Stop Acting, Villainess! The Tyrant Can Hear Your Thoughts!

Chi Xia wakes up as a doomed side character—an imperial consort destined for execution in chapter one, her entire family condemned alongside her. No big deal, she tells herself. The tyrant emperor dies in a few years anyway, so she just needs to survive until then. But fate has other plans: the emperor suddenly gains mind-reading powers. When he hears her panicked thoughts—"Wait, I'm going to die?"—everything changes. Now he hears every unfiltered opinion: her calling him "dog emperor," her internal celebrations over rewards, her desperate pleas to spare the female lead ("If she dies, we ALL d…