Ashes of the Phoenix Palace: A reborn, ruthless heroine’s revenge, with an entire cast of villains
“In this palace, whose hands are clean? I want power over all under heaven, and I want every one of you to pay for your blood debts!”
Xiao Lingyi, the Great Zhou’s most exalted legitimate princess, died the year she came of age.
She was run through the heart by Fu Yunjian, the wolf cub she had raised herself; her closest friend, Xie Zhaorou, poisoned her voice into silence; the seemingly gentle powerbroker Ji Huaishu schemed until her family was destroyed. Even the aloof Imperial Preceptor Ying Shixue laughed softly as she lay dying and said, “Your Highness, the game is over. You lost.”
Reborn at fifteen, Xiao Lingyi looked at her still-unbloodied reflection and smiled with a touch of madness.
This time, she would make everyone live in hell.
She would seduce the cold, ascetic Grand Tutor Lu Qi'an and make him fall from his pedestal; tame the ambitious powerbroker Fu Yunjian into a mad dog at her feet; play along with the smiling, treacherous strategist Ji Huaishu; and tear away Ying Shixue’s false mask of compassion. And what of Xie Zhaorou, the “dear younger sister” who was always trying to climb over her?
Xiao Lingyi brushed her trembling cheek and whispered tenderly, “How about I make my rouge with your blood?”
A ruthless heroine and an entire cast of villains, with intense push and pull as love, desire, and political intrigue intertwine.
“Submit, or die.”
