When archaeologist Zi Tong touched a mysterious bronze mirror in an ancient tomb in the Qinling Mountains, her soul transmigrated into the "Fengqi Dynasty," an alternate world where women held power over men and the emperor ruled supreme.
When she opened her eyes, she was the daughter of a convicted official, sentenced to hard labor at the imperial mausoleum. Her body was covered in whip wounds, and she was on the verge of death.
In her moment of desperation, the [Handbook of Handsome Men Conquest System] forcibly bound itself to her:
"Host, collect high-value male targets, unlock authority, and claim the world."
Deep in the imperial mausoleum, she saved the silver-haired, red-eyed discarded prince Xuanyuan Ye, and they formed a pact to live and die together.
From then on, this sharpest of blades would carve a path through the thorns for her.
In the City That Never Sleeps, she sparred with Hua Nongying, the rakish and heartless young master of a merchant guild.
In Medicine King Valley, she persuaded Shen Yunxi, the ghost doctor obsessed with research, to make an exception and save a life.
In the Southern Border's secret realm, she made Nan Qianjin, the obsessive and sinister King of Gu, suffer the backlash of a love Gu.
On the northern battlefield, she made Mo Ying, the unruly Wolf King, kneel and swear allegiance.
In the power struggles of the capital, Qing Fenghua, the gentle and refined Tutor's son, managed her inner household.
Deep in the enemy nation's palace, Xiao Wangyou, the Buddhist holy man whose heart was still as water, returned to the secular world for her...
Seven male leads, seven tangled relationships, seven kinds of all-consuming devotion or madness.
She wielded modern wisdom as a blade and archaeological knowledge as a shield.
From a slave in the imperial mausoleum to a rising star in the City That Never Sleeps, from a border general to a marquis in the capital,
At last, the prophecy of the Phoenix Star's arrival resounded across both nations.
When the smoke of the unification war finally cleared,
When the red carpet was laid before the Hall of Supreme Harmony,
Zi Tong, dressed in an emperor's red robes, looked back behind her
The silver wolf general guarded her with spear in hand, and the merchant magnate controlled the flow of wealth.
The ghost doctor's miraculous hands healed the world, and the King of Gu held the Southern Border in his grip.
The virtuous principal consort kept the inner household in order, and the ruler of her homeland bowed in submission.
The Buddhist holy man who had returned to the secular world recited