The First Phoenix

A popular rebirth novel in the style of Keep Running, recommended by Meng Ziyi and Gao Hanyu.

Hui Zheng, a legendary empress dowager of the Northern Wing Kingdom, is reborn in the marquis's household.

In her previous life, Shi Anxia was blind. She fell in love at first sight with the incompetent, selfish, and cold-hearted Prince of Jin, helped him ascend the throne, and brought misery to the people. Even after waiting for him to die, she still had to clean up his messes.

In this life, she only wants to live out her days peacefully with her mother and the brother she had lost and now found again. But, born with the destiny of a phoenix, she casually picks up a man who comes to her door, only to discover he's the young emperor of the Western Liang Kingdom, who supposedly died ten years ago.

She laments her miserable fate and reluctantly gives him a letter of separation to set him free.

But he tears it to shreds and angrily scolds her. "What do you take me for, someone you can throw away whenever you want?"

If she can't get rid of him, what can she do? Join him on the path to the throne and return to her old line of work, of course.

This husband is much better, though. He keeps strictly to the rules of propriety and doesn't even glance at other women. Shi Anxia takes the initiative to fill his harem, and he gets angry about it.

Her capable husband manages the imperial court in perfect order, and Shi Anxia is very satisfied. She continues to enjoy a peaceful, happy life.