The Unassuming Wife's Guide to Taming Her Husband

As I stood there in my coarse cloth skirt, forced to marry in another woman’s place, Xuan Ying Si chief Xie Chenbi examined my marriage contract with a sneer. “A herb gatherer?” He rubbed the thin calluses on my palm with his thumb. “You really do look like a simple girl who only knows how to tend medicinal herbs.”

But he didn’t know that the medical texts I kept hidden could bring the dead back to life, or that the “half-trained” act I put on could poison a princess who came to steal my husband into madness. Every time I “accidentally” fell into the pond, he had his shadow guards drain the icy water beforehand. When I was accused of stealing medicine, the short blade in his sleeve was already at my accuser’s throat.

This cold-faced wolf insisted on playing dumb. Only after I used a silver needle to open the old wound in his heart did he smile, eyes red. “Silly Su, you’ve been feeding the bait to tame this wolf for three years.”