On our wedding night, he slaughtered my entire family.
*Nine Deaths of the Phoenix Palace* tells the story of Su Zhaoning, daughter of Marquis Zhenguo, who witnesses the total destruction of her family on her wedding night, only to wake up reborn three days before the ceremony. To protect her loved ones, she breaks off her engagement with the Crown Prince and joins forces with the Prince Regent, Xie Chenyuan, to investigate a past mystery. As letters from the future and evidence of a palace coup surface, she discovers that she is the late Emperor's surviving child, and that a conspiracy to destroy the capital lies hidden behind her nine cycles of rebirth. Faced with agonizing choices involving the throne, her personal feelings, and the welfare of the populace, she unites with various factions to uncover the truth, avert disaster, and break her predestined fate, choosing to eliminate political threats first to safeguard her family and the common people.