You Stole My Phoenix Destiny? Then I'll Turn This Kingdom Upside Down

She was the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo's household, born with the fate of a phoenix and promised a prestigious marriage. But her half-sister stole her destiny, ruined her reputation, and took her life for herself.

In her previous life, she was branded a madwoman, had her engagement broken, her face ruined, and was cast out of her home. In the end, she died a tragic death on the northern frontier. When Xie Fuluan opens her eyes again, she's back on the night she was put on trial in the ancestral hall. Her father orders her to kneel, her grandmother demands that she confess, the crown prince breaks off their engagement in public, and her half-sister weeps and calls her insane.

Everyone in the hall is waiting for her to bow her head.

But this time, she refuses to kneel.

Stole her phoenix fate? Then first she'll get her dowry back, clear her name, and settle the debt for her mother's blood.

Stole her betrothal? Then she'll make the crown prince see with his own eyes who the true phoenix is.

Call her wicked? Then wicked is what she'll be.

From the Duke of Zhenguo's household to the Court of Judicial Review, from deadly traps at palace banquets to old cases on the northern frontier, she turns every move into a calculated play. Together with the cold-faced powerful official Pei Jiheng, she tears open a conspiracy about destiny that has spanned twenty years.

Only later does the entire court learn that her so-called phoenix fate was never meant to make her empress.

It was meant to let her overthrow the realm with her own hands.