Ning Youyi, the legitimate daughter of the Ning clan's Hou Mansion, was actually the last legitimate princess of the Dayin Dynasty. After the late emperor was murdered and the country changed hands, she stayed dormant in the south of the Yangtze River for five years. As the head of the Hou Mansion, she secretly built a business empire in Surabaya, weaving a wealth network covering basic necessities, food, housing, and transportation. She also used Wentian Tower to contact the former dynasty's ministries and cultivate backbones from poor families to infiltrate the court.
A draft order urges her to go north, and the situation in Beijing is treacherous. It is both a dragon and a tiger's den, and a battlefield for her revenge. On the surface, she needs to deal with the greedy calculations of the second wife of the Ning family and gain a foothold in the Hou Mansion; secretly, the Surabaya company's capital branch has already been laid out, and key departments such as the Yushitai and the Ministry of Rites all have her eyes.
The road to the draft is a springboard to get closer to the core of power. She lost her Jiangnan gentleness and used her wits to deal with the daughters of powerful people such as the niece of Prime Minister Wei, fighting for the throne step by step. The queen's position to her is not about glory and wealth, but the fulcrum to subvert the new dynasty - she wants to leverage the power of the queen to influence the dynasty.
The overt and secret fights in the Hou Mansion, the power games in the court, and the secret help of the business world are intertwined into a web of revenge. Ning Youyi hides a sharp blade with her phoenix posture, and decides the world with her wisdom. In the end, she will wear the phoenix crown, assume the power of the queen, and let the old phoenix return to the court.
