The late emperor's orphan
*Nine Deaths in the Phoenix Palace* follows Su Zhaoning, the daughter of the Marquis of State Protection. After her family is wiped out on her wedding night, she wakes up reborn three days before the nuptials. To protect her loved ones, she breaks off her engagement to the Crown Prince and joins forces with the Prince Regent, Xie Chenyuan, to investigate an old case. As letters from the future and evidence of a palace coup surface, she discovers she is the sole surviving child of the late emperor—and that a conspiracy to destroy the capital lies behind her nine cycles of rebirth. Faced with choices between the throne, her heart, and the safety of the common people, she unites various factions to uncover the truth, avert catastrophe, and break her predetermined fate, ultimately choosing to eliminate hidden threats to power first to safeguard both her family and the populace.