The Phoenix Fate Reset: Four Best Friends Slay Their Way Across the Nine Provinces

One moment, four best friends were looking at a wordless ancient book in a museum.

The next moment...

Qiao Wanzhao became an empress who had taken her sister's place in the palace and was destined to be executed thirty days later.

Wen Li became a discarded daughter sent to marry the regent. She would eventually die a wretched death testing medicine, carrying the reputation of being a husband-killer.

Xu Xingmian became a good-for-nothing whom everyone could bully. Her phoenix bloodline was sealed, and others even made decisions for her body and her Imperial Daughter Jade.

Jiang Mian had it worst.

When she opened her eyes, she had only one incense stick's worth of life left.

At first, they thought they had simply been unlucky enough to transmigrate into the bodies of four doomed extras.

Only when the four met again did they realize...

Phoenix Bone, Phoenix Heart, Phoenix Vein, Phoenix Lifespan.

The most precious things they had were already being divided up, piece by piece.

In the end, they were all meant to become part of another woman's fate.

The original story wanted them dead.

Someone told them that sacrificing a few people could save many more.

Everyone thought it was a fair trade.

Only the four whose lives were being taken refused to accept it.

Qiao Wanzhao investigates the dead.

Wen Li saves the living.

Xu Xingmian separates truth from lies.

Jiang Mian calculates every debt in lives.

You say this is fate?

Then they'll investigate fate from top to bottom.

You say sacrificing them will save the people?

Then answer this first:

Who gets to live, who gets to take their lives, and who gets to decide that someone else should die?

Starting as four doomed extras who were supposed to die from the start, they investigate, save lives, settle accounts, and seize power, peeling back the layers of the deadly trap laid out for them long ago.

In this life, they will not be sacrifices.

Whoever took their lives...

They'll take them back with their own hands.