Overhearing Inner Thoughts: The Cannon-Fodder Army Wife Gives Up and Enjoys the Gossip

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Period drama / mind-reading / gossip System / sweet romance

Shen Ning (a salty-fish heroine who just wants to lie flat) × Lu Yu (a cool on the outside, warm on the inside, all-around military officer who always protects his own)

996 office drone Shen Ning transmigrates into a book and becomes the ill-fated cannon-fodder supporting woman in a period novel. The original owner is a pushover in the military compound, spoiled rotten by her stepmother, robbed of her fiancé by her stepsister, and ultimately set up to marry a hooligan and die on the street.

Shen Ning: Who wants to act out this miserable story? Bound to a “Gossip System,” I just want to watch the drama with an enamel mug in hand. Every time I uncover a shocking secret, I get a material reward! Rice, flour, cooking oil, a big color TV, even a courtyard house: you name it!

So Shen Ning acts meek and obedient on the surface, while her inner monologue goes wild:

“Wow, my stepsister’s pregnant with the neighborhood delinquent’s kid? And she’s going to pin it on her fiancé? That’s one vivid green hat!”

“Oh my god, the sanctimonious deputy factory director has 3,000 yuan in secret savings hidden in his insoles?”

“Tsk, tsk. That aloof Commander Lu acts like he’s celibate, but secretly washes his wife’s underwear?”

Shen Ning is having the time of her life gossiping, completely unaware that Lu Yu, the “cold-faced Yama” with the most fearsome reputation and connections reaching to the very top in the whole compound, can hear her thoughts!

At first, Lu Yu only wants to use her inner voice to catch spies and help develop the country. Later, he corners Shen Ning against the wall, his voice husky: “I heard you said in your head that I go seven times a night... and don’t know when to stop?”

Shen Ning: ???!!!

Lu Yu unfastens his uniform collar. “Since you already know, I’ll make sure I live up to that reputation...”