The Phoenix Returns to Its Nest (Part One)

Nan Yuan died in the winter of the first year of the new Feng Dynasty calendar.

The last thing she saw before she died was the fireworks her husband, the Emperor of the Feng Dynasty, had set off for his favored concubine.

The flames bloomed in a grand spectacle. She drank the poisoned wine and plunged into the abyss, accompanied by the spirits of the forty-six members of the Nan family who had died before her.

When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to four years earlier. She was still the legitimate daughter of the current prime minister. Seeing her worried father and caring mother beside her, Nan Yuan's face was streaked with tears.

[I've come to give you that peony.]

[Miss, please spare me.]

Content warnings

First-person POV.

Short story, very fast-paced.

A self-indulgent work.

Theme: Never give up your life for anyone