The Little One Can See Calamities, and the Whole Household Eavesdrops on Her Thoughts

Pei Suining had been missing for three years. At last, on her fifth birthday, she was brought back to the Ding'an Marquis's Manor. But the moment she stepped down from the carriage, she saw black and crimson threads of calamity wrapped around her grandmother, her parents, and her three older brothers. In ten days, the whole family would be dead. When her grandmother lifted a cup of poisoned tea, Suining clutched her ragged cloth rabbit in alarm: [Grandmother, don't drink it. You'll die tonight if you do.] Everyone in the room froze. It turned out the whole family could hear the little girl's thoughts, but no one could mention it. If they did, the warnings would disappear for seven days. From poisoned tea and collapsing beams to a fire in the weapons depot, the marquis's family pretended not to hear her while investigating the disasters she saw, turning them into records, physical evidence, and witness statements. As they dug deeper, they discovered that behind the so-called “bringer of calamity” lay a vast conspiracy using children and the Mandate of Heaven to control the court. Suining can only see calamities coming within the next thirty days. She can't identify the culprit directly, much less pass judgment on anyone. But she slowly comes to understand that real family doesn't need to secretly listen in on her fears to believe what she says aloud.