[A genuinely hard-of-hearing, blunt beauty x a cold emperor who can’t resist her]
[Palace intrigue built on misunderstandings + legendary cross-channel conversations + a harem comedy mixing sweetness and angst + the heroine conquers everyone because she can’t hear clearly]
Su Jinyue, daughter of the Vice Minister of Rites, was the most beautiful woman in the capital, and also its number-one “deaf beauty.”
She was hard of hearing by nature, and the mishaps she caused could fill a book. Yet she had a face of breathtaking beauty, and her innocent, sweet nature left people utterly helpless against her.
When she entered the palace for selection, the other candidates all thought about how to please the Empress Dowager. Su Jinyue, however, misheard the Empress Dowager’s “Take good care of yourself” as “Lie down properly,” and that very night she went and lay flat on the imperial bed.
Emperor Jingyuan, Xiao Jingyan, was cold and solitary, indifferent to women, and thoroughly sick of the scheming in his harem.
When others called her “useless,” she heard “impressive” and replied with a beaming smile, “You’re too kind.”
The concubines plotted against her, deliberately passing along the wrong order so she would perform a dance before the emperor. She turned the “Surprised Swan Dance” into a “Twist-the-Hips-and-Plant-the-Rice Dance.”
Worst of all, she misheard the emperor’s “Get over here” as “Come over and hug me.” Without a second thought, she threw herself at him and wrapped her arms around the usually woman-averse Emperor Jingyuan.
The entire palace waited to see how she would die.
But as they waited...
Huh? Why was the emperor going to her side hall every day?
Huh? Why was that cold-faced, hellish man actually smiling?
Huh? How had she somehow become empress?
Su Jinyue rubbed the back of her head, looking bewildered. “All I heard was a buzzing sound...”
This is the story of a genuinely hard-of-hearing beauty who triumphs in the harem by “not hearing clearly” and eventually wins over the cold emperor in bed.
[Reading guide]
1. The heroine is genuinely hard of hearing, and there’s no cure.
2. It’s funny at first, then the emperor falls hard.
