The Nine Phoenixes’ Record of Fate

Born beneath a blood moon with the destiny of a phoenix, she is branded a “Ten-Fates Star” by the Yin-Yang Bureau. The Su family uses the lives of nine daughters as bait, disguising her as their “only son,” Su Mingyuan. After hiding her identity for eighteen years, she dons an eyepatch and disguises her voice as she enters the Special Investigations Division of the Directorate of Astronomy as a man. This imperial examination is actually a trap designed to select sacrificial offerings.

Her ninth sister gives her life to protect her, the Book of Life and Death is altered, and a ley-line formation conceals a mystery. As she survives one terrifying ordeal after another in the examination halls, she gradually uncovers the truth: the supposed sacrifice is merely a scheme by the Yin-Yang Bureau to steal the phoenix bloodline. When her mask finally breaks and phoenix fire burns away the curse of the Ten-Fates Star, she will reclaim her identity as a woman and rewrite the thousand-year-old destiny that says “ten daughters must be sacrificed.”