“She rose from the dead through a blood sacrifice, wielding poison as her blade; he hid his talents for twenty years, offering a game of strategy as his betrothal gift. In the maddest wager under heaven, I want you to win alongside me!”
A Blood Sacrifice and Rebirth
Shen Zhaohua died on that snowy night.
In her previous life, she was the legitimate daughter of the prime minister, yet her husband cut her open alive to take her child. Her half-sister stepped over her bloodstained phoenix robe to ascend to the empress’s throne, while the loyal Shen clan was framed for treason. When she opened her eyes again, she had been reborn as the true daughter of the Northern Marquis’s household, long lost among the common folk. In her left hand, she held the long-lost Secret Manual of Heavenly Poison; with her right, she picked up a dying “sickly” husband.
A Couple of Many Faces
Xiao Jingheng is a leisurely prince who coughs blood and burns incense in public, but behind closed doors, he is a demonic emperor who commands the Shadow Pavilion.
Smiling, he accepts the poisoned wine she offers. “My princess consort, your attempt to murder your husband is far more potent than our wedding wine.” She counters with a silver needle. “With the cold poison deep in your bones, my lord, wouldn’t killing you be rather dull?”
⚔️ Shatter the Heavens
At the palace banquet, she dazzles with a single sword stroke, publicly tearing apart the impostor’s lie about her phoenix destiny.
In the epidemic-stricken district, he unleashes a storm of arrows, building a wall of human bodies to shield her amid the bloodshed.
She cuts open her enemy’s belly. “This child’s features look remarkably like His Majesty’s, don’t they?”
He points his sword at the palace’s highest towers. “Zhaozhao, would you prefer a phoenix crown or the imperial seal? I’ll carve either one into a betrothal gift.”
Forbidden Blossoms
When phoenix blood stains the Wu tribe’s altar red, a curse spanning three lifetimes comes to light.
He was once the warlord who killed her, and she was once the cold-hearted master who silenced him with poison.
“Xiao Jingheng, if this is still a dead end...”
“Then we’ll defy heaven itself and bury the Nine Provinces alongside us!”
