The Mind-Reading Little One Gets Overheard, and Prince Ninth Spoils Her to the Heavens

A financial whiz from a powerful family opens her eyes to find she has become a frail three-year-old young lady of the Dong'e clan.

All she wants is to lie flat with a plate of jujube pastries, but when the Ninth Prince comes to visit, he hears every word of her complaints:

[You absolute fool with a bottomless purse! If you keep covering Eighth Brother's shipping losses, you and the Dong'e clan will go down with him!]

Usually aloof, Yin Tang changes his tune on the spot. That very night, he carries the little girl to Prince Yong's residence, hands over his ledgers, gives up his shares in the trading firm, and launches an investigation into the mole.

The whole court laughs at how the Ninth Prince has been wrapped around a child's finger, waiting to see him lose everything.

But in the blink of an eye, the deficit is cleared, salt-tax revenue doubles, and the people behind the scheme are dragged before the court.

From then on, the little darling only has to reach for a pastry before several princes rush to offer her a plate.

One offhand complaint from her is enough to keep Beijing's powerful families awake all night.

But when she opens the Dong'e clan's old master ledger, she suddenly stops smiling:

Hidden among its pages is the real reason this little body of hers is doomed to die...