"I understand all that, but I just can't stop overthinking. These past two days, I've kept wondering: if none of them could hear my thoughts, would they still treat me this well?"
Jiang Nuan imagined what would have happened without her thoughts being heard. She probably would have "run into" her Fourth Brother in the palace and asked him to find a way to get her out.
She would still have tried to change the course of history from her previous life, but it would not have gone nearly as smoothly as it had now. Most likely, she would still have been fighting alone. Perhaps she would not have changed anything at all, and in the end, she would have jumped off the city wall again, just as she had in her previous life.
Perhaps that was how things were supposed to unfold. Everything she had now was so wonderful that it felt utterly unreal.
They had traveled all the way from Capital City just to celebrate her birthday. Jiang Nuan had noticed their exhaustion and dark circles, and that only made it feel even more unreal.
"Hearing your thoughts merely gave us a way to understand you and made us pay a little more attention to you. We treat you well because you deserve it."
Jiang Yehua patted her head as he spoke.
"Yes, yes, exactly! If it were someone else's thoughts we could hear, we wouldn't care. It's you we care about!"
Cen Xue immediately chimed in.
"Really?"
Jiang Nuan sounded a little incredulous.
[It's true. If Guagua had bonded with someone other than you, Host, Guagua certainly wouldn't be as happy as now.]
Guagua chimed in to help, too.
"Of course it's true. Even setting aside your thoughts, the care everyone shows you every day can't be