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My Family Can Read My Mind—Goodbye, Perfect Image!

share time: 2026-01-15 00:31:34

Lin Xiaoman, a corporate slave, puts on a daily “acting show” to maintain her “perfect good girl” persona in front of her traditional family: when her mom presses her for blind dates, she pretends to agree sweetly while thinking, “Aunt Wang’s son’s receding hairline is worse than my overtime dark circles”; when sipping her dad’s “dark health soup”, she forces a smile but mutters internally, “This soup is so bitter it could kill my enthusiasm for life”; when her brother’s stinky socks invade her space, she stays calm on the surface but screams in her head, “Brother, your socks are enough to knit a sweater!” Everything changes when the “Family Mind-Reading System” kicks in—Mom bursts into laughter upon hearing her thoughts, Dad holds the soup ladle and says委屈ly, “I added your favorite jujubes secretly!” Brother waves the concert ticket she’s been craving, smirking, “I grabbed it long ago—I was waiting for you to be honest!” Worse still, her secret crush, the neighbor senior, visits and hears her think, “Every time his Adam’s apple moves, I can remember it for a year”… Xiaoman, so embarrassed she wants to teleport away, soon realizes: Mom already turned down the blind dates for her, Dad’s soup was a “love special” after 20 recipe searches, and Brother’s socks were just a trick to tease her. When her “perfect image” collapses, Xiaoman admits, “I don’t want to work overtime till midnight or deal with meaningless socializing”—and her family replies, “We never loved the ‘perfect you’—we love the real you!” As the “mind-reading farce” unfolds, the facade crumbles, but love grows warmer. The senior hands her a milk tea, blushing: “Actually… I heard it too. My feelings for you are just like yours.”

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