress loved only one person. After years of hoping for a child, she finally conceived. When she gave birth, auspicious signs filled the skies.

But the child was a boy, a crown prince, and all the ministers shook their heads.

The empress soon died of illness, leaving everyone to hope the prince would grow into his role.

But the prince was born playful, and everyone agreed on one thing: he was hopeless, a block of wood beyond carving!

He ascended the throne at fourteen and learned to hide his true self. Gentle on the surface, he was the most calculating of all behind closed doors. After an accident in his youth, the prince learned to play the pig to eat the tiger, and fell for the daughter of the great general...

In the dead of night, with the windows of the general’s bedroom wide open, one man made his intentions perfectly clear and tried every trick in the book to pull the general into his arms. But instead of pinning her down, he ended up beneath her.

Then he said outright:

“If I can’t beat you, then... I’ll join you.”

He thought he was the hunter, only to discover he’d become the prey.

“Mo Xifeng, you’re done for.”