The Supporting Female Character Just Won't Die

Xiao Qinglan is the legitimate daughter of the Yong'an Marquis's first wife. She's sweet and beautiful, but she has a wicked stepmother, who throws her and her older sister out of the family home. Within days, everyone in the capital knows how cruel the stepmother is. During the days after Xiao Qinglan was thrown out, she rescued someone in a heavy snowfall. As it turned out, he was a member of the imperial clan, and he was later adopted by the childless emperor. From then on, no one in the capital dared to cross her. When Xiao Qinglan reaches a marriageable age, she begins looking for a husband. But every suitor is separately summoned by the emperor for tea. The emperor's eyes turn sinister as he parts his thin lips: "You dare set your sights on what's mine?" Xiao Qinglan is the emperor's moonlight and cinnabar mole. She doesn't know that in a book, she is the emperor's original wife, destined to die young. After becoming empress, she discovers that every day, someone is waiting for her to die so they can take her place. But she refuses to die. She wants to live a long life alongside her husband. The woman who transmigrated into a book knows that the original male lead, Rong Xin, will eventually become emperor, so she goes out of her way to flatter and please him. But he pays her no attention at all, devoting himself entirely to Xiao Qinglan. Luckily, in the original story, Xiao Qinglan dies young. She can wait for that troublesome woman to die, then comfort the grieving male lead. Just as she thinks this, she suddenly notices something frightening in the male lead's gaze... P.S. The male lead can read minds.