The Treacherous Minister’s Whole Family Goes Wild After Hearing My Thoughts

(Historical political intrigue + mind reading + sweet romance and comeback + real and fake heiresses + money-loving maid + obsessive young master)

Chu Ci, the real daughter of the Marquis of Yongning in Great Xia, was replaced by the fake heiress Chu Ruoyan in her previous life. After enduring endless abuse and humiliation, she was framed for regicide and executed by slicing. When she opens her eyes again, she’s back on the day the marquis’s servants abandoned her at a mass grave. This time, she won’t return to the Chu family. All she wants is to stay alive. Fleeing in a panic, she stumbles into an inconspicuous sedan with a blue canopy. Inside is a pale, cool-eyed man: Shen Zhaoyan, a frail Hanlin scholar whom all of the capital believes won’t live to see twenty.

Who knew that this “sickly young master” was actually the sole survivor of the Shen family massacre, secretly building his power for ten years? He commands the West Factory’s covert guards and controls half the trade routes, waiting for the day he can overthrow the throne and avenge his family. Worse still, he can hear her thoughts. Every snarky remark, every calculation, every muttered thought like “The young master is so handsome, what a pity he won’t live long” comes through loud and clear. And he isn’t the only one who can hear her: three of his trusted men, bound to him by life-sharing charms, hear everything too.

“The medicine jar coughed up blood again today. No wonder he won’t get better when you left out two qian of atractylodes.” Shen Zhaoyan sets down his medicine bowl and silently adds two qian of atractylodes.

“The killer’s blade is chipped. He should sharpen it.” Wei Shuo spends the whole night sharpening three blades.

“Third Brother Creep, don’t get lost tonight.” Su Huaijin carries out an assassination without taking a single wrong turn for the first time in his life.

“Mr. Abacus is short thirty-two taels and seven qian.” Pei Duan checks the accounts again, finds them accurate to the last coin, and jumps to his feet.

She thinks she’s just a low-key maid trying to survive. Little does she know, that young master has already paved a path of blood for her.