In the early years of the Republic of China, the Pei family’s signature incense, First-Grade Fragrance, was renowned throughout Jiangnan and beloved by people from all walks of life. Thanks to a century of sincerity and trustworthiness, the family’s business continued to flourish, earning the envy of unscrupulous rivals. A long-planned conspiracy dragged the Pei family, once famed for its century-old good name, into the abyss.
The Pei family had a daughter. To clear her family’s name and vindicate her wrongfully killed father, she was willing to sacrifice her lifelong happiness, marrying Cheng Huncheng, the commander of Shanghai, who was ten years her senior. After their wedding, she used his influence to get what she wanted: the truth was finally revealed, and those behind the conspiracy received the punishment they deserved.
Cheng Huncheng, commander of the region, wielded immense power and had a household full of wives and concubines, yet he still felt something was missing. Though already past thirty, he had no son to carry on his name. He married the Pei family’s daughter partly to fulfill his mentor’s request, but even more to continue the family line.
Their marriage was from the start a relationship of mutual exploitation. But as they spent more and more time together, something subtle began to change between them...
