The Crown Prince's Ledger
"Nine Deaths at the Phoenix Court" tells the story of Su Zhaoning, daughter of the Marquis of Grand Protection, whose family is destroyed on her wedding night, only for her to wake up returned to three days before the wedding. To protect her loved ones, she breaks off her engagement with the Crown Prince and joins forces with Prince Regent Xie Chenyuan to investigate an unresolved past case. As letters from the future and evidence of a palace coup come to light, she discovers she is the orphaned child of the late emperor, and that a plot to destroy the capital lies hidden behind nine cycles of rebirth. Faced with difficult choices involving the throne, her feelings, and the safety of the populace, she allies with various factions to uncover the truth, avert disaster, and break her predestined fate—choosing to first eliminate hidden threats to power to safeguard her family and the common people.