The Phoenix's Curse: The Princess Detective

Jiang Li is a renowned genius whose fame began at a young age after she solved a locked-room murder. As an adult, her family is wiped out in a single night, changing the course of the peaceful life she once knew. Helan Xun is a hostage from a foreign tribe, sacrificed for his family’s interests. But he refuses to submit to fate. Working patiently behind the scenes, he secures a place for himself amid the tangled politics of the court. Tuoba Si is the Son of Heaven, the second emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty. When the former emperor named him heir, he had his mother consort killed. Yet that act inadvertently set him on an entirely new path. A conspiracy is quietly taking shape. Four cases will expose a shocking plot to usurp the throne. In a chaotic age of war, with the land engulfed in smoke and armies thundering across it, heroes rise from every corner. Watch as a lone young woman, in a world ruled by men, rises from a mere guard to become a high-ranking official of the empire.