"The night he tore off my armor, a hundred thousand troops knelt and cried, 'We welcome the female emperor!'"
A royal flush from the start
Phoenix feathers burned away her skirt and bound chest. Disguised as a man, she became a god of slaughter in a chaotic age.
She burned a thousand ships on the Chishui River, earning renown across the Nine Provinces as the Jade-Faced Yama!
Three challenges to the hidden dragon of Qixia forced the banished immortal Lord Yunzhong to leave his retreat with white hair!
The bloody battle on Falling Star Plain: her nemesis ripped open her armor and laughed. "The God of War is a woman?"
Unmasked, then kept as a captive
"Come with me, and I'll grant you the status of my male concubine!" The enemy warlord shackled her and dragged her into his tent.
But he came trampling over a mountain of corpses, wrapped her in his blood-soaked black robes, and pulled her into his arms:
"Everyone, behold: this is the wife I married!"
Later, she carved into his heart to draw out poison, and he destroyed his own eyes to guard the realm.
On the dragon throne, in the dead of night, he bit the phoenix brand on her shoulder:
"Ling'er, the dragon throne or the phoenix bed... which one will you use to imprison me?"
Phoenix cries, and the emperor's wrath follows
The imperial seal split into nine pieces, revealing a blood prophecy: "The emperor will fall! A woman will plunge the realm into chaos!"
She ascended the throne, bloodied, and smiled at the heavens. "I will defy fate and rewrite my destiny!"
She burned the Gu King of Baiyue to forge the seal!
She commanded corpse soldiers, using their bones as shields!
She defied the prophecy and donned the imperial robes!
On the night the court rebelled, the blind chancellor gouged out his heart and cast it before the throne:
"I give my heart, blood, and bones to the female emperor. Who else dares defy her?"
Cold-blooded, ruthless female emperor x self-destructive, unhinged chancellor
(She: the Yama of the battlefield, a tyrant on the throne, but only in his arms does she blush at the corners of her eyes.)
(He: a banished immortal who plans for every eventuality, who carves out his heart and trades his blood for her, descending into a demon of slaughter.)
