The Concubine’s Dazzling Return: The Empress Who Reads Minds

Modern office worker Lin Xi transmigrates by accident and becomes a lowly concubine-born daughter of the Zhenbei Marquis’s household in the Great Yin dynasty. The moment she opens her eyes, she is plunged into a replacement marriage, forced to take her elder sister’s place and marry the Sixth Prince Ouyang Mingyue, rumored to be sickly, short-lived, and neglected. Faced with her family’s coldness and schemes, Lin Xi uses retreat as a way to advance and deftly turns the tables, winning herself an enviably generous dowry. On her wedding night, her supernatural ability awakens: she can hear people’s thoughts! From then on, amid the treacherous whirlpool of the capital, she uses her modern mind and extraordinary mind-reading ability to unravel deadly plots and foil conspiracies, advancing step by step from a replacement bride whose life hangs by a thread. She and the Sixth Prince Ouyang Mingyue, frail on the surface but deep and inscrutable beneath, test and support each other amid constant danger, and love quietly takes root. When Ouyang Mingyue is unexpectedly made a prince, the two resolve to build a future together, but the bloody storm of the succession struggle suddenly descends. They fight side by side and plot their moves with care, finally making their way through thorns to the pinnacle of power. Yet when Ouyang Mingyue ascends the throne and Lin Xi is crowned empress in her phoenix coronet and robes, their seemingly perfect ending conceals a secret that will overturn everything everyone believes…