Did I Successfully Resign Today? (Mind Reading)

On her first day transmigrated as a woman disguised as a man, serving as a low-ranking eighth-grade official, Feng Liangyue heard the whole court cursing up a storm in her ears during the grand assembly. She was happily enjoying the show when she heard that she'd been dragged into a major imperial examination scandal and was about to be made the scapegoat.

No way. Even a video trial lasts three days, so why does a transmigration trial card only last three hours?

She had to do something to save herself!

She resigned, but her application was rejected because she hadn't finished her work.

She applied for an overseas posting, only for someone to take her place for no apparent reason.

She gritted her teeth and tried to get herself in trouble by making a scene, but the emperor praised her for "daring to speak out and offer remonstrance"!

As she struggled to escape her fate as a wage slave, the emperor recruited her as his personal government worker.

Unable to run away or simply lie flat, Feng Liangyue could only accept this hot-potato position and use her mind-reading ability to stay alive. Together with four colleagues, she began beating back the court officials' dark schemes one by one.

Her working days should have been dreary and dull, but every one of her colleagues was a handful:

When she was on the verge of a breakdown from overtime, the big, dumb general couldn't read the room and insisted on dragging her out for sesame flatbread.

The rich young master kept coming to her for relationship advice, always choosing the times she was busiest.

The flirtatious prodigy would turn up after getting himself into another romantic mess, asking her to cover for him.

But the worst of them all was Censor Lian, who muttered all sorts of strange things in his heart every day:

"Did I really pick up that thing of his to study?"

"Could it be that I really do like men?"

"If I tell her outright, will Mother accept that I'm gay? Maybe I should put it more delicately?"

Feng Liangyue was stunned. The upright and refined Censor Lian was gay!

She leaned in to eavesdrop, hoping for some juicy gossip. She'd have been better off not listening!

The person he was in love with was her!

After eavesdropping for months, Feng Liangyue finally faced the turmoil in her heart:

Though her identity would spell disaster if exposed, Censor Lian was as elegant as an orchid and a jade tree!

Though she looked like a man, Censor Lian was willing to be the one on the bottom!

Though she seemed to know nothing, Censor Lian had already planned to take her home to meet his parents!

How could she stand by and watch this wonderful man, so devoted to her, suffer in anguish?

She could only turn his secret crush into an open romance, transform from a young man into a young woman, and call out sweetly, "My dear Lian."

A little scene inserted into the blurb

Red silk veils the bride, the happy couple complete their wedding rites, and the guests celebrate.

Emperor: Do you think she'll come back to work after getting married?

General: Hard to say. Ask her, and maybe she'll agree if you offer a higher salary.

Emperor: What about the other two?

General: Perhaps they've gone off to resolve their romantic tribulations.

Emperor: You know about that too?

General: I'm not actually a fool.

[Reading Guide]

1. One-on-one romance. A mind-reading office worker forced to play along x a hapless man chosen by fate, harboring a secret one-sided love that she overhears from start to finish.

2. Both leads come from ordinary families. The female lead transmigrates into another woman's body. Both she and the original owner are capable, resilient women, with no comparisons or put-downs. The male lead comes from a happy, unremarkable family and advances through the official ranks on his own, eventually reaching fourth rank.

3. Slow burn, plot-driven, with the leads' relationship progressing alongside the story.

4. Some side characters are in same-sex relationships.

5. A fictional dynasty. The official system is modeled on the Tang dynasty; everything else is made up, with no claim to historical accuracy. You're right about all the historical facts, and my settings are all up to me.

Upcoming novel recommendation, manuscript in progress, launching in December

"Wait for Me to Return from Research and Publish a Paper"

[Low-EQ Female Researcher from the Future x Hypocritical, Corrupting Male High Priest]

A story about a female researcher from the future being corrupted by a counterfeit high priest. One has an unwavering pursuit, the other a mad desire for love. Together, they fit just right.

A high-fantasy romance with a sweet story and a slightly bittersweet setting.

Full blurb below

The old chief of Qin Village died on the day of the harvest festival.

After the rites, High Priest Ji Min was chosen as the new chief.

The next day, Yin Ruzhao returned to the village after being away for three months, but she had gone mad.

She refused to admit she was Yin Ruzhao and spoke only in words the villagers couldn't understand.

The villagers unanimously decided to send her to the new chief Ji Min's home, where she could undergo a divine cleansing and be rid of misfortune.

Mo Ke didn't know how she'd ended up in this strange place, but she did know that she had a chance to be featured as a rising star in this year's research journal.

It would be titled "Transmigration to Another World: Spatial Fluctuation or Temporal Disorder?"

Once she'd figured out the research, she'd return to the stars, write a paper, and publish it in the most prestigious top-tier journal.

But her research was going terribly. It was as though an intangible barrier stood in her way: invisible, untouchable, impossible to break through.

Like a gaze from some unknown place, it clung to her, lapping over her from head to toe and cutting her off from the world.

What gods were there? Who had the right to declare that someone had brought disaster?

Interstellar science was highly advanced, and as an atheist, Mo Ke didn't believe any of it!

She would use science to prove to everyone that all this supernatural nonsense was the work of the high priest behind the scenes.

Until she saw the hollow in Ji Min's chest.

He took her hand, guided it into the empty cavity in his chest, and had her grasp the ashen bone bell.

From that moment on, the earth shook, a volcano erupted in the distance, and the turquoise waters rippled beneath their feet.

The cold bone bell clacked with a hoarse sound. It was Ji Min's heartbeat, the unspoken wish he'd repeated over and over: a plea for her affection, a plea for her to stay.

Theme: Even ordinary people must strive upward and work hard to live