Mind Reading: The Emperor Goes Mad While I Munch on Gossip

[The whole family can hear her thoughts + cannon fodder + adored by the whole family + face-slapping + independent heroine + satisfying revenge]

[You stinking charlatan, how dare you call this princess a jinx? Tui! May thunder strike you in the face!]

On the altar, she waved her hand. Not a drop of rain had fallen in the Xuan Yue Kingdom, but suddenly dark clouds gathered, lightning flashed, and a torrential downpour swept from the sky.

The emperor, hearing someone’s thoughts for the first time, shouted, “Guards! Consort Liu has slandered a member of the imperial family. Throw her into the Cold Palace!”

Xiao Qiling stared excitedly at the emperor’s head: [Poor old geezer! He’s been cheated on, and the child isn’t even his.]

The emperor immediately snapped, brandishing a little leather whip. “Guards! Lock Noble Consort Li in the secret chamber and poison the First Prince!”

[Oh my heavens, the Minister of Justice’s wife tried to poison the old man and all she managed was to give him diarrhea for a few days. Then she tried to strangle him with a rope, but it broke. She was so mad, she yelled that the old geezer was impossibly hard to kill.]

The next moment, the Minister of Justice went with his colleagues to catch her in the act. “You poisonous woman! How dare you try to harm your husband? You’re asking for death!”

Xiao Qiling: [The empress is beautiful and kind, and it’s bad enough that she isn’t loved. Father won’t even let her have a child. What a shame that she and the entire General Who Guards the Nation’s family will die tragically in the end.]

The next moment, the empress, having heard her thoughts, said, “Whoever wants this lousy position as empress can have it. I’m going to save the entire General Who Guards the Nation’s family.”

Watching the empress leave the palace, the emperor mused, “As long as the empress and the general’s family are safe, I’m willing to let her leave the palace and seek the happiness she deserves.”