The Princess Is Reborn and Back for Revenge

Ten years in the Cold Palace, then poisoned wine coursing through her veins. When she opens her eyes again, Xiao Lingwei is back at sixteen. Her heterochromatic eyes are still there, and her fate has yet to be decided.

In her previous life, her amber eyes earned her the label “monster.” The Imperial Preceptor, Linyuan, gouged them out with his own hands, imprisoned her in the Cold Palace, and finally sent her off “with dignity” with a cup of poisoned wine. Reborn, she swears that everyone who wronged her will pay in blood.

At court, she cleverly uses an “ominous dream” to turn her sharp edge toward the aloof, otherworldly Imperial Preceptor, stirring up a storm in the court. She battles the empress, punishes treacherous consorts, and advances carefully at every turn. A mysterious relic discovered beneath the Cold Palace and a connection to the “Gray Sparrow” organization in the martial world leave her past shrouded in mystery.

Then war flares on the northern frontier, a palace coup erupts, and her dying father reveals a blood-soaked truth: she is not of the imperial bloodline at all, but the daughter of the King of Beirong! In an instant, she falls from regent princess to “foreign-blooded abomination,” with the whole world against her.

Xiao Lingwei stands sword in hand at the heart of the storm. At home, she must quell the rebellion and purge the court; beyond the borders, she must face the truth of her birth and hold back Beirong's iron cavalry. And the Imperial Preceptor Linyuan, who once gouged out her eyes with his own hands yet has repeatedly saved her from danger: are his atonement and protection sincere, or just another scheme?

When the mastermind finally emerges and her presence sets two nations at war, Xiao Lingwei will understand that revenge does not bring freedom. True strength lies in carving out one's own path amid the shackles of bloodline and the hatred between nations.

This is a revenge story about crawling back from hell, and a journey of rebirth through political intrigue, war, and love as she searches for the answer to one question: “Who am I, really?”