The Phoenix Crown Rules the World

[This book has been published in print under the new title "The Princess Consort Is Not to Be Trifled With." It is available from Dangdang, Taobao, and other retailers. The ending is different and the plot has been condensed, so please buy with care. Call me an author with a conscience, okay? Okay?]

She gave her life for her country and was reborn in ancient times. Her once-radiant beauty was gone, leaving her with a disfigured face and the status of a criminal awaiting punishment.

She had planned to spend the rest of her life in silence, but instead became entangled in endless conspiracies and political struggles. Amid the turmoil of a chaotic age, her brilliance could not be hidden. The palace was rife with intrigue, the empire with political schemes, and internal and external threats kept the fighting from ever ceasing.

Forced into a substitute marriage, she suffered humiliation and torment in body and soul. A conspiracy that turned love into hatred remained shrouded in mystery. She fought alongside him on the battlefield, where their love and enmity became hopelessly entangled. Her desire for revenge was bound up in a song of the phoenix seeking its mate. After two husbands and three marriages, her heart turned cold. Her disfigured face was no crime, but could she still stand beside him and share the world?

He ruined her face and broke her heart, then turned around and embraced her.

She repaid his debt and gave him the empire, yet let her youth slip away.

Once a condemned commoner, now crowned as a phoenix; old grudges ruined her new beauty. In a chaotic age, a beauty sacrificed herself for the realm, waiting only for her beloved to cherish her and grant her a moment of pleasure.