The Mute Girl Offered as Tribute, Before Whom Even the Mad Emperor Bows

Historical Romance + Ultimate Love Triangle Mayhem + A Cast of Unhinged Characters + Special Physique + Fierce Rivalry for the Heroine + Replacement Bride + Marriage First, Love Later + Husband’s Regret Arc + Identity Reveals

The heroine, Jiang Yuemian, is a “mute” concubine-born daughter whom her family treats as a pawn, offering her to the tyrannical God of War, Prince Jing, Chu Jinglan. Everyone knows that after slaughtering a hundred thousand enemy troops, Prince Jing was tainted by a murderous aura and haunted nightly by vengeful spirits. His temper is deranged, and anyone who comes near him is corroded by that invisible aura, ending up either dead or insane. Jiang Yuemian’s family intends to send her to her death in exchange for the chance to marry their legitimate daughter into the Eastern Palace.

No one knows that Jiang Yuemian wasn’t born mute. Her voice contains a power known as “Word Spirit,” which can soothe any frenzied, violent soul in the world. To protect herself, she sealed her voice away as a child.

On their wedding night, Chu Jinglan’s murderous aura erupts. With bloodshot eyes, he grips her by the throat as the room fills with ghostly wails. Just as she is about to die, a soft, stifled hum escapes her throat. In an instant, all sound falls silent, and the aura that has tormented Chu Jinglan for years recedes like the tide. For the first time, the brutal God of War tastes peace. He fixes his gaze on the “offering” before him, his expression shifting from madness to all-consuming possessiveness.

He keeps her locked at his side, making her his only “cure.” But the remarkable effects of this cure soon attract the attention of several other equally “afflicted” and unhinged nobles in the capital...