On Wen Zhaoning's eighteenth birthday, she received an imperial decree betrothing her to the crown prince, and saw a corpse hanging behind the gates of her residence. The dead person had left behind just four words: The Phoenix Fate Is False.
But Wen Zhaoning had known since she was twelve that her family's claim about her phoenix fate was a sham.
If a phoenix fate could be fabricated, why couldn't an emperor?
So she chose the crown prince, Chu Heng. But the heir everyone admired was really just a target set up by the emperor to protect the true successor.
Everyone urged her to choose someone else.
Wen Zhaoning only smiled. "What's the point of supporting someone who was always going to take the throne?"
She was determined to put this discarded pawn on the throne.
What she didn't know was that Chu Heng had already died once.
In his previous life, she had helped him ascend the throne with her own hands, and he had loved her for his entire life.
