After the Family Was Raided, the Mind-Reading Little One Helps Her Mother Soar

The city gates were about to fall, and the officials sent to confiscate the family’s property had already reached the door. Yet the three-year-old toddler clung to her mother and cried out in her baby voice, “Run! There’s a secret passage beyond the back wall. Don’t jump into the well on the left, it’ll collapse!”

Her family thought she was being silly. But the moment they escaped the city, they relied on her to evade pursuers, bandits, plague, and avalanches all along the way.

She could hear everyone’s thoughts, but somehow she couldn’t see through her own father’s secret.

Short on food while fleeing famine? The wild fruit she picked up on a whim sold for a fortune.

Cruel relatives trying to steal their grain? With a single sentence, she exposed the banknotes they’d hidden, then had the whole village begging to share its food.

Then the cold-faced prince passing by heard her thoughts: “Don’t mess with that man. In three days, his trusted aide will betray him, and the military seal will be stolen!”

The prince’s gaze darkened, and he stepped in front of the mother and daughter to protect them both.

But the little girl had no idea that the disaster they were fleeing was a trap someone had set specifically for her mother...