Bonewort

Lin Youxian was the most unremarkable concubine-born daughter in her family. Fortunately, she was gentle and sweet, and her adoptive mother hoped she could marry into a powerful family and elevate their status. Later, Lin Youxian chose the second son of the Wu family, the leading merchant household in the region, as her ideal match. She had him so besotted that he begged to marry her, but a mute from the Wu family ruined her plans. The mute was highly skilled in martial arts, guileless, and fair-featured, exactly to Lin Youxian's taste. When the Wu family fell from power, she stole him away and slowly honed him into the weapon she wanted. If she wanted him to kill, he would. If she wanted him in her bed, he would oblige. If she wanted him to lay his whole heart at her feet and help her fight her scumbag father and brothers and seize control of the family, he would do that too. Lin Youxian thought, What a good, obedient dog. She never imagined that one day he would bare his fangs and bite her. Only then did she realize she'd been fooled from the very beginning! Scheming, flirtatious sweetheart × fiercely loyal, highly skilled martial artist bent on revenge