Surviving in the Harem: I Use Mind Reading to Handle the Tyrant

Lin Wei has been in the palace for three months, yet she remains the lowest-ranking young maid in the Laundry Bureau. Then one day, she stumbles upon the furious Tyrant Xiao Jin, who is about to strike someone down with his sword.

"That maid has such clear eyes..."

A voice suddenly sounds in her mind, and she realizes with a shock that she can hear the thoughts of this emperor, a man who has slaughtered countless people.

From then on, she relies on her mind-reading ability to survive in the cracks of the palace's treacherous harem: the Noble Consort plans to frame someone with a witchcraft curse? Lin Wei hears the plot in advance and quietly removes the evidence. Courtiers harbor murderous intentions? She senses danger from the emperor's muttered thought, "There's something off about that old fox," and narrowly avoids the threat.

But gradually, she discovers that the Tyrant, who seems cold and bloodthirsty to everyone else, hides countless contradictions within him. While reviewing memorials, he grumbles inwardly, "The people are displaced, and my heart cannot rest." When drinking alone late at night, he silently murmurs, "If only there were someone I could trust..."

As she repeatedly "happens" to avert danger with her mind-reading, and even understands the vulnerability hidden beneath his facade, the mercurial emperor's gaze grows increasingly inquisitive and possessive, until it finally becomes burning trust.

"Why are you always able to understand me?"

Lin Wei lowers her eyes and smiles faintly. Perhaps her mind-reading ability is fate's doing, but from survival to standing side by side, from suspicion to redemption, they have long since come to understand something deeper than thoughts in each other's heartbeats.