The Phoenix Dances Across the Nine Provinces

[A charming, flirtatious young marshal + a ruthless, decisive female escort]

[Republican-era setting + tortured romance + household intrigue + matriarch of the family + broken engagement and elopement + episodic stories]

In the late Qing and early Republican eras, the small county of En was full of hidden talent.

Even as dynasties rose and fell, the Feng Family Escort Agency stood firm.

Watch as the seventh daughter of the Feng family dances across the land in a time of chaos, putting family and country before love and hate...

The Feng family's fourth daughter:

In the thirteenth year of the Republic, I was six months pregnant when my husband was urgently summoned to the front lines.

Though he could hardly bear to leave me,

I urged him to put his country first.

Our child and I would wait for his triumphant return.

Later, I suffered a difficult labor and nearly bled to death.

But he never came back. Instead, a slender young woman arrived,

and called me "elder sister"!

I graciously arranged for him to take two concubines.

But he was a wild wolf, never satisfied.

When he was once again bewitched by another woman,

he said to me with an uneasy look, "She says she wants to... be my wife."

I kept my composure and went out that night.

When I returned, I placed a bloodstained throwing dart and a diamond ring the size of a pigeon's egg before him.

Bai Chengsheng grabbed my shoulders like a madman, as if he wanted to tear me apart...