The Tale of Consort Xi: A Phoenix Perches in the Parasol Tree, Blood Flows Without End

Ming Shu, the Grand Tutor's daughter, enters the palace as a low-ranking concubine. A bloodstained half-jade pendant draws her into an old case from the Cold Palace. Struggling to survive amid palace intrigue, court politics, and the mysteries surrounding her birth, she uses medicine as her blade and wisdom as her shield. Amid the embers of the blood-soaked palace walls, she seeks a path to victory without fighting, only to discover that the enemy she must face has never been any one person, but the very rules of this cruel world.