Did the Tyrant Cry After Being Tricked Today?

A palace maid who can make you cry x a sinister, docile tyrant

The heroine has a golden finger: she can read minds

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He Lingshu was born into a prominent family in Qingzhou and doted on by her parents since childhood. The one mistake of her life came during a banquet in her youth, when someone drugged her and she accidentally lost her virginity and became pregnant.

Her parents had long been unable to have children, and the family line was at risk of dying out. To preserve the family's reputation, they helped conceal what had happened. She later gave birth to a girl, whom they presented to the world as her younger sister.

When rebel troops massacred the city and the He family fell, she fled to the capital with her "younger sister" and entered the palace as a servant.

By chance, she discovers that she can hear the tyrant's thoughts. To survive, she pretends to fall in love with him.

In this palace, where people are devoured without a trace, she has no choice but to cling to the emperor and climb step by step. She sets herself three outrageous goals:

First, become empress.

Second, secure a princess's title for her younger sister.

Third, take a gamble and get the tyrant to willingly give up half the imperial court's power.

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Gao Yuan endured cold stares and mockery as a child. He ascended the throne at twelve, commanding troops on the battlefield and asserting his authority in court. He had seen every kind of demon and monster.

At first, he didn't believe her. How could anyone truly love him? He had planned to kill her and be done with it, but day after day, her gaze burned with affection, and her love for him grew more intense.

Fine. He would allow her to keep loving him. He could give her both power and his sincere affection.

But later, he discovers that she once had a daughter with another man, that her feelings for him are false, and that every word out of her mouth is a lie.

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One day, He Lingshu is cornered at the foot of the bed, and a tear lands on her hand.

She looks up. Gao Yuan's eyes are bloodshot, his gaze fixed on her like an evil spirit. "Tell me, who do you love more, me or him?"

She straddles his lap and gently kisses his brow. "What do you mean, Your Majesty? Of course I love you most."

Gao Yuan gives a cold laugh and presses his lips against hers, his voice sinister. "Empress, then what title should I give the daughter you had with another man?"

He Lingshu's knuckles turn white, but her face shows only confusion.

"Your Majesty must be joking. I don't have a daughter."

Reader's guide:

1. The male lead has had no previous partners; the female lead has.

2. The younger sister is actually the female lead's daughter. She is five.

3. The male lead is profoundly insecure, sinister, possessive, and madly obsessive. Their love and hatred will reach an intense push-pull later on.

4. The female lead pretends to love him throughout to survive. She is calm and cunning, and has no real feelings for him.

5. She had a child when she was young because she was accidentally drugged and forced by her family's circumstances.

Theme: Win the hearts of the people