When Yun Ning was five, a high monk said she had the bearing of a phoenix. Later, the princes each fought for her, but in the end, it was not her who took the throne as empress. That honor went to her legitimate younger half-sister, who shared only their father.
Only then did she understand. The princes had never believed the prophecy. She had merely been an excuse for them to vie for power.
Reborn into a new life, she would never let the rumor spread again, nor become an excuse for the princes to fight over power. All she wanted was to live her life in peace. But fate kept guiding her forward, step by step. This time, it seemed she really would ascend to the throne as empress.
