After Reading Minds, the Ice-Cold Screen Queen’s Persona Crumbles

Zhong Wanying, the youngest Grand Slam-winning Best Actress in the entertainment industry, was famous for her sharp tongue, impossibly high standards, and utter hatred of rich investors foisting ugly starlets on the industry. She paid five hundred thousand to snatch her rival's "delicate, fragile wife," Lin Qingyan.

Everyone thought Lin Qingyan was in for a miserable time, except Lin Qingyan, who had unexpectedly gained the ability to read minds...

On the surface, Zhong Wanying tossed her a set of pajamas and said condescendingly,

"Wash that poor-person smell off you. Don't expect me to buy you clothes in the middle of the night."

In reality, Zhong Wanying was thinking:

[This limited-edition Milan couture was a bargain... Wait, she'd look amazing in it!]

[But... why does she look like she's seducing someone in that outfit?!]

[Does she have any idea how dangerous she looks right now?!]

Lin Qingyan: ...?

This sharp-tongued, soft-hearted boss seemed kind of cute.

To make her rival furious, Zhong Wanying threw Lin Qingyan onto a hardcore farming variety show with no script.

She thought she'd see her crying her eyes out. Instead, Lin Qingyan, a science whiz, kept her cool, skillfully operated a semi-automatic rice transplanter, and won fans across the internet with her hardcore agricultural expertise, rising to fame on the spot!

Later, her scumbag former boss panicked and hired internet trolls to fabricate damning scandals in an attempt to blacklist her.

Just as Zhong Wanying was preparing to use her influence to take down the trending topics and protect her, the usually docile "little canary" calmly stopped her and started a livestream for the whole internet.

She smashed the scumbag's chain of evidence to pieces right there!

At the awards ceremony,

Newly crowned Best Actress Lin Qingyan accepted her trophy, looked at Zhong Wanying in the audience, leaned toward the microphone, and smiled.

"Thank you, Boss Zhong, for buying this troublemaker for five hundred thousand back then. Now I'll give myself to you, along with this trophy, as repayment."

Coming soon: Springtime at the Nine Frontier Garrisons

A decree of grace was issued recently at Yanmen Pass, the foremost of the Nine Frontier Garrisons.

Women convicted of crimes at court and sentenced to exile were to be conscripted on the spot and awarded as wives to the soldiers of the Yan Pass garrison.

For Helan Cui, who was disguised as a man, this was no reward. It was a death sentence.

To save someone, she steeled herself and took in Chi Yingxue, who was about to be sent to a military brothel.

Everyone waited to see her make a fool of herself:

Could a poor hundred-household commander who was on the verge of running out of food really support this little lady, who looked like she was about to die?

But then...

On Chi Yingxue's first day in the house, smoke rose from the dilapidated kitchen, and the He family enjoyed meat soup for the first time in ages.

On her third day, a newly made Eight Immortals table appeared in the He family's courtyard.

Half a month later, Chi Yingxue invented "smokeless calming charcoal" and traded it for a whole cart of food and cooking oil.

Then the northern barbarians raided at night, and Helan Cui returned gravely wounded.

In the flickering candlelight of the side room, Chi Yingxue paused as she cut open her bloodstained clothes.

Underneath the layers of binding lay the "fatal hidden ailment" she had been keeping secret.

To keep the rice jar at home forever full,

the two girls, each with eight hundred schemes up her sleeve, joined forces.

Winter snow may blanket the land for many days and nights.

But this barren frontier will one day welcome

a springtime of renewal.

Theme: Keep your feet on the ground, and take root and bloom in adversity with knowledge and hard work