Name: What! The Tragic, Handsome Tyrant Can Hear My Thoughts
Author: Leaning Across Mountains and Rivers

Synopsis

Shen Wan transmigrates into the body of a princess from a small kingdom.

On her very first day after transmigrating, she is sent off for a political marriage.

Shen Wan: ...

Whose transmigration story is this ridiculously awful?

She hears the tyrant is built like a bear, with a broad back and a sunken head and deep-set eyes, and that he kills people on a whim. Shen Wan receives a chorus of sympathetic, mocking looks.

But the moment she hears the ruler's name, she lights up!

It turns out she has transmigrated into a novel about contending for supremacy.

The male lead is a tragic, handsome, and powerful version of the overpowered hero. He suffered abuse as a child, made a name for himself as a teenager, and has now established the beginnings of his own power. In the future, he will unify the realm and look down upon all living things.

Most importantly, the male lead has shut his heart to love and spends the whole story building his career. He doesn't like women getting close to him!

In other words, after her political marriage, she'll have no worries about food, clothes, or shelter. She can get paid while slacking off, start a business on the side, and become a rich female boss.

What a wonderful little life!

Happy Shen Wan has no idea that the male lead can hear her thoughts.

Zhou Sucheng has believed since childhood that "my fate is mine to command, not Heaven's."

He has survived beatings and abuse, framing and assassination attempts. Now a woman is saying that his life is nothing but a book.

So what? He intends to become the ruler of the realm and control everyone's fate. Naturally, that means he can control his own as well.

Still, he is rather interested in the information in this woman's thoughts.

Shen Wan discovers that life after her political marriage isn't what she imagined.

Wasn't she supposed to be here to run a business? How did she end up working for the male lead as a female official?

Wasn't the male lead supposed to keep women at a distance? Why does he summon her every day and even ask her to stay for dinner?

And where did all these familiar inventions, like soap, glass, and gunpowder, suddenly come from? This isn't what the book said!

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"After Qin Shi Huang Hears His Rebellious Son's Thoughts"

Hu Haihai transmigrates into a newborn baby and is bewildered.

A stern voice rings out: "Let's call him Hu Hai."

Hu Haihai: !

When he learns that he really has transmigrated into the son of Qin Shi Huang, Hu Haihai is even more bewildered.

Qin Shi Huang is bewildered too.

He discovers that he can actually hear his own son's thoughts.

At first, he is thrilled. A divine miracle has descended from Heaven, which must mean Heaven supports the Qin state's unification of the Six Kingdoms.

But as he listens, he grows more and more unable to sit still!

[Brother Zheng, I actually got to see Brother Zheng with my own eyes! Is this my domineering, charming, broad-backed, brawny ancestor who dies suddenly in the end?]

Qin Shi Huang slams the table and leaps to his feet!

I, an emperor of an entire dynasty, am going to die suddenly?

Unacceptable! Investigate this for me! There must be traitors trying to kill me!

[Oh, so this is my eldest brother, the one rumored to have been brainwashed by Confucianism? What a beautiful young man. What a pity he ends up taking his own life and becoming the idealized lost love in the hearts of countless future generations.]

Qin Shi Huang's veins bulge with fury. "Guards, I want to meet his family! No, I mean I want to meet Fusu's tutor!"

[Alas, this identity of mine. The Second Emperor of Qin, the second generation of a doomed dynasty. In the end, the Qin dynasty actually falls because of me. I definitely can't do that. I can't become emperor either. Maybe I should save Fusu's life and cling to his coattails?]

Qin Shi Huang: That's a lot to take in...

This unfilial descendant! My great cause of unifying the realm for all eternity!

To kill or not to kill, that is the question.

A little scene: Lately, Hu Haihai keeps feeling a chill around his neck.

It must be because a baby's body is weak.

His ancestor is so good to him, taking care of him personally, never leaving his side, and always staring at him.

It's just that his gaze is kind of strange.

"The Chosen Female Emperor: Livestreaming Her Ascension"

A sky screen suddenly appears, radiant with brilliant colors, and the court is thrown into an uproar.

[I'll come clean: I'm Emperor Chao'an's number one fan!

Who wouldn't want to behold the splendor of an emperor who established an age of peace and prosperity? Who wouldn't want to take part in person in an era of passionate ambition and momentous change?]

Emperor Hui exclaims excitedly, "Auspicious signs have appeared in the sky. Heaven must be protecting our great Lin dynasty!"

Emperor Chao'an must be the posthumous title future generations give me!

As soon as he finishes speaking, the sky screen says, "The Lin dynasty falls in the thirtieth year of Emperor Hui's reign..."

Emperor Hui and everyone else: It's the twenty-ninth year now...

[Through bloody campaigns and territorial expansion, Emperor Chao'an personally dons armor and takes to the battlefield...]

The eldest prince, skilled in martial arts and already harboring thoughts of rebellion, straightens his back. That emperor must be him!

[She knows how to appoint the right people, keeps the court clear and upright, and works diligently for the people...]

The refined second prince, admired by scholars, smiles faintly. That wise ruler must be me!

The sky screen lists all kinds of Emperor Chao'an's achievements. Under her rule, the people live in peace and contentment, the realm enjoys peace and prosperity, the surrounding tribes submit, and envoys from every nation come to pay tribute! No wonder the sky screen praises such a splendid age.

The first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth princes are all terribly pleased with themselves, each convinced it's talking about him. They wage silent battles with their eyes, and even the air seems full of smoke and gunpowder.

[Emperor Chao'an is not only an example for all rulers. To women, she is also the light of female emperors and the fire of women!

She once said: I am Princess Canhua, an emperor of my age, and a woman who broke free from her cage and took flight into the sky!]

As soon as the sky screen says this, Princess Canhua instantly becomes the focus of attention.

How can a woman go into battle and kill the enemy?

How can a woman attend court and discuss matters of state?

How can a woman become emperor?

But the age of the female emperor sounds so wonderful!

There is so much grain the granaries can't hold it all, every child can go to school, and the realm stretches across the sea. How amazing!

Civil and military officials eager to make their mark: We want a female emperor!

People suffering through lives of misery: We want a female emperor!

Princess Canhua smiles with confidence: I want to become the female emperor!

Emperor Hui reluctantly abdicates, and everyone escorts Princess Canhua to the throne. The ceremony is complete!