The Cold Palace Consort Slays Them with Her Inner Voice

The day Lin Huaiyi became the discarded empress of the Cold Palace, she discovered that she could hear the thoughts of everyone in the world.

When the tyrant cursed her as vicious and snake-hearted, she heard him screaming wildly inside: [Why isn't she like my white moonlight?! They clearly look exactly alike!]

When the favored consort framed her, she heard her panicking inwardly: [Why hasn't this substitute died yet? The name Your Majesty calls out every night is hers!]

Even the baby in her belly was complaining: [Mother, run! Once Tyrant Father discovers I'm a set of twins, he'll chop off your head!]

She decisively fled while pregnant, returning to the palace five years later with two children in tow to cause a sensation.

The tyrant stopped me with red-rimmed eyes: "Empress, I searched for you through one thousand eight hundred days and nights."

I smiled: "Your Majesty has mistaken me for someone else. I'm just a passerby who happens to look like her."

Behind me, the two little ones planted their hands on their hips in unison: "That's right, our father died a long time ago!"

The tyrant stared at those phoenix eyes, identical to his own, and the sword in his hand clattered to the ground.