The Brocade Phoenix Returns: The Poisonous Queen Reborn to Rule the World

She was the Duke's Manor's legitimate eldest daughter. She had once devoted her entire family's strength to helping the prince who promised to share the realm with her ascend the throne. Yet on the day she became empress, she was falsely accused of witchcraft. Her title was stripped, her child taken, her family slaughtered, and she spent ten years in a bleak, desolate palace before finally ending her life with a cup of poisoned wine. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the springtime of her fifteenth year, before any of those tragedies had happened. Her parents were alive, her brothers were safe, and she was still that bright, confident jewel of a military family, just beginning to be swept into the struggle for the throne.

In this life, her heart is iron and her cunning is almost demonic. She vows to rip away the mask of hypocrisy, protect her loved ones, and wipe out her enemies and their entire clans! Domestic power struggles? Palace intrigue? Political scheming? She watches coldly and plans every step, dragging into hell each person who once betrayed, wronged, or deceived her.

Yet unexpectedly, she catches the attention of the mysterious imperial uncle, said to be frail and near death, who lives in seclusion. He plays the game from beyond the ninefold palace, watching the tides of fortune with a smile, but is willing to brush the dust from her and overturn the entire board of the realm for her.

"The road to revenge is a lonely one, Princess Consort. Would you like an ally?"

She raises an eyebrow. "What does Imperial Uncle want?"

He smiles. "I'll offer you the realm as a betrothal gift, give you a second life, and rule the world at your side."

This is a tale of revenge from beyond the grave, and a romance of political intrigue, mutual salvation, and a world turned upside down.