The Empress Does as She Pleases, and the Emperor Is Fuming

[Historical setting + devoted couple + exclusive affection + mind-reading + imaginative premise]

Sui Yang’s father is the head of the Censorate, and her mother is the only daughter of the imperial merchant Wen family.

She can play the zither, play chess, paint, and write, but she can’t be bothered to practice. She can do needlework and embroidery, but doesn’t want to touch them. She reads more storybooks than anyone else.

Ming Xu, the youngest emperor of Nanyue, is handsome and ruthless. His harem is so empty you could race horses through it, and for five years, the ministers have urged him to take a consort without even making him blink.

He ascended the throne at seventeen and took no consort for five years.

One fleeting glimpse in Jiangnan, and from then on, someone had taken up residence in his heart.

The thing Sui Yang regrets most in her life is one careless remark her father made at court.

When the news comes out, the entire court is in an uproar.

On the day Sui Yang enters the palace, everyone expects the rules to crush her.

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Later, the whole court knows the truth.

It isn’t that His Majesty has no interest in women. He simply has eyes for no one else.

And the Sui family’s young lady, summoned to the palace against her will, isn’t crushed by its rules.

She makes the imperial palace her comfort zone and, along the way, wins the emperor’s heart.

A lighthearted, sweet romance. The heroine is laid-back and perceptive, the hero falls for her at first sight, and the story alternates between their perspectives.

Sui Yang can read minds. Ming Xu only learns later that he was transparent to her from the very beginning.

Again and again, he listens to her feelings and has to coax her into saying them aloud.