At fourteen, Shen Zhaoning woke at the bottom of a dry well.
In her previous life, she was the Grand Tutor’s daughter, and her entire family was falsely accused of treason. Not one of the 137 members of her household survived. Hunted down and driven off a cliff, she died without a trace.
When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the year before the Shen family’s massacre.
There was still time to change everything.
At the bottom of the well, she dug up ironclad proof that her father had colluded with the enemy. Before a bronze mirror, she committed the face of her enemy, the Prince Regent, to memory. In the dead of night, she devised a path no one had ever taken:
Disguise herself as a man, take the imperial examinations, and enter the court.
She would stand before her enemy and make sure he did not recognize her. She would personally throw the evidence before the emperor and show the world how the all-powerful Prince Regent had betrayed his country and slaughtered loyal subjects.
But in this life, there was one new variable.
Lu Xingzhou, a poor young scholar, appeared on the very first day she was reborn. In her previous life, he was the last person she saw before falling from the cliff. He had stood at its edge, watching her fall without a trace of emotion.
To his dying day, he never told anyone why he had been there.
This time, he appeared at the Shen family’s door a year early and said, “I am Lu Xingzhou.”
Shen Zhaoning knew he would either be her greatest ally or her most dangerous enemy.
And she had only one year.
In one year, the Shen family would be wiped out. In one year, her fate would once again lead her to the edge of a cliff.
This time, she would not jump.
She would make her enemies pay in blood.
A hidden phoenix waits in the wilderness. Let’s see who will have the last laugh in this life.
[Tags] Reborn | Disguised as a Man | Court Intrigue | Revenge | Powerful Allies
