The Poison Lotus Crushes the Righteous: A Miraculous Yanwan Strikes Back and Claims the Phoenix Throne

[Reborn Black Lotus heroine + System power-ups + face-slapping all around]

On a stormy night, just as Jin Yuyan beat Wei Yanwan to the brink of death, she bonded with the Good and Evil System. When she opened her eyes again, a mechanical voice came from the jadeite bracelet wrapped around her wrist:

“Use the blood of hypocrites to forge your road to power.”

She tears away the masks worn by Ruyi and Hailan. She catches Hailan in the act of swapping out the contraceptive soup, and uncovers the evidence of Ruyi drowning the imperial heir.

She makes the scumbag Ling Yunche suffer, then chuckles before rewarding him with a dose of poison that will leave him mute: “Your ledger of devoted love? I burned it in the dry well in the Cold Palace.”

Jin Zhong brings her the bloodstained imperial seal, his severed finger tapping against her window lattice. “Your Highness, it’s time to settle accounts.”

From third-rank palace maid to Noble Consort in charge of the Six Palaces, she burns a voodoo doll to summon heavenly lightning and rip away the empress’s hypocritical facade, then uses futuristic cement to build high walls around a women’s academy.

The emperor grips her by the throat. “Who are you, really?”

She presses the System’s nuclear detonation switch in return. Her phoenix crown falls to the ground as sparks spread into a prairie fire.

“I’m the one who will end the thousand-year game of chess you men have been playing.”

[Reader’s guide]

√ The Black Lotus heroine turns palace intrigue into a game of strategy.

√ The System’s items cut deeper than Zhen Huan’s dialogue.

√ A high-energy warning for scenes where a cast of villains stab one another in the back.

√ The madly devoted guardian of the fake eunuch Jin Zhong.