The Regent’s Beloved Little Mute

[Not actually mute + sweet romance + both leads are each other’s only love + face-slapping + playing the fool while hiding one’s true abilities + one-on-one romance]

[No harem of women competing for the male lead. The heroine seems adorably ditzy and food-loving, but she’s far more than she lets on, and she gets even with people on the spot.]

Her master once told her, “With a mouth like yours, you’ll talk everyone to death sooner or later.”

So Shen Anning was punished with a vow of silence. Pretending to be mute, she took someone else’s place in marriage to Xiao Fengyuan, the powerful regent who killed without blinking.

At first, all she wanted was to eat well and wait for death. But who could have guessed that the living King of Hell, feared by the entire court, would take an interest in the “well-behaved” little mute in his residence?

“Your Highness, she called me ugly!”

Xiao Fengyuan: “Anning can’t speak. You’re slandering her.”

“Your Highness, she made the princess so angry she vomited blood!”

Xiao Fengyuan: “She’s been wronged. I’ll make it up to her tenfold.”

Watching the courtyard fill with gifts, Shen Anning secretly used her sharp tongue to put everyone in their place, while indulging in his one-of-a-kind devotion.

Until the emperor issued an edict ordering Xiao Fengyuan to marry the princess royal.

Heartbroken, Shen Anning touched her belly, left a letter of divorce, and slipped back into the mountains.

Later, the regent went mad overnight and searched the whole realm, only to receive one answer from her sect: “Want to see her? First cripple your own martial arts and kneel for three days and three nights.”

Xiao Fengyuan raised his sword without hesitation. “Let her come out and see me. I’d give her my life, let alone my martial arts.”