The Mind-Reading Cutie: Dad, Mom's Complaining About You Again

Su Nuannuan transmigrates as a nobody in the cold palace. All she wants is to use her blind-box storage space, which can grow potato chips and storybooks, to coast through life until retirement. But her son Youyou has a dangerous ability: he can hear her thoughts. Whenever the cold and ruthless Emperor Ji Mingxiu comes to inspect, his son is always ready to tattle, blinking his big eyes. “Father, the Empress says you’re like a walking iceberg.” “Father, the Empress says the Noble Consort’s hairstyle looks like a frizzle-feathered rooster.”

And so, the harem’s whole atmosphere changes. The emperor discovers that by listening to the “translations” of her complaints, he can avoid schemes with uncanny accuracy, and he even finds himself wanting to shower her with gold and jewels. Su Nuannuan is baffled: Why has this dog of an emperor suddenly become so considerate? Then a monstrous conspiracy descends, and Youyou blurts out his mother’s entire escape plan in a panic.

Su Nuannuan freezes and looks at the emperor, whose gaze is deep and unreadable. “You… knew all along?” Ji Mingxiu pulls her into his arms and chuckles. “My beloved consort, I knew from the day you called me a ‘dog of a man.’”