This is a story about betrayal, destruction and rebirth. Chu Mingzhao, the daughter of Chu Huaiyuan, the Minister of Rites of Dasheng, was originally the most dazzling pearl in the capital. Overnight, the family was accused of treason and the whole family was executed. She survived in the sea of fire and blood, was marked with shame by her enemies, was implanted with a strange "Phoenix Gu" by a mysterious man, and fell from the clouds into the meanest dust.
Hatred is her only food, and revenge is her only meaning of living. She hibernated in Fireworks Willow Alley, became a disciple of Jianghu Guilou, took charge of the business network in the south of the Yangtze River, and rode on the battlefield in the north. She transformed into a thousand faces and held seven weapons of murder in her hands - the golden hairpin as the blade, the account books as the sword, the poison as the plot, the art of war as the game, and the human heart as the chess piece. The phoenix rose from the ashes and returned from the ashes. When she killed all her enemies and stood on the top of power, looking back at the blood and bones on the ground, she found that she too was alone.
In the end, she gave up her easy access to the throne and the world, and chose the third, most difficult path - to cross the ocean and build a "Phoenix City" for women in a wild land. She wants to create a law where women do not have to be anyone's wife, concubine, or accessory. They can study, do business, become officials, serve as generals, and become anyone they want to be.
The Phoenix who returns from purgatory will eventually dye her throne red with the blood of her enemies, but her throne is not in the Nine Layers Palace, but far away in the four seas and thousands of miles of rivers and mountains.
