The Fragrant Pavilion

Shanghai under Japanese occupation in the 1930s.

Yun Ke has always lived with her mother, in a house on the front line. They have a small villa, while her father’s identity remains a mystery. By chance, Yun Ke discovers that her mother keeps a photograph of an army officer close by, treasuring it and forbidding Yun Ke from touching it.

Yun Ke concludes that her father must be a Nationalist Army colonel who went missing after going to the front. As a child, she tries to learn more about him, but her mother stops her at every turn. Their relationship soon freezes over.

Lonely and troubled, Yun Ke becomes best friends with Gu Xiaochun, who has come with his grandfather to search for a relative. But one day, while the two are playing at the Xianglou, they catch a strange scent and accidentally uncover Yun Ke’s mother’s secret. From that moment on, Yun Ke is haunted by a deep shadow!

They keep the secret until they grow up. Gu Xiaochun and Yun Ke develop unexpected feelings for each other, but before they can confess, one strange case after another begins to unfold!

Children vanishing without a trace, patients suffering from a fatal hereditary insomnia, a terrifying, stooped woman, and the bodies of countless babies in a basement…

Every eerie mystery points to the Xianglou, the quiet and mysterious two-story villa. During this time, Gu Xiaochun discovers that Yun Ke’s mother may be connected to the deaths of his own mother and sister, and that the Nationalist Army colonel Yun Ke calls her father may actually be his father…

The Xianglou stands there in silence, mysterious and uncanny, peaceful yet filled with magic.

If you’re curious, come to the Xianglou!

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