After My Husband Misread My Mind

○ A marriage-first, love-later romance between a couple with an adorably unexpected contrast

A noblewoman who seems aloof but is actually quirky and mischievous x a prince who seems decisive and formidable but is actually gentle and calculating

Also known as: What Do I Do When the Prince Mishears My Thoughts and Thinks I'm a Shameless Flirt?

Cui Xizhen was engaged to a suitable match. A year before their wedding, her fiancé died in battle, and she had no choice but to break off the engagement.

She thought she could use the reputation of a woman whose fiancé died before their marriage to stay with her family and live out her days.

But she unexpectedly got caught up in an accident and was forced to become engaged to and marry Li Xuan, the Emperor's uncle.

On their wedding night, they pretend to be an affectionate couple. She helps Li Xuan out of his clothes, while Li Xuan takes down her hair.

[This hairpin is so long, and it's stuck in so deep. Could you be a little gentler? It hurts like hell.]

Li Xuan's hand, which he'd been trying hard to move gently, suddenly froze.

Cui Xizhen doesn't know that he's heard her thoughts, but he only catches a few words:

[Long, deep, hurts, a little gentler...]

Li Xuan has suffered from a strange affliction since childhood: he can hear other people's thoughts. The affliction disappeared once he became an adult.

It wasn't until the late emperor died and the borders fell into turmoil that he began hearing people's anguished thoughts again. Though he'd wanted to stay away from court politics, he couldn't bear to stand by, so he helped his third nephew seize power.

Later, the people prospered, the harvests were plentiful, and the realm was at peace. His strange affliction was cured once more. Until tonight, when he heard his new wife's thoughts, broken and fragmentary.

But Cui Xizhen's face showed no anticipation or excitement at all. Instead, she looked troubled and apprehensive about the unknown.

Just as Cui Xizhen thought she was about to consummate her marriage with a man she barely knew, Li Xuan gently patted her hand and said:

"Don't be afraid. I won't touch you. I'm just asking you to share my bed tonight."

Cui Xizhen thought this marriage wasn't so bad after all.

She wouldn't have to serve her parents-in-law, there were no secondary consorts or concubines fighting for her husband's attention, and her husband wasn't as cruel as the rumors claimed. He was actually quite gentle.

Still, Cui Xizhen thought the way her prince looked at her was getting stranger and stranger.

What she didn't know was that Li Xuan kept hearing strange thoughts from her. They weren't frequent, but they were always so suggestive:

[So big... take it off.]

[Touch, undo it, what a hassle...]

Then her former fiancé, who had faked his death, returned, and Li Xuan became even stranger.

When he was sick, he rested his head in her lap and begged her not to leave. On his birthday, he wore scandalously sheer foreign clothes and danced with a sword in front of her.

After puzzling over it for ages, Cui Xizhen suddenly realized: Is the prince trying to seduce me?

But then Li Xuan stopped, looked at her, and said, "Yes, I'm trying to seduce you, but Zhenzhen doesn't like it at all, does she?"

Li Xuan set down his sword, came closer, and knelt before her. "If Zhenzhen doesn't like the sword dance, why don't you personally help me out of these scandalous clothes?"

Cui Xizhen's mind was in a complete muddle, but her hands obediently pressed against his chest. "Th-then I won't stand on ceremony?"

Cui Xizhen: If he's mistaken me for a shameless flirt, I might as well make the most of it. Hehehe.

Li Xuan: If the princess consort is so lustful, why can't I seduce her at all???

Content notes:

Blurb dated July 17, 2025.

Both leads are sexually inexperienced and devoted only to each other. The male lead is three years older.

The male lead can hear the female lead's thoughts very rarely, and only catches keywords that can be easily misunderstood. He can't read her ordinary thoughts.

I'm bad at naming novels, so I may change the title later.

The transmigration tag is included because this world has supernatural elements and an important character has transmigrated, but the story itself takes place in ancient times.

Theme: To be decided