Three years ago, after saying, “We’re even,” Fan Changyu fled the capital with a child in her belly. Now she runs a butcher shop in a border town, sells braised meats, and scares off thugs by chopping bones against her counter. Who says a widow with a child is an easy target?
But her three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Xiaoman, has a gift for hearing people’s thoughts.
When the cold-faced Marquis Xie Zheng stumbles, gravely wounded, into her back courtyard, he doesn’t say a word aloud, but in his mind he calls out “Changyu” eight hundred times.
Xiaoman wraps her arms around his leg. “Mister, all you think about is my mother. Are you the bad daddy who abandoned us?”
Xie Zheng’s heart breaks on the spot.
Later, a noble young lady from the capital strokes Xiaoman’s head with a smile while inwardly calling her a bastard. Xiaoman says earnestly, “Pretty auntie, your thoughts stink.”
The whole place falls silent.
After that, everyone knows that the decisive and ruthless Marquis Xie has gone mad. For a wife who chops meat and a little girl who can read minds, he’d even give up his life.
