When she was thirteen years old, Shen Yanci, the legitimate daughter of the Prime Minister, was involved in a bottomless whirlpool of power due to the prophecy that she would be "born as a phoenix."
At the palace banquet, she met the seventeen-year-old Ning Wang Xiao Xu for the first time. He is the emperor's favorite younger brother, the commander of a hundred thousand troops in the north, and the rumored "fake prince" whose life experience remains a mystery.
In a game of chess, she broke through the secret grid in the Buddhist hall and exposed the conspiracy to poison the prince; in a snowstorm, he risked his life to escape from prison and took her to the northern border.
However, the truth is far crueler than imagined - Xiao Xu actually has a twin brother living in the southwest, and all of this is a shocking conspiracy planned by Queen Zhou's family for twenty years. The destinies of the twins are intertwined, and the change of imperial power is bloody. She is caught between machinations and true love at every step.
When the palace in the capital changes, the emperor dies, and the false prince ascends the throne; when the northern border is in flames, and there are hundreds of thousands of cavalry, he wants the Qing emperor to set the straight course. Her hand holding the chess piece trembled slightly: "Xiao Xu, if you have to step on the bones of your loved ones to win this country, are you still willing to take it?"
He held her hand and pointed his sword at the mountains and rivers: "I would rather not have you by my side in this world."
From the prime minister's boudoir to the battlefield in the north, from the sinful girl in the cell to the mother's love in the world, this is a blood-stained road to Phoenix. And at the end of the road, will we join hands with the country, or will we lose our love forever?
(The plot of two powerful forces + the mystery of the substitute + the secret battle in the palace + the world of family, country, let's see how the phoenix chooses the wood, and how the beauty plays the chess.)
