In her previous life, Feng Zhaoning rose from the legitimate daughter of the Duke Who Guards the Nation to become empress, yet she could protect neither her family nor the emperor who had ruled the realm alongside her.
A forged imperial edict branded the entire Feng clan as rebels. A sacrificial ceremony to Heaven made her the demon empress in the history books. Only when countless arrows pierced her on the Fengtian Terrace did she learn that the so-called “phoenix destined to aid the dragon” was no honor at all, but a sacrifice repeated for three hundred years.
When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the day the imperial decree of betrothal was issued.
Only forty-nine days remained before the Feng family would be condemned to death.
Feng Zhaoning planned to kill the crown prince first and then break out of the deadly trap. But when her blade pressed against Xiao Chengyuan's heart, the man who should have remembered nothing of his past life took her hand and softly called her by a name used only in that life.
“A Ning, this time, we'll live together.”
And so, the emperor and empress, both returned from the dead, joined forces once more. They investigated the forged edict, exposed the demonic prophecies, purged the court, and secured the northern frontier, pursuing the truth from an old case of family extermination to the fate of the realm itself.
But they gradually discovered that their true enemy was neither a powerful minister nor the person seated upon the dragon throne. It was the old Heavenly Order that demanded the Feng clan sacrifice themselves generation after generation and forced the people to bow their heads and accept their fate.
In this life, she would have the phoenix rule the world.
Not to become another supreme ruler, but to ensure that no one was born guilty and no one was made to sacrifice themselves for another in the name of love.
