Long Live My Phoenix

After Yu Ange, daughter of a military family, was tortured to death by enemy forces, she learned that she was a cannon-fodder character in a book. The heroine called herself a transmigrator, spoke with effortless eloquence, and was fiercely unconventional. She stole Yu Ange’s fiancé, caused the death of her beloved elder brother, then colluded with the enemy and betrayed her country. In the name of a “love affair that toppled a nation,” she plunged the world into chaos and drenched the land in blood.

Reborn, Yu Ange disguises herself as a man and steps over the corpses of the transmigrator and her enemies, making her way into the imperial court. At last, she plants a foot on the Dragon Throne and looks down on the assembled officials. “I’ll take this seat.” The ministers kneel and cry out, “Long live our Empress!”

Everyone says the deposed crown prince is detached and desireless, with prayer beads in hand and white robes on his back, cool and ethereal as an immortal deity. But no one knows how many moonless, windy nights he has climbed through Yu Ange’s window and drawn her into his arms on the bed. Only when the prayer beads scatter and his white robes are in disarray does he ask her, eyes red, “You want peace for the world. You want calm seas and clear skies. Could you want one more thing... me?”

[Cool, capable wolfish woman vs. cunning, scheming foxlike man]