Reborn Legitimate Daughter: A Sea of Blood, the Phoenix Looks Down on All

Ning Qingtang, the legitimate daughter of the Marquis's household, died in a bloodstained wedding gown when her fiancé, Chen Jinnian, ran her through the heart with his sword. Her half-sister Ning Qinghe stole her identity with a smile, and even her sickly younger brother perished in a sea of flames. Reborn in a torrent of blood, she returns to the night before the nightmare began, when she was sixteen. This time, she sheds her innocence and becomes a rose bristling with thorns, swearing to make her enemies pay for their crimes in blood! At the flower-viewing banquet, she turns the tables and makes her half-sister suffer the consequences of her poisoned rouge. At the welcoming banquet, she lays a golden-hairpin trap and forces her stepmother to hand over control of the household. When Third Prince Xiao Jingheng enters her revenge plot carrying half a jade pendant, and her mother's death proves connected to a shocking corruption case at court, Ning Qingtang realizes that her death in her previous life was only the tip of a much larger conspiracy. She joins forces with Xiao Jingheng, plotting carefully between the inner palace and the imperial court, never realizing that the Crown Prince's faction has already laid a net from which no one can escape. An imperial decree of marriage, poisoned wine to prove her resolve, a feigned death to make her escape... Just when she thinks she can rewrite her fate, she discovers that her own origins conceal an even greater secret. With blood feuds and the survival of her family intertwined, Ning Qingtang grips her sword, her phoenix crown stained with blood. In this life, she will not only have her revenge, but also carve a path through the treacherous whirlpool of power for herself and all those who died unjustly!