The Phoenix’s Startling Flight

Shen Zhao Synopsis of The Phoenix Palace: A Record of Astonishing Events Reborn in a Sea of Blood, She Breaks the Case with Her Medical Blade Shen Zhao, a forensic doctor from a humble family, returns to life in another person's body. Using golden needles as blades, she cuts through the fog surrounding a poisoning case at the marquis's estate. But while investigating her birth mother's death, she discovers that the late empress's sudden death ten years ago is closely tied to the crown prince's secret change of parentage. As poison from the Western Regions seeps into the Imperial Medical Bureau, and the balance of power between humble-born officials and aristocratic clans begins to shift, she turns an epidemic into a game of strategy and uses the surviving pages of the Green Satchel Manual to uncover the shocking secret of the royal bloodline's substitution. It turns out the so-called “chosen one” is nothing more than a living medicinal vessel kept by power-hungry schemers. Interwoven Plots, Three Deadly Traps - The Marquis's Poisoned Banquet: A red agate hairpin conceals arsenic; traces of the Five-Stone Powder appear at the acupoint on her half-sister's leg; and Lady Liu's monthly stomach pains turn out to be from drinking loquat syrup to counteract poison. - The Imperial Medical Bureau Mystery: Seven corpses have cinnabar made with human blood embedded in their crowns, while the medicine boy Awu's deaf-muteness is merely a disguise for lip-reading training. - The Cold Palace's Underground Tomb: The late empress's burial items bear the patterns of modern surgical scalpels, and a secret compartment in the emperor's throne conceals an exotic flower from the Western Regions that can cause hallucinations.