The Empty Phoenix Terrace

Phoenixes once played upon Phoenix Terrace. The phoenixes have flown away, the terrace stands empty, and the river flows on.

Born a prince, Qin Shaoyang should have been showered with love, but every day he lived on tenterhooks.

Ignored by his father, ostracized by his brothers, and exploited by his birth mother, he struggled to survive in the palace amid endless schemes and power plays.

In the final years of the Xihe era, smoke rose from battlefields across the land. At just sixteen, Qin Shaoyang was sent to the frontier. He thought he had escaped the abyss, only to be ambushed and left for dead.

That same year, Si Qing, who had descended to the mortal realm to undergo a trial, found the unconscious Qin Shaoyang and took him home.

In a nutshell: The emperor and his strategist empress

A ruthless, taciturn emperor gong who wakes up every day stunned by his own good looks x a sharp-tongued but softhearted, peerlessly beautiful national preceptor shou with overwhelming strength

Pairing: Qin Shaoyang x Si Qing

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