War Smoke Over the Imperial Palace: The Phoenix Descends Upon the World

Name: War Smoke Over the Imperial Palace: The Phoenix Descends Upon the World
Author: Reading by the Pillow, Watching the Sun and Moon

帝阙烽烟：凤临天下

by Reading by the Pillow, Watching the Sun and Moon (枕书观日月)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 290k Words
Genre: Ancient Romance
Subgenre: Ancient-Style Life
Updated: 1mo ago
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#FemaleLead #NoRomance #FemaleDominance #Empress #PoliticalIntrigue #PalaceIntrigue #LegitimateEldestPrincess #CourtIntrigue #StrongWoman #PowerStruggle

In the Great Yong Dynasty, women rule, and the throne passes only to women, never men.

She is Xiao Lingran, the legitimate eldest princess and crown heir, born to rule.

Named heir at one month old, she is despised by her mother, the empress, who sees her as a burden and a shackle.

Alone in the inner palace, she has only her iron-willed grandmother, the Empress Dowager, who cherishes her and molds her into a future empress.

The world envies her noble birth and the vast empire she will inherit,

but no one knows that the crown heir’s seat is a shackle, a calamity, and a bottomless abyss.

Her mother plots against her, her younger sister competes for power, and dark currents surge through the court.

The shelter that once protected her comes crashing down, and she falls from the clouds into the mire.

When she returns, reborn from the ashes, she wields her sword and seizes power, ruthless and unyielding.

Those who abandoned, despised, or harmed her will all pay the price!

This empire of Great Yong, this throne of the ninefold palace,

she will claim without anyone’s protection or favor, fighting for it with her own blade until she secures her place as empress!

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