Great.
Not only could these two not hear her, their heads were filled with nothing but food, food, food.
They were even bigger professional rice buckets than she was!!!
Chu Youning felt her head getting a little noisy and promptly moved a meter away from the two of them.
Once she switched off mind-reading,
the whole world felt quiet again.
[Host, everyone here seems pretty normal. Why don't you try again?]
The system carefully examined everyone's microexpressions. Finding nothing wrong, it slowly spoke.
"Oh, looks like... maybe there's still hope for me. My thoughts aren't leaking like a sieve after all. Just four people. No big deal~"
Chu Youning breathed a small sigh of relief.
After that,
she tested the other young members of the imperial family one by one.
When her gaze finally landed on Chu Wenjing, she weighed the odds of him being a wolf.
"This nephew of mine has always been the most proper and conventional of the lot. Surely he isn't a werewolf?"
With that thought, Chu Youning tested him anyway:
[I told Han Shuang to come over for a meal. Why isn't she here yet? Did she dress up too prettily and get shy?]
[Honestly, Chu Wenjing, Han Shuang keeps deliberately arranging chance encounters with you every few days just to see you. When are you going to tell her how you feel? Are you waiting for the girl to confess first? Have you got it in you or not?]
Having been taught the arts of imperial statecraft and grown accustomed to remaining calm in the face of Chu Youning's inner voice, Chu Wenjing serenely sipped his tea, though the tips of his ears unwittingly reddened a little.
Then,
Chu Youning heard his thoughts.
[What, what? Han Shuang is coming!!!]
*[Oh no! Aunt, why didn't