Phoenix Power in the Ashen Night

In her previous life, Su Jinli was the legitimate daughter of the Su family, yet she was repeatedly targeted after her coming-of-age banquet. A cup of poisoned wine left her bleeding from every orifice on her wedding night. A conspiracy sent her to her grave in hatred, where she watched her family fall. Reborn on the eve of her coming-of-age banquet, Su Jinli felt the arsenic crystals on the rim of her wine cup and made a quiet vow: this time, she would never make the same mistakes again. Without drawing attention, she switched the poisoned wine and struck back at her half-sister Su Mingshu’s scheme with datura pollen. She exposed Concubine Liu’s plot with the account books and fought her way through the open and covert attacks of the inner courtyard. To avenge her mother, she disguised herself as a village woman and approached an apprentice at a medical clinic. Carefully following the clues, she uncovered the truth: someone had altered her mother’s prescription, causing a miscarriage that led to her death. Using her father’s influence, Su Jinli sent the culprit to the Imperial Justice Bureau. After discovering evidence that the Su family was secretly plotting treason, Su Jinli sought to escape their control by deliberately drawing close to Marquis Jing’an, Lu Zhiye. Disguised as a refugee, she uncovered his secret of aiding the last survivors of the previous dynasty. She engineered a “mishap” involving a carriage to bring them together, then used her memories from her previous life to help him restore firearm blueprints. When the two joined forces to expose the Su family’s illegal weapons manufacturing, Lu Zhiye was startled to discover that the old scar on Su Jinli’s wrist was almost identical to the mark of “Ashen Shadow,” a missing member of his covert guard… From schemes in the inner residence to maneuvering in the marquis’s household, Su Jinli proceeded one careful step at a time. In this turbulent world, she wielded blood as a blade and composed her own song of revenge along the thorny road of rebirth.