[Court intrigue + revenge and putting villains in their place + a powerful heroine’s growth + the fate of the realm]
“She was a lone girl from the wilderness. One day, she entered the palace and discovered she was the bloodline of the empress who had been lost among the common people.”
Yun Yin grew up in seclusion in the mountains with her father. It was only after a bloody massacre left her aunt’s family dead and her father gravely wounded that she learned she was the empress’s illegitimate daughter.
After being brought back to the imperial palace, she faces:
The eldest princess, smiling with a knife behind her back, who has spent twenty years plotting to eliminate every rival to the throne;
The unfathomable empress, who knows her own children are tearing one another apart but watches coldly, intent only on choosing the strongest;
And a treacherous court where every step may lead to a dead end and every word hides a murderous intent.
“If this palace devours people, then she’ll become the fiercest phoenix of them all.”
She studies political intrigue, takes control of the military, and breaks out of deadly traps, rising from the mocked “country-born illegitimate daughter” to the heir apparent who plans several moves ahead.
She will make her enemies pay for their blood debts, and give this realm a new way to live!
“A phoenix hidden in the wild will one day cry out in the highest heavens.”
