Iron Phoenix
A Court of Strategy and Ash
A strategist stripped of rank. A prince who sealed her father's death warrant. A court that devours its own.
Chen Jingwei was once a rising officer of the Northern Vanguard until the court branded her family traitors and executed her father at dawn.
Now she serves the man who sealed the order.
Bound to the Prince of Yan as a strategic asset, Jingwei enters a residence where every corridor is watched, every word is weighed, and every kindness hides a blade. Survival demands more than obedience. It demands precision of thought, of silence, of timing.
But the court is already moving against itself. Petitions shift. Alliances fracture. Old accusations refuse to stay buried. And somewhere inside the machinery of power lies the truth behind her father's death - a truth someone has already killed to protect.
Jingwei does not ask for freedom. She asks for access. Because if the court insists on making her a weapon, she will decide where the blade falls.
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