The Little Palace Maid Can Read Minds, and the Tyrant Has Fallen in Love!

[A cold-on-the-outside, warm-on-the-inside tyrant with a love-addled mind ✖️ a warm-on-the-outside, cold-on-the-inside little palace maid who only wants to go home]

One day, Chen Zhaozhao transmigrates into the body of a low-ranking palace maid.

With no money to bribe her superiors, she gets stuck with terrible food and lodging. To make matters worse, the stewardess assigns her to serve the tyrant, Helian Yu, at meals.

Helian Yu ascended the throne as a boy, and is now only a little over twenty. Yet he is a great tyrant feared by everyone.

That's because Helian Yu is moody and suspicious. He's difficult to serve, and has a habit of ordering people's heads cut off at the slightest provocation.

After hearing about Helian Yu's brutal deeds, Chen Zhaozhao trembles with fear, then angrily wolfs down three steamed buns, determined to die with a full stomach.

As she serves the tyrant his meal, Chen Zhaozhao, who has to chew on cold buns every day, gazes at the table laden with rare delicacies, practically drooling.

While Chen Zhaozhao wonders whether she should fire the first shot against feudalism in the Tianqi Dynasty and snatch some food right out from under the tiger's nose, she discovers that she can actually hear the tyrant's thoughts.

"I hate cilantro more than anything. Why is it so close to me? It reeks!"

After hearing the tyrant's thoughts, Chen Zhaozhao, completely bewildered, quietly moves the cilantro farther away from him.

By the end of lunch, not only is Chen Zhaozhao's head still on her shoulders, but she's also alive and well. When she walks out of the Hall of Mental Cultivation completely unharmed, every palace maid and eunuch stares at her in shock.

And so Chen Zhaozhao becomes the tyrant's personal palace maid. By reading his mind, she becomes his trusted emotional compass.

At some point, Chen Zhaozhao realizes that the tyrant is looking at her differently.

"I don't want to be empress anymore. I want to go home... Mm..."

"Are you still leaving?"

"I'm staying..."