The Phoenix Reigns Supreme: A Princess's Game of Power

Urban tycoon Shen Qingxian transmigrates into a book as a doomed princess about to be sent away in a political marriage.

Rather than accept her fate, she tears up the script and hangs a sign in the busiest part of the capital: she will be her own client.

She opens a royal bank and makes a killing with government bond futures. She establishes a women's trade association, drawing fierce condemnation from old-guard ministers who accuse her of letting a hen crow at dawn.

Memorials impeaching her pour across the court like snowflakes, all declaring that the Grand Princess deserves to die.

Lu Yanzhi, the cold-faced chancellor who wields power throughout the court and prizes propriety above all, becomes her most stubborn opponent.

Again and again, he impeaches her in court, saying she is “undermining the foundations of the state and violating proper etiquette.”

She fires back by slapping a copy of The Dynasty's GDP Growth White Paper in front of him. “Chancellor, can you eat your stuffy old rules for dinner?”

They clash repeatedly in court and in the marketplace, evenly matched and relentless.

Then an economic war with the fate of the realm at stake quietly arrives. When the entire court is at a loss, Shen Qingxian uses herself as bait and sets a stunning trap.

When the smoke clears, Lu Yanzhi dismisses his attendants outside her tent. His eyes are dark as night, and his voice is hoarse as he asks:

“Your Highness, does your Empire Holdings still need a lifelong... partner?”

He once thought all he wanted was a peaceful, prosperous realm. Only later did he realize that protecting her as she fulfilled her great ambition meant protecting this vast land as well.