A Phoenix in Troubled Times: Promised the Empire

In her previous life, she was the widely revered empress of the Yue Kingdom, with a duke for an older brother who supported her unconditionally. In this life, she was a poor soul in the Xu Kingdom, unloved by her parents and mistakenly switched at birth with a farmer’s daughter. At long last, she returned to the marquis’s noble household, only to find that her birth mother couldn’t stand her. They called her an uncouth country girl, yet the daughter who should have belonged to a farming family had become their precious darling. She had always longed to return, but then came the devastating news: her brother’s entire household had been sentenced to death. In that moment, all her strength and hopes shattered. If her birth mother didn’t want her, she would simply leave! If anyone dared destroy the family she cherished most, she would bring down the mighty Yue Kingdom and make it pay alongside her brother! Casting aside years of disguises, she entered the general’s household and joined the battlefield, determined to destroy the Yue Kingdom she had once protected with her own hands. But an ancient prophecy that whoever won the Phoenix Maiden would win the realm drew her into a web of sinister schemes…